In conjunction with the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, located in Moshi, Tanzania, the workshop led by City and Regional Planning professor Stephan Schmidt provided training in spatial analytical data gathering and analysis for researcher, students, and practitioners, and more broadly assisted in training the trainers and professionals of tomorrow. In addition, the project sought to improve the capability of partner institutions to gather data, conduct spatial analysis, monitor and evaluate programs and projects, and ultimately improve decision making in three key interrelated fields of public health,conservation, and land tenure. In order to train communities to address relevant issues of importance to these communities, create baseline household and village level socio-economic and public health data, and to allow the students to receive practical experience in the mobile collection of data, interpretation and analysis, and presentation of the results.
