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Stories of Impact: A series highlighting achievements in disaster risk management - Identifying Risks and Guiding Recovery Efforts in Malawi

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RESULTS:

• Strengthened the GFDRR-supported open source Malawi Spatial Data Platform (MASDAP) GeoNode by adding additional datasets, in partnership with Malawi’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs and other government departments. Data from this GeoNode was used during the 2015 food recovery efforts and to estimate the disaster’s impact on poverty.

• Improved risk information through community mapping exercises, including mapping nearly 450 residential areas and collecting more than 15,000 waypoints in Nsanje alone.

• Following the severe January ooding, a GFDRR-supported post-disaster assessment helped inform $80 million in World Bank nancing to help restore agricultural livelihoods, reconstruct critical public infrastructure, enhance food security, and improve disaster response and recovery capacity.