Responses to natural disasters need to be both rapid and carefully coordinated.
Saving lives, livelihoods and providing shelter for those displaced are two key priorities
for first responders. This can be achieved through a carefully coordinated and planned damages
assessment process that has the required tools and techniques to facilitate consistent and methodical
assessment processes. Geo-information from space-based data, along with web mapping, remote sensing and information systems technologies,
have proven to be powerful tools that combine vector data and map information (baseline data) for improved and efficient analysis and decision-making.
It is against this background that the Building Disaster Resilient Rural Communities and
Livelihoods Project (BDRRCL), implemented in 2013/14 included a component for the development
of a mobile application, GeoDAT to collect damage data enabling multiple sectors to be able to
make critical response decisions. Funding for the development of the app was provided by international
NGO ACDI/VOCA through funding from USAID.
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