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About - GMT features

  • About - GMT Features
    • On the operational level
      • Health facilities
      • Settlements
      • Helpers
    • On the monitoring level

Practical User Guide

  • 1. Getting Started
    • 1.1. Purpose
    • 1.2. Access GMT
    • 1.3. Login / Access to data
    • 1.4. Identifying and Downloading a Selected Area of Interest
      • 1.4.1. Download Process
    • 1.5. General UI Overview
      • 1.5.1. Auto-Sync Catchments
  • 2. Managing Health Facility Data
    • 2.1. Review of Health Facility Information
      • 2.1.1. Review Steps
      • 2.1.2. Example Issues Found
      • 2.1.3. Visual Inspection
      • 2.1.4. Filtering Health Facilities
    • 2.2. Viewing and Updating Health Facility Data
      • 2.2.1. Health Facility Services
      • 2.2.2. Adding Staff Members
      • 2.2.3. Outreach Sites Menu
      • 2.2.4. Settlements Menu
      • 2.2.5. Exclusion of Settlements
    • 2.3. Adding a Health Facility
      • 2.3.1. Setting Location
      • 2.3.2. Final Screen
      • 2.3.3. Deleting Health Facilities
    • 2.4. Adding Outreach Sites
      • 2.4.1. Creating Outreach Sites
      • 2.4.2. Results of Adding Outreach Site
      • 2.4.3. Custom Outreach Catchments
      • 2.4.4. Urban Outreach Sites
    • 2.5. Using Guides in GMT
      • 2.5.1. Distance Guides
      • 2.5.2. Voronoi Guides
    • 2.6. Urban Health Facility Management
  • 3. Managing Settlement Data
    • 3.1. Reviewing Settlement Records for Microplanning within Region of Interest
      • 3.1.1. What are Settlements?
      • 3.1.2. Settlement list
      • 3.1.3. Machine-Generated Names
      • 3.1.4. Special Attention
    • 3.2. Adding and Updating Settlement Records within the Region of Interest
      • 3.2.1. Adding a New Settlement
      • 3.2.2. Results
      • 3.2.3. Adding Settlement Names Where There is Already a Settlement
      • 3.2.4. Field Data Collection
      • 3.2.5. Uninhabited Settlements
      • 3.2.6. Results of Marking Uninhabited
      • 3.2.7. Assigning a Settlement to a Different Ward
    • 3.3. Splitting Settlements
      • 3.3.1. Splitting Process
      • 3.3.2. Splitting Guidelines
    • 3.4. Merging Settlements
      • 3.4.1. Merging Process
  • 4. Resolving Issues
    • 4.1. Health Facilities and Settlements
      • 4.1.1. Health Facility Issues
      • 4.1.2. Settlement Issues
    • 4.2. Geometry Data Completion
      • 4.2.1. Types of Geometry Issues
    • 4.3. Population Discrepancies
      • 4.3.1. Managing Population Discrepancies
    • 4.4. Boundary Correction
      • 4.4.1. Boundary Correction Process
  • 5. Completing Updates and Synchronizing the Changes to GMT Geodatabase
    • 5.1. Synchronization Steps
    • 5.2. Exporting Data from GMT
      • 5.2.1. Export Options
        • 5.2.1.1. Map Settings
        • 5.2.1.2. Data Settings
      • 5.2.2. Excel Export Structure
        • 5.2.2.1. GMT - Overview Sheet
        • 5.2.2.2. GMT - HFs Sheet
        • 5.2.2.3. GMT - STLs Sheet
        • 5.2.2.4. GMT - Catchments Sheet
    • 5.3. Using Exported Data
      • 5.3.1. PDF Maps
      • 5.3.2. Excel Spreadsheets
      • 5.3.3. Geodatabase Files
    • 5.4. Best Practices for Exporting
      • 5.4.1. Planning Your Export
  • 6. Dashboard and Monitoring
    • 6.1. Getting Started with GMT Implementation
    • 6.2. Dashboard Data and Statistics
    • 6.3. Monitoring Microplanning Progress
      • 6.3.1. Completion Status
      • 6.3.2. Coverage Analysis
      • 6.3.3. Data Quality Assessment
    • 6.4. Resetting Microplanning Periods
      • 6.4.1. Impact of Resetting
    • 6.5. Best Practices for Dashboard Monitoring
      • 6.5.1. Regular Monitoring Schedule
      • 6.5.2. Communication Protocols
      • 6.5.3. Quality Assurance
      • 6.5.4. Performance Analysis

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • What do the colored bars with the number mean?
    • How is the population calculated?
    • Why does my population not change when I provide a field estimate?
    • Why is there a discrepancy between the population coverage of a ward and the health facilities?
    • What is a custom outreach?
    • Why can I delete some settlements but not others?
    • What does the Auto-Sync button do?
    • How can I refine my catchments?
    • How are catchments calculated?
    • Why are my catchments spanning boundaries?
    • What are uninhabited settlements?
    • My settlement names are not correctly placed, how can I change that?
    • What is ‘Show single catchment’?
    • How do I synchronize my data?

Technical Background

  • Background
    • GIS basics
      • Vector data
      • Raster data
      • Tabular data
    • Settlements
      • Settlement polygons
      • Settlement names
    • Population

Standard Operating Procedures

  • 1. Overview
  • 2. National level considerations
    • 2.1. Context
    • 2.2. What is the GMT?
    • 2.3. How does it work?
  • 3. Roles and Responsibilities
    • 3.1. Overview
    • 3.2. Steering Committee
      • 3.2.1. MoH and / or RI representatives
      • 3.2.2. GMT Program manager and a deputy
    • 3.3. Technical Committee
      • 3.3.1. GMT Program manager, deputy and support staff
      • 3.3.2. RI stakeholders
      • 3.3.3. IT department at MoH
      • 3.3.4. IT support staff
    • 3.4. Local teams
      • 3.4.1. Province focal person
      • 3.4.2. District focal person
      • 3.4.3. Sub-district focal person
  • 4. Microplanning process overview
    • 4.1. First time implementation
    • 4.2. Recurring activities for each microplanning round
  • 5. Microplanning activity
    • 5.1. Health Facility list review and outreach creation
    • 5.2. Catchment area review
    • 5.3. Review the settlement list
    • 5.4. Ward boundary changes
    • 5.5. Complete any missing information
  • 6. Device Logistics
    • 6.1. Equipment needs
    • 6.2. Tablet hardware specifications
    • 6.3. Support and troubleshooting
      • 6.3.1. 1st level support
      • 6.3.2. 2nd level support
      • 6.3.3. 3rd and 4th level support
    • 6.4. Management of devices
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