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Page 1: GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

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GIS Support for the MSFEbola resone in Guinea

in 983090983088983089983092

983089s EditionJul 983090983088983089983092Operational CenterGeneva

Logisic Department

Cae sudy

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GIS uppor for he

MSF Ebola reonein Guinea in 983090983088983089983092Cae sudy

MSF Secion MSF-OCG

Tile GIS Suppor or he MSF Ebola Reone in Guinea 2014

Owner amp

ommiioner

Tehnial Suppor o he Operaion

Logisi Deparmen

Meacutedein San FroniegravereOperaional Cener Geneva

Auhor Timo Luumlge MSF-CH GIS Uni (CarONG)

Purpoe Thi ae sudy aim o elaborae wheher he GIS offierrsquo miion o Guinea ha

ueeded in upporing he emergeny reone and urhering he sraegi goal

defined in he Sraegi Paper ldquoDevelopmen o he GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

Verion 1983155983156 ediion Language Englih

Reviewer Sandra Sudhoff

Audrey Leard-Fonaine

Sylvie de la Borderie

GIS exper - MSF-CH GIS

Uni (CarONG) Mahieu Soupar GIS

oal poin Logisi direcor

MSF-CH

Dae 07072014

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GIS Support for the MSF Ebola

reone in Guinea in 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

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Table of Content

ABBREVIATIONS 983092

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 983093

983089 INTRODUCTION 983097

983089983089 Bakground 983097

983089983090 MSF-CH GIS Uni 983089983088

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR EBOLA RESPONSE 983089983091

983090983089 Global undersand o he iuaion 983089983093983090983090 Epidemiology 983089983097

983090983091 Reporing amp Communiaion 983090983089

983090983092 Populaion oun amp movemen 983090983089

983090983093 Aciviy planning 983090983091

983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 983091983089

4 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION 983091983093

983093 RECOMMANDATIONS 983091983095

983094 ANNEX 983092983089

983094983089 Overview o GIS produc 983092983089

983094983090 Lis o inerviewee 983092983089

983094983091 Term o Reerene 983092983090

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

ABBREVIATIONS

FTP File Traner ProoolHOT Humaniarian OpenSreeMap TeamGIS Geographi Inormaion SysemGPS Global Poiioning SysemMSF Meacutedein San FroniegravereMSF-CH Meacutedein San Froniegravere SwizerlandNGO Non-Governmenal OrganiaionOCG Operaional Cenre Geneva

OSM OpenSreeMapVampTC Voluneer and Teh CommuniyWHS Waer Hygiene and Saniaion

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Executive Summary

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In Marh 2014 MSF-Swizerland deployed a dediaed Geographi

Informaion Sysem (GIS) offier o Guinea in reone o he Ebola

oubreak in he ouh o he ounry In uppor o he epidemiologial eam

he GIS offier wa harged wih produing general overview map a wella opial map ha uppored differen aec o he operaion

During he eigh week o hi miion he GIS offier produed 109 mapfor hi previouly very poorly mapped area The map inluded bai

orienaion map ha howed road landmark and village bu aloeialied map ha viualized populaion deniy or he read of he

dieae

Boh field and headquarer saff inerviewed or hi ae sudy emphaized

ha having a dediaed GIS offier in he field wa a major ae ha hada ignifian poiive impac on he operaion

Univerally inerviewee idenified wo oupu a he mos ueul

bull Loalization Wih he help of a newly reaed daabae and

ubequenly produed map he GIS offier wa able o pinpoin he

exac loaion o village and ideniy village ha had he ame name

bu were in differen par o he preecure Baed on hi inormaion

MSF programme saff were able o reond o he oubreak aser ina more argeed way and wih ewer reoure

bull Viualizaion A weekly mapping o onfirmed and ueced Ebolaae helped ranlae he progreion o he epidemi rom ehnial

daa ino an eay-o-gra map A a reul saff a all level had a

beter undersanding o he emergeny

The inerview alo highlighed he ac ha mos MSF saff know very litleabou GIS in general le alone how a GIS offier ould uppor hem Thenewly ormed GIS uni a he Operaional Cenre Geneva (OCG) need odo more o eduae saff a headquarer and in he field abou how GISan uppor operaion For field deploymen hi mean ha GIS offier

need o be ervie-oriened el-sarer beaue only very ew saff willknow how o make bes ue o hi or her kill

To map he area of operaion in a reaonable amoun of ime he GIS

uni - in uppor o he field offier - rowdoured ak ha were neiheronfidenial nor eniive A a reul a ubsanial number of overview

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

map were reaed wih he help o loe o 250 online voluneer Theevoluneer helped o map previouly unmapped iie and road wihin

a few day and a a granular level mapping individual building Thee

overview map hen beame he foundaion of many map ha he GIS

offier reaed for he reone While he ooperaion wih he online

voluneer wa overall very poiive i alo howed ha oordinaion a

well a expecaion managemen an be improved

Given he univerally poiive eedbak abou he GIS offierrsquo deploymen

i i reommended ha headquarer make GIS offier available o fieldoffie where direc onac wih field operaion an bring lear benefiand where loe and imely monioring of he read of an epidemi i

eenial

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Executive Summary

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

INTRODUCTION

983089983089 BACKGROUND

In Marh 2014 viral haemorrhagi broke ou in ouhern Guinea near heiy o Gueacutekeacutedou The viru wa quikly idenified a Ebola haemorrhagiever and Meacutedein San Froniegravere (MSF) deployed a eam o ais heexising programme saff wih he reone MSF Swizerland (MSF-CH)

ha been running a malaria programme in he area ine 2010

In uppor of he epidemiologial eam MSF-CH deployed a dediaedGeographi Inormaion Sysem (GIS) offier While MSF saff have beenuing map and GIS ehnology or many year he ue o dediaed GISsaff in he field i sill very unommon

The deiion o end a dediaed GIS offier o Guinea wa inormed bya sudy1048625 on he ue o GIS wihin MSF whih had idenified1048626 epidemiologya ldquohe domain where GIS an bring he mos poiive evoluionrdquo I waurhermore baed on he newly developed GIS Sraegy1048627 or MSF-CH (ee

alo 3 Sraegi )

Thi ae sudy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo miion

to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny reone and

furhering he sraegi goal defined in he GIS Sraegy The finding ohi ae sudy are baed on oral and writen inerview wih 11 MSFCarONG

eam member who were eiher baed in Guinea or a headquarer i ialo baed on he end-o-miion repor by he GIS offier himel

Geographi Informaion Sysem (GIS)

The erm GIS in hi ae sudy enompae any ue of geographial

informaion or map ranging from he bai ue of map in he field o he

ue o Global Poiioning Sysem (GPS) remoe ening (aellie imagery)

and all kind of geo-referened informaion (loaion of paien pariular

inrasrucure e)

(ee Typology o GIS Appliaion GIS Sudy)

1048625ldquoSae o ar and opporuniie uing Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSFrdquo (983090983088983089983091) ndash reerred o a ldquoGIS

Sudyrdquo in hi doumen

1048626GIS-Sudy p 983091983092

1048627ldquoDevelopmen o he Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSF-CHrdquo (983090983088983089983092) - reerred o a ldquoGIS Sraegyrdquo

in hi doumen

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Logisic Department

983089983090 MSF CH GIS UNIT

Analying GIS daa and produing deailed opial map i a ehnial killha i no readily available wihin MSF To explore he ue o GIS and o build

apaiy wihin he organiaion MSF-CH igned a ramework agreemenwih he Frenh NGO CarONG in lae 2013In addiion o building and mainaining ehnial inrasrucure or MSF-CH

hi agreemen inlude remoe mapping uppor a well a he proviionof CarONG saff embedded in MSF field miion The member of he

MSF GIS uni wear wo ha on he one hand hey are par o he inernalMSF-CH srucure and on he oher hand hey are employee of an

exernal ervie provider

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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Reone in Guinea 2014

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Logisic Department

T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

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Yende Gnama

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Nafa

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Sandia

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on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

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Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

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KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

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ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

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GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

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Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

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983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

1

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Logisic Department

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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GIS uppor for he

MSF Ebola reonein Guinea in 983090983088983089983092Cae sudy

MSF Secion MSF-OCG

Tile GIS Suppor or he MSF Ebola Reone in Guinea 2014

Owner amp

ommiioner

Tehnial Suppor o he Operaion

Logisi Deparmen

Meacutedein San FroniegravereOperaional Cener Geneva

Auhor Timo Luumlge MSF-CH GIS Uni (CarONG)

Purpoe Thi ae sudy aim o elaborae wheher he GIS offierrsquo miion o Guinea ha

ueeded in upporing he emergeny reone and urhering he sraegi goal

defined in he Sraegi Paper ldquoDevelopmen o he GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

Verion 1983155983156 ediion Language Englih

Reviewer Sandra Sudhoff

Audrey Leard-Fonaine

Sylvie de la Borderie

GIS exper - MSF-CH GIS

Uni (CarONG) Mahieu Soupar GIS

oal poin Logisi direcor

MSF-CH

Dae 07072014

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Logisic Department

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Table of Content

ABBREVIATIONS 983092

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 983093

983089 INTRODUCTION 983097

983089983089 Bakground 983097

983089983090 MSF-CH GIS Uni 983089983088

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR EBOLA RESPONSE 983089983091

983090983089 Global undersand o he iuaion 983089983093983090983090 Epidemiology 983089983097

983090983091 Reporing amp Communiaion 983090983089

983090983092 Populaion oun amp movemen 983090983089

983090983093 Aciviy planning 983090983091

983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 983091983089

4 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION 983091983093

983093 RECOMMANDATIONS 983091983095

983094 ANNEX 983092983089

983094983089 Overview o GIS produc 983092983089

983094983090 Lis o inerviewee 983092983089

983094983091 Term o Reerene 983092983090

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ABBREVIATIONS

FTP File Traner ProoolHOT Humaniarian OpenSreeMap TeamGIS Geographi Inormaion SysemGPS Global Poiioning SysemMSF Meacutedein San FroniegravereMSF-CH Meacutedein San Froniegravere SwizerlandNGO Non-Governmenal OrganiaionOCG Operaional Cenre Geneva

OSM OpenSreeMapVampTC Voluneer and Teh CommuniyWHS Waer Hygiene and Saniaion

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Executive Summary

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In Marh 2014 MSF-Swizerland deployed a dediaed Geographi

Informaion Sysem (GIS) offier o Guinea in reone o he Ebola

oubreak in he ouh o he ounry In uppor o he epidemiologial eam

he GIS offier wa harged wih produing general overview map a wella opial map ha uppored differen aec o he operaion

During he eigh week o hi miion he GIS offier produed 109 mapfor hi previouly very poorly mapped area The map inluded bai

orienaion map ha howed road landmark and village bu aloeialied map ha viualized populaion deniy or he read of he

dieae

Boh field and headquarer saff inerviewed or hi ae sudy emphaized

ha having a dediaed GIS offier in he field wa a major ae ha hada ignifian poiive impac on he operaion

Univerally inerviewee idenified wo oupu a he mos ueul

bull Loalization Wih he help of a newly reaed daabae and

ubequenly produed map he GIS offier wa able o pinpoin he

exac loaion o village and ideniy village ha had he ame name

bu were in differen par o he preecure Baed on hi inormaion

MSF programme saff were able o reond o he oubreak aser ina more argeed way and wih ewer reoure

bull Viualizaion A weekly mapping o onfirmed and ueced Ebolaae helped ranlae he progreion o he epidemi rom ehnial

daa ino an eay-o-gra map A a reul saff a all level had a

beter undersanding o he emergeny

The inerview alo highlighed he ac ha mos MSF saff know very litleabou GIS in general le alone how a GIS offier ould uppor hem Thenewly ormed GIS uni a he Operaional Cenre Geneva (OCG) need odo more o eduae saff a headquarer and in he field abou how GISan uppor operaion For field deploymen hi mean ha GIS offier

need o be ervie-oriened el-sarer beaue only very ew saff willknow how o make bes ue o hi or her kill

