Sectors and Themes
Agriculture
Infrastructure and Industry
Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Services
Scale
Project-Level
Resource Type
Platforms
Expertise Level
Practitioner
Specialist
Language
English
Membership Requirement
No
Resources Provided
Expert Support
Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Sharing
Tools
Developer or Source
Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
KfW
MAPME is an initiative to provide free and open access to GIS tools and earth observation in international development cooperation. MAPME connects people from all over the world to leverage the power of geodata to fight global climate change, poverty and environmental degradation.
MAPME provides capacity building tools and resources on the following topics:
- Conservation
- Agriculture
- Infrastructure
- Impact Evaluation
MAPME additionally provides the following services:
- Tutorials on GIS in the context of development cooperation, including on YouTube
- Core Repositories of R codes and statistical packages
- Project Location Model - an open standard for collecting location information in development cooperation
- Open Source Guide on using earth observation to measure monitoring indicators