Applications for NGOs.

GIS has particular application to NGOs.

NGOs are not like normal businesses. Success cannot be measured by the end of year accounts alone. NGOs need to justify their work using specific and often complex indicators. Moreover, the nature of NGO's work frequently takes them to underdeveloped regions, where English language maps provide only the shallowest of overviews.

GIS can provide invaluable tools to enable NGOs to identify project targets, measure success against these targets in a meaningful way, and - vitally - present results to donors in a user-friendly and readily interpretable way.

The simplest application of GIS is to produce a set of customised maps for a given project. Drawing from all available data sources (local knowledge, national cartography and global datasets), a consistent set of project maps can enrich a project, and provide a vital core on which to build your knowledge. Exceptionally versatile maps can be produced as vector images (pdf or eps) suitable for large or small format printing; bitmaps suited to website use; and even flash objects for integration to an online database.

<<Simple Map Here>>

Having produced the underlying map of the region, further data can be overlayed as it becomes available. A baseline survey of health indicators, water quality or any other quantifiable information can be interpolated to create a surface representing given point data integrated across the entire area.

<<Integrated Map Here>>

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