Accessibility: Travel Time-Cost to Major Regional Cities (Cameroon - ~ 500m)

Accessibility to major cities dataset is modelled as raster-based travel time/cost analysis, computed for the 20 largest cities (>55k habitants) in the country. The following cities are included: City - Population Douala - 1,906,962 Yaoundé - 1,817,524 Bamenda - 269,530 Bafoussam - 239,287 Garoua - 235,996 Maroua - 201,371 Ngaoundéré - 152,698 Kumba - 144,268 Nkongsamba - 104,050 Buéa - 90,090 Kousséri - 89,123 Bertoua - 88,462 Limbé - 84,223 Foumban - 83,522 Kumbo - 80,212 Édéa - 66,581 Ebolowa - 64,980 Dschang - 63,838 Tiko - 60,796 Kribi - 59,928 This 500m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (or optimal location). **Data publication:** 2021-10-18 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Dariia Nesterenko](mailto:dariia.nesterenko@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement Produced using OpenStreetMap data for roads, railways, rivers; UN Map country border; The HydroSHEDS 15' resolution GRID for the DEM. For the city population **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Zipped raster TIF file for Cameroon major cities accessibility.

Accessibility to regional cities dataset is modeled as raster-based travel time/cost analysis, computed for the major regional cities (>105k habitants) less than 200 km from the border. The following cities are included: City - Population Bata, Equatorial Guinea - 476 564, Pointe-Noire, Congo - 1 158 331, Yaounde, Cameroon - 2 765 568. This 500m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO's Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (or optimal location). **Data publication:** 2022-04-28 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Dariia Nesterenko](mailto:dariia.nesterenko@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement Produced using 1. OpenStreetMap data for roads, railways, and rivers. 2. UN Map country border. 3. The HydroSHEDS 15' resolution GRID for the DEM. 4. GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer. 5. For the city population **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Zipped raster TIF file for Accessibility: Travel Time-Cost to Regional Cities (Gabon - ~ 500 m)

Accessibility to regional cities dataset is modeled as raster-based travel time/cost analysis, computed for the largest cities surrounding the country. The following cities are included: City - Population Maiduguri, Nigeria - 1 182 498 Garoua, Cameroon - 546 060 Maroua, Cameroon - 415 251 Bangui, Central African Republic - 1 145 280 Al-Fashir, Sudan - 263 243 This 500m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO's Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (or optimal location). **Data publication:** 2021-10-18 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Justeen De Ocampo](mailto:justeen.deocampo@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement Produced using OpenStreetMap data for roads, railways, rivers; UN Map country border; The HydroSHEDS 15' resolution GRID for the DEM, GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer. **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Zipped raster TIF file for accessibility to regional cities (Chad ~ 500m)

Accessibility to ports dataset is modeled as raster-based travel time/cost analysis. The model travel time/cost from/to ports is defined for major maritime ports only. This 500m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (optimal location). **Data publication:** 2021-11-01 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Dariia Nesterenko](mailto:dariia.nesterenko@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement Produced using OpenStreetMap data for road, railways, rivers; UN Map country border; The HydroSHEDS 15' resolution GRID for the DEM. Population major cities **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Zipped raster TIF file for Cameroon Accessibility: Travel Time-Cost to Major Maritime Ports (Cameroon - ~ 500m)

Accessibility to regional cities dataset is modeled as raster-based travel time/cost analysis, computed for the major regional cities (>105k habitants) less than 200 km from the border. The following cities are included: City - Population Bamako 1810366, Bissau  387909, Freetown 1055964, Monrovia 1021762, Kenema 200443, Bo 174369, Man 149041, Koidu Town 124662, Makeni 124634, Tambacounda 107293. This 500m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO's Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (or optimal location). **Data publication:** 2022-04-28 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Dariia Nesterenko](mailto:dariia.nesterenko@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement Produced using 1. OpenStreetMap data for roads, railways, and rivers; 2. UN Map country border. 3. The HydroSHEDS 15' resolution GRID for the DEM. 4. GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer. **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Zipped raster TIF file for Accessibility: Travel Time-Cost to Regional Cities (Guinea - ~ 500 m)

Accessibility to major cities dataset is modelled as raster-based travel time/cost analysis, computed for the largest cities (>10k habitants) in the country. This 500 m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO's Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (or optimal location). **Data publication:** 2021-10-13 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-DATA](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Maribel Elias](mailto:maribel.elias@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement Produced using OpenStreetMap data for roads, railways, waterways, the HydroSHEDS 15' resolution GRID for the DEM, GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer, The Hand-in-Hand Initiative, 2020 **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Accessibility: Travel time-cost to major cities