Dates: August 2021

Location: Türkiye

Theme: Disaster Response, Humanitarian Aid, Tackling Socioeconomic Inequalities

Developing and establishing a Humanitarian Crisis Response Map by utilizing Needs Map’s geographic information system (GIS) technology to create a network of crisis response structures to mobilize swift and resilient responses for vulnerable populations including refugees. The newly developed GIS based platform will embed response structures, governmental institutions, NGOs and private sector actors on a map-based platform to ensure swift communication and response in the events of humanitarian crisis’. 

The project seek to developed a “Humanitarian Crisis Response Map” by using Needs Map geographic information system (GIS) technology to create a network of crisis response structures across the 7 cities. The “Humanitarian Crisis Response Map” will be a map-based online platform for simultaneous coordination and information sharing amongst humanitarian response actors. The essential aim of platform will be creating a network which consists of different local and national actors focusing on humanitarian crisis such as governmental institutions, NGOs and private sector actors. Within this perspective, the platform will show which actors work where and for what purpose on location basis.