Benny Istanto#
Climate Geographer#
Benny Istanto joined the World Bank as an ETC with the GOST in September 2021. Since then, he has worked with teams across the bank, providing expertise in geospatial and climate analytics worldwide. His contributions span a range of topics including water and climate, sustainable development, agriculture, and hydrometeorological monitoring.
Products and Projects#
Social Protection COVID-19 response in Sao Tome and Principe (P176471), 2021 - Benny supported the team on drought characteristics data extraction from time series precipitation.
ECCEE Poverty and Equity Program (P172046), 2022 - Benny supported the crop growing season monitoring during the war in Ukraine, and how the situation compares to the average over the past 20 years.
Sustainable Development Practice Group Flagship Report (P177249), 2022 - Benny supported various workstream on data analysis related population weigted temperature, temperature anomaly, hotdays, drought charcteristics, flood risk and storm risk at urban center.
Fragility and water security in South Sudan (P177566), 2022 - Benny supported the team on verifying the worst flood in the last 60 years are well capture from climate indices data and do time series precipitation indices to monitor on how the dry/wet period are evolving month-by-month, year-by-year.
Pacific Observatory (P177189), 2022 - Benny supported the team on writing afeasibility note on Climate and Agriculture Monitoring in the Pacific Island Countries.
Syria Economic Monitor, 2023 - Benny supported the team on monitoring vegetation condition, these analyses enable the quantification of vegetation changes over time and across vast spatial extents.
Myanmar Economic Monitor, 2023 - Benny supported the team on crop growing season monitoring using MODIS data.
Morocco Economic Monitor, 2023 - Benny supported the team on monitoring drought condition using earth observation data, which can provide early warnings of drought conditions, allowing for proactive measures to be taken.