To map he area of operaion in a reaonable amoun of ime he GIS

uni - in uppor o he field offier - rowdoured ak ha were neiheronfidenial nor eniive A a reul a ubsanial number of overview

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Logisic Department

map were reaed wih he help o loe o 250 online voluneer Theevoluneer helped o map previouly unmapped iie and road wihin

a few day and a a granular level mapping individual building Thee

overview map hen beame he foundaion of many map ha he GIS

offier reaed for he reone While he ooperaion wih he online

voluneer wa overall very poiive i alo howed ha oordinaion a

well a expecaion managemen an be improved

Given he univerally poiive eedbak abou he GIS offierrsquo deploymen

i i reommended ha headquarer make GIS offier available o fieldoffie where direc onac wih field operaion an bring lear benefiand where loe and imely monioring of he read of an epidemi i

eenial

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Executive Summary

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

INTRODUCTION

983089983089 BACKGROUND

In Marh 2014 viral haemorrhagi broke ou in ouhern Guinea near heiy o Gueacutekeacutedou The viru wa quikly idenified a Ebola haemorrhagiever and Meacutedein San Froniegravere (MSF) deployed a eam o ais heexising programme saff wih he reone MSF Swizerland (MSF-CH)

ha been running a malaria programme in he area ine 2010

In uppor of he epidemiologial eam MSF-CH deployed a dediaedGeographi Inormaion Sysem (GIS) offier While MSF saff have beenuing map and GIS ehnology or many year he ue o dediaed GISsaff in he field i sill very unommon

The deiion o end a dediaed GIS offier o Guinea wa inormed bya sudy1048625 on he ue o GIS wihin MSF whih had idenified1048626 epidemiologya ldquohe domain where GIS an bring he mos poiive evoluionrdquo I waurhermore baed on he newly developed GIS Sraegy1048627 or MSF-CH (ee

alo 3 Sraegi )

Thi ae sudy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo miion

to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny reone and

furhering he sraegi goal defined in he GIS Sraegy The finding ohi ae sudy are baed on oral and writen inerview wih 11 MSFCarONG

eam member who were eiher baed in Guinea or a headquarer i ialo baed on he end-o-miion repor by he GIS offier himel

Geographi Informaion Sysem (GIS)

The erm GIS in hi ae sudy enompae any ue of geographial

informaion or map ranging from he bai ue of map in he field o he

ue o Global Poiioning Sysem (GPS) remoe ening (aellie imagery)

and all kind of geo-referened informaion (loaion of paien pariular

inrasrucure e)

(ee Typology o GIS Appliaion GIS Sudy)

1048625ldquoSae o ar and opporuniie uing Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSFrdquo (983090983088983089983091) ndash reerred o a ldquoGIS

Sudyrdquo in hi doumen

1048626GIS-Sudy p 983091983092

1048627ldquoDevelopmen o he Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSF-CHrdquo (983090983088983089983092) - reerred o a ldquoGIS Sraegyrdquo

in hi doumen

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983089983090 MSF CH GIS UNIT

Analying GIS daa and produing deailed opial map i a ehnial killha i no readily available wihin MSF To explore he ue o GIS and o build

apaiy wihin he organiaion MSF-CH igned a ramework agreemenwih he Frenh NGO CarONG in lae 2013In addiion o building and mainaining ehnial inrasrucure or MSF-CH

hi agreemen inlude remoe mapping uppor a well a he proviionof CarONG saff embedded in MSF field miion The member of he

MSF GIS uni wear wo ha on he one hand hey are par o he inernalMSF-CH srucure and on he oher hand hey are employee of an

exernal ervie provider

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

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983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

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o l u n e e r w i h i n

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a g e b o t o m r

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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Overview of GIS Producs used

A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

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uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Table of Content

ABBREVIATIONS 983092

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 983093

983089 INTRODUCTION 983097

983089983089 Bakground 983097

983089983090 MSF-CH GIS Uni 983089983088

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR EBOLA RESPONSE 983089983091

983090983089 Global undersand o he iuaion 983089983093983090983090 Epidemiology 983089983097

983090983091 Reporing amp Communiaion 983090983089

983090983092 Populaion oun amp movemen 983090983089

983090983093 Aciviy planning 983090983091

983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 983091983089

4 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION 983091983093

983093 RECOMMANDATIONS 983091983095

983094 ANNEX 983092983089

983094983089 Overview o GIS produc 983092983089

983094983090 Lis o inerviewee 983092983089

983094983091 Term o Reerene 983092983090

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ABBREVIATIONS

FTP File Traner ProoolHOT Humaniarian OpenSreeMap TeamGIS Geographi Inormaion SysemGPS Global Poiioning SysemMSF Meacutedein San FroniegravereMSF-CH Meacutedein San Froniegravere SwizerlandNGO Non-Governmenal OrganiaionOCG Operaional Cenre Geneva

OSM OpenSreeMapVampTC Voluneer and Teh CommuniyWHS Waer Hygiene and Saniaion

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Executive Summary

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In Marh 2014 MSF-Swizerland deployed a dediaed Geographi

Informaion Sysem (GIS) offier o Guinea in reone o he Ebola

oubreak in he ouh o he ounry In uppor o he epidemiologial eam

he GIS offier wa harged wih produing general overview map a wella opial map ha uppored differen aec o he operaion

During he eigh week o hi miion he GIS offier produed 109 mapfor hi previouly very poorly mapped area The map inluded bai

orienaion map ha howed road landmark and village bu aloeialied map ha viualized populaion deniy or he read of he

dieae

Boh field and headquarer saff inerviewed or hi ae sudy emphaized

ha having a dediaed GIS offier in he field wa a major ae ha hada ignifian poiive impac on he operaion

Univerally inerviewee idenified wo oupu a he mos ueul

bull Loalization Wih he help of a newly reaed daabae and

ubequenly produed map he GIS offier wa able o pinpoin he

exac loaion o village and ideniy village ha had he ame name

bu were in differen par o he preecure Baed on hi inormaion

MSF programme saff were able o reond o he oubreak aser ina more argeed way and wih ewer reoure

bull Viualizaion A weekly mapping o onfirmed and ueced Ebolaae helped ranlae he progreion o he epidemi rom ehnial

daa ino an eay-o-gra map A a reul saff a all level had a

beter undersanding o he emergeny

The inerview alo highlighed he ac ha mos MSF saff know very litleabou GIS in general le alone how a GIS offier ould uppor hem Thenewly ormed GIS uni a he Operaional Cenre Geneva (OCG) need odo more o eduae saff a headquarer and in he field abou how GISan uppor operaion For field deploymen hi mean ha GIS offier

need o be ervie-oriened el-sarer beaue only very ew saff willknow how o make bes ue o hi or her kill

To map he area of operaion in a reaonable amoun of ime he GIS

uni - in uppor o he field offier - rowdoured ak ha were neiheronfidenial nor eniive A a reul a ubsanial number of overview

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map were reaed wih he help o loe o 250 online voluneer Theevoluneer helped o map previouly unmapped iie and road wihin

a few day and a a granular level mapping individual building Thee

overview map hen beame he foundaion of many map ha he GIS

offier reaed for he reone While he ooperaion wih he online

voluneer wa overall very poiive i alo howed ha oordinaion a

well a expecaion managemen an be improved

Given he univerally poiive eedbak abou he GIS offierrsquo deploymen

i i reommended ha headquarer make GIS offier available o fieldoffie where direc onac wih field operaion an bring lear benefiand where loe and imely monioring of he read of an epidemi i

eenial

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Executive Summary

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

INTRODUCTION

983089983089 BACKGROUND

In Marh 2014 viral haemorrhagi broke ou in ouhern Guinea near heiy o Gueacutekeacutedou The viru wa quikly idenified a Ebola haemorrhagiever and Meacutedein San Froniegravere (MSF) deployed a eam o ais heexising programme saff wih he reone MSF Swizerland (MSF-CH)

ha been running a malaria programme in he area ine 2010

In uppor of he epidemiologial eam MSF-CH deployed a dediaedGeographi Inormaion Sysem (GIS) offier While MSF saff have beenuing map and GIS ehnology or many year he ue o dediaed GISsaff in he field i sill very unommon

The deiion o end a dediaed GIS offier o Guinea wa inormed bya sudy1048625 on he ue o GIS wihin MSF whih had idenified1048626 epidemiologya ldquohe domain where GIS an bring he mos poiive evoluionrdquo I waurhermore baed on he newly developed GIS Sraegy1048627 or MSF-CH (ee

alo 3 Sraegi )

Thi ae sudy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo miion

to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny reone and

furhering he sraegi goal defined in he GIS Sraegy The finding ohi ae sudy are baed on oral and writen inerview wih 11 MSFCarONG

eam member who were eiher baed in Guinea or a headquarer i ialo baed on he end-o-miion repor by he GIS offier himel

Geographi Informaion Sysem (GIS)

The erm GIS in hi ae sudy enompae any ue of geographial

informaion or map ranging from he bai ue of map in he field o he

ue o Global Poiioning Sysem (GPS) remoe ening (aellie imagery)

and all kind of geo-referened informaion (loaion of paien pariular

inrasrucure e)

(ee Typology o GIS Appliaion GIS Sudy)

1048625ldquoSae o ar and opporuniie uing Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSFrdquo (983090983088983089983091) ndash reerred o a ldquoGIS

Sudyrdquo in hi doumen

1048626GIS-Sudy p 983091983092

1048627ldquoDevelopmen o he Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSF-CHrdquo (983090983088983089983092) - reerred o a ldquoGIS Sraegyrdquo

in hi doumen

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983089983090 MSF CH GIS UNIT

Analying GIS daa and produing deailed opial map i a ehnial killha i no readily available wihin MSF To explore he ue o GIS and o build

apaiy wihin he organiaion MSF-CH igned a ramework agreemenwih he Frenh NGO CarONG in lae 2013In addiion o building and mainaining ehnial inrasrucure or MSF-CH

hi agreemen inlude remoe mapping uppor a well a he proviionof CarONG saff embedded in MSF field miion The member of he

MSF GIS uni wear wo ha on he one hand hey are par o he inernalMSF-CH srucure and on he oher hand hey are employee of an

exernal ervie provider

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Introducion

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

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Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

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B

B

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C

D

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This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

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KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

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MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

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GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Table of Content

ABBREVIATIONS 983092

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 983093

983089 INTRODUCTION 983097

983089983089 Bakground 983097

983089983090 MSF-CH GIS Uni 983089983088

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR EBOLA RESPONSE 983089983091

983090983089 Global undersand o he iuaion 983089983093983090983090 Epidemiology 983089983097

983090983091 Reporing amp Communiaion 983090983089

983090983092 Populaion oun amp movemen 983090983089

983090983093 Aciviy planning 983090983091

983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 983091983089

4 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION 983091983093

983093 RECOMMANDATIONS 983091983095

983094 ANNEX 983092983089

983094983089 Overview o GIS produc 983092983089

983094983090 Lis o inerviewee 983092983089

983094983091 Term o Reerene 983092983090

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ABBREVIATIONS

FTP File Traner ProoolHOT Humaniarian OpenSreeMap TeamGIS Geographi Inormaion SysemGPS Global Poiioning SysemMSF Meacutedein San FroniegravereMSF-CH Meacutedein San Froniegravere SwizerlandNGO Non-Governmenal OrganiaionOCG Operaional Cenre Geneva

OSM OpenSreeMapVampTC Voluneer and Teh CommuniyWHS Waer Hygiene and Saniaion

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Executive Summary

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In Marh 2014 MSF-Swizerland deployed a dediaed Geographi

