iMMAP Inc

Humanitarian Information Rapid Response Teams: iMMAP supported international development and emergency response efforts by providing targeted information management support to partners engaged in this challenging work. iMMAP is an official standby partner to the united nation agencies, providing skilled and experienced human resources in humanitarian emergencies. Supported by the USAID/BHA. The location, duration, and tasks of these deployments are defined jointly with our partners to support the country-based operational needs. iMMAP currently holds SBP related partnerships with 10 United Nations agencies: FAO, OCHA, UNFPA, UNDP, UNICEF, UNHCR, UN Women, WHO, and WFP. In Afghanistan, with USAID/BHA funding, iMMAP worked with the humanitarian community to establish a Common Operating Picture (COP) that merged information on humanitarian projects, health services, education, food security, and water, physical security, and landmine/Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) contamination. This COP allowed organizations to gain a better understanding of the complex humanitarian environment in Afghanistan. These activities not only facilitated more accurate targeting of humanitarian aid programming in Afghanistan but also allowed humanitarian organizations to better understand and adapt to rapidly changing security risks, minimizing potential hazards to their projects, staff and beneficiaries. IMMAP initiated the dedicated Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) program funded through USAID/BHA addresses the specific DRR information management needs of both the government of Afghanistan and the humanitarian community. Our DRR program provides a platform for spatial analysis aimed at the development and implementation of a scientifically sound methodology for estimating the scale and impact of future disaster scenarios. Funded by USAID/BHA and in partnership with OCHA, the iMMAP information management resource center was launched to support the whole of Syria structure with information management, coordination and capacity building services. Specifically, IMRC aims to enhance information management and reporting capacity of Syrian and international NGOs responding to the Syria crisis through the provision of change management and common services, coordination support, capacity building and an internship program. iMMAP in Yemen with USAID/BHA funding supports clusters and inter-cluster coordination which extends its IM support and humanitarian coordination services to un OCHA, cluster/sector leads, NGOs, un agencies (especially those providing lifesaving services) and the humanitarian community in general; to ensure coherent, strategic and effective emergency response. iMMAP in Nigeria with USAID/BHA funding deploys skilled information management officers to all active humanitarian sectors, thus helping to lay the foundation of sound data collection mechanism, better analysis and reporting to the benefit of the United Nations, the donors, the NGOs and other stakeholders of the crisis. iMMAP in Colombia is providing the necessary information management capacity required to build a multisector picture of the humanitarian impact of the Venezuela situation. In Colombia, with support from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, iMMAP provided information management assistance to all of the prioritized sectors, providing support to Venezuelan migrants and refugees, enhancing coordination and overall quality of the humanitarian response to this critical humanitarian crisis. iMMAP in Ethiopia - The main goal of this project is to support the response to the ongoing crisis in Ethiopia by strengthening the IM capacity of sectors' members in their response: advance the mechanism for regularly identifying needs of populations, and to provide better data to the inter-sectoral coordination mechanism led by UNOCHA. In response to the identified needs and funded by USAID/BHA, iMMAP contributed to the enhancement of the humanitarian coordination and its response capacities through information management support to humanitarian actors in Cameroon. iMMAP provided critical support to the United Nations, WFP, WHO and UNICEF, in crisis response activities in Syria, Palestine and Yemen in order to facilitate the establishment of Information Management (IM) systems, IM coordination cells, structured sectoral data collection, and Geographic Information System (GIS)/mapping products to better inform humanitarian decision making.