Open Cities Africa, Zanzibar
Spatial Collective is the implementing partner of the World Bank’s Open Cities Africa initiative on Zanzibar. The goal of the initiative is to create and releas...
Tag: Community Mapping
Community Development/Community Land/Economic Development/Land/Mapping/Property Rights/Research/Spatial Collective
Putting Community and Rights on the Map in Southern Kenya
Throughout 2017, Spatial Collective applied new technologies to the data capture element of land registration in order to test whether affordable tools for docu...
Community Development/Digitization/Economic Development/Environment/GIS/Informal Economy/Mapping/Monitoring and Evaluation/Photography/Public Services/Research/Small Data/Spatial Collective
Survey of 6000+ plots in Viwandani (Photo Blog)
In the past six weeks, Spatial Collective’s team visited approximately 6000 plots in Viwandani Area in Nairobi and completed thousands of interviews touch...
Community Development/Economic Development/Environment/GIS/Informal Economy/Mapping/Mathare/Public Services/Spatial Collective/Survey
Project Planning (Video)
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...
Community Development/Crime/Economic Development/Gender/GIS/Mapping/Research/Safety/Serurity/Small Data/Spatial Collective/Violence
Mapping Safe and Unsafe Areas in Informal Settlements
In our efforts to determine safe and unsafe areas of Soweto Kayole – as perceived by the residents, we first developed a base map of the area. Around twen...
Community Development/Crime/Economic Development/Environment/Gender/Mapping/Mobility mapping/Research/Safety/Serurity/Small Data/Spatial Collective/Survey/Violence
Men’s and Women’s Perceptions of Safety Related to Mobility in Informal Settlement
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...
Community Development/Economic Development/Gender/GIS/Income Inequality/Mapping/Mobility mapping/Research/Spatial Collective
Mobility of Men and Women in Informal Settlement Related to Seeking Opportunities
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...
Community Development/Crime/Economic Development/GIS/Income Inequality/Mapping/Public Services/Safety/Serurity/Spatial Collective/Violence
Linking Perceptions of Safety to Infrastructural Upgrading in Informal Settlements
Spatial Collective was hired in the spring of 2016 to develop a Geographic Information Systems-based participatory mapping approach to support Kenya Informal Se...
Community Land Mapping – Post Fieldwork Data Management and Map Creation
The final step in community land mapping in Tana River County was to design the maps of the two targeted communities. Previous steps are described here, here an...
Field work in Tana River
After the initial three day hands-on training and a community forum, it was time to hit the field. As noted in the previous blog posts (here and here), the targ...