Informaion Sysem (GIS) offier o Guinea in reone o he Ebola

oubreak in he ouh o he ounry In uppor o he epidemiologial eam

he GIS offier wa harged wih produing general overview map a wella opial map ha uppored differen aec o he operaion

During he eigh week o hi miion he GIS offier produed 109 mapfor hi previouly very poorly mapped area The map inluded bai

orienaion map ha howed road landmark and village bu aloeialied map ha viualized populaion deniy or he read of he

dieae

Boh field and headquarer saff inerviewed or hi ae sudy emphaized

ha having a dediaed GIS offier in he field wa a major ae ha hada ignifian poiive impac on he operaion

Univerally inerviewee idenified wo oupu a he mos ueul

bull Loalization Wih he help of a newly reaed daabae and

ubequenly produed map he GIS offier wa able o pinpoin he

exac loaion o village and ideniy village ha had he ame name

bu were in differen par o he preecure Baed on hi inormaion

MSF programme saff were able o reond o he oubreak aser ina more argeed way and wih ewer reoure

bull Viualizaion A weekly mapping o onfirmed and ueced Ebolaae helped ranlae he progreion o he epidemi rom ehnial

daa ino an eay-o-gra map A a reul saff a all level had a

beter undersanding o he emergeny

The inerview alo highlighed he ac ha mos MSF saff know very litleabou GIS in general le alone how a GIS offier ould uppor hem Thenewly ormed GIS uni a he Operaional Cenre Geneva (OCG) need odo more o eduae saff a headquarer and in he field abou how GISan uppor operaion For field deploymen hi mean ha GIS offier

need o be ervie-oriened el-sarer beaue only very ew saff willknow how o make bes ue o hi or her kill

To map he area of operaion in a reaonable amoun of ime he GIS

uni - in uppor o he field offier - rowdoured ak ha were neiheronfidenial nor eniive A a reul a ubsanial number of overview

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Logisic Department

map were reaed wih he help o loe o 250 online voluneer Theevoluneer helped o map previouly unmapped iie and road wihin

a few day and a a granular level mapping individual building Thee

overview map hen beame he foundaion of many map ha he GIS

offier reaed for he reone While he ooperaion wih he online

voluneer wa overall very poiive i alo howed ha oordinaion a

well a expecaion managemen an be improved

Given he univerally poiive eedbak abou he GIS offierrsquo deploymen

i i reommended ha headquarer make GIS offier available o fieldoffie where direc onac wih field operaion an bring lear benefiand where loe and imely monioring of he read of an epidemi i

eenial

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Executive Summary

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

INTRODUCTION

983089983089 BACKGROUND

In Marh 2014 viral haemorrhagi broke ou in ouhern Guinea near heiy o Gueacutekeacutedou The viru wa quikly idenified a Ebola haemorrhagiever and Meacutedein San Froniegravere (MSF) deployed a eam o ais heexising programme saff wih he reone MSF Swizerland (MSF-CH)

ha been running a malaria programme in he area ine 2010

In uppor of he epidemiologial eam MSF-CH deployed a dediaedGeographi Inormaion Sysem (GIS) offier While MSF saff have beenuing map and GIS ehnology or many year he ue o dediaed GISsaff in he field i sill very unommon

The deiion o end a dediaed GIS offier o Guinea wa inormed bya sudy1048625 on he ue o GIS wihin MSF whih had idenified1048626 epidemiologya ldquohe domain where GIS an bring he mos poiive evoluionrdquo I waurhermore baed on he newly developed GIS Sraegy1048627 or MSF-CH (ee

alo 3 Sraegi )

Thi ae sudy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo miion

to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny reone and

furhering he sraegi goal defined in he GIS Sraegy The finding ohi ae sudy are baed on oral and writen inerview wih 11 MSFCarONG

eam member who were eiher baed in Guinea or a headquarer i ialo baed on he end-o-miion repor by he GIS offier himel

Geographi Informaion Sysem (GIS)

The erm GIS in hi ae sudy enompae any ue of geographial

informaion or map ranging from he bai ue of map in he field o he

ue o Global Poiioning Sysem (GPS) remoe ening (aellie imagery)

and all kind of geo-referened informaion (loaion of paien pariular

inrasrucure e)

(ee Typology o GIS Appliaion GIS Sudy)

1048625ldquoSae o ar and opporuniie uing Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSFrdquo (983090983088983089983091) ndash reerred o a ldquoGIS

Sudyrdquo in hi doumen

1048626GIS-Sudy p 983091983092

1048627ldquoDevelopmen o he Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSF-CHrdquo (983090983088983089983092) - reerred o a ldquoGIS Sraegyrdquo

in hi doumen

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983089983090 MSF CH GIS UNIT

Analying GIS daa and produing deailed opial map i a ehnial killha i no readily available wihin MSF To explore he ue o GIS and o build

apaiy wihin he organiaion MSF-CH igned a ramework agreemenwih he Frenh NGO CarONG in lae 2013In addiion o building and mainaining ehnial inrasrucure or MSF-CH

hi agreemen inlude remoe mapping uppor a well a he proviionof CarONG saff embedded in MSF field miion The member of he

MSF GIS uni wear wo ha on he one hand hey are par o he inernalMSF-CH srucure and on he oher hand hey are employee of an

exernal ervie provider

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

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a g e b o t o m r

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Logisic Department

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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ABBREVIATIONS

FTP File Traner ProoolHOT Humaniarian OpenSreeMap TeamGIS Geographi Inormaion SysemGPS Global Poiioning SysemMSF Meacutedein San FroniegravereMSF-CH Meacutedein San Froniegravere SwizerlandNGO Non-Governmenal OrganiaionOCG Operaional Cenre Geneva

OSM OpenSreeMapVampTC Voluneer and Teh CommuniyWHS Waer Hygiene and Saniaion

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Executive Summary

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In Marh 2014 MSF-Swizerland deployed a dediaed Geographi

Informaion Sysem (GIS) offier o Guinea in reone o he Ebola

oubreak in he ouh o he ounry In uppor o he epidemiologial eam

he GIS offier wa harged wih produing general overview map a wella opial map ha uppored differen aec o he operaion

During he eigh week o hi miion he GIS offier produed 109 mapfor hi previouly very poorly mapped area The map inluded bai

orienaion map ha howed road landmark and village bu aloeialied map ha viualized populaion deniy or he read of he

dieae

Boh field and headquarer saff inerviewed or hi ae sudy emphaized

ha having a dediaed GIS offier in he field wa a major ae ha hada ignifian poiive impac on he operaion

Univerally inerviewee idenified wo oupu a he mos ueul

bull Loalization Wih he help of a newly reaed daabae and

ubequenly produed map he GIS offier wa able o pinpoin he

exac loaion o village and ideniy village ha had he ame name

bu were in differen par o he preecure Baed on hi inormaion

MSF programme saff were able o reond o he oubreak aser ina more argeed way and wih ewer reoure

bull Viualizaion A weekly mapping o onfirmed and ueced Ebolaae helped ranlae he progreion o he epidemi rom ehnial

daa ino an eay-o-gra map A a reul saff a all level had a

beter undersanding o he emergeny

The inerview alo highlighed he ac ha mos MSF saff know very litleabou GIS in general le alone how a GIS offier ould uppor hem Thenewly ormed GIS uni a he Operaional Cenre Geneva (OCG) need odo more o eduae saff a headquarer and in he field abou how GISan uppor operaion For field deploymen hi mean ha GIS offier

need o be ervie-oriened el-sarer beaue only very ew saff willknow how o make bes ue o hi or her kill

To map he area of operaion in a reaonable amoun of ime he GIS

uni - in uppor o he field offier - rowdoured ak ha were neiheronfidenial nor eniive A a reul a ubsanial number of overview

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map were reaed wih he help o loe o 250 online voluneer Theevoluneer helped o map previouly unmapped iie and road wihin

a few day and a a granular level mapping individual building Thee

overview map hen beame he foundaion of many map ha he GIS

offier reaed for he reone While he ooperaion wih he online

voluneer wa overall very poiive i alo howed ha oordinaion a

well a expecaion managemen an be improved

Given he univerally poiive eedbak abou he GIS offierrsquo deploymen

i i reommended ha headquarer make GIS offier available o fieldoffie where direc onac wih field operaion an bring lear benefiand where loe and imely monioring of he read of an epidemi i

eenial

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Executive Summary

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

INTRODUCTION

983089983089 BACKGROUND

In Marh 2014 viral haemorrhagi broke ou in ouhern Guinea near heiy o Gueacutekeacutedou The viru wa quikly idenified a Ebola haemorrhagiever and Meacutedein San Froniegravere (MSF) deployed a eam o ais heexising programme saff wih he reone MSF Swizerland (MSF-CH)

ha been running a malaria programme in he area ine 2010

In uppor of he epidemiologial eam MSF-CH deployed a dediaedGeographi Inormaion Sysem (GIS) offier While MSF saff have beenuing map and GIS ehnology or many year he ue o dediaed GISsaff in he field i sill very unommon

The deiion o end a dediaed GIS offier o Guinea wa inormed bya sudy1048625 on he ue o GIS wihin MSF whih had idenified1048626 epidemiologya ldquohe domain where GIS an bring he mos poiive evoluionrdquo I waurhermore baed on he newly developed GIS Sraegy1048627 or MSF-CH (ee

alo 3 Sraegi )

Thi ae sudy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo miion

to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny reone and

furhering he sraegi goal defined in he GIS Sraegy The finding ohi ae sudy are baed on oral and writen inerview wih 11 MSFCarONG

eam member who were eiher baed in Guinea or a headquarer i ialo baed on he end-o-miion repor by he GIS offier himel

Geographi Informaion Sysem (GIS)

The erm GIS in hi ae sudy enompae any ue of geographial

informaion or map ranging from he bai ue of map in he field o he

ue o Global Poiioning Sysem (GPS) remoe ening (aellie imagery)

and all kind of geo-referened informaion (loaion of paien pariular

inrasrucure e)

(ee Typology o GIS Appliaion GIS Sudy)

1048625ldquoSae o ar and opporuniie uing Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSFrdquo (983090983088983089983091) ndash reerred o a ldquoGIS

Sudyrdquo in hi doumen

1048626GIS-Sudy p 983091983092

1048627ldquoDevelopmen o he Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSF-CHrdquo (983090983088983089983092) - reerred o a ldquoGIS Sraegyrdquo

in hi doumen

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983089983090 MSF CH GIS UNIT

Analying GIS daa and produing deailed opial map i a ehnial killha i no readily available wihin MSF To explore he ue o GIS and o build

apaiy wihin he organiaion MSF-CH igned a ramework agreemenwih he Frenh NGO CarONG in lae 2013In addiion o building and mainaining ehnial inrasrucure or MSF-CH

hi agreemen inlude remoe mapping uppor a well a he proviionof CarONG saff embedded in MSF field miion The member of he

MSF GIS uni wear wo ha on he one hand hey are par o he inernalMSF-CH srucure and on he oher hand hey are employee of an

exernal ervie provider

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Introducion

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Overview of GIS Producs used

Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

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Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

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Yedenin 2

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Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

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Commanyada

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Centre

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Silikidou

Game

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Bakary 3

Bakary 2

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Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

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Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983097

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Logisic Department

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Executive Summary

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In Marh 2014 MSF-Swizerland deployed a dediaed Geographi

Informaion Sysem (GIS) offier o Guinea in reone o he Ebola

oubreak in he ouh o he ounry In uppor o he epidemiologial eam

he GIS offier wa harged wih produing general overview map a wella opial map ha uppored differen aec o he operaion

