GRID3 DRC Health Facilities - Haut-Katanga, Kasaï, Kasaï-Oriental, Kinshasa, and Lomami Provinces, Version 01

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Source Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University and Ministère de la Santé Publique, Hygiène et Prévention, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Time Period of the Dataset [?] June 29, 2022-March 29, 2024 ... More
Modified [?] 29 June 2022
Dataset Added on HDX [?] 29 June 2022 Less
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With the support of provincial and national health authorities, local healthcare workers (“head nurses”, “health zone management staff”, and “head doctors of the health zones”) and GRID3 GIS specialists (“mappers” and “provincial coordinators”) engaged in a participatory mapping process in Haut-Katanga, Kasaï, Kasaï-Oriental, Kinshasa, and Lomami from January to July 2021. This mapping process occurred at the level of the health zone (an operational unit made up of approximately 15-20 health areas).

Mappers were deployed to health zones in teams of two for approximately nine (9) days. They started their work in the health zone by training the head nurses of each health area on data collection using the Geospatial Tracking System (GTS), an Open Data Kit (ODK)-based smartphone application. While the head nurses were collecting data in the health areas they regularly work in, the mappers worked with the health zone management team to validate and modify data from the field. After all data were collected, cleaned, and integrated into final geospatial layers, the first round of validation was conducted on preliminary data by the head doctor of the health zone before the mappers left the health zone.

From July 2021 through October 2022, the DRC mappers and provincial coordinators worked with CIESIN staff to consolidate the data (spelling, gaps and overlaps, topology, etc). The data were then used to produce basemaps at the health area-level and shared back with every health zone and province for the second round of validation. From November through January 2022, the DRC GIS team worked with CIESIN staff to integrate these corrections into a final geodatabase.

This work was done with the participation and supervision of the Direction du Système National d'Information Sanitaire (DSNIS). The Agence Nationale d'Ingénierie Clinique, de l'Information et de l'Informatique de Santé (ANICiiS) also played an important role in the area of data governance.

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