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Solution

GRID3 (Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development) works with countries to generate, validate and use geospatial data on population, settlements, infrastructure, and boundaries. The programme provides countries with a unique package of tools with which to generate open-source data, as well as support for data applications to ensure effective impact, and training to strengthen the national geospatial foundation for future evidence-based development and humanitarian decision making.

The programme also provides support to countries in census modernisation, primarily through digital mapping, satellite imagery, and increased use of geospatial information systems (GIS) to improve accuracy, timeliness, quality, and use of census data.

This can include geospatial analyses of census data to identify populations in need, for countries conducting a census where enumerators cannot be deployed to certain areas due to inaccessibility, disasters, or insecurity, GRID3 can support modelling processes to estimate populations that otherwise would go uncounted. Population estimates are created by combining data derived from a ‘microcensus’ (a set of complete population counts collected within small areas that are sampled from across a country) with machine-learning analyses of satellite imagery and available maps of boundaries, settlements and key points of interest (such as road networks and water infrastructure).

GRID3 builds on previous work done by other programmes around modelled population estimates for census under-coverage in Afghanistan and polio eradication efforts in Nigeria.

Participants from the Trainer Support Programme at the University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo