Geographer. Political-economy/humanitarian analysis at the World Bank. Also @mapaction and @hotosm. #mmcambridge moving Jordan side
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In #Yemen 🇾🇪, 2.5 million people are in danger of experiencing emergency levels of acute #food insecurity, according to the latest Joint Monitoring Report produced by the @WorldBank Group, @ACAPSproject, @FAO, @UNICEF, @WFP, & @WHO.
Steve Penson retweeted
Malnutrition affects schooling & health outcomes, as well as income earning potential.
After almost a decade of heightened food crisis in #Yemen, the long-term harmful effects are likely to be felt for generations to come.
Read our report: wrld.bg/fXLK50R9Jwj #HealthDay
Steve Penson retweeted
The operation to #StopRedSeaSpill and avert an environmental and humanitarian disaster is gathering pace.
Pumping from the #FSOSafer is well underway with 223,000 barrels of oil safely removed so far.
Thanks to @SweMFA 🇸🇪and partners for supporting this critical operation!
Steve Penson retweeted
The UN-led project to prevent a massive oil spill from the #FSOSafer supertanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast began today with the removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil from the decaying vessel.
Read the Press Release:
bit.ly/3pWntbB
Steve Penson retweeted
At 4:30am this morning engines were started to begin final manoeuvre of moving replacement tanker MOST YEMEN alongside FSO #Safer.
🙏 @beleefboskalis & our @UNDP & @UN teams for a smooth operation. Getting READY to pump the oil & #StopReadSeaSpilll
Steve Penson retweeted
HELP IS ON THE WAY! The tanker that will take on the million barrels of oil from the decaying #FSOSafer left Zhoushan today en route to the Red Sea. But funding is urgently needed to start the salvage operation and prevent a major oil spill. PR: bit.ly/3zBBSuR @UNDP
Steve Penson retweeted
Call to Action: Map Southern Turkey
Dear @openstreetmap community,
We’re asking your help to support mapping the areas which have been terribly affected by the powerful earthquake (7.8 magnitude) in Southern Turkey. #TurkeyEarthquake
Mapping Tasks:
bit.ly/TurkiyeEQ2023
Great to team up! Looking forward to seeing you all again soon 🗺️
@sotm_tanzania @OMDTZ
Great session from Steve from @mapaction on their amazing work providing maps for humanitarian response - and thank you for delivering 3 days of advanced GIS training at @sotm_tanzania! #hotunsummit2023 #sotmtanzania
Preparation for next week's GIS training well under way in #CoxsBazar, #Bangladesh.
Amazingly friendly welcome, great to meet the team and a real insight into the often forgotten #Rohingya #refugee #crisis.
@ACAPSproject @mapaction – at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Steve Penson retweeted
A major step forward in preventing a major oil spill by the FSOSafer! Next steps are: transferring the funds, signing the contracts and start mobilising. We need all parties to work together to implement the UN Plan. This has also been my message when visiting Muscat this week.
The #United_Nations official leading the organization’s efforts on the #FSOSafer said that donors have generously pledged all of the $75 million required for the emergency operation to transfer oil from the decaying supertanker to a safe vessel.
Read more: bit.ly/3LCJvGM
Steve Penson retweeted
In a milestone announcement, the UN says that work to avoid a $20 billion clean up bill by securing oil stored in a stricken tanker of the #Yemen coast, can begin, once the $75m pledged for phase one is secured #FSOSafer @UNinYE
news.un.org/en/story/2022/09…
Was a pleasure to be part of this consortium as part of the amazing work the @ACAPSproject team undertook during #COVID19.
New paper now published in #Nature @ScientificData: rdcu.be/cVJyS
The #governmentmeasures dataset is available on HDX:
data.humdata.org/dataset/aca…
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Removal of disruption at Al Hodeidah port is a key economic benefit of peace under the current truce in #Yemen.
@ACAPSproject YAH looks into fuel dynamics using satellite imagery & price modelling 🛰
#humanitarian #politicaleconomy #EO #earthobservation #SAR
@SatAppsCatapult
#Yemen: Since Mar 2019, four significant disruption periods at #AlHodeidah port have reduced fuel imports by an average of 70%.
🆕analysis on the impact of the truce on fuel supply dynamics & fuel price structures using satellite imagery & price modelling acaps.org/sites/acaps/files/…
The conflict in #Ukraine has had a significant impact on global food supply chains.
#Yemen imports 90% of its food of which 57% is wheat. Wheat from Russia and Ukraine made up 45% of all imported wheat to Yemen in 2021.
@ACAPSproject YAH investigates the impact on #foodsecurity
New analysis on global wheat supply dynamics and their impact in #Yemen
• Wheat is readily available for purchase. The problem is affordability
• Reduced humanitarian funding is likely to drive more people into IPC Phase 3
Read the full report:
acaps.org/sites/acaps/files/…
Steve Penson retweeted
No seriously the UN needs $14 million to stop me from leaking one million barrels into one of the most important global transit waterways. I am literally the easiest problem to fix in the Middle East today.
Great to catch-up with friends and colleagues from the global mapping community last week at #SotM2022, #FOSS4G2022 & #HOTunSummit2022.
Plenty of ideas and new techniques to explore 🗺️🛰️
@TheMissingMaps @hotosm @youthmappers @mapaction @Crowd2Map @OMDTZ @ACAPSproject
A great way to finish the week at #FOSS4G2022 and #SotM2022.
A visit to the Istituto Geografico Militare and a view of Fra Mauro (1459) (hint - the map is upside down) 🗺️
Linking @mapillary streetview data and RapiD Editor to automatically detect and locate features in #openstreetmap
@Meta @MapWithAI @foss4g #FOSS4G2022
The geospatial discussion continues @foss4g.
The potential of #DigitalTwins and predictive earth observations. 1 Pbyte of imagery now created per day.
@esa #FOSS4G2022 #EO
Steve Penson retweeted
Keep thinking you could do my job better than me? Now you can! But time is running out to apply
jobs.crisisgroup.org/o/senio…