Needs assessment for a new district
A first needs assessment of a new district, from who lives there.
What it does
When you start in a new district: who lives there (ages, men and women), and the schools, clinics and food help within it, summed up by xMap AI as a first needs assessment, emailed.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Cairo, count who lives around, count the schools, medical clinics and food banks within 5 km of each, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Starting in a new district begins with knowing who lives there and what exists. The first assessment is ready in a day.
Who it is for
Non-profits, charities & humanitarian. NGOs, charities, aid agencies and community groups who need to reach people in need, find partners and report their impact. Every use case for non-profits & humanitarian
Best use cases
- An NGO opening a new programme
- A UN agency’s field office
- A city development team
What each run gives you
- An email
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 240 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- The new districtWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Who lives in the districtxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
- Services in the districtxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Write the needs assessmentxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- Compare sites side by side: Two or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
More for Non-profits, charities & humanitarian
- Growing companies to invite as donors: Fast-growing local companies with a decision maker, as donors.
- Neighbourhoods far from a food bank: The blocks furthest from food help, for the next distribution point.
- Cooling centres near the most seniors: Cool places near the most seniors, with a public message, on heatwave days.
- Bakeries and supermarkets to ask for surplus food: Food shops near you, asked for their surplus with an approved message.
- Where school kits are needed most: Where children are most stretched for schools, for kit distribution.
- Where to hold the next blood drives: Busy places far from a blood bank, scored as blood drive sites.