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The Lightning Talks took place on Wednesday 31/10 at 9 am, with the following speakers and presentations (more details on content below in the table & in the video recording of the session):
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Florian Pujol |
Leave no one behind: the question of disability in data collection According to WHO, 15% of the world's population lives with a disability. How can you measure if your projects are inclusive to people with disability? If we really want to "Leave no one behind", there is an urgent need for quality data on persons with disabilities to better understand and respond to the needs of the 1 billion people worldwide who live with a disability. Yet, measuring disability with a binary “yes-no” question does not generate data that is sufficiently comparable or reliable to inform humanitarian programming. What is the best way of collecting useful and quality data on persons with disability? How can NGOs use this data to make their projects more inclusive? |
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Artur Gil |
Using Google Earth Engine platform for monitoring Azores Islands' land use and terrestrial ecosystems Small oceanic islands as the Azores (Portugal), are very sensitive territories severely threatened by climate change, natural disasters, biological invasions, tourism development, and agriculture intensification. Land Cover / Land Use Change (LULCC) is one of the most relevant indicators for assessing land management and environmental planning policies in these islands. A Google Earth Engine-based tool has been developed in order to allow a systematic and accurate LULCC monitoring system of S. Miguel Island, the largest and most populated island of the Azores Archipelago, in order to support policy-making, cost-effective management, public participation and law enforcement in this territory. The first module of this tool to be presented in this session is dedicated to forested/vegetated areas. |
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Christophe Cloquet |
GAFAM and/or Open source? In our jobs, we often preferentially use either "commercial" or "free and open source” software. This talk will question both of them: we may ask if the other world is sometimes "good enough" for our goals. Is ease of use vs control of our own destiny the only dilemma? What are the reasons to use and not use one or the other world, and is there a room for cooperation? |
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Laurène Barlet |
OCTOPUS – Operational Collaborative Tool of Ongoing Practices in Urgent Sanitation OCTOPUS results from reflecting on ways to provide and disseminate guidance to practitioners having to implement Faecal Sludge Management in the first phases of emergencies, with the objective to facilitate and shorten the decision-making process. The tool has been funded by HIF. |
| Needs Assessment Working Group represented by Claudia Grigore from CartONG |
Building a toolkit for better needs assessment Since early 2018, several UN organizations and NGOs are meeting as a working group on a regular basis in an attempt to develop a Needs Assessment Toolkit. Their goal is to identify available tools and gaps, to reduce duplication of development efforts, to learn from good examples, to address existing gaps and to make available guidance more accessible. So far, over 80 tools & templates were identified to be part of the Toolkit and several identified missing tools are under development, such as the Assessment Registry Analysis Guidance. |
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Ivan Lopes |
Flood analysis in a refugee camp during emergency Approximately 671,000 Rohingya refugees have fled targeted violence and serious human rights violations in Myanmar since August 2017. The refugees have spontaneously settled in and around existing refugee communities, overstretching already-limited services and scarce resources. Six months on, the monsoon season is approaching and the risk of an emergency within the emergency is still looming. UNHCR, the Government of Bangladesh, and partners continue to work around the clock to provide protection and assistance to refugees, while also supporting host populations affected by the influx. One of UNHCR’s task involves the use of GIS to estimate the floods and landslides, to evaluate the risk and damage within the refugee camp. |
CartONG thank them for their participation! You can discover the video of the session here:
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Florian Pujol |
Leave no one behind: the question of disability in data collection According to WHO, 15% of the world's population lives with a disability. How can you measure if your projects are inclusive to people with disability? If we really want to "Leave no one behind", there is an urgent need for quality data on persons with disabilities to better understand and respond to the needs of the 1 billion people worldwide who live with a disability. Yet, measuring disability with a binary “yes-no” question does not generate data that is sufficiently comparable or reliable to inform humanitarian programming. What is the best way of collecting useful and quality data on persons with disability? How can NGOs use this data to make their projects more inclusive? |
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Artur Gil |
Using Google Earth Engine platform for monitoring Azores Islands' land use and terrestrial ecosystems Small oceanic islands as the Azores (Portugal), are very sensitive territories severely threatened by climate change, natural disasters, biological invasions, tourism development, and agriculture intensification. Land Cover / Land Use Change (LULCC) is one of the most relevant indicators for assessing land management and environmental planning policies in these islands. A Google Earth Engine-based tool has been developed in order to allow a systematic and accurate LULCC monitoring system of S. Miguel Island, the largest and most populated island of the Azores Archipelago, in order to support policy-making, cost-effective management, public participation and law enforcement in this territory. The first module of this tool to be presented in this session is dedicated to forested/vegetated areas. |
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Christophe Cloquet |
GAFAM and/or Open source? In our jobs, we often preferentially use either "commercial" or "free and open source” software. This talk will question both of them: we may ask if the other world is sometimes "good enough" for our goals. Is ease of use vs control of our own destiny the only dilemma? What are the reasons to use and not use one or the other world, and is there a room for cooperation? |
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Laurène Barlet |
OCTOPUS – Operational Collaborative Tool of Ongoing Practices in Urgent Sanitation OCTOPUS results from reflecting on ways to provide and disseminate guidance to practitioners having to implement Faecal Sludge Management in the first phases of emergencies, with the objective to facilitate and shorten the decision-making process. The tool has been funded by HIF. |
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Needs Assessment Working Group represented by Claudia Grigore from CartONG |
Building a toolkit for better needs assessment Since early 2018, several UN organizations and NGOs are meeting as a working group on a regular basis in an attempt to develop a Needs Assessment Toolkit. Their goal is to identify available tools and gaps, to reduce duplication of development efforts, to learn from good examples, to address existing gaps and to make available guidance more accessible. So far, over 80 tools & templates were identified to be part of the Toolkit and several identified missing tools are under development, such as the Assessment Registry Analysis Guidance. |
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Ivan Lopes |
Flood analysis in a refugee camp during emergency Approximately 671,000 Rohingya refugees have fled targeted violence and serious human rights violations in Myanmar since August 2017. The refugees have spontaneously settled in and around existing refugee communities, overstretching already-limited services and scarce resources. Six months on, the monsoon season is approaching and the risk of an emergency within the emergency is still looming. UNHCR, the Government of Bangladesh, and partners continue to work around the clock to provide protection and assistance to refugees, while also supporting host populations affected by the influx. One of UNHCR’s task involves the use of GIS to estimate the floods and landslides, to evaluate the risk and damage within the refugee camp. |
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