About the MIMU

The Myanmar Information Management Unit, or MIMU, provides information management services to strengthen analysis and decision-making of the humanitarian and development community in Myanmar. It maintains a common data and information repository with data from various sources on all sectors, countrywide, at the lowest administrative unit for which it is available. This information is then made widely accessible to UN, NGO, donor and other stakeholders in the form of maps, databases and other tools which support the coordination, planning and implementation of humanitarian, development and peace-focused activities.
 
The MIMU is a part of the United Nations and hosted by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It receives strategic guidance from its Advisory Board representing UN agencies, international and national NGOs and Myanmar-based donors. This unique position - as an independent but broadly-owned service – also allows the MIMU to play an important role in promoting standards which enable better sharing, mapping and storage of different types of data.
 
The generous support of MIMU donors enables MIMU to provide all of its services supporting humanitarian, development and peace-focused activities free of charge. The Unit, originally established in 2007, receives administrative support from UNDP.
 
MIMU Underlying Principles
  • MIMU seeks to ensure a robust, impartial and independent mechanism for creative and innovative approaches to information management, and to lay the foundations for sustainable information management capacity among Myanmar-focused humanitarian, development and peace actors.
  • MIMU is a resource for the entire humanitarian and development community in Myanmar, countrywide, and therefore will not primarily service the needs of any single individual or agency.
  • MIMU activities are evidence-based and span all humanitarian/development/peace focused sectors, providing data on the whole of the country alongside a focus on UNCT/HCT priority areas.
  • MIMU services and initiatives seek to promote good practice at local, regional and national levels while maintaining a people-centred and conflict sensitive approach.
  • All data and information products provided to and created by MIMU are the collective property of the UNCT/HCT/PSG-led humanitarian, development and peace-focused communities.  MIMU strives to ensure data and information products are openly accessible, but will limit access and/or dissemination of sensitive information and products.
 
This section contains core MIMU documents,

What We Do

Key strategies of the MIMU to achieve its goals are as follows
MIMU Catalogue of Activities & Achievements
Data repository and Information products: MIMU seeks to ensure a comprehensive, reliable and accessible body of knowledge to support situational analysis, operational planning and inter-agency coordination among humanitarian, development and peace actors active in Myanmar.
 
Technical assistance, capacity building and coordination: MIMU will expand IM capacity among humanitarian, development and peace-focused actors through demonstrating robust IM approaches, promoting the creation and use of common data standards based on international best practice, and building capacity through technical support and training.
 
Monitoring and analysis: MIMU will provide a wide range of tools to support common situational monitoring and analysis, reflecting the country-wide situation as well as the diversity and differences across administrative areas and different populations.
 
Networking and liaison: MIMU will establish and maintain relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders (including UNCT, HCT, PSG and CPG members, local and international NGOs) to promote strengthened information exchange, use of appropriate IM tools and improved IM support to humanitarian, development and peace-related activities in Myanmar.
 
The MIMU provides:
  • Common information resources including Contact Lists, Meeting Schedules, the MIMU 5W (formerly known as MIMU 3W) describes which agency is doing what, where, when and for whom; an inventory of Assessments and publications; extensive Baseline data on a wide variety of indicators from available sources,
  • GIS and mapping services including definition of place codes to promote accurate mapping of villages and agencies’ activities so as to avoid overlaps and gaps; high quality mapping support; emergency products indicating areas likely to be affected by major events such as natural disasters; capacity building in Geographic Information Systems;
  • Support to defining key standards in information and data management so that data from different sources can be brought together to provide better analysis. MIMU builds capacity of the staff of agencies in the use if international standards to promote improved information management.
  • Support developing effective, national information management systems.
  • Support to coordination: The MIMU convenes the Information Management Network and Geographic Information Systems Working Group bringing together agencies with information management capacity to better coordinate information gathering and sharing initiatives.
  • The MIMU website - www.themimu.info - as a means of sharing resources produced by the MIMU and others to support humanitarian and development activities.
  • Studies, analyses and infographics, including the MIMU-HARP study, Vulnerability in Myanmar: a secondary data review of needs, coverage and gaps (2018).
 
