What is Poverty Mapping?

Poverty mapping is the spatial representation and analysis of human wellbeing indicators.

Poverty Mapping has been a vital tool in the use and analysis of CBMS data.  As part of the data processing system of the CBMS, the CBMS was able to provide its partners the NRDB, a free mapping tool to help partners build their database and do poverty mapping.

Poverty maps allow for easy comparison across geographic levels.

Poverty maps are easily understood by laymen.

Use of color-coded maps in analysis of the CBMS data makes it simpler for local chief executives and program implementers to use.

To show which Puroks are performing better or worse than the others, we always use the following color scheme: shades of blue.

That is, the darker the shade of blue, the better the situation of the Purok vis-à-vis the indicator.

At the household level:

Green dots represent households performing better than other households for a particular indicator while

Red dots represent households worse than other households

Poverty maps allow displaying different dimensions of poverty simultaneously.

Understanding poverty determinants

Selecting and designing interventions

Provides inputs for targeting of beneficiaries of programs