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
Ms. Michelle Edwards
Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
Dr. Shoichi Oki
Geospatial Information Authority of Japan
Major achievements of the Working Group 2015-2019 :
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Member States
- Algeria
- Armenia
- Burkina Faso
- Canada
- China
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Philippines
- Poland
- Sint Maarten
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- United States of America
Non-Member State
- State of Palestine
Observer
- International Hydrographic Organization
United Nations Geospatial Network
- UNOCHA
- UNFPA
- UNDRR
- UNESCAP
- UNECA
- WMO
Non-Government Organizations
- Group on Earth Observations
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- MapAction
- Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency
- Humanitarian OpenStreet Map (HOT)
- Pacific Disaster Centre
UN-GGIM Academic Network
- Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU)
- CIESIN, Columbia University
- Milan Polytechnic University
- Jeju National University, South Korea
- The University of Melbourne, Australia
UN-GGIM Private Sector Network
- GeoThings Inc.
- Esri
Task Groups
Group A
Group B
Group C
Working Group meeting during the Fourth UN-GGIM High-Level Forum in Addis Ababa (18-22 April 2016)
UN-GGIM WG-Disasters Conference 2020, Tokyo, Japan,
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)