Assignment Name:

Country:

Mapping of water sources, Sanga District

Mozambique

Location within country:

Positions provided by WE Group:

Niassa Province

Team Leader

Hydrogeologist

GIS / Database expert

Name of client:

WaterAid

Address of client:

Duration of Assignment:

DPOPH, Niassa

2 month

Start Date

(Month / Year)

Completion Date (Month/ Year)

Total contract price of the assignment

11/03

completed

US $ 15,000

Name of Associated Firm(s), if any:

Name of Senior staff of WE Group involved:

-

Mr. R. Sloots, Team Leader

Mr. I. van Haren, Hydrogeologist

Mr. A. Naafs ,GIS / Database expert

Narrative description of project:

WE Consult was requested by Wateraid to carry out a baseline survey in Sanga District. As a pilot project it will serve as an example of the use of GIS applications for planning purposes. The fieldwork was coordinated together with the Ministry of Public Work and Housing, NGO’s (Estamos and Proagra) and Wateraid.

A database was established in Access and Excel spreadsheet format by carefully merging and matching information from a number of data sources: the National Institute for Statistics, DPOPH, the field data and the relevant topographical map sheets, The database was converted in ArcView, and the relevant data were converted into various thematic layers.

Description of services provided by your staff:

• Co-ordination and verification of all available data on safe water sources
• Data entry, verification and validation
• Preparation of coverage maps of Sanga District in ArcView format
• Preparation of final report, describing approach, analysis and conclusions of the exercise.