Who, what, when, where: Mapping for urban humanitarian response

This edition of ALNAP's Urban Webinar series focuses on the use of mapping in urban humanitarian response. It will address broader questions of how humanitarians can harness technology to help them understand complex urban systems, what different types of mapping are available to humanitarians and what needs to change in order to better integrate mapping efforts into humanitarian response. It will then highlight the experiences of REACH staff in various urban contexts. Two presentations will be followed by a Q&A session, during which we invite the audience to submit questions in advance or in real time, as well as to contribute their own experiences of mapping urban response.

Gabriele Almon, World Vision International Fellow & GIS Specialist, will give a presentation on how the urban landscape is expected to change in the next 15 years, how NGOs can benefit from mapping this rapid urbanization, along with how the humanitarian industry leveraging urban populations to crowd-source life-changing information.

The second presentation will be from REACH, who have considerable experience with mapping for assessments in various urban contexts. More information on their presentation is forthcoming.