Interactive Community Mapping : Improving Service Delivery and Empowering Communities
Mapping presents a compelling way to demystify complex data and concepts into useful visual information that most people can understand regardless of language, level of literacy, or culture. These maps can also be shared instantaneously with the wo...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/06/19733246/interactive-community-mapping-improving-service-delivery-empowering-communities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18937 |
| Summary: | Mapping presents a compelling way to
demystify complex data and concepts into useful visual
information that most people can understand regardless of
language, level of literacy, or culture. These maps can also
be shared instantaneously with the world via the Internet.
Interactive community mapping (ICM) is one method of
information and communication technology (ICT)-enabled
participatory mapping. In the development context, ICM can
be a useful approach in helping community members, members
of civil society organizations (CSOs), governments, and
development partners to better picture and assess the needs
and concerns of the mapped communities and adjust
development plans, activities, and policies accordingly.
This note is aimed at providing step-by-step guidance on the
design and implementation of the ICM process to achieve an
evidence-based and increasingly participatory
decision-making approach for development projects. Relying
on good practice examples from Kenya and Tanzania, this note
seeks to provide a better understanding of how the potential
benefits of ICM can be translated into tangible results. The
note outlines some of the available ICM technology,
delineate the enabling environment for ICM, and provide
step-by-step guidance on how to effectively design and
implement ICM in projects. |
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