Abstract

GIS: A Tool To Perform Public Health Service Monitoring
Track: Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Affairs
Authors: Behar Abdulahi

This paper will document how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was used to monitor USAID selected health centers across Ethiopia. Through the use of program software called "Arcview GIS with Network Analyst Extension, Ethiopia's routes, road surfaces and speeding rhythms were able to be monitored to generate route plans. Using this technology, IRC was able to perform network analysis on countrywide USAID-selected health centers and produce outline itineraries for site visits to all of these health centers. All of the USAID selected health centers were subsequently visited and monitored on a quarterly basis for a minimum of six hours per site visit.

The analysis results demonstrated that over the course of the grant period, eight monitoring teams managed to monitor a total of 500 USAID-selected health facilities on a quarterly basis. This GIS analysis, which generated maps for all of the operational areas and detailed itineraries for site visits.