DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2024.v12i04.002

Pages: 117-124

Since 2000, the UN Secretary-General called all the countries to use geospatial data and technologies to accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the achievement of the aspirations of Agenda 2063. Geospatial information is crucial in many sectors for micro-planning, disaster management, environmental protection, navigation, agriculture, trade, land and resource management, infrastructure, and administration. It helps Governments in making decisions using accurate and up-to-date information about geography and location. In this regard, the Government of Burundi has recently set up the National Centre for Geospatial Information Management with one of the missions of promoting the use of geospatial data and the establishment of national geospatial data infrastructures. Thus, all public sectors are recommended to fully benefit from the power of geospatial data and technologies through the proper integration of geography in all services. This paper shows the state of nutrition mapping in Burundi. On the one hand, it highlights the results of an analysis made on the data collected in 2023 and, on the other hand, a comparison with the results of the 2017 mapping in the same sector of activities. The results can enable decision-makers in Burundi to better prioritize, plan, monitor and evaluate the implementation of the nutrition policies. They will also strengthen advocacy for better nutrition and can be used to improve the progress towards attainment of the third Sustainable Development Goal.