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Earlier this month, #MapAction (member Katharina Lorenz) led a workshop in Addis Ababa with 12 participants on data collection and GIS for the #WASH sector. The participants came from Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Niger and Chad; they all work for Läkarmissionen / LM International to ensure #water supply for rural areas and refugee camps. The training equipped them with skills in data collection using KoBo Collect and basic #GIS using QGIS. At the end of the course participants were able to create and visualise their own maps. 🙏 The training was funded by Caribou Space and UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub. #GIS4Good #Data4Good #Ready2Respond #HumanitarianDataHighway #watersecurity

The MapAction 2025-2030 Strategy is now available online! Find out how MapAction plans to strengthen humanitarian response and anticipatory action in the coming years with its unique blend of expert data volunteers, extensive emergency response experience and a network of local and international partners. #Data2SaveLives #AnticipatoryAction #MapActionStrategy #GIS4Good #Data4Good #Ready2Respond #HumanitarianDataScience #HumanitarianDataHighway https://lnkd.in/ecqx94xr

🕯️ How can actions taken before a disaster or crisis, that anticipate the threats to at-risk individuals, safeguard the lives and well-being of communities? Our animation on #AnticipatoryAction advocates the benefits of acting early to support communities affected by disasters such as floods, cyclones, hurricanes, heatwaves and drought. 🙏 This work is supported by Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany #DataToAnticipate #Data4Good #GIS4Good #DataToSavesLives #INFORM

✍ A team from MapAction just completed training in #Uganda for 13 participants from the KRLON-Kyaka II Refugee-led Organizations Network, all #Refugee Led Organisations (RLOs). 👩💻 The training included #geospatial theory, understanding the difference between vector and raster data, as well as a 'data shopping list exercise' - all building on the participants' humanitarian information management foundations. In the last two days participants then gathered data from near the training centre. Examples of topics included children’s participation in education, household cooking fuel type preference and Gender Based Violence (GBV). 🙏 This work is supported by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub's Caribou Space programme. #Ready2Respond #Data2SaveLives #Data2Decide #Data2Respond #Data2Anticipate #HumanitarianDataHighway #Data4Good #GIS4Good #Humanitarian #Africa

Data quality in UN data sets ensures more at-risk people can be reached and supported. Updating the Common Operational Datasets (COD) with high data quality standards is key. Find out more about our work with the Automated Data Pipeline below. https://lnkd.in/eXamYEcJ Maxym Malynowsky United Nations OCHA The University of Georgia

🕯️ In 2024, MapAction worked with the decentralised government (GAD) of Manta (Video: https://lnkd.in/eRgcnNkH), Ecuador, to develop an urban risk index based on the INFORM methodology. This would help the government, disaster relief authorities and civil society organisations to help get a better understanding of specific communities that are at-risk in a disaster. The project has now been handed over to Manta GAD. In the photo: MapAction's Head of Geospatial Services Luis Velasquez (right) talks with Lcdo. Dalton Andrade R. (GAD Manta Director of Environment, Risk and Urban Fauna) and Roger Castro (GAD Manta Risk Management Analyst). 🙏 This work is funded and supported by USAID - Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance. 👇 #Ready2Respond #ManagingRisk #Innovation #Partnerships #LatinAmerica

Some good news from late 2024, to start 2025. We are very pleased to be joining the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, and look forward to working with an exciting range of partners, many familiar, some new.

🔎 #AnticipatoryAction will be key to help mitigate the climate emergency in 2025. MapAction continues to support countries on the frontlines to create robust data models that help to mitigate the worst effects of disasters. https://lnkd.in/etVAUakw 🙏 MapAction's Anticipatory Action programme is supported by Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany. 👇 #Data2SaveLives #Ready2Respond #Data2Anticipate #HumanitarianDataHighway #Advocacy Anticipatory Action by Welthungerhilfe (WHH) Anticipation Hub ReliefWeb Medair Oxfam Save the Children International Deutsche Rote Kreuz International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC USAID - Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Insurance Development Forum

This Christmas season, MapAction teams of humanitarian information management experts have been supporting United Nations OCHA in response to the #earthquake in #Vanuatu: SADC Secretariat in response to #CycloneChido in #Mozambique and Malawi; and finally UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in response to the ongoing crisis in Syria/#Lebanon. Read more below. https://lnkd.in/eyqpRqaZ #GIS4Good #Ready2Respond #HumanitarianMapping #DisasterPreparedness #Data2SaveLives This work is supported by the Humanitarian Assistance Programme of the Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany.