Throughout 2017, Spatial Collective applied new technologies to the data capture element of land registration in order to test whether affordable tools for docu...
In the past six weeks, Spatial Collective’s team visited approximately 6000 plots in Viwandani Area in Nairobi and completed thousands of interviews touch...
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 outp...
In our efforts to determine safe and unsafe areas of Soweto Kayole – as perceived by the residents, we first developed a base map of the area. Around twen...
How are spaces in informal settlements traversed differently according to gender? Which paths are the most travelled in a community, when and why? Does gender i...
How do people navigate the places in which they live? Does gender influence mobility and in what way? How do men and women access opportunities within and outsi...
Spatial Collective was hired in the spring of 2016 to develop a Geographic Information Systems-based participatory mapping approach to support Kenya Informal Se...
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 here, here an...
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 posts (here and here), the targ...
This is a follow up on the previous post. We began our field work on mapping community land by holding a large forum with the representatives of Chana and Handa...