The MIMU also convenes two inter-agency technical working groups:
  • The Information Management Network brings together IM focal points from across a wide variety of agencies to strengthen the quality of information for evidence-based and effective development and humanitarian policy, planning and managerial decisions through a coordinated approach that builds on relevant existing information systems.
  • The GIS Working Group brings together GIS focal points from agencies with activities related to geographic/spatial information. It provides a technical platform to coordinate, support and share information on GIS activities, and to define spatial data standards.
 
MIMU Terms and Conditions
 
MIMU users, contributors, authors and others who access or use the MIMU Website and MIMU products and services for any reason are bound by the MIMU Terms and Conditions.  
 
Note that
  • MIMU products and services are designed for operational purposes to support humanitarian, development and peace-focused activities and not for any other purpose.
  • All MIMU products and those of other development, humanitarian and peace-focused actors shared through the MIMU's website are available free of charge and cannot be sold or used for commercial purposes.
  • With the exception of MIMU’s geospatial datasets, which require special written permission from MIMU Management, users may copy, freely duplicate, and further distribute materials on the site provided that they comply with the Terms and Conditions of Use in their entirety, that MIMU (or the original author where relevant) is clearly cited as the reference, and that copies of the materials are not sold or used for commercial purposes.
  • MIMU Users undertake to acknowledge the MIMU and all content sources when using and/or reproducing information obtained from the MIMU website, products and applications.
  • Users will not delete any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any MIMU products, or falsify the origin or source of software or other material shared through the MIMU website or other dissemination mechanisms.
  • MIMU materials are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, including for the accuracy or completeness of any such Materials.
  • MIMU periodically adds, changes, improves or updates its products without notice. Under no circumstances shall the United Nations or the MIMU be liable for any loss, damage, liability or expense incurred or suffered that is claimed to have resulted from the use of MIMU products and services.
 
For more information on MIMU and its activities, please refer to the MIMU website or contact us directly.

Address:
Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
No. 6, Natmauk Road, Tamwe Township, Yangon 11211
Mobile Phone:
09-774077762
E-mail:
Website:

MIMU Key Documents

Title Format Size Uploaded
Video_Myanmar by Night 30 Years at a Glance (1992-2022)_MIMU_Aug2023.mp4 mp4
 15.38 MB 04-Aug-2023
Video_Myanmar by Night 28 Years at a Glance (1992-2020)_MIMU_Apr2021.mp4 mp4
 54.46 MB 04-Aug-2023
MIMU Catalogue of Activities Achievements for 2022_ENG.pdf pdf
 248.74 KB 10-Mar-2023
MIMU Catalogue of Activities Achievements for 2022_MMR.pdf pdf
 416.21 KB 10-Mar-2023
MIMU_Client Survey Report 2022_21Apr2022.pdf pdf
 4.52 MB 21-Apr-2022
MIMU_COVID-19 Webpage Survey Results_08Oct2020.pdf pdf
 92.02 KB 08-Oct-2020
MIMU_Client Survey Report 2019_27Nov2019.pdf pdf
 518.92 KB 29-Nov-2019
Report_IM Network Survey - Aug2016_07Sep2016.pdf pdf
 1.18 MB 30-Sep-2016
MIMU Sustainability Study_28May2015.pdf pdf
 135.29 KB 23-May-2016

MIMU Terms of Reference

Title Format Size Uploaded
ToR_GIS Working Group_2022_MMR.pdf pdf
 160.08 KB 23-May-2023
ToR_GIS Working Group_2022.pdf pdf
 133.76 KB 15-Dec-2022
ToR MIMU_05Jul2021_MMR.pdf pdf
 235.8 KB 05-Oct-2021
ToR MIMU_05Jul2021.pdf pdf
 325.52 KB 02-Aug-2021
TOR IM Network_ENG_Jun2021.pdf pdf
 263.15 KB 21-Jun-2021
ToR_MIMU_Advisory_Board_26Nov2019.pdf pdf
 173.32 KB 13-Jan-2020