During he eigh week o hi miion he GIS offier produed 109 mapfor hi previouly very poorly mapped area The map inluded bai

orienaion map ha howed road landmark and village bu aloeialied map ha viualized populaion deniy or he read of he

dieae

Boh field and headquarer saff inerviewed or hi ae sudy emphaized

ha having a dediaed GIS offier in he field wa a major ae ha hada ignifian poiive impac on he operaion

Univerally inerviewee idenified wo oupu a he mos ueul

bull Loalization Wih he help of a newly reaed daabae and

ubequenly produed map he GIS offier wa able o pinpoin he

exac loaion o village and ideniy village ha had he ame name

bu were in differen par o he preecure Baed on hi inormaion

MSF programme saff were able o reond o he oubreak aser ina more argeed way and wih ewer reoure

bull Viualizaion A weekly mapping o onfirmed and ueced Ebolaae helped ranlae he progreion o he epidemi rom ehnial

daa ino an eay-o-gra map A a reul saff a all level had a

beter undersanding o he emergeny

The inerview alo highlighed he ac ha mos MSF saff know very litleabou GIS in general le alone how a GIS offier ould uppor hem Thenewly ormed GIS uni a he Operaional Cenre Geneva (OCG) need odo more o eduae saff a headquarer and in he field abou how GISan uppor operaion For field deploymen hi mean ha GIS offier

need o be ervie-oriened el-sarer beaue only very ew saff willknow how o make bes ue o hi or her kill

To map he area of operaion in a reaonable amoun of ime he GIS

uni - in uppor o he field offier - rowdoured ak ha were neiheronfidenial nor eniive A a reul a ubsanial number of overview

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Logisic Department

map were reaed wih he help o loe o 250 online voluneer Theevoluneer helped o map previouly unmapped iie and road wihin

a few day and a a granular level mapping individual building Thee

overview map hen beame he foundaion of many map ha he GIS

offier reaed for he reone While he ooperaion wih he online

voluneer wa overall very poiive i alo howed ha oordinaion a

well a expecaion managemen an be improved

Given he univerally poiive eedbak abou he GIS offierrsquo deploymen

i i reommended ha headquarer make GIS offier available o fieldoffie where direc onac wih field operaion an bring lear benefiand where loe and imely monioring of he read of an epidemi i

eenial

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

INTRODUCTION

983089983089 BACKGROUND

In Marh 2014 viral haemorrhagi broke ou in ouhern Guinea near heiy o Gueacutekeacutedou The viru wa quikly idenified a Ebola haemorrhagiever and Meacutedein San Froniegravere (MSF) deployed a eam o ais heexising programme saff wih he reone MSF Swizerland (MSF-CH)

ha been running a malaria programme in he area ine 2010

In uppor of he epidemiologial eam MSF-CH deployed a dediaedGeographi Inormaion Sysem (GIS) offier While MSF saff have beenuing map and GIS ehnology or many year he ue o dediaed GISsaff in he field i sill very unommon

The deiion o end a dediaed GIS offier o Guinea wa inormed bya sudy1048625 on he ue o GIS wihin MSF whih had idenified1048626 epidemiologya ldquohe domain where GIS an bring he mos poiive evoluionrdquo I waurhermore baed on he newly developed GIS Sraegy1048627 or MSF-CH (ee

alo 3 Sraegi )

Thi ae sudy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo miion

to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny reone and

furhering he sraegi goal defined in he GIS Sraegy The finding ohi ae sudy are baed on oral and writen inerview wih 11 MSFCarONG

eam member who were eiher baed in Guinea or a headquarer i ialo baed on he end-o-miion repor by he GIS offier himel

Geographi Informaion Sysem (GIS)

The erm GIS in hi ae sudy enompae any ue of geographial

informaion or map ranging from he bai ue of map in he field o he

ue o Global Poiioning Sysem (GPS) remoe ening (aellie imagery)

and all kind of geo-referened informaion (loaion of paien pariular

inrasrucure e)

(ee Typology o GIS Appliaion GIS Sudy)

1048625ldquoSae o ar and opporuniie uing Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSFrdquo (983090983088983089983091) ndash reerred o a ldquoGIS

Sudyrdquo in hi doumen

1048626GIS-Sudy p 983091983092

1048627ldquoDevelopmen o he Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSF-CHrdquo (983090983088983089983092) - reerred o a ldquoGIS Sraegyrdquo

in hi doumen

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983089983090 MSF CH GIS UNIT

Analying GIS daa and produing deailed opial map i a ehnial killha i no readily available wihin MSF To explore he ue o GIS and o build

apaiy wihin he organiaion MSF-CH igned a ramework agreemenwih he Frenh NGO CarONG in lae 2013In addiion o building and mainaining ehnial inrasrucure or MSF-CH

hi agreemen inlude remoe mapping uppor a well a he proviionof CarONG saff embedded in MSF field miion The member of he

MSF GIS uni wear wo ha on he one hand hey are par o he inernalMSF-CH srucure and on he oher hand hey are employee of an

exernal ervie provider

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Introducion

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

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a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Overview of GIS Producs used

Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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Overview of GIS Producs used

A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

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800 - 1219

Route principale

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Limite des quartiers

Batiments

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1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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Logisic Department

983091983088

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DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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map were reaed wih he help o loe o 250 online voluneer Theevoluneer helped o map previouly unmapped iie and road wihin

a few day and a a granular level mapping individual building Thee

overview map hen beame he foundaion of many map ha he GIS

offier reaed for he reone While he ooperaion wih he online

voluneer wa overall very poiive i alo howed ha oordinaion a

well a expecaion managemen an be improved

Given he univerally poiive eedbak abou he GIS offierrsquo deploymen

i i reommended ha headquarer make GIS offier available o fieldoffie where direc onac wih field operaion an bring lear benefiand where loe and imely monioring of he read of an epidemi i

eenial

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

INTRODUCTION

983089983089 BACKGROUND

In Marh 2014 viral haemorrhagi broke ou in ouhern Guinea near heiy o Gueacutekeacutedou The viru wa quikly idenified a Ebola haemorrhagiever and Meacutedein San Froniegravere (MSF) deployed a eam o ais heexising programme saff wih he reone MSF Swizerland (MSF-CH)

ha been running a malaria programme in he area ine 2010

In uppor of he epidemiologial eam MSF-CH deployed a dediaedGeographi Inormaion Sysem (GIS) offier While MSF saff have beenuing map and GIS ehnology or many year he ue o dediaed GISsaff in he field i sill very unommon

The deiion o end a dediaed GIS offier o Guinea wa inormed bya sudy1048625 on he ue o GIS wihin MSF whih had idenified1048626 epidemiologya ldquohe domain where GIS an bring he mos poiive evoluionrdquo I waurhermore baed on he newly developed GIS Sraegy1048627 or MSF-CH (ee

alo 3 Sraegi )

Thi ae sudy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo miion

to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny reone and

furhering he sraegi goal defined in he GIS Sraegy The finding ohi ae sudy are baed on oral and writen inerview wih 11 MSFCarONG

eam member who were eiher baed in Guinea or a headquarer i ialo baed on he end-o-miion repor by he GIS offier himel

Geographi Informaion Sysem (GIS)

The erm GIS in hi ae sudy enompae any ue of geographial

informaion or map ranging from he bai ue of map in he field o he

ue o Global Poiioning Sysem (GPS) remoe ening (aellie imagery)

and all kind of geo-referened informaion (loaion of paien pariular

inrasrucure e)

(ee Typology o GIS Appliaion GIS Sudy)

1048625ldquoSae o ar and opporuniie uing Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSFrdquo (983090983088983089983091) ndash reerred o a ldquoGIS

Sudyrdquo in hi doumen

1048626GIS-Sudy p 983091983092

1048627ldquoDevelopmen o he Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSF-CHrdquo (983090983088983089983092) - reerred o a ldquoGIS Sraegyrdquo

in hi doumen

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983089983090 MSF CH GIS UNIT

Analying GIS daa and produing deailed opial map i a ehnial killha i no readily available wihin MSF To explore he ue o GIS and o build

apaiy wihin he organiaion MSF-CH igned a ramework agreemenwih he Frenh NGO CarONG in lae 2013In addiion o building and mainaining ehnial inrasrucure or MSF-CH

hi agreemen inlude remoe mapping uppor a well a he proviionof CarONG saff embedded in MSF field miion The member of he

MSF GIS uni wear wo ha on he one hand hey are par o he inernalMSF-CH srucure and on he oher hand hey are employee of an

exernal ervie provider

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

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983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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Overview of GIS Producs used

A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Executive Summary

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

INTRODUCTION

983089983089 BACKGROUND

In Marh 2014 viral haemorrhagi broke ou in ouhern Guinea near heiy o Gueacutekeacutedou The viru wa quikly idenified a Ebola haemorrhagiever and Meacutedein San Froniegravere (MSF) deployed a eam o ais heexising programme saff wih he reone MSF Swizerland (MSF-CH)

ha been running a malaria programme in he area ine 2010

In uppor of he epidemiologial eam MSF-CH deployed a dediaedGeographi Inormaion Sysem (GIS) offier While MSF saff have beenuing map and GIS ehnology or many year he ue o dediaed GISsaff in he field i sill very unommon

The deiion o end a dediaed GIS offier o Guinea wa inormed bya sudy1048625 on he ue o GIS wihin MSF whih had idenified1048626 epidemiologya ldquohe domain where GIS an bring he mos poiive evoluionrdquo I waurhermore baed on he newly developed GIS Sraegy1048627 or MSF-CH (ee

alo 3 Sraegi )

Thi ae sudy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo miion

to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny reone and

furhering he sraegi goal defined in he GIS Sraegy The finding ohi ae sudy are baed on oral and writen inerview wih 11 MSFCarONG

eam member who were eiher baed in Guinea or a headquarer i ialo baed on he end-o-miion repor by he GIS offier himel

Geographi Informaion Sysem (GIS)

The erm GIS in hi ae sudy enompae any ue of geographial

informaion or map ranging from he bai ue of map in he field o he

ue o Global Poiioning Sysem (GPS) remoe ening (aellie imagery)

and all kind of geo-referened informaion (loaion of paien pariular

inrasrucure e)

(ee Typology o GIS Appliaion GIS Sudy)

1048625ldquoSae o ar and opporuniie uing Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSFrdquo (983090983088983089983091) ndash reerred o a ldquoGIS

Sudyrdquo in hi doumen

1048626GIS-Sudy p 983091983092

1048627ldquoDevelopmen o he Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSF-CHrdquo (983090983088983089983092) - reerred o a ldquoGIS Sraegyrdquo

in hi doumen

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Logisic Department

983089983090 MSF CH GIS UNIT

Analying GIS daa and produing deailed opial map i a ehnial killha i no readily available wihin MSF To explore he ue o GIS and o build

apaiy wihin he organiaion MSF-CH igned a ramework agreemenwih he Frenh NGO CarONG in lae 2013In addiion o building and mainaining ehnial inrasrucure or MSF-CH

hi agreemen inlude remoe mapping uppor a well a he proviionof CarONG saff embedded in MSF field miion The member of he

MSF GIS uni wear wo ha on he one hand hey are par o he inernalMSF-CH srucure and on he oher hand hey are employee of an

exernal ervie provider

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Introducion

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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Overview of GIS Producs used

983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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Overview of GIS Producs used

A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

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Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

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Yedenin 2

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Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

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Commanyada

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Centre

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Silikidou

Game

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Bakary 3

Bakary 2

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Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

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Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Logisic Department

983091983096

Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983097

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Reone in Guinea 2014

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Logisic Department

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

INTRODUCTION

983089983089 BACKGROUND

In Marh 2014 viral haemorrhagi broke ou in ouhern Guinea near heiy o Gueacutekeacutedou The viru wa quikly idenified a Ebola haemorrhagiever and Meacutedein San Froniegravere (MSF) deployed a eam o ais heexising programme saff wih he reone MSF Swizerland (MSF-CH)

ha been running a malaria programme in he area ine 2010

In uppor of he epidemiologial eam MSF-CH deployed a dediaedGeographi Inormaion Sysem (GIS) offier While MSF saff have beenuing map and GIS ehnology or many year he ue o dediaed GISsaff in he field i sill very unommon

