Between August and October 2019, CartONG carried out a technical and methodological participatory mapping support project with the Maroni Lab association in French Guiana. Have a look back at this project aiming at promoting responsible and inclusive local urban development.
The co-financing of this 2020-2023 project aiming at structuring the associative sector and led by CartONG was approved by the French Development Agency at its last NGO committee meeting on October, 15th 2019. It is dedicated to strengthening Information Management within francophone CSOs. Learn more in our article.
CartONG has been partnering with the Global Healthsites mapping project since 2017. We recently had the opportunity to test the Healthsites.io platform at full scale with its complete data workflow during a data collaborative project in Senegal, that was implemented with the support of Geomatica and the OSM local community.
As part of the process of designing a comprehensive Associative Project in early 2019, CartONG decided it was a natural step forward for our organization to officially endorse the principles for Digital development, as our actions are based on strong principles that are fully aligned with all 9 of them. Read more here.
At the end of 2018, CartONG was selected by the French Development Agency to participate in the scientific impact evaluation of the Program for the Rehabilitation and Integration of Housing Districts implemented in Tunisia (PRIQH2), with the aim of adding a mapping dimension to the program's evaluation methodology. This initiative is a new approach also for CartONG.
CartONG was in Haiti in June as part of the project "Our City is Safer for Women", an initiative led by CARE's office in Jeremie and funded by UN Women, for giving a training in participatory mapping methodologies.
CartONG provides GIS and mapping services in support to the MSF GIS-Unit since 2013. As part of our support, CartONG has designed the Map Centre platform: a full-custom application, which acts as a single point of entry to access all geographical products used by MSF for its activities. Watch our video to discover some of its main functionalities!
Since its creation and the drafting of its statutes in 2006, CartONG had not updated any document defining its global objectives. With the growth and diversification of our activities in recent years, it had become necessary to draft an associative project that would clarify the social contribution of our organization to society, specify its fields of expertise, (re)define its values and detail our growth over the past 13 years – so as to guide future developments.