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Checklist 2: GIS, Mapping and Enumeration Area Delineation

ActivityDescriptionOutputResponsible Party(ies)Duration (Months)Years to Census Night
1Decision on technology and methods for cartographic workDevelopment of the GIS and Mapping Strategic PlanWork plans, Procurement plans, Budgets, training plansGIS team173.9
2Procurement of mapping Software and HardwareSpecification of software and hardware, obtain quotesSoftware and hardware available for use in officeProcurement93.3
3Development of data collection tools and InstrumentsTraining tools & manualsGIS team, IT team23.0
4Recruitment of Census mapping staffAdvertisement campaign, recruitment criteria and recruitment platform in placeOffice and field Staff recruitedHR73.0
5Briefing of Stakeholders on the census mapping toolsMeeting with stakeholdersInput from stakeholdersGIS team02.4
6Training of Census mapping staff (Office and field Staff)Development of training materials and schedule for trainingTraining materials readyGIS team12.5
6Training of Census mapping staff (Office and field Staff)Delivery of trainingTrained mapping staffGIS team02.4
6Training of Census mapping staff (Office and field Staff)Digitalization of maps, updating master geography file, assigning monitoring teamsOffice cartographic workGIS team02.4
7Develop Census mapping Advocacy and PublicityPublicity campaign is developed for the mapping phase of the censusMapping Advocacy & PublicityPR232.4
8Gathering point data, satellite imageryCartographic Field Work and Map updating (including M&E & QA)EA data points & satellite imageryGIS team232.3
9Identifying number of households by small areaCompilation household listings from local GovernmentsHousehold listingsGIS team232.3
9Identifying number of households by small areaData editing/ compilationEdited data pointsGIS team232.3
10Demarcation of Enumeration Area (EA) boundaryBoundaries of EAs are demarcatedDemarcated EAsGIS team232.3
11Creating a GIS databaseDigitizing EA MapsDigital EA mapsGIS team232.3
12Verifying GIS databaseQuality assurance of GIS databaseClean GIS databaseGIS team62.3
13Release of census mapping productsPublication (internal) of digital maps and listingsDigital maps, listings releasedGIS team62.3

Milestone 1: Ready Administrative Area, EA and Household Listings for internal use

ActivityDescriptionOutputResponsible Party(ies)Duration (Months)Years to Census Night
14Production of base maps and EA mapsDevelopment, labelling & print (if needed) of the final NPHC mapsFinal EA mapsGIS team211.9
14Production of base maps and EA mapsProduction of the census mapping ReportMapping ReportGIS team50.3
14Production of base maps and EA mapsTraining in Map reading and Interpretation of EAsTrained data collection staffGIS team10.2
15Support to data analysis in production of Census ReportsGIS team work with demography team in the production of census reportsData visualisations - mapsGIS team, Demography7-0.2
16Production of the Census AtlasConduct spatial data analysis based on data collected during the cartographic workCensus AtlasDemography6-0.2