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What UNICEF and Gavi learned about real-time campaign monitoring, and how the Crosscut App turns same-day field data into supervision maps.

How NTD programs find never treated communities with WHO’s new toolkit, from survey questions to operational maps in the Crosscut App

The catchment maps a polio outbreak response needs, from the 72-hour risk assessment to team maps. And free mapping tools to build them before Day 0.

Immunization in Practice, WHO's field manual for routine immunization, covers nearly every part of delivering vaccines. This article looks at the catchment area maps and microplanning sections.

Before nets go out to at-risk populations, teams register every household. See what the AMP toolkit asks a health facility catchment area map to show, and how to build those maps in the Crosscut App.

WHO's SIA field guide asks districts for precise catchment maps of every health center. See what those maps must show, from target populations to team day zones, and how to build them free.

Madagascar's schistosomiasis program moved to commune-level targeting. Here is how the Crosscut App helped 19 districts get their microplans into one place before the June 2026 MDA.

WHO and PAHO's NTD microplanning manual asks supervisors to map every community before distribution. We walk through the guidance and how to build operational maps in the Crosscut App.

This article explains WHO's guidance for indoor residual spraying (IRS) campaigns, and how to use digital GIS mapping tools like the Crosscut App.

The main microplanning guides for immunization, malaria, NTD, and polio campaigns in one place, grouped by program, with links to every source document.

A rundown of what we shipped in July, including KoboCollect support, faster performance in large countries like DRC, and downloadable administrative boundaries.

A guide on the eight algorithms in the Crosscut App for building catchment area maps, what each one does, and how to pick the right one for your program.