Three members of our team have recently returned from a very productive few weeks where they were engaged in running workshops in South Africa, Zambia and Benin. Facilitators and participants at DHIS2 workshop in Cape Town South Africa. Photo credit: DHIS2, 2023. Senior Enterprise Fellow Heather Chamberlain joined a 10 strong DHIS2 training facilitation team […]
Strengthening skills in South Africa, Zambia and Benin Read More »
In recent weeks WorldPop experts visited Nigeria to run two workshops as part of our GRID3 Phase II project. The workshops were run for staff at the National Population Commission (NPC) and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in support of Nigeria’s 2023 national population and housing census. Senior Research Fellows Dr Sarchil Qader and
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Ensuring food security and shaping policy intervention require accurate and timely mapping and monitoring of agricultural dynamics and production. Many low- and middle-income countries do not have sufficient information on agricultural outputs to inform policy decisions and enable field monitoring – especially at the level of individual farms. This lack of high spatial resolution data
With financial support from the World Bank, WorldPop researcher, Dr Sarchil Qader adopted a ‘preEA Tool’ to create a national sampling frame to serve multiple upcoming socio-economic surveys in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Enumeration Areas (EAs) are small areas of a country that are used to administer surveys and censuses. Individual EAs are
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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.
