
Humanitarian and development interventions need to be context relevant. Context analysis, therefore, plays a key role in enabling humanitarian and development actors to understand and operate in environments that are often characterized by complexity, instability, and insecurity.
From primary data collection to analysis and reporting, the full spectrum of information management is crucial for efficient and effective context analysis. Our expertise in information management places iMMAP in an ideal position to provide reliable contextual analysis that draws from multiple sources to produce granular information to inform programming while taking into account the greater context.
iMMAP provides its partners with a holistic and comprehensive contextual analysis of the areas in which their interventions occur, allowing them to understand better the socio-cultural, political, economic, and geographic factors that give rise to a crisis and will either hamper or enable their response. This analysis is shared through context update reporting that focuses on recent and ongoing developments that impact stabilization and humanitarian programming. These reports provide partners with diagnostic and predictive analysis to better understand changes and emerging challenges in their operational environment and help them navigate these challenges.
A structured context analysis can contribute to prioritizing interventions and potential programmatic entry points while also informing project design, implementation, and the monitoring and evaluation framework. iMMAP’s context analysis facilitates a more holistic understanding of the inter-relationships between needs, their root causes, and underlying vulnerabilities. It allows for a more targeted response in development contexts, situations of violence, post-disaster, and conflict recovery.

iMMAP conducts collaborative situation analysis across multiple countries using intelligent web-based platforms tailored toward humanitarian crisis responses.
Our situation analysis services strengthen the information flow available to humanitarian actors to enable a better response to different crises by making information available to all decision-makers in any specific country, at any specific time, for any specific humanitarian thematic area. We aim to improve evidence-based decision-making and strengthen assessment and analysis capacities in countries affected by humanitarian crises and the COVID-19 pandemic by addressing data and information comprehensiveness, consistency, and value challenges.
iMMAP collects and analyzes data provided by humanitarian stakeholders and other
relevant actors to generate comprehensive secondary data reviews of reports, assessments, and research papers, among other sources. This is followed by the production and dissemination of situational analysis reports. These analytical
reports provide response actors with a thorough analysis of the impact of a crisis on the people affected, facilitating a better understanding of the situation. Partners can then use this information to help inform planning and target response operations.
iMMAP situation analysis services also aim to strengthen cluster members and its
leadership and the humanitarian coordination capacity by utilizing existing
mechanisms at the country level and supporting multistakeholder information sharing.
iMMAP conducts large-scale secondary data analysis through the Data Entry and Exploration Platform (DEEP), developed by Data Friendly Space (DFS), an organization specialized in secondary data review and analysis.
Secondary data review builds upon a desk review process of all relevant information available from different sources after a rigorous data collation, synthesis, and analysis process is conducted. iMMAP’s secondary analysis is defined by the logic that the severity of the crisis, the type, scope, scale of problems, and risks the affected population face can be estimated or projected with a reasonable degree of accuracy by following a systematic multidisciplinary approach.
iMMAP generates extensive secondary data reviews of the reports, assessments, and research papers available at the field level to provide humanitarian actors with a thorough and tailored secondary analysis, while providing lessons learned and guidance for ongoing and future assessments and programming globally. iMMAP’s secondary analysis provides the right information, to the right people,
iMMAP generates secondary data reviews and provides extensive and tailored


iMMAP’s analysis expertise includes extensive experience in urban analysis, which focuses on understanding the spatial differentiation and organization of demographic, social, and economic processes shaping cities. Through different capacities, we contribute to a high-standard, holistic, and people-centered urban analysis of crises at the city and neighborhood levels to enable effective planning and response.
iMMAP brings together expertise in urban analysis and information management, which is formulated through an inclusive approach that contributes to urban information and analysis for better planning, targeting, and monitoring of interventions across multiple cities and countries. As the lead coordinator of urban analysis processes, we ensure successful linkages and outreach with a wide range of local and global actors to ensure that key stakeholders are involved in the process.
Through our expertise in area-based analysis, urban profiling and planning, in-depth analysis products, cohesive urban information management systems, and national urban recovery and reconstruction strategies, iMMAP enables its partners to make informed decisions that ultimately provide high-quality targeted assistance to vulnerable urban populations. We also work to strengthen the capabilities of organizations with limited capacity in spatial analysis for urban development.

