MAPME is a community-driven initiative to jointly develop tools and solutions that help to plan, monitor, and evaluate projects with the help of earth observation and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). It is supported by KFW, AFD, GIZ and IRD.
With such goals, the question of communication and community engagement is key, as the backbone to create the relevant synergies amongst projects, institutions, and stakeholders in relation to geographic data. It takes the form amongst other things of the sharing of data, tools, and experiences to engage and expand the community.
Members from the Steering Committee of MAPME are delighted to announce the validation of the Community Strategy. A first workshop was conducted with KFW & GIZ at the end of December 2023 to map stakeholders and clarify the MAPME audiences resulting in a first draft of the Strategy. It was then fine-tuned after a workshop session to collect feedback from the MAPME Steering Committee constituted by AFD, IRD, GIZ and KFW. The Strategy was finalized and approved in March 2024 by all Stakeholders after final inputs from bilateral meetings with the various member organizations.
This strategy helps to present the more specific goals of the MAPME community during the Geo4Impact program (2024-2026). The Community Strategy will facilitate a better alignment of activities in all member institutions, ease the process for decision making and allow for concrete and rapid achievements towards the organizations.
The Community Strategy consists of a streamlined communication strategy as well as a community engagement strategy.
On the communication front, the following measures have been established:
- Amplifying the core values and messages of MAPME,
- Increasing the reach and engagement of other organizations,
- Making communication more frequent and regular, with a broader audience ,
- Getting different people and organizations to contribute to MAPME newsletters and events,
- Producing multichannel communication, benefitting by cross-fertilization of other communication channels, making sure that important messages are shared with all relevant audiences.
On the community engagement front, the following measures have been established:
- Increasing awareness and trust concerning community achievements,
- Fostering collaboration and developer contributions on open source MAPME tools & processes,
- Streamlining tools through the open-source approach,
- Getting other stakeholders to contribute to the project, by giving feedback or sharing data, tools and approaches themselves, promoting initiatives connected to MAPME, mutualizing efforts,
- Promoting projects between MAPME community members.
All the work archived was supported by CartONG.
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KfW is progressing on its work to create a curated collection of free and open data portals to enable our staff and partners to better use open data for project planning, monitoring and evaluation.
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KfW supports the development of the Open Source R package mapme.biodiversity. The package is written in R and published on CRAN. It is used by analysts to process big geospatial data efficiently.
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Melvin Wong and Ingrid Dallmann presented “Geospatial impact evaluation of the KfW and the AFD conservation portfolio on forest cover loss” in the Symposium organised by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank, on April 11, 2024.
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We are excited to announce the launch of the BETSAKA project, an initiative to assess the environmental and socio-economic impacts of protected areas in Madagascar from 2000 to 2024.
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Within the context of the MAPME initiative, CartONG is currently developing open-source processing routines to access data from Open Street map to automatically download, subset and process energy infrastructure data.
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Members from the Steering Committee of MAPME are delighted to announce the validation of the Community Strategy.
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KfW is currently starting an effort to update and complement georeferencing the protected areas portfolio.
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KfW is working on an update of the Open Project Location Model. The Open Project Location Model is a data model to systematically collect location-specific information in projects supported by international development cooperation in a structured way.
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Open-source GIS solution for irrigation networks maintenance and rehabilitation needs in Anbar, Iraq
GIZ launches an Open-source GIS solution for irrigation networks maintenance and rehabilitation needs in Anbar, Iraq
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