GTS User Guide¶

The Geospatial Tracking System (GTS) provides organizations with monitoring and evaluation capabilities that give visibility on the work performed by field staff, improving the efficiency and accountability of field activities.

With little to no training of field staff, GTS enables organizations to understand where, when, by whom and for how long field activities are conducted.

The GTS Tracker mobile application automatically records, at regular intervals (every 2 minutes by default), the GPS position of the phone (the tracks), with the time and the name of the person or team using it during a field activity.

The GTS Dashboard enables focal points to configure and manage their GTS instance, and all dashboard users to see the work of field teams on a map. Tracks and indicators can be downloaded for further analysis.

GTS can incorporate ODK forms to capture and geolocate contextual data, as well as ESRI shapefiles to represent the aggregation base layers and the Targeted Areas. This contextual and geospatial information can also be downloaded for further analysis.

GTS enables organizations to check that field teams adequately performed their field activities, since organizations receive GPS positions covering whole workdays for each of their field teams. These positions can be used in conjunction with paper, Excel, geotagged pictures, WhatsApp messages, SMS or ODK Collect reporting.

This guide is for the people who use GTS during an activity: coordinators, EPI focal points, supervisors, data analysts and health facility staff. Focal points who configure GTS should also read the Administrator guide.

New to GTS? Start with the GTS Overview: what GTS does, who does what, and which page to read for your task. Then follow the campaign use case that matches your activity: door-to-door, stationary sites and fixed posts or routine immunization. Health facility staff reviewing an outreach microplan can go directly to Reviewing your Health Facility Microplan.

GTS User Guide¶

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