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GIS. Enhancing GIS capabilities for poverty mapping is 
important so as to facilitate finding answers that will help in 
policy formulation and implementation for poverty alleviation 
using spatial relationships. According to Sui (2002), the 
development of appropriate policies for reduction and eventual 
eradication of poverty and hunger hinges on the extent to which 
we can delineate the spatial patterns of hunger and poverty. 
Identifying which conceptual and methodological gaps to be 
filled in the spatial analysis of poverty is essential in enhancing 
GIS use. These researches can contribute to developing 
procedures for GIS use in development related application areas 
which can facilitate the achievement of the MDGs. It is also 
necessary to evaluate how appropriate and effective these 
procedures are in various context. These are some of the 
research areas that need to be continually investigated for the 
spatial sciences to contribute to the poverty mapping literature. 
Spatial scientists are best suited to provide the spatial tools and 
the theoretical base upon which poverty mapping practitioners 
can build applications. 
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