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 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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Shkabatur, Jennifer, Kumagai, Saki
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014-06-01
Subjects:	ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, AREAS OF HEALTH, BASIC, BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE, BASIC SERVICES, BOUNDARIES, BRAIN, BRAINSTORMING, CAPACITY BUILDING, CITIZENS, CIVIL SOCIETY, CIVIL SOCIETY ACTORS, CIVIL SOCIETY MEMBERS, CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, CLINICS, COLLABORATION, COMMUNITIES, COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, COMMUNITY CONSULTATIONS, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT, COMMUNITY GROUPS, COMMUNITY INTEREST, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, COMMUNITY LEADERS, COMMUNITY LEVEL, COMMUNITY LIFE, COMMUNITY MAPPING, COMMUNITY MEETINGS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITY OUTREACH, CONSULTATION, CONTRIBUTIONS, DATA COLLECTION, DECISION MAKING, DECISION-MAKING, DESCRIPTION, DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS, DEVELOPMENT POLICIES, DEVICES, DIGITAL, DIGITAL CAMERAS, DISCUSSION, EQUIPMENT, FEMALE, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GOOD PRACTICE, GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES, HOSPITALS, IDEA, IMAGES, IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INNOVATIONS, INSIGHTS, INTERMEDIARIES, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, INTERVENTIONS, JAVA, LEADING, LOCAL COMMUNITIES, LOCAL COMMUNITY, LOCAL COMMUNITY LEADERS, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, LOCAL KNOWLEDGE, LOCAL POPULATIONS, MEDIA, METADATA, NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, NEIGHBORHOOD, NGO, NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, OUTREACH APPROACH, OUTREACH STRATEGIES, PARTICIPATORY APPROACH, PARTICIPATORY PROCESS, POSTERS, PRACTITIONERS, PRIVATE SECTOR, PROCUREMENT, PUBLIC INFORMATION, QUALITY STANDARDS, REGIONAL PLANNING, RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, RURAL AREAS, SETTLEMENT, SLUM, SLUM AREAS, SLUMS, SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, SOURCES OF INFORMATION, SPREADSHEETS, STORYTELLING, TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES, TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY, TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE, THINKING, TRAININGS, URBAN AREAS, URBAN PLANNERS, URBAN PLANNING, VARIETY, VILLAGES, WEBSITE, WISDOM, YOUTH,
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
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