The NGO with most experience in this sector is iMMAP whose work has been instrumental in supporting both Mine Action initiatives and the Humanitarian Information Centers operated by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
NGOs offer a different perspective and a different approach to GIS in the field, one that can complement that of international organisations, and it seems certain that these actors will expand their activities in coming years.
Information and Communication Technology for Peace: The role of ICT in preventing, responding to and recovering from conflict. United Nations Information and Communications Technology Task Force, 2005
"The spatial data provided by iMMAP at the onset of the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon has provided a huge boost to the provision of mapping support to the operation. No operation I have previously been involved in benefited from such quality data at such an early stage. From day one we were able to produce reliable routing maps used to notify the Israeli Defense Forces of planned humanitarian aid convoys. These daily notifications are crucial for their safe passage. Weeks can go by before reaching this level of reliability under usual data preparedness conditions."
United Nations Joint Logistics Centre
These guys are the Gold standard of Humanitarian Information Management practitioners!
Humanitarian Information Unit US Department of State
