Conflict & Displacement
Promoting responsible open spatial data and participatory mapping in complex emergencies to enhance collaboration and support informed humanitarian aid planning in the most vulnerable contexts.
About the Program
Compounding social, political, and environmental risks are driving record numbers of people into displacement every year. Record numbers of conflicts are impacting people in their homes.
Understanding the geographic context of conflict affected areas, including where people are, how to access them, and the state of local infrastructure is critical to plan adequate aid to meet basic human needs. Through this program, HOT collaborates with expert partners to link crowdsourced and participatory mapping methodologies to humanitarian data users. Our context specific projects address spatial data gaps and promote the responsible use of open data and methodologies in conflict-affected areas, areas of displacement, and host communities.
HOT holds itself and its partners to highly responsible data standards guided by HOT’s data principles. All work done through this program complies with HOT’s data protection framework.
Stats
+ 157,000
baseline buildings mapped for pre-conflict analysis
139
remote mapping projects created in conflict-affected areas in HOT’s Tasking Manager
+500
data downloads for refugee response projects
Goals
Bridge map data gaps in conflict areas
- Identify missing data for humanitarian partners’ needs.
- Crowdsource of data collection on buildings, roads, etc.
- Tailor projects to address data completeness in affected areas as highlighted by the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).
Facilitate coordination and sharing
- Foster a community of practice.
- Participatory mapping of affected areas by those with direct knowledge.
- Data sharing and easy access to commonly needed datasets.
Capacity building
- Develop user guidance on open datasets related to conflict.
- Create training programs for contributors interested in mapping complex emergencies.
- Implement data protection project reviews.
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