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Community of Practice

Objectives

Developing the capacity of a nation to use data for risk assessment

Creating an ecosystem of data suppliers and consumers

Activities

Training in GeoNode (OpenGeo)

Training in GeoPortal (ESRI)

Training in Risk Assessment

Workshops

Key Personnel

Project Lead

Trainer

KM Lead

Local Partners

Ministries in DRM

Universities

Vendors

OSS Commu

Procedures

Local Governance Coordination SOP

Training SOP

25 students

Data Collection SOP

Data Curation SOP

Equipment Management SOP

M&E/Q&A SOP

Donor Addendum

It may be in the interests of government donors to catalyze and support community efforts around their development objectives, particularly mandates around mitigating vulnerable communites’ exposure to natural hazards. Community mapping provides:

Increased resolution about the nature of the risks and their location.
Capacity to involve the host nation’s scientific community and ministries in training about the identification and mitigation of risks based on data that the host nation can curate.
Capacity to link DO with the investments of international organizations such as the World Bank, and potential partnerships to increase the leverage of government donor funding.

Chapters