Category: Public Services
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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 predominantly perceived as the traditional home of a community. Land reforms in Kenya were mainly run under systems set up by colonialists from as early as 1885. Through the years…
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The Need for Inclusive Community- and Data-centered Land Registration Within Standards and Legal Thresholds
In countries across Africa, many people do not have access to formal land registration. Individual and shared property rights have not been properly documented or acknowledged. Lack of documentary evidence of customary property rights leaves individuals, households, and communities at a disadvantage. Lack of customary land rights has undermined the ability of individuals, households, and…
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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 hundreds of indicators for about one hundred schools in all six wards of Mathare, including Mathare North area. The information collected included the following categories: Information on the interviewer School description…
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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 access to sanitation facilities. To complete a project this size in such a short time, project planning and good teamwork are essential. Images below represent one of our fieldwork planning meetings…
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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 one of Nairobi’s informal settlements. We are providing the manpower to conduct the survey and have also trained additional people from the settlement to help with the work. To fulfill the…
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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 outputs of the project could be jeopardized. We recently held a project planning meeting in Mathare and thought to make a video. The aim of this particular project was to collect…
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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 the workshops were to train and supervise the digitization of the UAV imagery in order to create a series of detailed spatial data layers while at the same time build capacity of…
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Digitizing the Outputs of the Zanzibar Mapping Initiative (Photo Blog)
Spatial Collective was hired to help the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar and the participating local entities to collect and verify geospatial data by utilizing rectified Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery provided by the Zanzibar Mapping Initiative. The Zanzibar Mapping Initiative is a collaboration of Commission of Science and Technology, Commission for Lands and the World…
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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 some of the questions we wanted to answer during a mapping study to support the World Bank and Kenya Informal Settlement Improvement Project (KISIP) in generating settlement specific designs aimed at…
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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 Settlement Improvement Project (KISIP) in developing settlement specific designs aimed at linking perceptions of safety to infrastructural upgrading in informal settlements. The project was implemented in Kayole Soweto, in collaboration with The World…