The course has the main purpose to provide the participants with a comprehensive understanding of the data flow in emergency response and preparedness operations. After a QGIS refresher, module 2 will focus on building capacity to design and improve quantitative surveys and create a questionnaire in a smartphone application. In module 3, participants will learn on how to design and create a file based geospatial database, as well as how to fix errors and topology. Module 4 will show how to analyse existing datasets to provide relevant analysis to assist emergency response operations, preparedness, and awareness raising activities. In module 5, participants will explore how to improve maps, with additional resources, to successfully convey information to decision-makers. In module 6 and 7, participants will be introduced to the INFORM Risk Index and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), and learn how to use the Decision Support Application tools (DSS). Finally, at the end of the training, UX design session will be held to collect inputs for the design of the decision support system. Benefits and good practices on field data collection, database management, and geospatial analysis will be discussed throughout the training, with the objective of improving data quality in the ministries under the NDM plan arrangements.