Information Services and Dissemination

MIMU Catalogue of Activities and Achievements ( January – December 2020 )

MIMU Website

The MIMU Website supports humanitarian, development and peace-related programming across Myanmar. It currently comprises 320 web pages provided in English/Myanmar languages for computer and mobile devices.

In 2020:

  • 22 new pages were added, including COVID-19 Pandemic Resources, Myanmar Elections 2020, Monsoon floods 2020, MIMU Weekly Updates, Rakhine Market Analysis and an extensive series of Early Childhood Care & Development Resources.
  • 78 million pageviews of the MIMU website by over 520,000 individuals – an average 62,900 individuals logged in one or more times each month (a 6% increase compared to 2019);
  • 706,400 programme-related documents downloaded (excluding vacancy notices) – this is a 30% increase in downloads from the MIMU website compared to the previous year. It includes 46,800 downloads of the 196 donor proposals shared through MIMU’s Calls for Proposals page, and over 47,700 downloads of documents from the COVID page opened in January 2020;
  • 178,500 downloads of MIMU products such as the MIMU Contact and Coordination Teams Lists, maps/GIS resources, 3W and data products, assessment tracking, infographics, and 57,850 downloads of online training resources. This is a 17% increase in downloads of MIMU products compared to 2019;
  • 34,570 pageviews of MIMU dashboards supporting analysis of available information. 3W results and MIMU Township profiles  were the most popular;
  • Over 4,000 new documents and 8,600 vacancy notices were uploaded on the MIMU website in this 12-month period.

MIMU Contact List

The MIMU Contact List is a searchable directory with contact details of offices and key individuals from agencies, diplomatic bodies and coordination teams working in humanitarian and development sectors across Myanmar. Contributing agencies provide and update their own information.

In 2020:

  • 1,057 agencies, embassies, and donors sharing contact details of 1,944 offices, countrywide – an increase of 110 organisations in 2020; 452 of the agencies using this service are local NGOs/CBOs;
  • 29,200 pageviews and 4000 downloads of MIMU Contact list information.

MIMU Coordination Teams

MIMU’s Inter-agency Coordination Structures page gathers details of inter-agency coordination teams around the country to help agencies link in with these resources and find the timings of regular meetings.

Throughout 2020, MIMU’s Government Listing provided detail of ministry contacts at Union as well as State/Region levels, including office addresses and key positions from Minister to Director General level.  

In 2020:            

  • 144 inter-agency Coordination Teams documented in the MIMU Coordination Teams Listing to support closer coordination with these groups;
  • 4,400 downloads of MIMU’s Government Listing.             

MIMU Weekly Update and Meeting Schedule

The MIMU Weekly Update provides information on new products or information available from MIMU, along with a two-week inter-agency Meeting Schedule listing meetings convened by humanitarian and development agencies and coordination groups in Yangon and field locations across Myanmar.

In 2020:

  • 8,440 individuals sought MIMU’s Weekly Updates, 19% of them as subscribers to the weekly email and the remainder through a new MIMU Weekly Update webpage opened in mid-2020.

MIMU 3W (Who is doing What, Where)

The MIMU 3W supports coordination of humanitarian, development and peace-related activities across Myanmar to better meet the humanitarian and development needs of Myanmar’s people. It is the largest and most detailed such exercise globally. MIMU gathers information from participating agencies every 6 months to capture Who (implementing organization) is doing What (types of activities), Where (in which locations), When (project duration) and For Whom (project beneficiaries) in areas with humanitarian programmes. The 3W information is then publicly shared in forms to enable its use (dataset, maps, dashboards, summary reports for specific states/regions). Myanmar-language 3W Support Sessions are arranged to introduce agencies to the 3W process.

In 2020:

  • 213 agencies shared detailed information on their activities in 157 activity types (sub-sectors).  Agencies documented activities in all townships, reaching 87% of village tracts and towns countrywide, and most numerous in the Health, Protection, Livelihoods sectors. Yangon, Rakhine, Kayin and Shan had the largest concentration of agencies;
  • 75 agency staff joined 3W Support Sessions provided in Myanmar-language to help their agency contribute to the MIMU 3W tool – trainees came from 31 agencies, mainly INGOs in this period;
  • 42,700 views/downloads of MIMU 3W resources and dashboards, indicating the widespread use of this tool.

MIMU Assessment Tracking

MIMU's Assessment Tracking compiles information on Myanmar-focused assessments, surveys, reports and publications to promote better-informed planning and use of available results, methodologies, data and expertise. Agencies upload details of their own assessments and publications, with information on Who (implementing organizations), What (sector/topics), Where (geographical area covered), When (assessment period), How (the method used) and Available products. Information is shared through the Assessment Search or the MIMU Assessment Dashboard

In 2020:

  • 365 more assessments were added, bringing the total to 1,920 assessments/surveys registered by 191 agencies/entities. The majority continue to be in the Health and Agriculture sectors, and over a third (38%) have a countrywide focus, followed by Rakhine (16%), Yangon (13%) and Ayeyarwady (11%);
  • 13,000 views/downloads of MIMU’s Assessment Dashboard and Assessment records.

Vacancies, Training and Scholarship annoucements

MIMU Jobs pages for Myanmar nationals and Internationals seek to attract and keep qualified staff in humanitarian and development organisations in Myanmar – they are open only to posts from organisations with a focus on non-profit work in humanitarian, development and peace-related activities. MIMU also shares information on Training & Scholarship Programmes to assist staff of humanitarian and development agencies to access these opportunities.

In 2020:

  • MIMU Jobs pages hosted 8,600 vacancy notices for posts in humanitarian and development organisations around the country.