GIS You have Probably Heard of It:• Location• Data• Maps• ESRI• Modest Pay, Under-Appreciation

GIS + Development

14:00 – 15:00 GIS for Development Organizations

Slightly more complex, subjective

To the UN: 17 - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Top 6: 1. Poverty: End poverty in all its forms everywhere2. Food / Agriculture: End hunger, achieve food security and improved

nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture3. Health: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages4. Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote

lifelong learning opportunities for all5. Gender Equality: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and

girls6. Water & Sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of

water and sanitation for all

Development

The Other 11 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)• Energy: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all• Employment: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and

productive employment and decent work for all • Infrastructure: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable

industrialization and foster innovation• Inequality: Reduce inequality within and among countries• Urbanization: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable• Consumption: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns• Climate Change: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts• Oceans: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for

sustainable development• Ecosystems: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems,

sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

• Institutions: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

• Jargon: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Other SDGs…

Only People can be Poor, Not Land or Admin-01 Units

1) Poverty

Participatory Land Rights Mapping:

2) Food / Ag

• Socialist Countries sometimes have no private property system (Tanzania)

• No Property Record means no Loan-Collateral

• No Loans means no Credit for Tuition, business start up costs, Farm-Credit for seed, fertilizer

• Solution: Build Property Boundaries from Scratch, then attach them to a person, transfer-able title, and a financial legal system

Peruvian Development Economist de Soto explains how the break down of this in the US led to the Financial Crisis (think OTC MBSs)

Malaria Atlas Project by Oxford, Gates Foundation, WHO, and MEASURE-DHS

3) Health

Global School safety Collaboration Platform by World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

4) Education

Challenge Questions:

• What SDG does your organization work towards or contribute to?

• What Spatial-Data or Information does (or could) your organization use in its work towards that SDG?

• How would (or does) GIS help you measure and/or manage your organization’s context, activities, or impact on that SDG?

• Sustaining GIS in Your Organization: Do Your Donors and Management Understand how it can stretch public funds further OR broaden and deepen impact / dollar? – How does this get articulated?

GIS and You…

Sustaining GIS in Your Organization:

• $$$ - Unless you’re private sector, it begins and ends with Donors

• Do Your Donors and Management Understand how GIS is contributing to your organization’s goals / objectives?

• it can stretch public funds further OR broaden and deepen impact / dollar? – How does this get articulated?

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