SBAIC Newsletter Highlights ME&A’s Use of GIS Maps to Enhance Decision-Making
ME&A’s success using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to enhance data-driven decision-making for USAID and the U.S. Department of State was recently featured in an article in the Small Business Association for International Companies (SBAIC) newsletter and website.
The article provides several examples of ME&A’s success using GIS to collect, manage, analyze, and visualize data to provide evidence of activities’ development and performance. It explains how ME&A’s visualizations enable users to rapidly understand variable tendencies, patterns, and distribution via maps attached to data statistics as well as program resources and model activity impacts in a timeline with a geographical approach.
Providing three examples of GIS maps ME&A prepared for USAID in Armenia and El Salvador, the article’s text also details ME&A’s GIS work in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Jordan, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Panama, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Turkey in the categories of spatial analysis, data collection, data management, data visualization, and decision support.
SBAIC is a membership organization established to promote the meaningful utilization of U.S. small businesses at U.S. government agencies providing foreign assistance, such USAID; the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Overseas Private Investment Corporation; and the U.S. Departments of State, Defense, Health and Human Services, and Agriculture.