The deiion o end a dediaed GIS offier o Guinea wa inormed bya sudy1048625 on he ue o GIS wihin MSF whih had idenified1048626 epidemiologya ldquohe domain where GIS an bring he mos poiive evoluionrdquo I waurhermore baed on he newly developed GIS Sraegy1048627 or MSF-CH (ee

alo 3 Sraegi )

Thi ae sudy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo miion

to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny reone and

furhering he sraegi goal defined in he GIS Sraegy The finding ohi ae sudy are baed on oral and writen inerview wih 11 MSFCarONG

eam member who were eiher baed in Guinea or a headquarer i ialo baed on he end-o-miion repor by he GIS offier himel

Geographi Informaion Sysem (GIS)

The erm GIS in hi ae sudy enompae any ue of geographial

informaion or map ranging from he bai ue of map in he field o he

ue o Global Poiioning Sysem (GPS) remoe ening (aellie imagery)

and all kind of geo-referened informaion (loaion of paien pariular

inrasrucure e)

(ee Typology o GIS Appliaion GIS Sudy)

1048625ldquoSae o ar and opporuniie uing Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSFrdquo (983090983088983089983091) ndash reerred o a ldquoGIS

Sudyrdquo in hi doumen

1048626GIS-Sudy p 983091983092

1048627ldquoDevelopmen o he Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSF-CHrdquo (983090983088983089983092) - reerred o a ldquoGIS Sraegyrdquo

in hi doumen

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983089983090 MSF CH GIS UNIT

Analying GIS daa and produing deailed opial map i a ehnial killha i no readily available wihin MSF To explore he ue o GIS and o build

apaiy wihin he organiaion MSF-CH igned a ramework agreemenwih he Frenh NGO CarONG in lae 2013In addiion o building and mainaining ehnial inrasrucure or MSF-CH

hi agreemen inlude remoe mapping uppor a well a he proviionof CarONG saff embedded in MSF field miion The member of he

MSF GIS uni wear wo ha on he one hand hey are par o he inernalMSF-CH srucure and on he oher hand hey are employee of an

exernal ervie provider

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Introducion

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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Overview of GIS Producs used

983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Overview of GIS Producs used

Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

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Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

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This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983091

Strategi Objecives

983091983091

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

1

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Logisic Department

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983097

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

INTRODUCTION

983089983089 BACKGROUND

In Marh 2014 viral haemorrhagi broke ou in ouhern Guinea near heiy o Gueacutekeacutedou The viru wa quikly idenified a Ebola haemorrhagiever and Meacutedein San Froniegravere (MSF) deployed a eam o ais heexising programme saff wih he reone MSF Swizerland (MSF-CH)

ha been running a malaria programme in he area ine 2010

In uppor of he epidemiologial eam MSF-CH deployed a dediaedGeographi Inormaion Sysem (GIS) offier While MSF saff have beenuing map and GIS ehnology or many year he ue o dediaed GISsaff in he field i sill very unommon

The deiion o end a dediaed GIS offier o Guinea wa inormed bya sudy1048625 on he ue o GIS wihin MSF whih had idenified1048626 epidemiologya ldquohe domain where GIS an bring he mos poiive evoluionrdquo I waurhermore baed on he newly developed GIS Sraegy1048627 or MSF-CH (ee

alo 3 Sraegi )

Thi ae sudy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo miion

to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny reone and

furhering he sraegi goal defined in he GIS Sraegy The finding ohi ae sudy are baed on oral and writen inerview wih 11 MSFCarONG

eam member who were eiher baed in Guinea or a headquarer i ialo baed on he end-o-miion repor by he GIS offier himel

Geographi Informaion Sysem (GIS)

The erm GIS in hi ae sudy enompae any ue of geographial

informaion or map ranging from he bai ue of map in he field o he

ue o Global Poiioning Sysem (GPS) remoe ening (aellie imagery)

and all kind of geo-referened informaion (loaion of paien pariular

inrasrucure e)

(ee Typology o GIS Appliaion GIS Sudy)

1048625ldquoSae o ar and opporuniie uing Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSFrdquo (983090983088983089983091) ndash reerred o a ldquoGIS

Sudyrdquo in hi doumen

1048626GIS-Sudy p 983091983092

1048627ldquoDevelopmen o he Geographi Inormaion Sysem in MSF-CHrdquo (983090983088983089983092) - reerred o a ldquoGIS Sraegyrdquo

in hi doumen

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983089983090 MSF CH GIS UNIT

Analying GIS daa and produing deailed opial map i a ehnial killha i no readily available wihin MSF To explore he ue o GIS and o build

apaiy wihin he organiaion MSF-CH igned a ramework agreemenwih he Frenh NGO CarONG in lae 2013In addiion o building and mainaining ehnial inrasrucure or MSF-CH

hi agreemen inlude remoe mapping uppor a well a he proviionof CarONG saff embedded in MSF field miion The member of he

MSF GIS uni wear wo ha on he one hand hey are par o he inernalMSF-CH srucure and on he oher hand hey are employee of an

exernal ervie provider

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Introducion

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

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w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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983089983090 MSF CH GIS UNIT

Analying GIS daa and produing deailed opial map i a ehnial killha i no readily available wihin MSF To explore he ue o GIS and o build

apaiy wihin he organiaion MSF-CH igned a ramework agreemenwih he Frenh NGO CarONG in lae 2013In addiion o building and mainaining ehnial inrasrucure or MSF-CH

hi agreemen inlude remoe mapping uppor a well a he proviionof CarONG saff embedded in MSF field miion The member of he

MSF GIS uni wear wo ha on he one hand hey are par o he inernalMSF-CH srucure and on he oher hand hey are employee of an

exernal ervie provider

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Introducion

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983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

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a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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Overview of GIS Producs used

A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983089

Introducion

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983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Overview of GIS Producs used

Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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Logisic Department

In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

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1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

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Sources

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Overview of GIS Producs used

Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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Logisic Department

In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

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KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

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HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

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BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

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Secteur 3

Tribune

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Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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983090 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS USED FOR THEEBOLA RESPONSE

The GIS offier wa deployed early on in he reone o he Ebola oubreak

in Guinea The firs MSF eam arrived in Gueacutekeacutedou on 19 Marh 2014 andhe GIS offier arrived hree day laer and sayed unil 15 May 2014 Himiion had originally been planned or our week bu wa exended onhe reques by field oordinaion

During he eigh-week miion he GIS offier produed 109 map Abou

a quarer of hee were reaed a a reul of reques from differenehnial deparmen in he field he res were baed on hi own iniiaiveand experie

The GIS offier benefied from he fac ha he Gueacutekeacutedou offie ha a

relaively fas inerne onnecion1048628 While ome of he map ould alo

have been produed wihou inerne ae having a good onnecion

ignifianly inreaed he range of produc ha he GIS offier ould

produe hank o ae o online ool and daa and remoe uppor

rom he GIS Uni

Whils he GIS offier wa offiially atahed o he epidemiologial eamhe alo produed map for he wider MSF eam In fac he GIS offier

esimaed ha he only en abou 10 per en of hi ime on map ha

were reaed eifially or he epidemiologial eam Abou 60 per eno hi ime wa en on produing map ha were o ue o all uni (baemap village idenifiaion) and abou 30 per en wa en on map orhe logisi and Waer Hygiene and Saniaion (WHS) eam

The laifiaion of he GIS produc deribed below follow he one

ued in he GIS sudy

1048628 Tes howed download eed beween 983088983092983093 and 983088983096983089 Mbp and upload eed beween 983088983091983095 and

983088983091983097 Mbp or one uer on hared onnecion

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

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Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

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A

B

B

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C

D

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E

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This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

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Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

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Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Table 1 Map o Gueacutekeacutedou preecure beore and a he end o he GISoffier miion

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

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Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

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Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

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Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

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Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

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Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

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Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

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Commanyada

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Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

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plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

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Logisic Department

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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983090983089 GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION

Sine epidemiologial daa wa no available when he GIS offier arrived(ee alo 22 Epidemiology) he iniially oued on produing bae mapo he region and i mos imporan own

A ha poin only very bai map exised o he preecure o Gueacutekeacutedouwhih had been idenified a he main field loaion or he Ebola reoneExising map lised main own loaion one major road and alo inluded

low-qualiy paper-drawn iy map (ee Table 1)

A firs bae map of he region had been produed remoely by he GIS

uni immediaely before he deploymen baed on informaion ha wa

available in online daabae However hee proved o be only parially

aurae

One inerviewee ommened ha i wa urpriing ha beter map wereno available onidering ha MSF-CH ha been working in he region orhree year and ha been preeded by MSF Belgium Anoher aid ha apoor sae o mapping wa quie ommon in many operaion deie he

year-on-year preene o humaniarian organiaion

Base maps are map howing a bae layer o inormaion Addiional layer

o inormaion an hen be added Common example o bae map inlude

opographial map relie map and road map

Village loalizaion

One he bigges hallenge he eam aed wa ha he name o manyvillage were unknown There were alo numerou village wih imilar or

idenial name For example he village name lsquoBendoursquo exis 14 imewihin he prefecure Thi wa hugely problemai a he eam had o

rely heavily on paien inerview o deide where o inervene Error in

idenifying loaion an lead o delay and a wase of reoure and

in an environmen where MSF vehile are no welome everywhere

unneeary rip o wrong loaion an expoe saff o addiional rik The bae map produed by he GIS offier were a oluion o hee iue

Wih he help o he map and a daabae o all idenified village namehe GIS offier wa quikly able o ideniy he exac loaion o village andwheher he name exised more han oneIdeniying village name wa omparaively reoure inenive ine i had

o be done on he ground In many ae loal saff had o vii village oonfirm name and ake GPS oordinae

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Logisic Department

T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Logisic Department

Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

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Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

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C

D

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E

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This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

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Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

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Silikidou

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Bakary 3

Bakary 2

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Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

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Logisic Department

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Logisic Department

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Logisic Department

T a b l e

2 I n i i a l m a p p i n g o h r e e c i i e a c o m p l e e d b y

h e O S M v

o l u n e e r w i h i n

h r e e d a y

V o l u n e e r c

o n i n u e d o

w o r k

o n m a p o h e r e g i o n e v e n a f e r h a p e r i o d ( e e i m

a g e b o t o m r

i g h )

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Overview of GIS Producs used

Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Logisic Department

Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Overview of GIS Producs used

Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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Overview of GIS Producs used

A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Overview of GIS Producs used

Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

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983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Where poible saff who were viiing an area for oher reaon were

aked o veriy name bu requenly loal saff had o be en ou in aror on moorbike o eifially arry ou hi ak A he heigh of he

loalizaion aciviie five loal saff member en a leas ome o heirime on verifying village name hree permanen saff a well a wo

emporary saff member whom he GIS offier had hired or hi purpoe

All inerviewee menioned ha knowing wih onfidene ha hey were

ending heir eam o he righ loaion ignifianly improved heir abiliy

o arge heir aciviie effecively

One reonden alo emphaized ha in oher emergenie ehnial saff

had o ry and ideniy he name and loaion o village or example wihhe help o Google Earh Thi requenly had o be done a nigh afer a

long day o arrying ou regular duie Having a dediaed GIS offier inhe field had a hree-old benefi i inreaed he auray o he reulreuled in more uer-riendly map and aved ime or programme saff

Mapping Road Village amp Building

In order o quikly ge more deailed map of iie and major road in

he region he GIS Uni deided o rowdoure hi ak Through he

voluneer of he Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) aellie

image ha had been aquired by MSF-CH were quikly urned ino

digial map hosed on OpenSreeMap Three prioriy iie (GueacutekeacutedouMaena and Kiidougou) were mapped in le han hree day Wihinfive day 244 voluneer had mapped more han 90000 building

