Institutions

In its role as a bridge between communities dedicated to risk management, emergency response and space technologies, UN-SPIDER facilitates global and regional networking of organizations and institutions. This list of institutions contains profiles including information on mandates, capacities, and skills in each institution.

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World Bank Country Office in Guatemala
Despite the global financial crisis and recent natural disasters, Guatemala continues to have huge potential for economic growth. But with the second lowest social indicators in the region, rising food prices pose a risk for vulnerable members of…
World Bank Country Office in Malawi
The World Bank aims to support Malawi's efforts toward more diversified, competitive, shock-resilient socio-economic growth.Fully aligned with the Second Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS II) and the Economic Recovery Plan launched in…
World Bank Mozambique
Since 1984, the World Bank has been providing development assistance to Mozambique, designing assistance based on the country’s needs and priorities, from economic stabilization in the 1980s, to post-war reconstruction in the early 1990s, to a…
World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere (WDC-RSAT)
The World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, WDC-RSAT, offers scientists and the general public free access (in the sense of a “one-stop shop”) to a continuously growing collection of atmosphere-related satellite-based…
World Food Programme (WFP)
The World Food Programme runs geoNode, a corporate web application for creating and sharing geospatial data and maps designed for non-GIS experts.Website: http://www.wfp.org/
World Food Programme (WFP) in Burkina Faso
With a population of 14 million (as per Census 2006 data), of whom 43.9 % lives below the poverty line, and almost half is under 15, Burkina Faso is classified as both a least developed country and a low-income, food-deficit country. As the United…
World Food Programme (WFP) in Malawi
The World Food Programme Country Programme (CP) in Malawi in started in March 2012 and will be operational until February 2016. The overarching objective of the programme is to strengthen national capacity to improve primary education outcomes,…
World Health Organization (WHO) in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has a total population of almost 16 million people, with an average of life expectancy at birth of 49 for male and 56 for female, a high rate of children deaths and a large burden of diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis among…
World Health Organization (WHO) in Maldives
WHO was the first UN agency to establish a country programme and an office in Maldives. WHO’s role as the longest standing partner in national health development is well recognized. WHO collaboration in Maldives has embraced a broad-based…
World Health Organization (WHO) in Togo
The mission of the WHO Togo Country Office is to promote the attainment of the highest sustainable level of health by all people living in Togo through collaboration with the government and other partners in health development and the provision of…
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is one of the United Nations Agency and was founded in 1950. It provides weather, climate and hydrological information at global scale. It facilitates the free and unlimited exchange of data, information…
World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC)
The World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC) is one of the six World Data Centres which are part of the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) programme of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The WOUDC began as the World Ozone Data…
World Resources Institute (WRI)
The World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global research organization that spans more than 50 countries, with offices in the United States, China, India, Braxil, Indonesia and more. The organisation focuses on six critical issues at the…
WorldPop
The WorldPop was initiated in 2013 as population mapping project, in order to provide an open demographic dataset access for Africa, Asia and Central and South America.This Population mapping project is created by collaboration of different…
Yangon Technological University (YTU)
Yangon Technological University (YTU) is an engineering university located in Gyogone, Yangon, Myanmar. Established as Department of Engineering under Rangoon University in 1924, and popular known by its former name Rangoon Institute of Technology (…