As part of a new project funded by UK Aid Direct through the H2H humanitarian network, MapAction is working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to strengthen the institutional understanding of humanitarian needs through data. MapAction has begun a new project to support the information management needs of the humanitarian community in the eastern […]
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Madagascar (Video): Impact of MapAction Anticipatory Action programmes
In 2023, MapAction began working in Madagascar as part of a global programme to strengthen anticipatory action. In the video below, local partners and stakeholders report on the impact of various activities, including training on mapping and modelling with geospatial data, humanitarian information management and the INFORM Risk Index methodology for anticipatory action risk forecasting; […]
Video: What is MapAction?
A short animated overview of what MapAction does to support regional and local disaster resilience worldwide.
Welcoming the new Head of GeoSpatial services
As well as many other things, MapAction provides UN and other international and regional agencies with the information and data they need, in the most useful visual formats, to enable them to be as effective as possible. We are actively working to apply fast developing geospatial expertise to tackle some of today’s biggest humanitarian challenges, […]
Our largest training event of the year
On 17-19 September, MapAction held it’s largest annual training event, a realistic simulation of a humanitarian emergency, with colleagues from partners including the British Red Cross, Insecurity Insight, Save the Children and Tearfund. Our biggest training event of the year is in full swing. A disaster simulation exercise featuring storm flooding in the fictional country […]
MapAction’s 2020
This has been our busiest ever year. We asked people from across our team what their 2020 was like at MapAction. This is what they told us:
Guatemala – video report from the airport
In this video, MapAction volunteer Emerson Tan gives a report from the airport on his way home from Guatemala. MapAction was mobilised to help the international response to the catastrophic impacts of Hurricanes Eta and Iota which have caused tremendous suffering across Central America, on top of the COVID pandemic.
Inside the Response to Cyclone Idai
MapAction volunteer Andreas Buchholz has just returned from Beira, Mozambique. He has put together the short video below, which gives a good sense of the scale and urgency of the international response to this major disaster.
Video: MapAction mappers support INSARAG training exercise in the Philippines
Last month, three MapAction members participated in an earthquake simulation training exercise in the Philippines. The event was organised by the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), a global network of more than 80 countries and organisations under the United Nations umbrella.
MapAction’s largest training exercise of the year
On 8-10 June 2018, MapAction held its annual disaster simulation training exercise for volunteers, recreating the chaotic atmosphere of a complex humanitarian emergency with health, food, water and sanitation insecurity in the fictional, war-torn country of Albia.