Many inerviewee ommened ha hey were lsquoamazedrsquo by he eed a

whih he area wa mapped wih he help o he voluneer On hi own heGIS offier would no have been able o produe hee bae map duringhi miion

OpenSreeMap (OSM) ndash wwwopensreemaporg

OpenSreeMap i ofen reerred o a he ldquoWikipedia o Maprdquo a anybodyan make hange o he map online OSM daa i mainained by voluneer

and releaed under an open oure liene In many developing ounrieOSM map are more deailed han Google map beaue Google ha noommerial inenive o improve i map in hee ounrie

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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Overview of GIS Producs used

A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

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MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Logisic Department

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Humaniarian OpenSreeMap Team (HOT) ndash hoopensreemaporg

HOT i a group of OSM voluneer ha ac a an inerfae beween

humaniarian organiaion and he OSM voluneer nework a a whole

Humaniarian organiaion an end mapping reques o HOT whih

hen manage he voluneer reonding o he reques Thi redue heworkload or he requesing organiaion HOT alo uncion a firs-leveluppor or all ehnial quesion while he requesing organiaion hao be able o anwer quesion abou he projec iel

The bae map ha were reaed wih he help o he OSF voluneeralo erved a he foundaion of many oher map In fac many of he

inernal MSF map ha were reaed by he GIS offier ould no have been

produed wihou hee bae map

The OSM voluneer alo idenified ome village on he aellie imageha had previouly no been menioned on map a all Thi proe eddirecly ino he village loalizaion workflow (ee 21 Village loalizaion)

Irsquo imporan o noe ha hee bae map onained no eniiveor paien inormaion and were limied o road name o villagelandmark e MSF eam ould hare hem ndash digially or on paper ndash wihoher humaniarian organiaion and loal auhoriie Thi wa grealy

appreiaed and helped build relaionhip wih wider sakeholder

Engaging he Voluneer and Teh Communiy (VampTC)

Mos online voluneer onribue heir ime and experie beaue heywan o make a differene The flipide of hi i ha hey alo expec

feedbak on how heir work i being ued and how heir onribuion

helped ndash hi i he ldquopaymenrdquo hey reeive in exhange or heir ervie

Some reonden aid hey were urpried hey had o provide hi kindo eedbak and were alo upried ha HOT had ommuniaed publilyabou heir involvemen whih reuled in ignifian media overage

Some inerviewee alo fel ha he mediarsquo fou on rowdoured

mapping almos disraced rom he lie-aving work being arried ou byhe medial saff

In he uure MSF hould diu uh iue wih HOT in order o esablih

a e o proedure and manage expecaion or example o define heype and frequeny of feedbak he exen of publi ommuniaion a

well a when he ak ha been ompleed (deacivaion)

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Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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Logisic Department

F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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Overview of GIS Producs used

A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Logisic Department

Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983088

MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Chapter 983091

Strategi Objecives

983091983089

983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983091

Strategi Objecives

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Logisic Department

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Logisic Department

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

Mapki

The GIS offier produed a ldquoMapkirdquo ha inluded he mos imporan bae

map a well a opial map Thi ollecion o 10ndash12 map wa given oall inoming saff a par o heir briefing on arrival Thee briefing werealo an imporan opporuniy or he GIS offier o explain hi role a mossaff member were no amiliar wih i

983090983090 EPIDEMIOLOGY

Deie he fac ha he GIS offier wa ldquoatahedrdquo o he epidemiology

eam he en omparaively litle ime working on produc dediaed

olely o epidemiology The main reaon or hi wa ha mos map hadro-uting ue The map howing he weekly evoluion o ae i he

example ha wa mos ofen ied by inerviewee (ee Figure 2)

A oon a epidemiologial daa beame available he GIS offier saredo produe weekly updae o Ebola hoo ha howed boh he number

of new ae in he previou week a well a he oal number of ae

ine he beginning of he epidemi Thi weekly viual overview wa

appreiaed by all he field and headquarer saff who were inerviewedA one reonden pu i ldquoTha map ranlaed he ienifi ino he

operaionalrdquo

Sine he end o he GIS offierrsquo miion hee map have oninued obe produed remoely by he MSF-CH GIS uni

One o he ew GIS produc ha wa produed olely or he epidemiologyeam wa a Google Earh layer howing palm ree deniy loe o he

ueced poin o he oubreakrsquo origin Thi helped he epidemiologises heir hypohei ha ba living in erain ype o palm migh havebeen he oure raher han ba living in ave

The palm ree deniy map wa reaed by Coperniu1048629 an emergeny

mapping ervie provided by he European Commiion wih pariularlysrong analyial apaiy A an aoiaed uer MSF wa able o end areques o Coperniu whih ompleed he analyi wihin 24 hour baed

on exising aellie image (o alled ruh-mode)

One o he onsrain ha he GIS offier had o deal wih wa ha regularepidemiologial daa only beame available from mid-April onward On

he oher hand hi enabled him o iniially ou on bae map and imilar

produc ha were ueul or all uni

1048629See htpemergenyoperniueumappingemwha-operniu

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

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Logisic Department

F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

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Yende Gnama

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Nafa

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Sandia

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B

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C

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on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

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Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

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MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

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KouraKoura

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GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

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Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

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Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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F i g u r e 2 R e g u l a r l y u p d a e m

a p l i k e h e e h e l p e d s a ff u n d e r s a n d h e i u a i o n b e t e r

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A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Recommendations

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983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

A he ame ime here i alo reaon o believe ha he res of he

epidemiology eam would have been able o ake beter advanage o heGIS offierrsquo kill i he had a wih he res o he eam One reaon or hiphyial eparaion wa ha he A3 olour priner wa no in he buildingwhere he epidemiology eam wa baed bu wa loaed wih oordinaion

and logisi

However he GIS offier alo fel srongly ha a leas a he beginning

here wa a lak o rus in hi abiliy o operae onfidenially beaue heGIS uni i managed hrough an exernal ervie provider I wa no learo everyone wheher he GIS offier wa a member o MSF-CH or CarONG

saff However when aked abou hee pereived iue when inerviewed

member o he epidemiology eam aid ha here were no rus iue

Whihever i he ae in uure i would be helpul o ommuniae he roleand he poiion o he GIS uni more learly a par o MSF-CH in order oavoid hee real or pereived iue Among oher hing hi mean haGIS offier hould ue an MSF e-mail addre

983090983091 REPORTING amp COMMUNICATION

All inerviewee ommened poiively on he ranformaive funcion

of map ha manage o ranlae daa ha exis in readhee ino

omehing viual ha an be undersood more eaily Thi applie o bohhe geographi and he emporal dimenion o map when muliple mapan how hange over ime

The mos ueful produc in ha reec wa he weekly napho of

new and oal Ebola ae (ee 22 Epidemiology) Boh field-baed and

headquarer-baed saff remarked ha having hee map helped hemundersand he iuaion beter and headquarer in pariular appreiaed

ha i provided hem wih a quik overview

983090983092 POPULATION COUNT amp MOVEMENTS

Unlike in loed eting he movemen of individual were oo

unpredicable o be mapped Thi mean ha geographi inormaion ould

no be ued o ry o oreas he read o he dieae Thi mean ha GIS

wa only an analyial reacive ool raher han a predicive one a mighbe he ae in oher emergenie uh a Cholera

While GIS ould no help o predic where new ae migh our i waueul in ideniying area ha hould be prioriized or healh promoionaciviie baed on populaion deniy

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Overview of GIS Producs used

Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Recommendations

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983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Figure 3 Populaion deniy map like hee an help prioriize area oinervenion or healh promoion or oureah aciviie

GuineaMadina

Gnoumoulou

GueckedouLele

Nongolo

Balladou

Nyalenko

Waouto

Sokoro

Kisseneye

Kango

Yendenin

MacentaKoura

Hermankono

Gbangbaissa

Farako

Mangalla

Bambo

Bafilanben

Carriere

Sandia

Boyada

Ecole(Bambo)

BalladouCentre

Sokouranin

Bambo Centre

Banbino

BandaBengou 1

BandaBengou 2

Bandallo

Bellevue

Bendou-Bengou

BernardTogbodouno

Bomdodou

Boyada 2

Boyada 3

Boyada 1

Carriere 1(mosquee)

MacentaEcole

Energie

EtienneKamano

FarakoEcole

Farako Woya

Farako Pharmacie

Gbangbaissa 1

Gbangbaissa 2

Gbangbaissa 3

Gkd Lele

Cente

Wakoma

Gnalenko 3

Gnalenko 2

Gnalenko 1

Gbelendalla

Karamo Yolla

Yoro Keita

Horofelo

Houidou

Houndoba

KaramokoKourouma

Kagbadou 1

Kagbadou 2

Kamallo 1

Kamallo 2

Kango 1

Kango 2

Kouake

Koumbidou

Kounandou

Koyata

KwameKourouma

Madina 3

Madina 1Madina 2

Mangalla 1

Mangalla 2

Marche

Massadou

Missirra

MacentaMosquee

Mosquee

Nongolo Centre

Peyembou

Sandia Pharmacie

Poobengou

Sayllannin

Solondonin 1Solondonin 2

TambaYaradou

Tokowo

Tongoma

TP

Villa

Waouto2

Woya Hermankono

Waouto 1

Yaradou 1

Yaradou 2

Yedenin 2

Yedenin 3

Yedenin 1

Yende Gnama

GueckedouLele Centre

Nafa

Hafia

Sandia

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

This map is for information purposes only and has no political significanceThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used

on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by MSF

Borders Administrative levels GADM Diva-gisRoads OSM

Places GeonamesHydrography NaturalEarth

Document Name GIN_Gueckedou_DensityDate 01042014Realised by CartONG for MSF-CHPrint dimensions ISO A3 size 0 1 2

Km

Leacutegende

Densiteacute (habcarreacute)

0 - 8080 - 200

200 - 500

500 - 800

800 - 1219

Route principale

Route secondaire Autre route

Limite des quartiers

Batiments

Riviegravere

plusmn

1 carreacute 250 x 250m soit 62500 msup2 soit 00625 kmsup2

Sources

Gueckedou - Guineacutee - Densiteacute de population

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Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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Logisic Department

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Logisic Department

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

Thi inormaion alo helped ae poenial euriy rik ine eamworking in rowded area an be more vulnerable pariularly where hepopulaion i inhoiable

The populaion deniy map (ee Figure 3) were produed baed on hefield eamrsquo knowledge o average amily ize and a oun o building ha

had been mapped by he OSM voluneer

A hee map ould be eaily produed remoely hey were reaed by

he GIS uni

Reacive veru predicive ue o GIS

Sine Ebola i read rom human-o-human and beaue people in heaffeced region are highly mobile GIS ould no help o predic where

new ae migh our However populaion deniy map were able o

ideniy area ha hould be prioriized or oureah and healh promoionaciviie In emergenie where he read o he epidemi an be moreeaily modelled ndash uh a Cholera - GIS ould alo be ued o predic where

new ae migh appear

983090983093 ACTIVITY PLANNING

Inerviewee from all ehnial deparmen aid ha he dediaed

mapping uppor provided by he GIS offier helped hem perform heir

ak more quikly Even eemingly mall hing ould make a differene a

healh promoer or example emphaized ha having a map on one heeo paper ha howed he exac area where he eam wa working ha daywa muh eaier han having larger map ha were read over muliplehee Being field-baed he GIS offier wa able o ulfil imple requeslike hee on he fly

Logisi

The logisi deparmen benefied rom he GIS offierrsquo aciviie hrough

a wide range of produc The improved road map for example helped

he logisiian know who wa working where and allowed hem o limi

he number o movemen and ar o he bare minimum Thi wa aloignifian rom a euriy poin o view