We utilize quantitative and qualitative research techniques to collect and analyze the full range of food security and livelihood (FSL) indicators, agriculture and natural resource-based livelihood indicators, and socio-economic vulnerability indicators to inform development and humanitarian partners in FSL restoration interventions.
iMMAP conducts study on agriculture and non-agriculture driven market systems to evaluate the performance from supply and demand sides, highlighting bottlenecks and potential opportunities for interventions. Several methodologies are applied for this purpose, including Emergency Market Mapping Analysis (EMMA), Supply Chain Assessment, Value Chain Analysis, Market Functionality Assessment and Market Actor and Facilities Mapping, and Integrated Price (food, agriculture inputs) Monitoring Initiatives.
iMMAP performs impact evaluations by measuring FSL project progression and performance to assess whether project implementation aligns with project management plans and objectives. FSL program monitoring and evaluations highlight the relevancy, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of FSL projects in emergency, early recovery, and development sectors.
Development of global tools and standards on Public Health Information Services (PHIS) aiming to standardize and support public health information functions at national and sub-national levels.
iMMAP supports the Health Cluster in the setup, implementation, and development of mechanisms to collect and analyze data on affected populations’ health status and risks, health system performance, and health resources availability. Cross-analyzing and identifying insights from the multiple PHIS enables health clusters to better identify needs, develop and implement responses, and adapt activities according to contextual changes.
iMMAP additionally supports health clusters on producing and analyzing Health Sector people in need and severity figures for the annual Humanitarian Needs Overview.

Public Health Information Services provide timely and relieable information
We utilize quantitative and qualitative research techniques to collect and analyze the full range of food security and livelihood (FSL) indicators, agriculture and natural resource-based livelihood indicators, and socio-economic vulnerability indicators to inform development and humanitarian partners in FSL restoration interventions.
iMMAP conducts study on agriculture and non-agriculture driven market systems to evaluate the performance from supply and demand sides, highlighting bottlenecks and potential opportunities for interventions. Several methodologies are applied for this purpose, including Emergency Market Mapping Analysis (EMMA), Supply Chain Assessment, Value Chain Analysis, Market Functionality Assessment and Market Actor and Facilities Mapping, and Integrated Price (food, agriculture inputs) Monitoring Initiatives.
iMMAP performs impact evaluations by measuring FSL project progression and performance to assess whether project implementation aligns with project management plans and objectives. FSL program monitoring and evaluations highlight the relevancy, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of FSL projects in emergency, early recovery, and development sectors.


iMMAP’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) services support adequate project planning and implementation to ensure the efficiency of interventions. We support the strategic needs of our partners through processes aimed at improving program design, tracking program quality, evaluating the impact of the interventions, ensuring accountability with stakeholders, and enabling a learning environment within our partner organization.
Our M&E services facilitate the identification, formulation and tracking of the most precise and impactful set of indicators, allowing transparent program implementation and generating learning processes that increase the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of future projects, strengthening knowledge management practices of our partners.
Through the correct formulation and implementation of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) mechanisms across the whole project cycle, we facilitate increased accountability towards all stakeholders, including donors, partners and beneficiaries.
Through Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) processes, iMMAP regularly monitors and verifies activities conducted by implementing partners (IPs) to ensure the accuracy of reports submitted and uphold compliance with donor regulations and project deliverables. Our TPM services verify the activities and achievements of IPs while increasing the understanding of the social and economic benefits of the tracked programs.
We apply a participatory approach in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) combined with real-time evaluations (RTEs) on IP activities to support timely decision-making and enhance result-based management (RBM). Indicators are monitored and evaluated on a regular basis while the data gathered from IP activities is collated, analyzed and visualized to produce analytical information that is reported to relevant stakeholders. The TPM activities include field visits to task sites in order to closely monitor, verify and evaluate the processes and products while ensuring the quality, safety and environmental management systems of IPs.
iMMAP produces advanced geospatial analytics through the acquisition, storage, management, analysis, and visualization of geospatial information.

The cornerstone of the iMMAP geospatial offering includes technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing and Open Data Cubes, and activities such as thematic mapping, geospatial statistics, geodatabase management, and training. These are designed, formulated, and developed by our dedicated geoinformatics units and geographic information experts, and presented through interactive web-based geospatial platforms that focus on the needs of the humanitarian and development actors.
Our experts apply computational, visual, analytical, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and statistical methods to process and understand large geospatial and temporal data to help address complex social and environmental challenges. In doing so, we support our partners to understand phenomena and identify trends that include intricate relationships between people and places.
We work closely with our partners to strengthen their geospatial analysis capacities, particularly in crisis-affected, recovery, and reconstruction contexts where resources are limited and geospatial data is often sparse and inaccurate. This includes direct support for specialized tasks, the deployment of experts, and the development of tailor-made products for organizations in need of geospatial analysis services to help guide humanitarian and development projects and programs while maximizing the use of those resources for the highest possible impact.
Our expertise in geospatial analysis, coupled with extensive knowledge and experience of humanitarian and development settings, uniquely positions iMMAP to continue improving the impact and effectiveness of data-driven efforts to save lives and alleviate human suffering and poverty, now and into the future.