The Pan African Health
and Emergency
Management system
http://giss.uneca.org/eHealth
Makane Faye
E-Applications Section
UN Economic Commission for Africa
Background
 This application is designed to set up
disaster monitoring, evaluation and
response management system to
dispatch response teams to critical and
vulnerable areas in Africa. The system
comprises GIS application, with
authoritative geodatabase, to support
preparedness, planning and operations
for security and health emergencies.
Relation to ECA Mandate
 Serving member states in the area of
GeoInformation.
 Division’s mandate for Biennium 20102011 and
 Biennium 2012-2013: Section EA2/IA2:
“Development of geospatial databases for
the African node of the United Nations
spatial data infrastructure, providing data,
standards and GeoInformation applications
to member States and showcasing
interoperability best practice, Inventory and
status of fundamental geospatial datasets in
Africa”
Key Deliverables
 Database:
 Inventory and collection of available
health data and information
resources
 Data processing and analysis
 Data integration in a GIS database
Key Deliverables, ctd.
 GIS Database:
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Base map of Africa
Prototype application for Ethiopia
Population data
Location of Health Facilities
Road network
Airports and Airbases
Location and distribution of health facilities with
the road network
Results
 Using the Network analyst extension which
provides online accessibility, functionality
and easy navigation:
 Shows the nearest health facilities from a point
 Shows directions from a starting to a
destination point
 Shows the best route (shortest route and better
road type) to use in case of emergency...etc.
 Indicates service areas of health facilities
Next actions
 Data migration from ArcGIS© 9.3 to
ArcGIS© 10
 Identifying focal persons in member States
to edit or update attributes online
 Inclusion of Google Earth© application in
the system
 Trainings and workshops for focal persons
on how to use the system
Partnerships
 Current partners:
 WHO
 Ministry of Health of Ethiopia
 Potential partners
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