Awareness and outreach activities at the international and regional level serve to establish a critical mass of experts and practitioners from both the space applications and disaster management communities. Based on awareness campaigns and outreach workshops and related activities, UN-SPIDER offers Technical Advisory Support (TAS) at the country level. The first step is, on request by the respective government, a Technical Advisory Mission (TAM) with an international team of experts, to identify capacity building needs and laying the ground to establish a subsequent programme of action.