Le projet et consortium RESILAC "Redressement Economique et Social Inclusif du Lac Tchad" a identifié au cours de sa phase d’amorçage le besoin d’améliorer la gestion de son information (également appelé Information Management ou IM en anglais). CartONG accompagne le Groupe URD en charge du "Système de suivi et d’évaluation des réalisations" sur la composante gestion de l'information.

Ainsi CartONG :

1. réalise un diagnostic en gestion de l'information (toutes technologiques condonfus) afin de formaliser les besoins des parties prenantes, identifier les contraintes et opportunités existantes et proposer des scénarios de solutions
2. déployera certaines recommandations formulées à l’issu du diagnostic (et par la suite formalisé sous forme de plan d’action et plan de renforcement) sur un ou deux sites pilotes pour tester leur pertinence, avant d’envisager leurs éventuelles déploiements à l’échelle du projet.
3. assurera la montée en compétences des équipes concernées dans le(s) site(s) pilote(s).

In 2018, CartONG conducted two challenging Information Management (IM) needs assessment missions, during which we evaluated the IM policies, processes, practices and tools implemented by the Solidarités International’s teams in response to the refugee crisis in Bangladesh as well as the Syrian crisis.

For these rapid assessments of information management needs, CartONG interviewed the key players to evaluate their expectations, fears and difficulties, and reviewed the existing documentation and processes in place for the IM tools used by the local Solidarités’ teams as well as the available IM products. As part of these missions, we also facilitated workshops and conducted a review of the key existing project documents to identify the IM needs per activity and the potential constraints related to donor requirements. The deliverables of these two needs assessments missions were a report and a list of recommendations and suggested priorities. The support provided by CartONG in the Middle East had the particularity of taking place following the launch of a new  consortium (therefore still in its infancy), and was thus mostly focused on strategic aspects; whereas the mission in Bangladesh was an opportunity to identify the capacity-building needs of the local IM team which then led to a two-week training mission on various topics such as MDC, mapping and data protection.

In June 2016, following a second bidding process,  CartONG was one of the organizations (including iMMAP and MapAction) to be retained by the UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office, setting the framework to be deployed in the WCARO region to support UNICEF country operations in Information Management and Mapping.

CartONG has helped Tdh to support its field teams through the development of tutorials and tools to help improve the data protection practices in the field.

All of the public documentation is available on the MDC-Toolkit website. The MDC Toolkit is composed of 40 documents – created under a free license- to support the use of mobile data collection by the Tdh’s field teams as well as all the actors of the humanitarian and development sectors. The MDC Toolkit is combined with a Data Visualization Toolkit whose purpose is to help field staff improve their data visualization practices, and which may be found in the Analyze your data section of the website.