Through the IM-D3R project, iMMAP, with the support of USAID, is assisting the humanitarian community in Afghanistan by providing accurate, relevant, and timely information to inform disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts and improve the impact of the humanitarian response in the country. The IM-D3R project allows iMMAP to demonstrate its commitment to empowering humanitarian stakeholders and national capacities in Afghanistan to reach a professional understanding of the principles and best practices of IM in DRR and humanitarian contexts.
This includes lending our expertise in capacity development, knowledge management, implementation mechanisms, and other key activities for humanitarian information management (IM) and coordination, to address the gap in IM and analysis. iMMAP also closely liaises with OCHA to ensure that the HRP and cluster-specific reporting requirements are met and provides IM support to the humanitarian clusters for specialized tasks from our in-country program team. iMMAP is recognized as a leading organization in the innovation of IM and geospatial services and continues to advocate for information sharing in DRR.
iMMAP produces a range of static and interactive IM products such as maps, dashboards, spatial platforms, and reporting systems. These products assist our partners in mapping their presence and activities, also managing and visualizing essential information for their programs.
We offer humanitarian coordination and reporting support through ReportHub, an online reporting platform developed by iMMAP to address the gap in reporting operational data across organizations. The ReportHub also functions to streamline the information flow between clusters, partners, and the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in support of the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). ReportHub is currently the main reporting tool used by the humanitarian clusters and working groups active in the country, as endorsed by the HCT.
To facilitate the use of ReportHub, iMMAP’s capacity strengthening team provides recurrent training and workshops at the cluster, sub-cluster, and working group levels to help the humanitarian professionals working in Afghanistan to better respond to the ongoing humanitarian situation in the country by contributing to the humanitarian programme cycle via reporting their response activity reports.
The Humanitarian Spatial Data Center (HSDC) is an advanced web-based geospatial platform developed by iMMAP that provides critical information for DRR, operations planning, and emergency response. Under this project, the HSDC will be re-activated and updated, to provide the best currently available DRR data and other baseline information to the humanitarian community in Afghanistan.
Finally, as an essential component of this project, iMMAP will coordinate rounds of remote primary data collection to provide up-to-date information and to fill data and information gaps. This will assist decision-makers in understanding the status of humanitarian services delivery and how effectively services are reaching to the affected populations.
