Digitizing North East Unguja Island and Stone Town on Zanzibar
Between August 8th and September 5th, Spatial Collective held a series of workshops at the Commission for Lands (COLA) on Zanzibar. The aims of…
Types of Crime and Support Systems in Informal Settlements
Which types of crime are most prevalent in Soweto-Kayole and where? Which support systems for victims of crime exist within the settlement? These are…
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…
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…
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…
Start of Community Land Mapping in Tana River: Forum
This is a follow up on the previous post. We began our field work on mapping community land by holding a large forum with…
Mapping Community Land in Tana River
We are currently in Tana River supporting the work of Kenya Land Alliance (KLA) and their partners Namati and Oxfam in using mapping and…
PopTech Talk
I was recently honored by being selected as a 2015 PopTech Social-Innovation Fellow. I had the pleasure to participate in a week long training…
Documenting potential impact of development projects on communities in Lamu County
The “World is coming,” said the deputy secretary of Kililana Farmers Association during our LAPSSET conflict risk mapping exercise in old Lamu Town on…
Geography of Service Delivery
Nairobi’s population has increased more than tenfold in the last 50 years.[1] This rapid urbanization brought with it a two-tier development process where some…