Strategy for integration of geospatial and statistical information: goals, objectives and expected results for the integration

Abstract

Geo-spatial Information for Sustainable Development in Africa, which is the African Action Plan on Global Geo-spatial Information Management, is an implementation tool of UN–GGIM Africa. It responds to the recommendation of the Africa preparatory meeting (GGIM Africa) .The integration of geospatial information and statistical information was the missing link of the development information chain. An effort to ensure this integration can only optimize the impact of the UN–GGIM Africa initiative on the sustainable development of Africa. This global picture should not overshadow initiatives in the field in Africa, in particular a best practice in Rwanda, and an ongoing project launched by the UN–GGIM Africa Working Group 5 in Kenya and Namibia to generate spatially enabled population census data.