Tag: Public Services
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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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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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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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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 areas are rapidly modernizing while others lag behind. The provision of basic services often follows the split. Different geographic areas of Nairobi enjoy different levels of development and access to public…