As part of its 2019 Call for Ideas, CartONG is supporting, this year, two volunteer initiatives called MapATI & YAKA. We invite you to discover more about the MapATI project which aims at raising awareness of the lack of urban green spaces in Lomé.
Building on its sound experience in GIS and needs assessment for the humanitarian and development sectors, as well as its most recent experience at Humanity & Inclusion, here are 6 key recommendations of CartONG on how to facilitate the development and use of geodata and geoproducts by operational NGOs.
As part of the partnership with MSF-CH, CartONG was requested in 2019 to test and deploy ArcGIS Pro as part of the upgrade of ESRI's mapping tools. Here is our feedback.
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.