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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Overview of GIS Producs used

A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Annex

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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In addiion he GIS offier produed he following map for he logisi

deparmenbull Disane mapbull Map wih main inervenion poin or MSFbull Map or helioper landing areabull Preipiaion mapbull A grid ysem or improved radio ommuniaion

Irsquo worh noing here ha he logisi eam leader wa a rained geologisand wa hereore probably more aware o he apabiliie o GIS

Coordinaion

The oordinaor mainly benefited from he map ha howed he

loaion of he differen MSF aciviie In he sraegy meeing he alo

ook advanage o he village loalizaion in order o plan aciviie ogeherwih he head o he ehnial deparmen Alhough he GIS offier i no

par o he field oordinaion mehanim he wa normally preen duringhee meeing in order o upply geographi inormaion when needed

A diued he GIS offier en a large par o hi ime reaing mapha were of ommon ue o all uni and uppored heir planning and

oordinaion a ome level Some reonden hereore el ha he GISoffier hould no be atahed o he epidemiology eam bu o logisi or

oordinaion However here wa no onenu on hi and he oordinaorel srongly ha a GIS offier hould no be an addiional direc repor ohim and hould remain atahed o a ehnial uni imilar o he srucurea HQ where GIS i hosed by he ehnial uppor o operaion uni

Seuriy

During a euriy iniden he GIS offier wa able o how he loaion omoving MSF saff on a map He alo reaed a onfidenial pos-inidenmap o help wih he analyi of he iniden Following he iniden he

reaed a e o dediaed euriy map ha howed no-go area MSFae and evauaion roue

Medial

The GIS offier alo produed deailed inerior map of he wo iolaion

ward Thi wa helpful for saff working in he ward a he peronal

proecive equipmen made ommuniaion diffiul

Building-level map amp sigma

A menioned previouly he bae map available hrough he OSM

ollaboraion were available a building-level granulariy a leas in he

hree main iie of he affeced area However he uni did no require

hi level o deail or heir work and inerviewee univerally aid ha hiwa probably he leas relevan aec o he map or hem

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Overview of GIS Producs used

A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

983091983089

983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Strategi Objecives

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

A a es ae he GIS offier produed a e of building-level map o

ee wheher hey ould help he waer and aniaion eam ideniy morequikly hoe home ha needed o be diinfeced On hee map he

houe o be rayed were learly marked However afer onidering heamoun o sigma ha i atahed o Ebola i wa deemed oo riky o uehee map afer hi iniial rial due o onern ha hey migh ge losduring field rip and end up in unauhorized hand Insead he eam

oninued o rely on GPS poin alone ine hee are harder or ouidero inerpre

Nowihsanding hee onern many reonden menioned ha

building-level map ould poenially be very ueul boh or analyi andaciviy planning in oher enario

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Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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Overview of GIS Producs used

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Logisic Department

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

983091983089

983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Logisic Department

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

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Logisic Department

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Logisic Department

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Logisic Department

Table 3 Page 28 o 31 - Urban sree map wih landmark Iolaion ward Road Disane map Helipad

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

983091983089

983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Strategi Objecives

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Logisic Department

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Logisic Department

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Annex

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Logisic Department

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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Logisic Department

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983090

Overview of GIS Producs used

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Logisic Department

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

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983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Logisic Department

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Logisic Department

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Annex

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Logisic Department

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MSF

DPS

Prefecture

Hopital Prefectoral

Isolation

Stade

Plan Guinee

MissionPhilafricaine

KamadouKamadou

CityCity

MacentaMacenta

KouraKoura

BouzieBouzie

Bowa 2Bowa 2

Bowa 1Bowa 1

KamadouKamadou

KouraKoura

MohammedVMohammedV

HermankonoHermankono

PatricePatrice

BanizeBanize

MoilaminidouMoilaminidou

ZezebokuniMadinaZezebokuniMadina

BamalaBamala

GnoumamoridoGnoumamorido

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Tribune

Bakaridou

Woulaninkoma

Commanyada

Bouzie

Centre

Gare

Waziama

Bereghebezou

Silikidou

Game

WebagalaMouktar

Secteur2

Bakary 3

Bakary 2

Secteur

Kaissadou

Secteur

Centrede Sante

Konimai

DjegbedouKekouradou

Fansankoni

TP

Bamala

Centre

Bamala Plateau Gnomamoridou

Koura

Zimodou

HopitalSte-Therese

Gnoumamoridou Centre

Plaine

Secteur 1

Secteur 2

Secteur 3

Secteur

MissionCatholique

Bas-Fond

Patrice

Centre

copy OpenStreetMap (and) contributors CC-BY-SA

Legende

Reperes

GF DPS

G Hopital Prefectoral

GF MSF

Isolation

Autres labels

Secteurs et lieux-dits

Secteurs

Routes

Route principale

Route secondaire

Autre route Piste

Batiments

Batiments

plusmnToponymie MSF-CH OSM

Routes Naturel Bati OSMZonages MSF-CH

DPS Macenta

Sources

Nom de documentSecteursMacentaCentre_A3LDate 03042014

Produit par GIS Field Officer CartONG pour MSF-CH

Impression ISO A3 size

Secteurs et lieux-dits - quartiers et peripherie de Macenta - Sud

0 400200

metres

Les quartiers delimites sur cette cartecorrespondent aux quartiers operationnels

MSF 2014 Ils different des zonagesadministratifs usuels

Cette carte est a usage informatif

uniquement Les limites et noms employesnimpliquent pas une reconnaissanceofficielle de la part de MSF Informationspatiale presentee sous toute reserve de

disponibilite et de fiabilite

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Strategi Objecives

983091983089

983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

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983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Recommendations

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983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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Logisic Department

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Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

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983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Annex

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Strategi Objecives

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983091 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

The deiion o deploy a dediaed GIS offier wa baed on he newly

developed GIS Sraegy or MSF-CH whih define our organiaion-widesraegi objecive

Promoe he ue of map and oher GIS produc in he organiaion

Prior o hi miion mos reonden did no know how a field-baed

GIS offier ould effecively uppor hem in he onex of an evolving

emergeny reone in pariular during he oubreak of an epidemi

While all inerviewee were aware of he imporane of map in generalhey did no realize how quikly a field baed GIS offier ould produe

deailed usomized and opial map ha direcly uppored heir work Ii reommended ha MSF-CH doe more o eduae saff abou he range

o GIS produc and he ype o uppor ha he GIS uni and field-baedGIS offier an provide However i wa alo lear ha mos reondenel ha eeing GIS in acion in he field wa wha onvined hem and haa preenaion a headquarer would have had ar le impac

All field baed MSF-saff emphaized ha in addiion o hi ehnial killi wa alo he GIS offierrsquo peronal ommuniaion kill and atiude ha

helped promoe he ue o GIS in he eam

Conolidae exising GIS apaiy in MSF

The GIS uni provided uppor o he field-baed GIS offier for ak

ha ould be done remoely Thi inluded uppor o produe map for

preipiaion ehniiy and populaion deniy Sine he GIS offierrsquo

miion ha ended he GIS uni ha produed he weekly napho o newae remoely

Enure good apaiy o hare informaion wihin MSF-CH and

poenially aro he organiaion

Aording o all inerviewee map haring worked very well in he field

offie MSF saff a headquarer alo el ha hey reeived he map heyneeded or heir work A he ame ime reonden menioned ha herewa very litle awarene o he map in Conakry and ha hey only oundou abou hee map when viiing Gueacutekeacutedou One of he reaon for

hi migh be ha he urren ysem or haring map i hrough an FTP

erver ha i no uer-riendly and via e-mail

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983096

Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983088

Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

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983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Logisic Department

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A new web-baed lsquoMap Cenrersquo wa launhed in July 20141048630 One inerviewee

uggesed ha hi map enre hould have muliple layer o ae Thaway map ha do no onain eniive inormaion ould be hared moreeaily wih oher sakeholder while eniive daa ould remain inernaland be proeced by an addiional paword or ome

Enure pariipaion and apaiy-building wihin he organiaion

In he beginning he GIS offier had o proacively ideniy area where heould add he mos value Thi wa largely baed on onveraion he hadwih oher MSF saff in he field a well a on hi own knowledge Thi mean

ha hoe uni ha were haring more deail abou heir work were morelikely o benefi rom hi uppor

A saff beame more familiar wih GIS hey sared o reques eifi

produc more ofen By he end o he miion he GIS offier had reeived16 reques or eifi map ome o whih onised o muliple mapMos reques ame rom he logisi deparmen ha inlude he WHSecor

The GIS offier rained our loal saff on GPS and provided inernaionalsaff wih a bai inroducion on reques To furher build apaiy ha

remain in-ounry he epidemiology reearh aisan wa rained in

bai GIS ool A he end o he miion all GIS maerial were handed

over o saff from he MSF-CH malaria projec ha ha been acive inGueacutekeacutedou ine 2010 The GIS uni oninue o uppor he Gueacutekeacutedoufield eam remoely

1048630mapenremorg

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Chapter 983091

Strategi Objecives

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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Logisic Department

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983096

Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Recommendations

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983088

Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983090

983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983091

Strategi Objecives

983091983091

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Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

1

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983094

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

1

I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

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4

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6

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983096

Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983097

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983088

Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983090

983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4646

Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983092

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983094

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

1

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2

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983096

Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983088

Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983090

983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Annex

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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Logisic Department

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Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983092

Conclusion amp Discussion

983091983093

983092 CONCLUSION amp DISCUSSION

bull All inerviewee emphaized ha he GIS offier wa able o add

ignifian value o he operaion

bull Beyond he general noion ha map are ueful here i very litle

awarene of wha a GIS offier an do and how quikly new and

opial map an be produed Thi lak o knowledge lead o heaumpion ha map producion i ompliaed and mos saff would

never hink of requesing usom map Seeing he GIS offier in

he field hanged hi perepion Many inerviewee ommenedha hey were ldquoamazed by he eedrdquo wih whih he map were

produed

bull Conidering ha mos MSF saff did no know how he GIS offier

ould uppor hem i wa eenial or him o be a el-sarer Unilhe poin where GIS i widely known wihin he organiaion GIS fieldsaff hould be parly eleced baed on hi atribue

bull The bae map and he loalizaion o village were univerally eena he mos ueul oupu

bull The fac ha he GIS offier en he majoriy of hi ime working

wih he oordinaion and logisi eam raie he quesion

wheher he GIS offier hould be par o he epidemiology eam orno Reonden had differen opinion on he mater However heoordinaor el srongly ha he GIS offier hould be wih a ehnial

deparmen and hould no be an addiional direc repor

bull Inerviewee had differen perepion on wheher he GIS offier wa

aeped a par o he eam rom he beginning o he reone orwheher he wa iniially onidered o be an exernal ervie providerWha i lear i ha he GIS offier managed o overome hee

reervaion during hi miion Clearer ommuniaion explainingha GIS uni saff are par o MSF-CH would be helpul

bull One reonden idenified knowledge managemen a one of he

hallenge o making GIS produc usainable While ueful ool

exis on he inrane mos saff donrsquo know abou hem Howeverhi i an overall organiaional hallenge raher han one ha i

eifially relaed o he GIS uni

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983094

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

1

I nt r o

d u ci on

2

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983096

Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983088

Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983090

983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983094

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

1

I nt r o

d u ci on

2

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er v i ew

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983096

Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983097

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983088

Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983090

983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4646

Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983095

983093 RECOMMENDATIONS

General

bull Headquarer hould deploy dediaed GIS saff o he field more

ofen in onex where direc onac wih field operaion add realvalue and where loe and imely monioring of he read of an

epidemi i eenial Sine GIS i sill relaively litle undersood

i i unlikely ha field saff will reques a GIS offier Thi proe

hereore need be driven by headquarer

bull Deie he ac ha MSF had been operaional in he affeced regionfor year bae map of aepable qualiy did no exis Given he

uefulne of hee map MSF hould idenify urren area of

operaion where he organiaion expec o oninue o work and

ry o produe bae map or hee area A ubsanial par o hiwork an be done remoely by he GIS uni hrough he new onlineMap Cenre

bull Phyial proximiy inreae informaion exhange formal and

inormal ommuniaion and eamwork Where poible GIS offier

hould hare he ae wih he uni ha need heir ervie mosThi an alo mean ha GIS offier roae depending on where GISan add he mos value depending on he phae of he operaion

