<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Following the rebellion in Norh-Kivu in april 2012 and the cholera epidemy, the
humanitarian situation is very volatile and requires from HOT a rapid
response to support the NGO's on the ground with detailed maps. In the last two weeks we showed our capacity to respond quickly to this situation.<br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">In this activation, HOT his working closely with NGO's on the ground, supporting their organization of the relief operation. Claire Halleux is acting as the HOT contact in RD Congo with the NGO's. This facilitates the communications and coordination of our efforts. It also let us adapt rapidly to the NGO's needs for mapping.</span></div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>Yesterday in Kinshasa, UN OCHA and humanitarian NGO's had their weekly follow-up meeting. New information about the situation, plus new priorities were reported.</span><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>For
your info, estimations are now of 914,000 displaced persons
within North-Kivu (whose about 500,000 have been displaced since April
2012, beginning of the M23 crisis).<br>Currently in the Masisi area,
there are 15 camps which are not accessible to humanitarian staff and 3 which
are accessible but still within the area controlled by armed groups.<br>
North of Goma and around Sake, few NGOs are still working but cannot circulate freely at the moment.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">
The biggest displaced persons camps by far are Mugunga 1, Lac Vert and
Mugunga 3, all the three of them being located on the axis Goma - Sake.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Priorities<br><br>3 zones</b> were prioritized yesterday by the humanitarian response provincial committee in North Kivu. There are 271,000 displaced persons in these 3 zones.<br><br></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Highest
priority area for getting imagery is still: Sake-Mubambiro-Mugunga zone <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">(recent imagery would be best to see the camps sites).</span></div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">We do not have high res imagery available for many areas to map and are still negociating to obtain it.</span></div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Mapping tasks</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">New tasks have been prepared today taking into account priorities and imagery available. Below, we describe these new HOT task
manager jobs. Note that some are identified with *** High priority.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">In South-Kivu, <b>Uvira city</b> is presently a high priority for mapping since there is a new cholera epidemy that started 3 weeks ago. See task http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/118</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The two following tasks are also a
priority. Refugee camps should be located and mapped in detail.</span></div><span style="font-size: 16px;">http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/116 Nyiragongo Volcano (Take the time to look at the fumes of the volcano)<br>http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/117 Nyabiondo</span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The wiki coordination page for this pre-activation is at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RD_Congo_Kivu</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">For more infos, see the Blog update at http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2012-12-12_hot_pre_activation_south_and_north_kivu_democratic_republic_of_congo</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre Béland</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">coordinator for this activation</span><br></span></div></div></body></html>