Development Workshop has been involved for a number of years in
developing programmes of community service provision, water, sanitation,
school facilities upgrading and women’s micro-economic activities in
the peri-urban ‘musseques’ of Luanda, Angola. DW wishes to develop
monitoring tools to measure the impact of its programme interventions
and other external and environmental factors on the well-being of
communities in the areas of programme intervention. DW is therefore
developing information tools appropriate for rehabilitation and
policy-making in marginalised peri-urban communities of Luanda through
the design of a Geographical Information System for monitoring
environmental and social impact:
This report is the result of an expert mission on GIS for Development
Workshop Angola, on funding arranged by NIZA, Netherlands. The main
objective of the mission was to assess DW proposals for the introduction
of Geographic Information Systems within their offices in Luanda and
Huambo. The mission stayed in Angola from 22 June to 7 July 1999. A
scheduled visit to Huambo (on the central plateau) had to be cancelled
for security reasons, so the mission has remained in Luanda throughout
the whole period. Most work was carried out at DW’s Luanda office, with
visits to relevant organisations, and one field trip to the peri-urban
areas where most of DW’s activities take place:
Overall recommendations for Database Management, Tony Moloney, 2002: I have
spent the past few weeks doing a practical exercise of taking field data
from a live project and attempting to spatially represent the data
outputs and summaries it in a GIS program called Mapinfo. The objective
was to see the practical problems that I would have in doing so and also
see why DW has so far failed to successfully exploit the tool. I won’t
attempt to make any long term objectives in this document but will
rather concentrate on a realistic 3 month shock action plan (called ‘I
want GIS now’) to kick start the process. At the end of that three
month, if the objectives are realised, then I suggest the hiring of an
expert consultant to make a further 1 year action plan:
Project Actual Achievements against Planned and Modified Objectives:
Projeto Ficha de Dados 2000:
Sistema de informação para a reabilitação e elaboração de políticas nas
comunidades peri-urbanas marginalizadas de Luanda. Desenvolvimento de um
Sistema de Informação Geográfica para controle do risco ambiental.
Avaliação do risco ambiental urbano: