Training Course on Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies for Monitoring and Evaluation

Incorporating GIS into monitoring and evaluation processes makes it possible to link or integrate information that is difficult to associate through any other means. Presenting data through maps enhances comprehension regarding spatial significance. Leveraging GIS for monitoring and evaluation enhances the efficiency of conveying results to management, funding partners, and beneficiaries. The objective of this GIS Technologies for M&E training is to make monitoring and evaluating easier and more informative when reporting the progress of projects and programmes.

Target Participants

This training is designed for professionals in projects/programs who want to apply GIS to improve their monitoring and evaluation systems.

What you will learn

By the end of the course the learner should be able to:

• Gain an understanding of key concepts in M&E and GIS
• Appreciate the new technologies being adopted in project monitoring and evaluation
• Learn about the working of M&E information management systems
• Learn how to collect data using mobile phones and GPS
• Learn how to integrate existing M&E data with GIS
• Learn how to analyze and visualize M&E data with the aid of GIS techniques
• Learn how to integrate GIS into M&E activities

Course duration

5 days

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction

Introduction to M&E

• Key components of M&E
• Challenges facing M&E Designing an M&E system
• Results chain and impact pathways
• M&E frame works
• Theory of change

Communicating M&E results

• Developing a GIS integrated communication system
• Why is communication important in GIS?
• Presentation of findings/results

Module 2: New technologies being adopted in project M&E

Geographical Information System (GIS)

• Mobile phones in M&E
• Participatory videos for M&E
• Supporting bottom-up learning
• Making real-time M&E a reality through ICT
• Examples of M&E systems incorporating GIS

Introduction to GIS and remote sensing software

• GIS software
• GIS system installation and setup
• GIS Data sources and types

Module 3: Spatial data collection techniques

• Using GPS
• Using GPS utility software for managing and downloading and managing data
• Working with data from different sources
• Attributes manipulation in GIS
• Using Mobile Phones for GIS data collection
• Importing GPS data to Quantum GIS

Module 4: Visualizing project data

• Understand map layers in GIS
• Composing a GIS layout from GIS layers
• Difference between a map and a layout
• Navigate maps
• Bringing tabular/spreadsheet data into a GIS (Excel, SPSS, Access etc)
• Connecting visual map features and tabular data
• Selecting subsets of map features from geo processing
• Finding map features
• Use data sorting records and labeling features to produce information
• Key elements of a map
• Composing a map
• Case study

GIS and GPS for M&E

• General principles of monitoring and evaluation systems
• Integrating M&E and geographic information systems (GIS)
• Deciding if M&E -GIS is appropriate for specific projects
• Developing an M&E -GIS system for projects
• Creating maps supporting monitoring and evaluation systems
• Selecting GIS software
• Defining the data requirements and key indicators
• Defining the data collection process
• Designing and creating the data input table
• Map making
• Creating the thematic map

Module 5: M&E-GIS data system and Reporting

Updating data in the M&E-GIS system

• Getting periodic reports from the field

Preparing monitoring and evaluation reports /communicating results

• Preparing the working project reporting maps
• Case study