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As part of its efforts to provide advisory support to national disaster management agencies and other stakeholders in Africa, UN-SPIDER is carrying out an Institutional Strengthening Mission to South Africa from 8 to 12 May 2023.

The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), UN-SPIDER and the Centre for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL) of the University of Bonn organized a 3-day interinstitutional workshop to improve disaster preparedness in case of very large floods in Nigeria.

As the year 2021 comes to an end, the team at UN-SPIDER wants to take this chance to look back at some of our highlight activities during the year. Dominated by challenges provoked by the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis and its consequences, the world faced many challenges and will continue to do so in the next year and more years to come.

As the year 2021 comes to an end, the team at UN-SPIDER wants to take this chance to look back at some of our highlight activities during the year. Dominated by challenges provoked by the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis and its consequences, the world faced many challenges and will continue to do so in the next year and more years to come.

As the year 2021 comes to an end, the team at UN-SPIDER wants to take this chance to look back at some of our highlight activities during the year. Dominated by challenges provoked by the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis and its consequences, the world faced many challenges and will continue to do so in the next year and more years to come.

Southern Africa is exposed to hydrometeorological, geological, coastal and biological hazards.  The region has been hard hit by droughts in recent years. Tropical cyclone Idai triggered massive floods in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe in March 2019, and in 2020 several countries experience a severe locust outbreak.  And unfortunately, COVID-19 continues to impact all countries in this region.

Virtual expert meeting discusses space-based solutions for disaster risk management and emergency response in Nigeria Format In recent decades, communities in Nigeria have experienced disasters triggered by floods, droughts, landslides, coastal erosion, oil spills, and other natural and technological hazards that have eroded hard-won development gains. Taking note of advances in space technologies and other technological innovations. Since 2008, the UN-SPIDER programme of the Office for Outer S...

Registration Deadline:  Description:  To continue efforts to make use of the opportunities made available by the space community, UN-SPIDER, NASRDA, NEMA and the Centre for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces of the University of Bonn (ZFL) joined forces to carry out the UN-SPIDER/NASRDA/NEMA/ZFL National Virtual Expert Meeting on the use of Space-based Solutions for Disaster Risk Management and Emergency Response in Nigeria. The virtual expert meeting focused on the use of space technologies to...

Project Highlights Round 1 (2017-2018) Nineteen projects were selected and announced as the inaugural DIF winners in 2017 (a total amount of USD 2.7 million). These projects varied in geographic focus, types of innovation, sectors, kinds of outputs, target beneficiaries, and partnership models. Project highlights included digital health programs in India and South Africa that helped predict and identify patients who were likely to fail to return for treatment by using machine learning technolog...

Putting Data and Innovation to Work for the SDGs: the Data Innovation Fund Photos from the Data Innovation Fund (DIF) project teams Progress toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is contingent on the availability of good quality data, and no small amount of innovation. However, persistent data gaps plague low- and middle-income countries, due to a range of challenges, such as statistical capacity constraints, insufficient access to or use of data collection tools...