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GeoSpatial Tools for Monitoring & Evaluating Peacebuilding Programs

Daniel Dufour (GeoSurge)�Rory Nealon (Creative)

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Today’s Plan

  • Overview
  • Deep Dive (25 mins): Trace Roads and Buildings with OpenStreetMap
  • Deep Dive (25 mins): Map Violent Events with ACLED & Kepler GL
  • Deep Dive (25 mins): Estimate Beneficiaries with WorldPop and GeoTIFF.io
  • Further Reading & Resources

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Hello!

  • What brings you here today?
  • What geospatial tools have you worked with before?
  • What role does location play in peacebuilding?
  • What data can be mapped?
  • What should not be mapped?

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EXPECTATIONS

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Name: RCC-Wifi

Password: rcc140016st

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Data

http://bit.ly/gis4me-data

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Overview of GIS for M&E in Peace Building

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Overview: Program Design

Goal

Broadest Change

Map the estimated level of violence by neighborhood

Objectives

Subgoals / Criteria

Map number of reported murders by neighborhood before and after a program

Outputs

Deliverable or Products

Map the location of agreements, new radio programs, marches, or soccer games

Activities

Concrete Services

Map the locations of planning meetings, workshops, or negotiations

Search for Common Ground,Designing for Results https://www.sfcg.org/Documents/manualpart1.pdf

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What other goals, objectives, outputs and activities can be mapped?

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Overview: ADS 579

ADS 579

  • ADS 579 governs USAID's data policy. It has recently been updated with supplemental guidance on collecting geographic data.
  • USAID Operating Units (OUs) will collect Activity Location Data at the most detailed geographic level appropriate for each activity they implement using one of the four Levels of Geographic Detail...

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We need a few more slides on the overview

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Thousands of years using maps for war; just a few decades of GIS for Peace’

- GIS for Peace @ the Geneva Peace forum

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Questions?

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Trace Roads and Buildings with OpenStreetMap

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Deep Dive 1: OpenStreetMap

Objectives:

  • Learn how to create fundamental data of where roads and buildings are

After this training you will be able to…

  • Trace roads and buildings on OpenStreetMap
  • Contribute to a global open database of geographic data
  • Discuss the impact that open geospatial street map data has on programs

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Steps

  • Create Account on OpenStreetMap at https://openstreetmap.org
  • Sign in at https://tasks.hotosm.org
  • Pick a Task
  • Trace a Road
  • Trace a Building

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Question for You:

Where would you like

mapped next?

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Questions?

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Visualizing Geo-Data with Kepler GL

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Deep Dive 2: Visualizing Geo Data with Kepler.GL

Objectives:

  • Learn how to visualize geospatial data to find latent patterns

After this training you will be able to…

  • Import a csv (a type of spreadsheet used for sharing data) with geo data into kepler.gl
  • Navigate the kepler’s interface
  • Be able to style data in different ways kepler.gl
  • Filter data by its attributes

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Visualizing Geo-data with Kepler GL

  • To start this exercise open: www.kepler.gl in a web-browser (Chrome or Firefox work best)
  • Data is from the Armed Conflict Location Event Database (ACLED)

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Questions?

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Estimate Beneficiaries with WorldPop and GeoTIFF.io

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What is a GeoTIFF?

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What is https://GeoTIFF.io?

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Deep Dive 3: Estimate Beneficiaries and Impact

Objectives:

  • Learn how to estimate beneficiaries in a geographic area by age group

After this training you will be able to…

  • Find Demographic Information on the WorldPop website
  • Download and Unpack GeoTIFF Files
  • Load a GeoTIFF on GeoTIFF.io
  • Calculate the Sum of an Age Group within a Specific Area

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Scenario

You are designing an interfaith conflict resolution workshop for youth in Cairo, Egypt. How will you decide where to hold it? How will you measure your impact? How will you measure the people from the ages of 15-20 that can access the program?

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Scenario

You are designing a peacebuilding activity for youth in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. How will you measure your impact? How will you measure the people from the ages of 15-20 that can access the program?

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Question for You:

What other data

can we analyze?

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Questions?

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Further Reading and Resources

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Further Reading & Resources

OpenStreetMap

  • YouthMappers - Free to use program (for USAID projects) for leveraging local groups of mappers
  • LearnOSM - Tutorials and guides for using OSM
  • HOTOSM Tasking Manager - Discover and Create Humanitarian Mapping Tasks

Kepler.gl

Satellite Imagery

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Further Reading & Resources Continued...

Peace and Geospatial Tools

ADS 579

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