Mandate
The working group was established under decision 5/110 at the fifth session of the Committee of Experts in August 2015 with the mandate to develop and implement a strategic framework that brings all stakeholders and partners involved in Disaster Risk Reduction and/or Emergency Management together to ensure that quality geospatial information and services are available and accessible in a timely and coordinated way to support decision-making and operations within and across all sectors and phases of disaster risk management.
Co-Chairs
Jamaica
Michelle Edwards
Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
Achievements of the Working Group:
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Work Programme :
The Working Group extends an open invitation to Member States, disaster risk reduction and management organizations and relevant academia, private sector and United Nations system organizations to continue collaborating by contributing to the maintenance of the global disaster risk reduction inventory hub via the following active surveys, whenever new information becomes available.
Member States
- Bhutan
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- New Zealand
- Philippines
- Republic of Korea
- Solomon Islands
- South Afria
- Sri Lanka
- State of Palestine
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
UN Bodies and Agencies
- UNOCHA
- UNFPA
- UNDRR
- UNESCAP
- UNECA
- UN-Geospatial Network
- WMO
Non-Government Organizations
- Group on Earth Observations
- MapAction
- Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency
- Humanitarian OpenStreet Map (HOT)
UN-GGIM Academic Network
- Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping (CASM)
- Milan Polytechnic University
- Toronto Metropolitan University
UN-GGIM Private Sector Network
- GeoThings Inc.
- Esri
- Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corp.
Task Groups
Collaborative Meetings
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Participation in CARIGEO Geoportal Webinar #2 on Disasters, 22 June 2021
Participation in GEO Virtual Symposium, 22 June 2021
Participation in CEOS WG Disasters Telecon-29 Meeting, 3 June 2021
Participation in CEOS WG Disasters Meeting March 2021
Participation in 6th Regional UN-GGIM Africa Meeting, 1 December 2020
Participation in 7th Session UN-GGIM Americas, 10 September 2020
Participation in the Americas Symposium, 8 September 2020
Participation in CEOS WGDisasters 14 Meeting, 1 September 2020
Participation in UN-GGIM Americas and ECLAC webinar, 4 August 2020
Working Group Meetings
Conferences, Summits, Forums, Seminars and Workshops
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Geospatial Capacity Development Conference on GNSS applications and DRR, 17 - 20 January 2022 (virtual meeting)
Virtual Geospatial Summit 2020, GIS Response to COVID-19, 8 April 2020
UN-GGIM WG-Disasters Conference 2020, Tokyo, Japan,25 - 27 February 2020(Postponed until further notice)
UN-GGIM International Forum on Geospatial Information & Services for Disasters Bridgetown, Barbados on 4-5 and 8 September 2016
World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul (23-24 May 2016)
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(Draft) Report of Frameworks, Rules, Legislation and Policies on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters (19 May 2016)
Summary of the WG-Disasters Meeting on 19 April 2016, during the 4th UN-GGIM High Level Forum in Addis Ababa
Update on progress of Task Team 2 of WG-Disasters (19 April 2016)
Annual sessions
- Fifteenth session
- Fourteenth session
- Thirteenth session
- Twelfth session
- Eleventh session
- Past sessions