Mapping and Demographic Research
Since its inception in 2005, the mapping component of Compass has expanded to now offer several consultant services.
These services include questionnaire development, testing, protocol writing, database building, data collection, verification, quality assurance, research analysis and report writing.
Focusing specifically on service provision in all areas, predominately in health and education sector, Compass has recently partnered with MapIT, a corporate geographic information system (GIS) company to expand our internal ability to provide GIS mapping and geocoding, which allows the Compass Project to produce high-quality mapping products internally.
Recent clients of Compass include:
- SIDA
- Anglo American
- Standard Bank
- SANAC
- Right to Care
- Northern Cape Department of Health
- I-Tech
Recent projects of Compass include:
- Since 2007 the Compass Project has released an annual research report, the state of HIV/AIDS services response in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. This report is aimed to monitor and evaluate the services that Tshwane offers it’s population in terms of all aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
- The Compass Project assisted SANAC in bringing forth an online mapping tool for the National HCT Campaign that launched earlier this year. The mapping tool is designed to locate the users 5 closest HCT testing stations and can be found here.
Our Services include:
- Identification/Data collection of service providers
- Development of epidemiological estimates
- Gap analysis reporting for communities
CSI Database access here