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…
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…