Capacity strengthening

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Advancing National Survey Data with Geospatial Innovation in the Arab States

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Last week in Amman, experts from across the Arab States came together for a pioneering UNICEF–MICS/WorldPop workshop on using geospatial methods to build modern national sampling frames. Co-led by Senior Research Fellow Dr Sarchil Qader and GIS Technician Iyanuloluwa Olowe with UNICEF GIS consultant Nazim Gashi, the workshop brought together senior officials and technical staff […]

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Skills for Smarter Planning: How DEGURBA Capacity Building Is Empowering Countries 

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WorldPop recently completed its first workshop on automated census mapping in Malawi, a milestone for the joint FCDO-funded project with the Malawi National Statistics Office (NSO) ahead of their 2028 national census. Led by Dr Sarchil Qader and Dr Aubrey Steingrabber over two intensive weeks, 22 NSO colleagues and 4 students from the University of

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The Future is Geospatial: Powering Africa’s Growth with Location Intelligence

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On Tuesday, October 21, Senior Research Fellow Dr. Chris Nnanatu delivered a keynote presentation at the 2025 Data Science Nigeria AI Bootcamp, where he spoke on a topic shaping Africa’s digital future: “The Future is Geospatial: Powering Africa’s Growth with Location Intelligence (LI).” Dr. Nnanatu explored how geospatial and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming

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Advancing Wastewater Surveillance and Population Mapping at Dhaka Stakeholder Engagement Meeting

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Dr Somnath Chaudhuri, Research Fellow at WorldPop, recently visited Dhaka to participate in a key stakeholder engagement meeting for the Gates Foundation-funded project Blue Line Tracing and Wastewater Surveillance in Dhaka. The initiative, a multi-institutional collaboration involving icddr,b (formerly known as the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh), the University of Virginia, Imperial College

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Highlighting African Leadership in Evidence-Informed Policymaking at Evidence25

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At the Africa Evidence Network Evidence 2025 conference in Cotonou, Benin last week, our Deputy Director (Research) Dr Jessica Espey delivered a keynote highlighting how Africa’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs) are using data and research to shape smarter policy decisions across the continent. Dr Espey, co-author of a forthcoming paper with four Sub-Saharan African colleagues

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WorldPop: Sharpening Pakistan’s Survey Tools with Geospatial Know-How

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We’re excited to be working side by side with Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) and UNFPA to modernise survey planning and sampling in Pakistan, through a strategic training programme focused on Advanced Sampling for Complex Integrated Specialized Household and Economic Surveys run by Senior Research Fellows, Dr Sarchil Qader and Dr Gianluca Boo. Dr Qader

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Geospatial Capacity Strengthening in Nigeria

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To strengthen in-country capacity, WorldPop, supported by Gavi, recently conducted two capacity-strengthening workshops in Nigeria. Our geospatial experts Dr Edson Utazi and Iyanuloluwa Olowe led sessions focused on methodologies for producing gridded estimates of vaccination coverage and identifying zero-dose children. 38 participants from 11 organisations including the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, MOMENTUM Routine

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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

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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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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.

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