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

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

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

50% Introduction to UNOSAT

4 16 terabytes of data stored at CERN Computer Centre – benefiting from economies of scale (100 petabytes at CERN), i.e. UNOSAT share: 1/ 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 6

Results-based learning approach ADDIE model Analysis Design Development Implementation Evaluation

Capacity development concept

1 Training and Capacity Building – Beneficiary Outreach

Capacity development concept

Data access floods.unosat.org

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

CASIS – UNOSAT partnership Image courtesy of NASA

Video IGAD capacity development