Fartun Ayub Hassan is a mother in Somalia, holding one of her children, Mahir, who received a vaccination for the first time since he was born thanks to the Reaching Every Child in Humanitarian settings (REACH) consortium, funded by GAVI and led by the IRC.
Fartun Ayub Hassan is a mother in Somalia, holding one of her children, Mahir, who received a vaccination for the first time since he was born thanks to the Reaching Every Child in Humanitarian settings (REACH) consortium, funded by GAVI and led by the IRC.
Pilot
Multiple countries
Ongoing

ReachMap

Using geoAI to find the children vaccination systems can’t see, so the IRC can reach them

More than 20 million children across fragile and conflict-affected settings are in need of vaccination. IRC estimates that 11.6 million of them are concentrated in just 10 countries. Many live in places public health systems struggle to see: remote settlements, displaced communities, informal neighborhoods, or areas cut off by conflict and poor roads. Vaccination teams cannot reach children they cannot locate.

ReachMap uses geoAI to put those communities on the map. We’ve partnered with a leading AI company to build a model that combines population estimates, vaccination coverage, conflict, displacement and satellite imagery to identify communities likely to sit beyond the reach of routine immunization services. The same system can then help teams plan where and how to reach them.

That precision is designed to make expensive outreach far more efficient. Instead of spending scarce time, vehicles and staff searching across enormous areas, vaccination teams can concentrate resources on communities most likely to contain children who routine services are missing.

We’re testing the model in real vaccination campaigns right now. ReachMap is built to expand across the high-need countries where millions of children remain beyond routine services, first in vaccination and then across other health challenges, including malnutrition and malaria prevention.