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Research Fellow Dr Aubrey Steingraber guides workshop participants practice with geospatial tools to validate preEA boundaries and collect GPS household locations

Preparing a National Sampling Frame: capacity strengthening in Cameroon

Senior Researcher Dr Sarchil Qader and Specialist GIS Technician Dr Aubrey Steingraber have recently returned from Cameroon where they conducted an 8-day workshop and high-level engagement to support the development of a national sampling frame for the country. The lack of an up-to-date national sampling frame that accurately lists the businesses and household addresses needed […]

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Conflict Exposure Calculator: a new tool to measure the impact of conflict

New research by WorldPop and ACLED, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, indicates that more than 1 billion people – 14% of the world population – were living within five kilometres of conflict or civil protest in 2023. This important finding has been uncovered by a new conflict exposure metric that combines WorldPop’s

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Senior Enterprise Fellow Dr Natalia Tejedor-Garavito addressing DANE's “Statistical Mind: 70 making us all count" meeting in Bogotá, Colombia

WorldPop at “Statistical Mind: 70 making us all count” in Bogotá, Colombia

The head of our Geospatial Data and Analysis team, Dr Natalia Tejedor-Garavito was a guest speaker and panellist at the “Statistical Mind: 70 making us all count” meeting in Bogotá, Colombia in December. The event was organised by the National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE) as part of their 70th anniversary celebrations and

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Climate-smart soils: testing soil health in Western Kenya

New open-source dataset and interactive web portal unlocks hidden potential for health and climate research

A team led by Principal Enterprise Fellow Dr Natalia-Tejedor-Garavito has recently completed a ground-breaking initiative aimed at improving our understanding of the impact of climate on human health. Through this Wellcome Trust-funded project the team developed an open-source geospatial dataset and interactive web portal that demonstrates the potential for combining health monitoring data with climate

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Dr Wuttisorn presents a gifts to Dr Garavito

Training and technical support for Thai census

Earlier this month the Thailand National Statistical Office (TNSO) concluded the second phase of innovative WorldPop training in spatial population modelling. Organised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Thailand to help improve the efficiency and accuracy of census processes in the country more than 25 participants from the TSNO, academia, and the UNFPA joined

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Data for Decision-Making panel, MEED Conference for Regional Development (Kurdsat News)

Data and regional development in Iraqi Kurdistan

Senior Research Fellow Dr Sarchil Qader recently participated in the Data for Decision-Making panel discussion at the 1st MEED Conference for Regional Development in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Regional development in Iraq is compromised because the country has not conducted a census in several decades. During the debate Dr Qader explained how new satellite

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Punta del Este, Uruguay

Festival de Datos: the Data for Development Festival

Our Deputy Director for Enterprise and Engagement, Ian Coady recently travelled to Punta del Este, Uruguay to join the Festival de Datos, a celebration of the use of data in international development, organised by Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. The 3-day festival included debates on AI for Development, inclusive data processes, innovations for public

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Capacity strengthening workshop supporting INEC Panama’s and DANE Colombia’s socio-economic surveys.

After a productive one-week workshop in Panama where multiple national statical offices (NSOs) and UN agencies from different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean region participated (read more here), Dr Sarchil Qader continued his journey in the region to lead various engagements, discussions and training with NSOs.  Panama is planning to conduct various socioeconomic

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Technical assistance and training on modelled population estimates and national sampling frames to support census in Latin America and the Caribbean region

Many countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region have recently conducted censuses and are in the process of compiling and analysing results. Within censuses, challenges can often arise around omission of certain populations, geographical access, distribution of small area results and updating sample frames. WorldPop in collaboration with the Regional Office for Latin America

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