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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 mapping for monitoring progress on eradicating malaria.
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 story map is a collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific…
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 West Africa. The story map is a collaboration with the United Nations…
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 full screen version is here.
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 Mali. The workshop aimed at strengthening the national geospatial information…
Side Event on Fundamental Geospatial Data Themes
The Working Group on Fundamental Geospatial Data Themes convened a Side Event on their work at the Eight Session (2018) of the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management ( UN-GGIM). Administrative boundaries have been identified as a priority dataset by the UN-GGIM Working…
Food insecurity: How SALB provides data to help identifying those most in need of food assistance
The majority of people who are food insecure live in developing countries, where nearly 13% of the population is undernourished. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with the highest prevalence of hunger, with the level increasing from 20.7% in 2014 to 23.2% in 2017. Zero Hunger is the second…
Presentation at the UN-GGIM Americas
The 5th Session of the Regional Committee of UN-GGIM Americas was held within the framework of the Latin America Geospatial Forum in Mexico City, from 6 to 8 November 2018. On this occasion, a representative of the UN-GGIM Secretariat introduced the SALB programme to 85 statisticians and geospatial…
