Geographic Approach:Building Geospatial Capability

for an Agency

Agenda

• GeoCenter Summary

• Building USAID Capability

• Monitoring & Evaluation

• Software options for beginners

USAID GeoCenter

GeoCenter created in Nov 2011 as the first Geospatial office for all

of USAID devoted to applying geographic analysis to development

programming through:

• Mapping & Analysis

• Building agency capacity to use geographic data & tools

• Establishing resources & methods to collect, manage,

use, and share data

• Engaging with geospatial communities: interagency,

international, NGO, academic, private sector

Geographic Approach

GeoCenter Program Structure

GeoCenter organized to focus on supporting programs:

• Remote Sensing

• Geospatial Training

• Visualizations & Cartography

• AGOL (ArcGIS Online)

• Analysis

•Established

network of 43

USAID GIS

Specialists

• Mostly FSNs

•Conducted 20

trainings

•Trained 280 staff

GeoCenter USAID Capacity Building

MISSIONS

PILLAR

BUREAUS

REGIONAL

BUREAUS

PARTNERS

Building Mission GeoCapability

• Mission Malawi - Focused on longer term geospatial programing

• Consists of one Program Office with strong GIS experience

• Four Technical Offices with designated M&E Specialists

• GeoCenter to build capacity of the entire Mission by

focusing levels of training on specific groups

Building Mission GeoCapability

Program Office

1- GIS Advisor

4 Tech Offices1 M&E GIS each

Tech Office

Many Data Creators

Field Operators

Many GIS Users

Beginner-

Maps for

Office

Advanced-

ArcGIS

Open-

QGIS

Training

Building Mission GeoCapability

• AIDtracker + is an interim solution

for mission performance

information management

• More than 26 missions have

expressed interest in adopting AT+

• GeoCenter supporting AidTracker + rollout

• GeoCenter traveling to 5 Missions for AT+ roll out visits to

train geospatial aspects of AT+

Introducing GIS through Excel-AGOL

Introducing GIS through Excel-AGOL

Esri Maps for Office, Key Features

• Create dynamic color-coded, point, clustered point,

or heat maps.

• Add demographics and lifestyle layers to addresses

and locations.

• Display infographics that provide instant

information about people in a specific area.

• Find all locations in one map layer that are within a

certain distance of locations in another map layer.

• Add your interactive maps to PowerPoint

presentations or paste map images into a

document.

Introducing GIS through Excel-AGOL

Everything happens somewhere…

Thank You

Tiffany Holland

GeoCenter PM

tholland@usaid.gov

Visualization of Data