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Why Roads Data is Critical for African Agriculture

Posted in NEWS, QUICKWIN PROJECTS, tagged , , on January 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »

The value of accurate roads data is understood in fields such as transportation, logistics and urban planning. However the value of accurate and freely available roads data is often overlooked or mis-understood when thinking of agriculture, especially in Africa. Outdated and often inaccurate sources of roads data are routinely used for market accessibility studies, [...]

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No Tourists, No Maps!

Posted in INTERVIEWS, QUICKWIN PROJECTS, tagged on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Throughout most of the developing world, there is a real and urgent need for roads data.  Road location and attribute information can play a vital role in long term development applications and also help humanitarian agencies with short term emergency and logistical planning. Despite this dire need, though, popular web mapping service applications have not explored [...]

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Expanding out of the Somali region with help from RCMRD – October update

Posted in QUICKWIN PROJECTS, tagged , on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

RCMRD (Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development) staff from Nairobi, Kenya, Catherine Kunyiha (Remote Sensing Expert) and Julie Maingi (GIS Expert), came to Ethiopia for the week of September 28th to collaborate on the gROADS tool and training with iMMAP staff Anna Schemper.

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More training – more data collection – September update

Posted in QUICKWIN PROJECTS, tagged on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Back in Addis and things are looking promising. I was back in Somali Region at one of our offices that’s been having problems last week, ironing things out. It was a good trip, we had a followup training session which went well and provided a lot of valuable feedback (good ideas for tweaking the tool [...]

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Pilot Training: Dire Dawa WFP Suboffice, May 28-29, 2009

Posted in QUICKWIN PROJECTS, tagged on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Following finalization of the PDA data collection tool, Mark Yarmoshuk and Anna Schemper (both of iMMAP) conducted a pilot training workshop at the WFP Dire Dawa Suboffice from May 28-29, 2009. Transport was provided by UNHAS (UN Humanitarian Air Service). The training ran for the afternoon of 28th, and consisted of roughly 20 participants. The [...]

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Field Trainings: Gode and Kebridehar WFP Sub/Field Offices, Somali Region, Ethiopia , June 2009

Posted in QUICKWIN PROJECTS, tagged on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

iMMAP staff Anna Schemper, based in the WFP Ethiopia Addis Ababa office, conductedsubsequent training workshops in two WFP Somali Region sub/field offices in the first two weeks of June. The trainings were geared toward those UN staff who spend most of their time working and traveling in the field.

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