This is a comprehensive ten days course designed to help participants learn and understand how to use GIS in projects Monitoring and Evaluation. The participants will be exposed to data collection, management, updating, analysis, visualization and reporting in a GIS environment. They will also learn how to integrate spatial and non-spatial data from different sources and displaying the same in a GIS environment.

At the end of the training, participants shall have learnt the following:

• Understanding and appreciating GIS, What it can do, and how others are using it in relation to M&E.
• Participants shall learn the basic functions of a GIS, GIS Terminology, and why GIS is powerful tool for data analysis, retrieval and visualization.
• In course exercises, students work with QGIS to visualize geographic data, create maps, query a GIS database, and perform spatial analysis in relation to M&E.
• The course shall provide a complete field to office mobile mapping workflow to the participants. Participants shall use their mobile devices to collect data, load the data into GIS and create maps from data collected.
• The course will enable the participants to also edit existing databases in the field and creating new data using field data collection techniques (Kobo Toolbox and ODK).