About this document

This document was designed as a supplementary material for the “QGIS and InaSAFE Workshop” under the “Participatory mapping and LGU decision support tools for Disaster Risk Reduction” in partnership with the Department of Interior and Local Government, World Bank-East Asia Pacific and East Asia-AusAid Infrastructure for Growth program, OpenStreetMap-Philippines and the municipalities of of Candaba, Guagua, and Lubao, all in the province of Pampanga.

About the Project

The project will provide training on participatory mapping and InaSAFE support to the Philippine government in disaster risk reduction activities through these strategies:

  • Supporting the growth of the OpenStreetMap community that has competence in leveraging participatory mapping methods with OpenStreetMap tools and Web-based map platforms and is a proven effective approach to community engagement and in obtaining data
  • Supporting the customization of InaSAFE that will leverage the InaSAFE initiative with the decision support tool component of the project, having been developed and implemented in Indonesia so far. The Department of Interior and Local Government identified InaSAFE’s potential in assisting local governments design their contingency and land use plans.

At the end of the workshop, the participants should be able to:

  • Understand the basic principles of how QGIS 2.0 works;
  • Learn how to edit their existing dataset using QGIS;
  • Understand the basic functionality of InaSAFE;
  • Formulate a better land use and disaster risk reduction and management plans through the help of InaSAFE impact function results that may be later implemented in their respective municipality.

About ESSC

The Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) is a Jesuit research institute with a 20-year history of engagement in local, national and regional research and dialogue that contribute to an understanding and sustainability of community-based environmental management through the development of a “science for social change”.

ESSC’s approach to environmental mapping makes significant contribution to building people’s capacities to collectively manage and plan towards an improvement of their way of life through a more responsive management of the environment.

More information about ESSC: http://www.essc.org.ph

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