[1][2] Through the use of satellite imagery, SSP provides an early warning system to deter mass atrocities in a given situation by focusing world attention and generating rapid responses to human rights and human security concerns taking place in that situation.

[citation needed] SSP also planned to investigate how illegal trade in diamonds, gold and ivory was used to fund human-rights abusers.

The Enough Project contributes field reports, policy analysis and communications strategy, and, together with Not On Our Watch and its SUDANNOW partners, pressures policymakers by urging the public to act.

Patrick Meier, a crisis mapping expert, has observed that the deterrent value of any surveillance is diminished in the absence of consequences for the perpetrators of violence.

Specific to Sudan, other technologies such as drones are necessary to differentiate threats from nomads in order to generate actionable information.