A mixed-method approach to solid waste mapping in Mogadishu
Last year, we collaborated with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and OSM Somalia to generate high-quality geographic data aimed at comprehending the extent and d...
Tag: Community Development
Consensus in Documenting Land Rights
There has been a growing focus on the importance of consensus when it comes to determining land rights. This is particularly true when it comes to the collectio...
Kenya Digital Public Works
Between 2021 and 2022, we carried out a project called Kenya Digital Public Works. Here’s a short description of the project with more on the way in the f...
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 ...
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 Land/Economic Development/Land/Mapping/Property Rights/Public Services/Research/Spatial Collective/Survey
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 ...
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...