Previous blog in a series: Land Tenure Issues in Taita Hills Land remains a contentious and problematic issue in Kenya, particularly land held in areas predomin...
As a part of our research into applying ICTs to the data capture element of land registration, we conducted a series of interviews in Taita Hills touching on ma...
In countries across Africa, many people do not have access to formal land registration. Individual and shared property rights have not been properly documented ...
In the past six weeks, Spatial Collective’s team visited approximately 6000 plots in Viwandani Area in Nairobi and completed thousands of interviews touch...
Project planning is essential for successful implementation of activities. Get it right and the project runs like a well-oiled machine. Mess it up, and the outp...
Building Resilience in Civil Society (BRICS) runs a Regional Countering Violent Extremism Research Unit (RRU) in East Africa. BRICS was commissioned to conduct ...
How are spaces in informal settlements traversed differently according to gender? Which paths are the most travelled in a community, when and why? Does gender i...
How do people navigate the places in which they live? Does gender influence mobility and in what way? How do men and women access opportunities within and outsi...
Spatial Collective was hired in the spring of 2016 to develop a Geographic Information Systems-based participatory mapping approach to support Kenya Informal Se...
In June 2016, ten youth from Mathare digitized more than a thousand structures in Kayole Soweto, creating a building footprint of the area. At the same time, tw...