COVID-19: GRID3 Microplanning Support Country Expansion
Project lead: Attila Lazar
Team: Heather Chamberlain, Tom Abbott, Chris Lloyd, Maksym Bondarenko, Edith Darin, Assane Gadiaga, Duygu Cihan, Tim O’Riordan, Alexandra Frosch
Funding: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)/Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Start: Jan 2022
Completion: Dec 2022
COVAX is a Gavi Vaccine Alliance initiative aimed at providing equal access to Covid-19 diagnostics, treatments and vaccines. To aid government and non-government organisation (NGO) planning at a local level we and our partners are supporting effective adoption and use of GRID3 spatial data innovations in COVAX strategies to meet COVID-19 vaccination targets.
In this project, together with our GRID3 partners, CIESIN, UNFPA, Flowminder Foundation, we worked closely with governments and local stakeholders across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Our contribution involved:
- generating high resolution population estimates and various age/sex disaggregations,
- providing direct technical assistance to governments,
- working with active COVAX organizations (WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, etc.) to help them incorporate GRID3 innovations into their communications and assistance to governments, and
- sharing knowledge and expertise with the global COVAX community and countries across sub-Saharan Africa.
Countries
- Bukina Faso
- Kenya
- Mozambique
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About Us
The WorldPop research programme, based in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Southampton, is a multi-sectoral team of researchers, technicians and project specialists that produces data on population distributions and characteristics at high spatial resolution.
Initiated in October 2013 to combine The AfriPop Project, AsiaPop and AmeriPop projects, we have a diverse portfolio of projects, including large multi-million-pound collaborative projects with partner organisations, commercial data providers and international development organisations.
