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The primary aim of the UNJLC GIS unit in Lebanon is to provide information on the location and operational status of transport facilities including ports, airports and road networks in order to support the humanitarian community in routing decisions and inform on constraints and hazards to movement. UNJLC maps have been used by all actors in the humanitarian and reconstruction efforts.
Additionally, the UNJLC GIS section is working closely with the JST supply tracking unit in order to translate all relief supply chain information into cartographic form.
The UNJLC GIS team is also working closely with the Lebanese Government and High Relief Council, the Mine Action Coordination Centre South Lebanon (MACC SL), and foreign government engineers who are working to repair the transport infrastructure in Lebanon.Close collaboration is also maintained with HIC GIS and Information Management personnel as well as with the wider Geographic Information Support Team.
All UNJLC maps are available for download and also in hard copy at the UNJLC office in Beirut (Floor 7, Movenpick Hotel) and the HIC office in Tyre.
Maps for the Lebanon operation
For request of (re)production and print of maps for the Lebanon operation.
Over the course of the Lebanon operation, the fast delivery of humanitarian supplies to those in the affected areas has been the first priority for all participating actors. UNJLC deployed at the start of the relief response to ensure a coordinated logistics approach between all actors.
Aid delivery through Lebanon posed an unusual set of problems through the first weeks of the humanitarian operation. Part of the constraint was bomb damage to many of the roads and bridges, which increasingly narrowed the route options for transportation. The other major issue was the need to request concurrence for all movement from the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) 36-hours in advance, in particular for cargo and recce convoys. Without this pre-authorisation process and the consequent assurance of safe passage during the conflict, relief supplies could not be delivered to those without shelter, food, water and other basic necessities. The production of maps for this purpose was compulsory and became a key logistical task in order for the relief operation to function.
Near the start of the Lebanon operation, it became clear that there were no real general usage maps available for the humanitarian mission, and that any maps produced would need to address a specific combination of issues in order for them to be useful. In other words, they had to provide a comprehensive view of place locations, a detailed overview of the existing transport network and also show all the constraints on movement which arose from the conflict in the form of infrastructural damage and explosive contamination.
Weekly updated maps on Supply Tracking:
Non Food Items from multiple reporting agencies moved or reported through the Logistics Cluster
Food Items from multiple reporting agencies moved or reported through the Logistics Cluster
Villages served by WFP programme for food distribution.
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