Capacity building in societal benefit areas - recent results and the way forward as seen by UNOSAT...

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Capacity building in societal benefit areas - recent results and the way forward as seen by UNOSAT

Einar Bjorgo, UNOSAT manager (einar.bjorgo@unitar.org)

Introduction to UNOSAT

• A programme of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

• UNOSAT established in 2000

• Fully dedicated to satellite imagery analysis, applications of geospatial information technologies, training and capacity development

• 30 people

• Geneva (hosted at CERN), N’Djamena, Nairobi, Bangkok

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Introduction to UNOSAT

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16 terabytes of data stored at CERN Computer Centre – benefiting from economies of scale (100 petabytes at CERN), i.e. UNOSAT share: 1/6000

10 gigabit/second bandwidth

Serving maps and data to UN users and Member States

IT-support and server hosting

Virtual machines in CERN-cloud

Computer security

Research environment, collaboration

Powered by CERN IT

GEO societal benefit areas

• Agriculture• Biodiversity• Climate• Disasters• Ecosystems• Energy• Health• Water• Weather

From satellite analysis and mapping to training and capacity development

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Results-based learning approachADDIE model

AnalysisDesignDevelopmentImplementationEvaluation

Capacity development concept

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Training and Capacity Building – Beneficiary Outreach

Capacity development concept

Data access

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Regional and national training in South-East Asia

In 2011, UNOSAT and ADPC have launched a regional initiative to develop the capacity of countries across the Asia and Pacific region

In 2013, UNOSAT teamed with UN ESCAP for further training and capacity development

The partnership focuses on strengthening capacities of national disaster risk management professionals on the use of geospatial information technology for risk assessment and emergency response mapping

Regional Training in Bangkok (GIS4DRM) in collabration with AIT, ITC and ADPC. Additional training and support in partnership with UN ESCAP

National training in South-East Asia

2011: Vietnam (NRSC and Line ministries) 2012: Myanmar (Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and

Resettlement and others line ministries) 2013: Bangladesh (Ministry of disaster management and

relief) 2014: Cambodia (National Commission for DRM)

ResEau Chad project on sustainable water management

www.geodrr.org

CASIS – UNOSAT partnership

Image courtesy of NASA

Video

IGAD capacity developmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15JqCL2oQlE

www.unitar.org/unosat