Learning how to use mapping for monitoring malaria eradication
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3 on “ Good Health and Well-Being” includes reducing the rate of malaria per 1,000 people by 90 percent from 2016 to 2030. A learning tutorial is available on how to use…
Improving access to education with climate analysis in Benin
The story map below presents how geospatial data on precipitation and temperature through time and disaggregated at sub-national units can help understand regional climate impact for better planning of school calendars.The…
Demand for family planning in Africa
The story map below presents how statistics and common geographies, or administrative units, can provide a better understanding of patterns and changes to the need and demand for modern family planning methods in Central and…
FAO Tropical cyclones impact assessment in Madagascar in 2022
The story map below details how the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) performed a rapid geospatial assessment using Earth observation data and the common geographies collected in the context of the SALB programme, the…
Opening of the workshop by Madam Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure
Workshop for national capacity development for geospatial information actors in Mali
Through its SALB Programme, the UN Geospatial Information Section led the delivery of a week-long national capacity workshop in Bamako, Mali, from 12 to 16 September, in close cooperation with the Institut Géographique du…
Geospatial data for Good event at WHO Headquarters
On 12 May 2022, the GIS Centre for Health of the World Health Organization and the Geospatial Information Section of the United Nations co-organized an event on “Geospatial Data for Good” in Geneva, at WHO Headquarters, to…
Land degradation in Sri Lanka, disaggregated by administrative units
Land degradation, resulting from unsustainable land use, is one of the most pressing environmental issues impacting an estimated one-fifth of the Earth’s surface and affecting more than 3.2 billion people globally. Land…
SALB support participation to the UN-GGIM Africa and Africa GIS conference 2021
The Regional Committee of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management in Africa (UN-GGIM Africa) was held in-person in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) alongside the 13th edition of Africa GIS 2021 conference. The…
Sharing your common geographies through the SALB programme
The SALB programme is an operational programme which aims to provide accessible and usable worldwide standardized geospatial data on administrative units, a type of common geography, produced by National offices. Using common…