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MAPME at a glance
It’s Open Source. And it’s open to everyone.
MAPME is a community-driven initiative that connects people, fosters synergies, and jointly develops tools and solutions to support project planning, monitoring, and evaluation through Earth observation and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). We bring together and support users, developers, and donors alike.
MAPME Community
Our community is a space where researchers, sector experts, impact evaluators, field organizations, and funders can meet, share experiences, propose open access to tools and datasets, offer free training, and collaborate on developing new tools and guidelines for the development sector.
MAPME Capacity Building Tools
Build up your own capacities and reduce your dependence on external expertise.
Conservation
MAPME resources are used to gather information on the state of our ecosystems, external threats and stressors and the impact of our projects to e.g. reduce deforestation and desertification in and outside of protected areas.
Agriculture
MAPME resources are used to gather information about agricultural landscapes and the impact of our projects to e.g. increased agricultural productivity, water-use efficiency and drought resilience.
Infrastructure
MAPME resources are used to gather information about the infrastructure to assess the accessibility and coverage of essential basic services such as schools or hospitals to improve planning and spatial targeting of projects.
Impact Evaluation
MAPME brings rigorous impact evaluation methods to the world of geodata and remote sensing. Our goal is to create robust evidence of causal effects and quantify the impact of our work with a combination of geospatial information and econometrical estimation techniques.
With MAPME we work together to create, maintain and extend high value products with extensive functionality at a lower cost.
Without MAPME projects work with isolated solutions that are often poorly maintained, require extra effort, while providing less functionality.
MAPME is for…
Project Managers
You have little experience with data analysis, but you are keen on getting reliable information not only for current but also for future projects.
Advantages for project managers
- Gain better insights into your projects
- Understand available tools and functionality
- Write your own ToR for a project of yours
- Communicate your results effectively
- Enable your partners and others to apply the analytical tools you use
MAPME is for…
GIS Analysts
You have hands-on experience with remote sensing and geodata analytics working either for an institution or as a consultant.
Advantages for GIS analysts
- Leverage existing tools for your analysis
- Discover how your peers work
- Become part of a community
- Promote your work by contributing and gain visibility
- Use your resources efficiently
MAPME is for…
Institutions
As an institution you would like to extend your digital capacities but reduce the costs considerably by leveraging the synergies among multiple projects with similar information needs.
Advantages for institutions
- Get an overview of the ecosystem and existing solutions
- Built on existing solutions instead of reinventing the wheel
- Access new tools to understand and report your impact
- Get in touch with developers, consultants and researchers
- Build your own institutional capacity and reduce external dependencies
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How GIS helps us to measure our impact and identify future challenges for conservation and development projects.
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