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 on…
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 touching on…
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 profiles in…
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…
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…
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…
Rethinking waste management in Nairobi’s informal settlements
Community-based organizations are in the forefront of dealing with waste management in Nairobi's informal settlements, however, their interventions often fall short of becoming sustainable…
Mathare Demographic
This post was cross-posted from Spatial Collective's blog. Informal settlements are often missing from geographic and statistical representation of their countries, and Nairobi’s informal…
Waste Management Stakeholder Survey
This post was cross-posted from Spatial Collective's blog. In March and April 2014, following the household survey, Spatial Collective continued their research into informal waste…