On-the-ground, information management tools in northeast Syria

SUMMARY: Mine action activities in northeast Syria (NES) started in early 2017. At the time, there was a clear need for coordination, and members of the NES nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) forum’s implementing programs—including Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) promotion, as well as programs representing Shelter, Cash, Health, and Food—experienced tremendous challenges working in a region heavily contaminated by ordnance with no information available on their locations and types. By the end of 2017, iMMAP filled this gap by providing a coordination support platform for humanitarian mine action (HMA) actors through the use of the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA). To date, a geographic information system (GIS) portal, a Power BI dashboard, and an offline mobile data collection tool (MoDAC) are some of the tools used by iMMAP to support HMA actors working in NES.