The document summarizes the GeoScan project, an innovation challenge funded by IFAD's Change Delivery and Innovation Unit. The project involved creating spatial data profiles and maps for countries in West and Central Africa to help understand patterns and explore solutions to poverty in rural areas. Key results included the development of country atlases and an interactive web GIS dashboard with hundreds of geospatial layers and web applications accessible online. The goal was to facilitate informed decision making through better access to and analysis of geospatial data.

1. GeoScan:
spatial data country profiles
for West and Central Africa
Innovation Challenge Project, funded by IFAD’s Change
Delivery and Innovation Unit (CDI). Map: Travel time accessibility. Map: Soil PH in H2O
Photo: IFAD.org
Map: Future scenario– temperature
change and rural population.
David Hughes, ICT Solutions Coordinator
Lyubomir Filipov, GIS Consultant
31.03.2021, Rome.

2. ICT GIS activities: enterprise level of integration

3. Why GeoScan?
• Collaborating
• Understanding patterns
• Exploring solutions
• Embracing innovation
Innovation Challenge, funded by IFAD’s Change Delivery and Innovation Unit (CDI) and
implemented by Information and Communications Technology Division (ICT).
Realizing the vision of informed decision making for solving the complex
challenges of poverty in remote, rural areas, fragile environment....
…..requires more than
knowledge, organization,
technology, data...

4. Methodology
Innovation Challenge, funded by
IFAD’s Change Delivery and
Innovation Unit (CDI) and
implemented by Information and
Communications Technology
Division (ICT).

5. Innovation Challenge, funded by IFAD’s Change Delivery and Innovation Unit (CDI) and implemented by Information and Communications Technology Division (ICT).
Datasources

6. Innovation Challenge, funded by IFAD’s Change Delivery and Innovation Unit (CDI) and implemented by Information and Communications Technology Division (ICT).
Results:
Country
atlases

7. Results:IFADEnterpriseGIS –
Geonodepopulatedwith
hundredsof layersand 37 Web
Applications.
Innovation Challenge, funded by IFAD’s Change Delivery and Innovation Unit
(CDI) and implemented by Information and Communications Technology
Division (ICT).
• Search for layers and
map applications by country,
topic or area.
• Share, comment,make your own
web maps.

8. Innovation Challenge, funded by IFAD’s Change Delivery and Innovation Unit (CDI) and implemented by Information and Communications Technology Division (ICT).
Results:
Interactive Web GIS Dashboard Pilot
https://geoscan.ifad.org

9. Thank you!
for contact: geoscan@ifad.org
David Hughes Lleïr Borràs Metje Giuseppe Baiamonte AbdelilahAdiba
Tom Hughes MarcelloBarnaba Lyubomir Filipov
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