Geosas

About GeoSAS

GeoSAS is private consultancy firm based in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia working on research and implementation of innovative approaches to different fields particularly environment, agriculture and rural development,public health and nutrition,Hazard mapping and disaster risk management,geospatial data analysis and geographic information system.

The GeoSAS Team

GeoSAS has a core team of dynamic,dedicated and skilled experts who possess a combined experiance of more than 20 years in different disciplines that include agriculture and food security,climate change,public health, disaster risk management,remote sensing and GIS. GeoSAS team composed of:-

An Agronomist (PhD)
A production Eclogy and Conservation Specialist (PhD)
A Public Health Specialist, Child and Maternal Health (MD, PhD)
A Public Health Specialist, Infectious Diseases (MD, PhD)
A Remote Sensing and GIS expert (MSc)
An Early Warning and Disaster Risk Management expert (MA)
An ICT expert (MSc)
A Demography expert (MA)

GeoSAS also has the capacity and the link to draw additional human resources from junior data collectors to senior professionals in different disciplines when necessary.

Scope of Work

The following are some of the fields GeoSAS is providing services to clients in public and private sector as well as nongovernmental and international institution:-

1. Disaster Risk Management and Food Security

Experts at GeoSAS have extensive experiance in research and application in areas of hazard mapping and vulnerability analysis and early warning system.They have been heavily involved in Ethiopia historical hazard mapping and baseline livlihoods profile development,in the drafting process of Ethiopian disaster risk management policy,assessing food security at different levels, reviewing and evaluating early warning system in the country. Working with governmental and non-governmental institutions on early warning system, they have an excellent working relationship with IGAD, its member states and other countries in Eastern andSouthern Africa region.

2. Ecosystem and climate change

GeoSAS's professional team has extensive experience in developing projects related to environment protection, climate change and adaptation at local and international levels. The team also prepares concept papers, proposals and strategy plans to assist decision makers to open dialogues and catalyze action to address the impact of climatic change on socioeconomic development, promoting international cooperation in the field of the climate change and recommending appropriate policies.

3. Agriculture and Rural Development

Agriculture, rural development and agricultural marketing are also another area where GeoSAS is working to provide consultancy services. Food security problem can possibly associated with production failure or inefficiency of agricultural marketing systems or some other factors. If markets are poorly connected it will also have an impact in affecting the livelihood of the market dependent people.

4. Health and Nutrition

GeoSAS has a unique mix of health professionals with extensive experience in a wide range of public health issues. The core public health experts at GeoSAS are also supported by professionals specializing in specific public health fields and trained data collectors that can be easily mobilized in time of need. Therefore GeoSAS provides expert service in Collecting, processing, analyzing health related data. GeoSAS has also great capacity to integrate health and nutrition data with GIS technology to identify potential human health risks from health hazards.

5. Information Technology, GIS and Remote Sensing

Geospatial data analysis and geographic information system is the core component of GeoSAS consultancy services. GeoSAS works around the application of GIS and RS technology in the following areas: town mapping and planning, agriculture, health, food security and early warning, vulnerability and hazard mapping, natural resources management etc. GeoSAS also has the expertise in using information technology in disaster assessment, emergency response monitoring and impact assessment, market information assessment, emergency nutrition surveys and surveillance, livelihoods based household economic surveys as well as training on integrated phase classification and GIS and remote sensing (RS) application for disaster risk management.