Enhancing geospatial targeting and prioritization decisions through user-friendly vulnerability profiling and analysis
Geographic targeting is the most common method used by WFP to identify areas and populations in most need of humanitarian assistance. Staff in WFP country offices responsible for conducting targeting, often lack high-quality, up-to-date data. This makes assistance imprecise and may exclude the most vulnerable people in need.
GeoTar is a user-friendly geospatial vulnerability profiling and targeting tool for decision-makers. It incorporates factors like climate change, agricultural capacity, service utilization and access to generate detailed vulnerability maps. These maps enhance operational decisions in WFP country offices by reducing reliance on scarce, manually collected household data. GeoTar improves geographic targeting accuracy by up to 30 percent and saves each country up to US$100,000 by eliminating additional assessments
In 2024, GeoTar supported emergency and lean season targeting in Afghanistan and Chad, completing a targeting exercise covering six million people who will then receive support from WFP and saving US$90,000. It is now being operationally assessed for scaling into seven WFP offices: Bangladesh, Venezuela, Colombia, Lebanon, Somalia, Ethiopia and the Sahel region.
