Monitoring of projects and programs by geographic information systems (GIS)

Interest and purpose of the training

The training will explore the technical topic of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) methods that are used worldwide in many development projects and the application of technical tools of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for project monitoring and management

By the end of this training the participants will:

• Understand key concepts in M&E and GIS
• Learn about the working of M&E information management systems
• Understand how to integrate exiting M&E data with GIS
• Learn how to analyze and visualize M&E data with the aid of GIS techniques

Course outlines

• Introduction to M&E
• Overview of Key M&E concepts
• Challenges facing M&E Designing an M&E system
• New technologies being adopted in project M&E
• Introduction to concepts of GIS and remote sensing
• Spatial data collection techniques for project management
• Updating data in the M&E-GIS system
• Preparing monitoring and evaluation reports /communicating results

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