Target Participants

This training is designed for professionals in projects/programs who want to apply GIS to improve their monitoring and evaluation systems.

What you will learn

By the end of the course the learner should be able to:

• Gain an understanding of key concepts in M&E and GIS
• Appreciate the new technologies being adopted in project monitoring and evaluation
• Learn about the working of M&E information management systems
• Learn how to collect data using mobile phones and GPS
• Learn how to integrate existing M&E data with GIS
• Learn how to analyze and visualize M&E data with the aid of GIS techniques
• Learn how to integrate GIS into M&E activities

Course duration

5 days (one week) and 10 days (two weeks)

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction

Introduction to M&E

• Key components of M&E
• Challenges facing M&E Designing an M&E system
• Results chain and impact pathways
• M&E frame works
• Theory of change

Communicating M&E results

• Developing a GIS integrated communication system
• Why is communication important in GIS?
• Presentation of findings/results

Module 2: New technologies being adopted in project M&E

Geographical Information System (GIS)

• Mobile phones in M&E
• Participatory videos for M&E
• Supporting bottom-up learning
• Making real-time M&E a reality through ICT
• Examples of M&E systems incorporating GIS

Introduction to GIS and remote sensing software

• Software for GIS
• GIS system installation and setup
• Data sources and types in GIS

Module 3: Spatial data collection techniques

• Using GPS
• Using GPS utility software for managing and downloading and managing data
• Working with data from different sources
• Attributes manipulation in GIS
• Using Mobile Phones for GIS data collection
• Importing GPS data to Quantum GIS

Module 4: Visualizing project data

• Understand map layers in GIS
• Composing a GIS layout from GIS layers
• Difference between a map and a layout
• Navigate maps
• Bringing tabular/spreadsheet data into a GIS (Excel, SPSS, Access etc)
• Connecting visual map features and tabular data
• Selecting subsets of map features from geo processing
• Finding map features
• Use data sorting records and labeling features to produce information
• Key elements of a map
• Composing a map
• Case study

GIS and GPS for M&E

• General principles of monitoring and evaluation systems
• Integrating M&E and geographic information systems (GIS)
• Deciding if M&E -GIS is appropriate for specific projects
• Developing an M&E -GIS system for projects
• Creating maps supporting monitoring and evaluation systems
• Selecting GIS software
• Defining the data requirements and key indicators
• Defining the data collection process
• Designing and creating the data input table
• Map making
• Creating the thematic map

Module 5: M&E-GIS data system and Reporting

Updating data in the M&E-GIS system

• Getting periodic reports from the field

Preparing monitoring and evaluation reports /communicating results

• Preparing the working project reporting maps
• Case study