What is IDeAMapSudan ?
Capacity strengthening for gender responsive and sustainable urban development: Integrated Deprivation Area Mapping System for Displacement Durable Solutions and socioeconomic reconstruction in Khartoum, Sudan (IDeAMapSudan).
Context
In November 2019, SUDTT organized a workshop under the title: Climate Change Security, Conflict and Displacement with the participation of 30 representatives from national bodies, local and international NGOs, research and academia. The workshop identified a clear gap in spatial information about the physical location and structure of deprived areas in Khartoum while also linking it to the socio-economic and socio-cultural issues within these areas. The need was identified for capacity building within the ministries dealing with these issues and also within relevant civil society organisations and NGOs. The identified capacity gaps can be traced throughout all the links of the chain that constitutes a complete information system. These are:
- lack of spatial data creation and collection
- lack of data management and analysis
- lack of the ability to translate spatial data into relevant policy
Purpose and objective
The aim of IDeAMapSudan is to develop a community-led geo-spatial database for mapping deprived urban areas (e.g., informal settlements) that will support the decision making process for displacement socio-economic reconstruction in Khartoum, Sudan.
This training aims to map and fill the gaps in the government of Sudan institutional and technical capacities, required to create a comprehensive database on displacement patterns and informal settlements in Khartoum, and support political governance in form of decision making processes for displacement durable, sustainable and resilient solutions.
IDeAMapSudan will work collaboratively with local governments and civil society organisations, providing training on the use of digital maps produced from satellite imagery to map urban deprived areas /informal settlements, and link the geospatial data collected with community-based data and data from capacity and vulnerability assessments, creating an understanding of displacement challenges and opportunities associated with urban development and socio-economic reconstruction reforms in Sudan.