What are Poverty Maps

Poverty maps are spatial representations of poverty assessments. Our assessment information comes from a variety of sources which includes Department of Statistics, household surveys, information from Mosques, Churches and Temples on who they are helping. Indicators of income poverty (such as GDP per capita or daily subsistence levels), or of well-being (such as life expectancy, child mortality, or literacy) are most frequently used in poverty maps, and are derived from national census data or household surveys.

By combining survey and census data to create poverty maps to show where needs are the greatest, policymakers can focus resources.

Why We Use Poverty Maps

Poverty analysis has long been the ……. Of the academics and for all non specalists to understand the extent of any poverty problem, it has been found that poverty maps assist greatly.
Poverty maps also allow for simple comparisons of indicators of poverty or well being with data from other assessments, such as access to infrastructure or services, availability and distribution of transport and communications facilities along with available natural resources.

Poverty maps quickly provide information on the spatial distribution of poverty that in turn allows for the targeting of intervention or development projects to suit the specific area and the demographic of the identified poverty cluster.

GIS based poverty analysis makes it easier to integrate poverty data from various sources. Mapped information on the levels and distribution of poverty make the results of analysis more easily understandable to a non-specialist audience.

This greatly assists in the targeting and implementation of development projects, and the communication of information to a wide range of stakeholders