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