Urgent appeal to ensure efficient and effective aid coordination in Myanmar. 

MapAction needs to raise £150k to continue our Myanmar mission, at the heart of the UN response. 

Our team is in Myanmar, the only Humanitarian Information Management agency with the vanguard UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team. It is imperative that we can remain for as long as it takes, but we currently lack the funds to see the mission through. 

A DEC appeal has launched, but ironically MapAction doesn’t have a big enough budget to access those funds. Despite being a critical UN disasters partner with signed deployment agreements with UNDAC, UN OCHA, WHO, WFP, UNDSS etc, we mostly use volunteer experts, keeping costs low. 

yet imagine trying to coordinate the response to an earthquake, in a situation as complex as Myanmar, Now imagine doing that without any maps showing what help is needed, where, and whether you can get access to different locations, etc. If MapAction leaves, that may face the UN team. Please help. 

Details

• A two person MapAction field team are currently supplying mapping and spatial analysis to the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team (UNDAC).
• The MapAction field team are in Myanmar with the UNDAC Team.
• The MapAction field team are backed up by the wider MapAction team of 70 GIS and Data specialists and the staff team, busily making maps in the background
• MapAction is the only Information Management agency with UNDAC for Myanmar.
• There are limited maps available on the MapAction website and Reliefweb, due to external publication constraints. 
• We have launched an appeal for £150k, to remain in Myanmar for as long as it takes.
• Any unspent funds will be ringfenced to be ready for the next disaster.
• MapAction is also currently responding to an oil spillage affecting Ecuador.

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