Why Maps?An Introduction to Humanitarian Mapping in the Field

Outline

Course Intro and Questions

Basic of Design and Monitoring

Intro to Humanitarian Technology

Technological Realities in the Field (Sabina Carlson)

Team Activity

Team Presentations and Discussion

Course Information

Assignments

Grading Blog Posts: 15% Class Participation: 10% Presentations: 20% Group Lab Work: 35% Final Simulation: 20%

Assignments for next week Personal blog post Team lab work (memo + presentation) CM*Net Wordpress profile

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Basics of Design and Monitoring

GOAL: Broadest, societal-level change sought

OBJECTIVES: Prerequisite changes that are required to reach the goal

ACTIVITIES: Events, services that an organization implements

CONSIDERATIONS

What is success? How do you define it? How will you know it when you see it?

What assumptions are you making? Consider how assumptions inform each step of program design. For each assumption, consider the risks: what would happen if the assumption is false?

Material reproduced from Designing for Results, Search for Common Ground

Humanitarian Action

Birth of Humanitarianism

Libson, 1755 Devastating earthquake, first instance of

international aid distribution

Birth of the Red Cross, 1859 Central ideas: compassion, neutrality, volunteer

service - we need to alleviate suffering

Save the Children, 1919 The first NGO organized around the sending of

food parcels to children affected by poor

Evolution of Humanitarianism

The “Golden Age” 1980s – ‘Angels of Mercy’

End of the Cold War Use of relief/development as policy tool Re-emphasis on governments giving aid

Global War on Terrorism “Winning hearts and minds”

Principles

Key Concepts

Internally Displaced Person v. Refugee What do you think is the difference?

Humanitarian Emergency

International Humanitarian Law Key takeaway: IHL originates in a desire to

regulate the behavior of States engaged in armed conflict

Main code of the ICRC

Major Players

The UN SystemKey Organizations

OCHA WFP UNHCR UNICEF WHO

Clusters Protection Camp Coordination and

Management Water Sanitation and

Hygiene Health Emergency Shelter Nutrition Emergency

Telecommunications Logistics Early Recovery

Accountability?

How are NGOs accountable? To whom are they accountable? Donors or beneficiaries?

New accountability initiatives Sphere Standards ALNAP Humanitarian Technology?

Humanitarian technology

What does a map tell you?

Source: openstreetmap.org

Technology and the Traditional System

Haiti Response: What went wrong? Lucy Rodgers, "Why did so Many Die in Haiti?" BBC News, February 14, 2010, 2010, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8510900.stm (accessed December 17, 2010).

History Discussion

Prior to 2005, what could you have considered crisis mapping?

What are key events for crisis mapping?

Where do you see crisis mapping going?

Important Concepts

GIS & Participatory GIS

Crisis mapping & Mobile crisis mapping

GPS

Crowd sourcing & crowd feeding

Benefits and Challenges

Rapid Assessments

Disease/outbreak monitoring

Increased access

Monitoring and evaluation

Security

Technological challenges

Incomplete or inaccurate information

Learning curve

Team Activity

Earthquake in Morocco

Background Rabat, Morocco Upcoming election: 2 weeks

7.5 earthquake 2:00 am GMT February 1 Extensive damage throughout the city

NGO Teams

WFPTeam Leader: Lucy

Dana

Eric

Vanessa

Rebecca

UNICEFTeam Leader: David

Alyssa

Stefan

Emily C

NGO Teams

Ministry of HealthTeam Leader: Kevin

Hans

Melissa

Kaitlyn

Maha

Morocco Red CrescentTeam Leader: Madeline

Miriam

Emily P.

Yunmo

NGO Teams

Catholic Relief ServicesTeam Leader: Sunetra

Michael

Kayla

Jia

Thiago

ROMENACA Roz

Jenn

Your Assignment

Assemble your team

Do you respond? Do you not? Why?

You need to create a 3 minute presentation for ROMENACA Look at the questions on your hand-out You have 45 minutes to plan