Community Mapping Urban Risks in Mwanza
In late 2020 and early 2021, Spatial Collective (SC) carried out the Community Mapping of Urban Risks in Mwanza under the broad framework of the Tanzania Urban ...
Category: Community Development
Community Development/Digitization/GIS/Land/Mapping/Property Rights/Public Services/Spatial Collective/Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Open Cities Zanzibar
Open Cities Africa Project Open Cities Africa is an initiative carried out in 10 cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, to engage local government, civil society, and th...
Community Development/Community Land/Economic Development/Environment/Land/Property Rights/Public Services/Research/Spatial Collective
Affordable Tools for Demarcation of Land are Widely Available
We cannot do the all the work alone. There are not enough of us. Joe Kheti, Kenyan Surveyor This is the next in the series of blog posts on research into applyi...
Community Development/Community Land/Environment/Land/Property Rights/Public Services/Research/Spatial Collective
A Short Note on Land Laws in Kenya
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...
Community Development/Community Land/Economic Development/Environment/Land/Mapping/Property Rights/Research/Spatial Collective
Land Tenure Issues in Taita Hills
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...
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/Economic Development/Informal Economy/Mathare/Public Services/Research/Spatial Collective/Survey
Database of schools in Mathare
Spatial Collective has been gathering information on schools in Mathare Constituency since January 2018. At the time of writing, we have collected information o...
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/Environment/GIS/Informal Economy/Mapping/Public Services/Research/Small Data/Spatial Collective/Survey
Creating landlord and plot profiles of Viwandani Area
Spatial Collective is currently conducting a door-to-door survey for the purpose of collecting data on sanitation facilities and creating landlord and plot prof...
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...