Thi i independen o he quesion o line managemen

bull In an area wih poor map good map are valuable o all sakeholder

Where poible eam hould ake prined opie o bae map omeeing wih loal governmen offiial and oher NGO Thi anhelp build relaion a leas in non-onflic area In onflic area he

goodwill ha an be generaed by haring map ha o be weighedagains he rik ha GIS ehnology ould be misaken a ying

Human reoure

bull People kill and a elf-sarer menaliy are a leas a imporan

or he aepane o hi new role a he ehnial kill Unil GISi beter undersood GIS offier need o be advoae a muh aervie provider Reruimen hould ake hi ino aoun

1

I nt r o

d u ci on

2

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983096

Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4046

Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983097

1

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d u ci on

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er v i ew

of

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6

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983088

Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

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5

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6

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983090

983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

C on

l u

i on

amp Di

u i on

5

R e omm

en d at i on

6

A nn

ex

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4546

GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4646

Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983091983096

Organiaional

bull The GIS uni hould inreae awarene of i ervie during

raining for field saff eiher prior o deploymen or when field saff

ome o headquarer or raining and diuion

bull There are indiaion ha he dual ideniy of he GSI uni ndash par of

MSF-CH bu alo an exernal NGO ndash aued ome onfuion The

unirsquo role and inernal branding need o be beter ommuniaed

Among oher hing he GIS uni hould ue an MSF e-mail addreno hoe o CarONG Thi would alo help oher MSF saff find heGIS uni in he inernal e-mail addre book GIS uni saff hould begiven guidane on how o preen he GIS uni inernally and exernally

bull MSF hould oninue o ake advanage of rowdouring for he

reaion of bae map To failiae hi proe he GIS uni on

behal o MSF-CH hould engage in a dialogue wih he Humaniarian

OpenSreeMap eam o beter define he expecaion from boh

ide Iue o over inlude he availabiliy o GIS uni saff o anwer

quesion and provide feedbak publi ommuniaion and a how

o ormally end he ooperaion one he reques ha been ulfilled(deacivaion) Any diuion hould involve a leas he GIS uni

and he publi inormaion eam

Infrasrucurebull While inerne ae i no eenial for all aec of he work of

he GIS offier many map an only be produed wih uffiien

bandwidh Lak of a good onnecion alo mean ha remoe

uppor beome diffiul or even impoible

bull The GIS offier hould download all available map daa or he area oroperaion beore deploying a he inerne onnecion migh be oolow - or very expenive o ue - or large file raner

bull GIS offier hould deploy wih a dediaed A3 olour priner (a a

minimum ize) a well a ink arridge While A2 i beter or omemap A3 deliver he bes ompromie beween perormane andweigh Before deploying he GIS uni hould evaluae wheher A2

and A1 map an be produed elewhere in he ounry

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983097

1

I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

C on

l u

i on

amp Di

u i on

5

R e omm

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6

A nn

ex

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983088

Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

C on

l u

i on

amp Di

u i on

5

R e omm

en d at i on

6

A nn

ex

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983090

983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

C on

l u

i on

amp Di

u i on

5

R e omm

en d at i on

6

A nn

ex

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4546

GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4646

Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983093

Recommendations

983091983097

1

I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

C on

l u

i on

amp Di

u i on

5

R e omm

en d at i on

6

A nn

ex

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4146

GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983088

Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4246

Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

C on

l u

i on

amp Di

u i on

5

R e omm

en d at i on

6

A nn

ex

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4346

GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983090

983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4446

Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

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5

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6

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4646

Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983088

Headquarer

Bae map a differen reoluion

or Guinea Gueacutekeacutedou Kindia

and adjaen area in Liberia

and Sierra Leone

Guinea Tranor axi

Guinea Land ue map Guinea Foresiegravere Preene o

ave

Orienaion map

Bae map or Gueacutekeacutedou a well a

he border area

Variou road map for area of

operaion

Adminisraive map a preecure level

Terrain map Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Urban sree map inluding

building or differen par o he

iie a well a or he iie a

a whole

Populaion deniy baed on

building oun and differen

houehold ize

Map howing he differen axi of

inervenion inluding road

Disribuion o ehniiie

Loaion o ommuniy healh

worker

Saellie view

Epidemiology

New and oal number o ae

(weekly)

Loaion o deah in February

and Marh

New and updaed hoo Map o palm ree deniy in

MelliandouLogisi and euriy

Road disane map Seuriy map

Pos-iniden mapping of euriy

iniden

Helioper landing area

Plan

Indoor plan o he iolaion ward in Gueacutekeacutedou and Maena

Oher

Map wih new village o ideniy Variou bae map o Conakry

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

C on

l u

i on

amp Di

u i on

5

R e omm

en d at i on

6

A nn

ex

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4346

GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983090

983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4446

Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

C on

l u

i on

amp Di

u i on

5

R e omm

en d at i on

6

A nn

ex

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4546

GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4646

Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983089

983094 ANNEX

983094983089 OVERVIEW OF GIS PRODUCTS

The GIS offier uppored by he GIS uni produed 109 map during heeigh week he wa deployed o Guinea Mos map an be ound in henew Map Cenre mapenremforg

(See able page 40)

983094983090 LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

Name Funcion

Audeoud Jean-Guy GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Annaud Louie Communiaion Offier MSF-CH

Deroo Tom Program Offier LuxembourgOperaional Reearh Uni

Dr Van Herp Mihel Epidemiologis MSF-B

Laha Sarah Communiaion ManagerMSF-CH

Laborderie Sylvie GIS Offier MSF-CH GIS Uni

Lugli Mariano Depuy Direcor o OperaionMSF-CH

Pigue Paal Logisi Team Leader MSF-CH

Soupar Mahieu GIS oal poin Logisi DirecorMSF-CH

Dr Serk Esher Tropial Mediine Reeren HQEmergeny Medial Coordinaor

during 1s phae o he oubreakMSF-CH

Tiffany Amanda Epidemiologis Epienre orMSF-CH

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

C on

l u

i on

amp Di

u i on

5

R e omm

en d at i on

6

A nn

ex

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983090

983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4446

Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

C on

l u

i on

amp Di

u i on

5

R e omm

en d at i on

6

A nn

ex

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4546

GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4646

Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

Page 43: GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4346

GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983090

983094983091 TERMS OF REFERENCE

Time rameMay 20 ndash June 30 2014 (15 day of work)

Cae Sudy o doumen he GIS uppor provided o he MSF emergenyreone operaion o he Ebola rii of Marh 2014 in Guinea

(CONSULTANT)

A Conex

In Marh 2014 ae of haemorrhagi fever were oberved around he

Guekedou region in Guinea Fearing he laer onfirmed poibiliy of

an Ebola oubreak MSF quikly deployed inernaional saff o reondo he poible emergeny During he firs day of he reone before

onfirmaion ha he dieae wa acually Ebola i wa deided ha a GISoffier would be deployed o uppor he medial eam and work loely

ogeher wih he epidemiologis Thi wa he firs ime ha MSF-CH

deployed a GIS exper o he field

The region mos affeced in Guinea had no been mapped previouly AloMSF-CH only sared developing i GIS apaiy le han a year ago heue o ailored map i sill new or he NGO Thi mean everyhing hado be done rom rah during hi emergeny rom mapping he regiono puting ino plae proedure and learning o work wih MSFrsquo alreadyexising proedure and building onfidene over medial daa being ued

by non-medial saff

Beaue MSF wan and need o learn from hi firs GIS Emergeny

Deploymen hi firs deploymen i o be urned ino a ae sudy reviewing

he GIS reone how i wa pereivedreeived by MSF and in whih

onex i hould be repeaed in he uure

B Time Frame

The Conulan hall perorm he ervie or a period o 15 day over heperiod ommening day 20h May 2014 o 30h June 2014

C Oupu and aciviie

In oordinaion wih CarONG projec manager or MSF and MSF oal poin

he ae sudy wrier will ahieve he ollowing aciviie

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4446

Chapter 983094

Annex

983092983091

Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

1 I nt r o

d u ci on

2

Ov

er v i ew

of

GI S P r o

d u c u e d

f or t h eE

b ol aR

e s on

e

3

S t r at

e gi O b j e ci v e

4

C on

l u

i on

amp Di

u i on

5

R e omm

en d at i on

6

A nn

ex

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4546

GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

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Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

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Chapter 983094

Annex

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Aciviy 1 Inerview a lis o peron ha were direcly or indirecly involvedin he GIS reone in Guinea mainly MSF worker CarONGrsquo GIS saffdeployed o Guinea CarONG ehnial saff from HQ and one member

of OSM-FrHOT The name and onac deail of hee peron will be

provided by CarONG

Acivity 2 Wrie a ae sudy on he GIS reone The ae sudy will

need o ake ino aoun he variou aec o hi deploymen bu roma deiion maker poin of view insead of a ehnial poin of view The

purpoe of he doumen i o help he deiion maker undersand he

pro and on o having a field-baed GIS offier and when he organizaion

hould onider deploying one in an emergeny eting baed on he

Guinea experiene Alo he ueulne o he produc ompiled and heapaiy building onduced hould be examined

Repor lengh hould be around 1 page exeuive ummary + repor (5-15)+ annexe (a needed) Report mus follow MSF srucure whih will be

provided o he onulanFormatingLayou will be aken are o by MSF he oupu orma needo differeniae differen level o ile All viual maerial ha need o beinluded hould be provided o MSF in high reoluion

D Qualifiaion and profeional experiene

REQUIRED

Aademi Univeriy degree preferably in oial iene relaed wih

ommuniaion or advoay

Experienebull A leas en year relevan experiene in differen inernaional

organizaion (eg UN agenie INGO IO Donor IFRC or ICRC)

bull Exellen ommuniaion oordinaion and inormaion managemenkill

bull Exenive knowledge o urren humaniarian iue wih a pariularou on onflic-relaed emergenie

bull Experie in planning ormulaion implemenaion monioring andreporing on humaniarian operaion

Core Compeenie

bull Communiaion and oordinaionbull Planning and organizaionbull Judgmen and deiion makingbull Analyial hinkingbull Innovaion and reaiviybull Poliial awarene

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GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4646

Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

Page 45: GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4546

GIS Support for MSF Ebola

Reone in Guinea 2014

MSF-OCG

Logisic Department

983092983092

Language Good knowledge o Englih i eenial Some knowledge oFrenh i a requiremen

DESIRABLE

bull Experiene working in publi relaion reporing or journalimbull Knowledge o layou deign and preenaion ofware

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4646

Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo

Page 46: GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

7172019 GIS Support for the MSF Ebola Response in Guinea_Case Study

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullgis-support-for-the-msf-ebola-response-in-guineacase-study 4646

Meacutedecin San Frontiegravere Suie

In Marh 2014 MSF deployed a dediated Geographi

Information Syem (GIS) offier to Guinea in resone to the

Ebola outbreak In upport of the epidemiologial team the GIS

offier wa harged with produing general overview map a

well a topial map that upported different asec of the

operation

Thi ae udy aim to elaborate whether the GIS offierrsquo

miion to Guinea ha ueeded in upporting the emergeny

resone and furthering the rategi goal defined in the

Strategi Paper ldquoDevelopment of the GIS in MSF-CHrdquo