MEASURE GIS Working Group Meeting, March 2014
MEASURE Evaluation and The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program hosted the annual MEASURE GIS Working group meeting on March 4, 2014, at the ICF International I Street Conference Center. Individuals from funding agencies, NGOs, implementing partners, and universities attended. The topic this year was The Evolution of GIS for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Global Health over the Past Five Years. At the meeting, participants discussed the current context around use of GIS in the health sector and approaches to address key challenge facing the field. See the Meeting Summary.
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Presentations
Geographic Approach: Building Geospatial Capacity for an Agency
Tiffany Holland, GeoCenter, USAID/OST
Realizing the Potential of Open Data for Development: Enhancing Aid Transparency and Citizen Engagement for Better Results
Timothy Herzog and Qiyang Xu, The World Bank
World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group Update
Terri Ryan and Kyle Taduran, Booz Allen Hamilton
Building Capacity in Partner Countries: Training and Tools and Resources
Josh Colston, MEASURE DHS
Spatial Data for Health: What’s Changed in Terms of Availability and Quality?
Nate Heard, HIU/Dept of State
Generating Capacity for Using GIS Data in Malawi
Christian Peratsakis, AidData (web demo)
