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Horn of Africa

The Data Exchange Platform for the Horn of Africa (DEPHA), (www.depha.org) is an inter-agency Initiative of the UN and other humanitarian organizations operating in the Horn of Africa. Its core objectives is to meet mission-critical data and services and increase information base for Humanitarian, Emergency and Development Institutions in the seven countries of the Horn of Africa by creating a culture of information awareness, information availability and information use with the aim of improving access to accurate, timely and reliable data to assist in the prevention, mitigation and preparation for disasters as they occur in the Horn of Africa.


The goal of DEPHA is to promote the awareness, application and availability of geographic information. Its main activities include the acquisition, development and dissemination of geographic information system (GIS) products and services including:


DEPHA has previously been involved in canumber of projects within the Horn of Africa. We have carried-out various project ranging from Disease outbreaks, Food Security, Drought, Flood Assessments, Threat and Risk Mapping, Oil Spill Modelling & Tsunami Modelling for the Kenya Coast in partneship with GEUS of Denmark, Oil spill Assessment around Lake Albert in Uganda among other projects within the Horn of Africa.

  • Compilation of GIS data to support regional GIS implementation.
  • Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Horn of Africa.
  • Threat and Risk security mapping, Vulnerability Mapping for food security, Data acquisition and compilation on Flood Risk and Hazard Assessment.
  • GIS support for project level analysis, planning and map productiona.
  • On-line web based platform for public data discovery and dissemination.
  • Training on Overview of GIS, Fundamentals of GIS, Data collection and analysis and GPS.
 

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