GIS for Poverty Mapping
by Mounia Bedran SabaKhatib & Alami, CEC
Lebanon
Middle East & Africa Conferencefor ESRI Users
December 6-8, 2005
Agenda
ESFD Overview
Business Process & GIS Application
Conclusion
Q & A
Overview
ESFD
The Economic and Social Fund for Development (ESFD) is part of Euro-Med Partnership.
It’s an institution mobilizing intermediary partners (like NGOs, Banks) to implement poverty alleviation action in job creation and community development.
Its purpose is to make an effective contribution to the development process by enabling individuals, families, small enterprises and low-income groups to work and to be productive
Job Creation
The “Job Creation Unit” targets the individual; it stabilizes employment, create new jobs and generates income.
It provides and manages LOANS to SMEs and micro enterprises.
Community Development
The “Community Development Unit” strengthens the group initiative in deprived areas. It improves the access of the poor to basic social services and their living conditions.
It provides GRANTS to formulate & Local Development Plans & Projects.
Community Development Business Process
TARGETING
Targeting is the process of identifying poverty pocketsIt involves spatially combining socio-economic data (indicators) in order to identify poverty pockets. It uses indicators such as: Telephone consumption (from utility
bills), Number of Commercial units in the area Construction activity
TARGETING
GIS allows the Creation of a dynamic Poverty Map that allows ESFD to:Re-generate the ECI poverty map whenever new data is made available (for the same indicators used to create the ECI map);Refine the poverty map by adding (or deleting) new indicators with the availability of new data.
TARGETING
Market Study & Investment Opportunity
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Select the communities that will partner with ESFD.
Tendering Process
- Call for proposals- Evaluate proposals- Select the best proposals- Sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the selected communities.
ACTIVITY
2
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
No GIS function identified within this activity.
ZOOMING IN
This would be the starting point of getting to know a community before actually going to the site.Information such as location, population, schools, relief, local infrastructure, roads, existing utilities can be “read” on a map.
ZOOMING IN
PLANNING PHASE
The Planning Phase involves:
Getting to know the community;
Identifying its needs in collaboration with its local population
Developing a Local Development Plan to alleviate its poverty.
PLANNING PHASEGIS Application: Map the Problems & Suggest Solutions
IMPLEMENTATION PHASEConsists of closely managing the contracts with the communities,
following-up and monitoring of projects
Contracts database is in an independent MS SQL database
GIS Application
Milestone Monitoring
Budget Distribution
IMPLEMENTATION PHASE
Milestone Monitoring
IMPLEMENTATION PHASE
Budget Distribution
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Impact assessment is the process of evaluating the performance of poverty reduction efforts
Investment Distribution
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Loans classified by Economic Sector
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Conclusion
Conclusion
GIS provides a geospatial dimension to poverty
Integrates multiple databases from different sources (Geodatabase & the Contracts database)
Measures the impact of investments on poverty
Evaluate the performance of poverty reduction efforts.
GIS provides good support for good judgment.
…Thank you for your time…
GIS for Poverty Mapping
Middle East & Africa Conferencefor ESRI Users