Geospatial resources freely available to support reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health analyses
| Resource type | Content | Link for access | Main use |
| Software package | QGIS (a free and open-source geographic information system) | https://qgis.org/en/ | To create maps for use in fieldwork planning, scientific analysis or M&E dissemination |
| Analysis tool | AccessMod (a tool for modelling physical accessibility to healthcare) | https://www.accessmod.org/ | To create travel time surfaces that can estimate time needed to reach a facility given land cover, speed, road coverage, weather, etc |
| Data management tool | MEASURE Evaluation’s Spatial Quality and Anomalies Diagnosis tool | https://www.measureevaluation.org/resources/tools/geographic-information-systems/squad-tool/spatial-quality-and-anomalies-diagnosis-squad-tool | To clean point-level facility and village data provided from fieldwork surveys |
| Data | Spatial distribution of births, pregnancies and women of childbearing age raster data | http://www.worldpop.org.uk/data/data_sources/ | To estimate the spatial distribution of births, pregnancies and women of childbearing age, for use in spatial joins and survey models |
| Spatially modelled surfaces for DHS indicators including family planning and maternal and child heath indicators | https://spatialdata.dhsprogram.com/modeled-surfaces | To estimate the spatial distribution of various DHS indicators, for use in spatial joins and survey models | |
| DHS geospatial covariate contain data on topics including population, climate and environmental factors packaged as a zip and include a.csv data file | https://spatialdata.dhsprogram.com/covariates/ | To conduct geospatial statistical analysis without having to manually source and link these covariates to cluster locations | |
| Integrated Public Use Microdata Series Terra (TerraPop) integrates population and environmental data | https://terra.ipums.org/ | To conduct comparative analysis using environmental data and census data from over 160 countries around the world |
DHS, Demographic and Health Survey.