Our strategy

Building resilience, saving lives, strengthening livelihoods: using geospatial technologies to transform humanitarian decision making

Our Strategy to 2023 Building resilience, saving lives, strengthening livelihoods: using geospatial technologies to transform humanitarian decision making

Since 2003, MapAction has been applying expertise in geographical information and data to make humanitarian disaster responses as effective as possible, saving many thousands of lives in the process.

Our combination of technical knowledge and insight into humanitarian contexts, gleaned through over 140 emergency responses, gives us a unique and highly valuable understanding of all aspects of humanitarian information management.

Our Strategy to 2023 defines how we are applying this insight to help crack some of the most urgent and difficult challenges ahead. Our Strategy to 2028 will be published shortly in 2024.

Our vision - A world where people vulnerable to humanitarian emergencies are more resilient and those assisting them are more effective through the use of technological advances in information management. Our promise - We will apply the best geospatial technologies and our expertise to shine a light on tough humanitarian problems, providing critical insights that will save lives, protect, recover and strengthen livelihoods and promote human dignity. We will serve international, regional and national humanitarian responders to the best of our abilities to enable them to provide the most effective response possible to save lives and reduce suffering.

Our strategic priorities

  • Addressing gaps in coverage through extending our network and ways of working
  • Building resilience by improving the quality of aid
  • Building humanitarian sector technical capability through alliances
Outcomes - Protection & Assistance; Resilience; Aid effectiveness

NB: our Strategy to 2023 was developed during 2019, before the COVID-19 emergency. While many of the approaches and activities it outlines still apply and are defining how we respond to the pandemic, we will review the strategy once the crisis has eased, in light of any changes to the global humanitarian context it may bring about.