Presented by Tiffany Holland, GeoCenter, USAID/OST, at the March 2014 MEASURE GIS Working Group Meeting.

1. Geographic Approach:
Building Geospatial Capability
for an Agency

2. Agenda
• GeoCenter Summary
• Building USAID Capability
• Monitoring & Evaluation
• Software options for beginners

3. 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

4. Geographic Approach

5. GeoCenter Program Structure
GeoCenter organized to focus on supporting programs:
• Remote Sensing
• Geospatial Training
• Visualizations & Cartography
• AGOL (ArcGIS Online)
• Analysis

6. •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

7. 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

8. Building Mission GeoCapability
Program Office
1- GIS Advisor
4 Tech Offices
1 M&E GIS each
Tech Office
Many Data Creators
Field Operators
Many GIS Users
Beginner-
Maps for
Office
Advanced-
ArcGIS
Open-
QGIS
Training

9. 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+

10. Introducing GIS through Excel-AGOL

11. 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.

12. Introducing GIS through Excel-AGOL

13. Everything happens somewhere…
Thank You
Tiffany Holland
GeoCenter PM
tholland@usaid.gov

14. Visualization of Data