Poverty Mapping and Vulnerability Assessment Services

Developing a baseline for understanding what areas are poorest and how to measure progress is an important first step in improving the standard of living of vulnerable populations. The process we use is simple. First we identify and map all the relevant indicators of poverty that are available in a country’s databases. Then we compile and integrate the data sets in a spatial information system. Finally, we analyze the data and create an interactive Geographic Information System (GIS) consisting of social, economic, environmental, and natural resource information. Stone Environmental has been conducting poverty mapping and vulnerability assessments for a number of years and has completed three related projects in Niger for the World Bank and a similar project in Mali for USAID. These efforts provided countries and donors with objective ways to measure poverty to implement better and more equitable investment policies to achieve poverty reduction.