Presented by Josh Colston, MEASURE DHS, at the March 2014 MEASURE GIS Working Group meeting.

1. Building Capacity in
Partner Countries:
Training, tools and
resources
March 4th 2014Josh Colston

2. Where we were five years ago
• No standard curriculum for GIS
training
• No training in open source GIS
software (only in ArcMap)
• No online courses in GIS for
M&E and global health
• Few guidance documents for
use of data and methods

3. Where we are now: Building capacity at different levels
• Face-to-face workshops
• QGIS curriculum
• STATcompiler
• Spatial Data Repository
• Online courses
• Data Demand and Use guidance document
• DHS Spatial Analysis Reports
• Meeting and workshop reports
• Academic publications
Beginner
Advanced

4. Face-to-face workshops –MEASURE Evaluation

5. Face-to-face workshops – The DHS Program

6. Face-to-face workshops - examples

7. QGIS curriculum
Available online http://spatialdata.dhsprogram.com/resources.html

8. STATcompiler
• Allows users to make
thematic maps based
on hundreds of
demographic and
health indicators
across more than 70
countries
• Outputs can be
exported as image files
or shapefiles
http://www.statcompiler.com/

9. Spatial Data Repository
• Explore subnational
region boundaries
and how they have
changed over time
• Download boundary
shapefile packages
with DHS indicators
http://spatialdata.dhsprogram.com/

10. MEASURE Evaluation – M&E Learning Center
• Geographic Approaches to Global Health: a self-directed
mini-course
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/publications/ms-12-56
• GIS Techniques for M&E of HIV/AIDS and Related
Programs (forthcoming)

11. Data Demand and Use guidance document
• Using geospatial analysis to
inform decision-making in
targeting health-facility-based
programs (forthcoming)
http://www.cpc.unc.ed
u/measure/tools/data-
demand-use

12. DHS Spatial Analysis Reports
• Geographic Displacement
Procedure and
Georeferenced Data Release
Policy for the Demographic
and Health Surveys
• Guidelines on the Use of
DHS GPS Data
http://dhsprogram.com/Publications/Publication-Search.cfm?type=45

13. Meeting and Workshop reports
• DHS - Geographical
Interpolation with
Demographic and
Health Data: Key
considerations
(forthcoming)
• JSI - The M&E-GIS
Decision Making
Analysis Framework
(forthcoming)

14. Academic publications
• Geographically Linking
Population and Facility
Surveys: Methodological
Considerations - Skiles MP,
Burget CR, Curtis SL,
Spencer J (2013)
• Kernel density estimation as
a technique for assessing
availability of health services
in Nicaragua - Spencer J,
Angeles G
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/our-work/gis/geographic-information-
systems-publications