Summary

• Each Transect consisted of between 7 and 14 sub-locations and required individual sub-location maps for each of the community living in the area and a extra combined maps for all the sub-locations within a given transect.
• A district map was combined for use at the meso-level.

Activities

• Co-training together with government officers the community-based natural resource management groups on participatory land use planning methodologies.
• Generation of non-spatial data required by the land use plans.
• Integration of the scientifically generated data from task 3 to support community-based land use planning exercise
• Integration of community generated information on land use plans, contained in community sketch maps, into the geo-referenced sub-location maps through GIS geo-cording routines.
• Packaging of factual sub-location community land use plans into Transect based document for implementation and dissemination to meso-level government departments.

Outputs

• Grass root based Community groups with land use planning skills
• Sub-location, Transect and district based community land use plans

Activities
Organization: SNV Netherlands:
Outputs:

• A publication for directing gender issues in the programme
  

Remark

• Done in collaboration
• Researcher Maaike Kepkes and Wangu Greijn

Summary

World vision program, Kenya, had been implementing a community development program with Maasai, a minority community in Kenya living in the semi-arid areas of Laikipia district. For a period of 7 years (1991 to 1998) the organization The organization has been implementing several projects which include: Water resources development, primary health, advocacy on female genital mutilation, promotion of pastoral girl and boy child, income generating activities, and natural rangeland rehabilitation.

Activities
Task details:
Organization: SNV Netherlands
Advising the SARDEP/SNV program on:

• Principles and practices of natural resource monitoring and management using emerging technologies of Remote sensing, GIS, and GPS techniques
• Developing a methodology for community based natural resources management that exploits the emerging GIS, GPS, and Remote Sensing (multi-temporal data) Techniques.
• Designing and implementing participatory project monitoring and evaluation tools and routines that integrate emerging space technologies
  Outputs:
  
• A project proposal document on mapping for natural resource management
• An extension document on community-based natural resource management strategies using participatory approaches of remote sensing, GIS and GPS techniques.
• Monitoring and evaluation guide-book for natural resource management project

Remark

• Formed a natural resource management project that ran for 2 years from June 2000 to June 2002.

Summary

• The project was designed to be a community-based natural resource management hence needed consensus of the stakeholder.
• The uneven Kerio valley terrain the fluctuating weather, and use of private company for the photography prompted intense supervision

Activities

• Participatory planning of aerial photography mission for the programs
• Contracting the aerial photography mission.
• Supervising the conducting of the aerial photography by the contracted aerial photographic mapping firm to ensure desired area coverage and aerial photos quality.

Outputs

• An aerial photography flight plan for the project area reached through a consensus by project stakeholders
• A cost-effective aerial photography budget by a credible aerial photographic mapping firm.
• 213 aerial photographs of correct scale, format, and overlaps and clear of any clouds

Summary

The cbnrm project required participatory approaches hence training of stakeholders on basic aerial photography interpretation skills to enable their participation in the exercise

Activities

• Participatory field and desk interpretation of aerial photographs for Keiyo and Marakwet districts using the community, government extension workers and the funding program.
• Participatory GPS surveys for geo-referencing aerial photographs.
• Digitization of the aerial photographs of Keiyo and Marakwet districts.
• Composition of user tailored sub-location land use maps (for the past 10 years, current status, l and use change maps
• Designing of community impacts monitoring and evaluation tools and procedures for community- based natural resource management project

Outputs

• Environmental status report with past and present land use maps and narratives
• Spatial database with baseline data for use by development agents
• Stakeholders with basic aerial photograph interpretation skill.
• A community impact monitoring and evaluation guide book

Summary

• The call by the donor agencies World bank/IMF for donor countries to act in line with poverty eradication paper aroused the need for the study.
• ETC a Kenyan based Netherlands consultancy firm was contracted by snv to carry out the exercises on behalf of the Netherlands government

Activities

• Provision of spatial data on land use categories in area
• Estimation of food security level using spatial modeling routines
• Composition of specific maps for the compilation of the document
• Development of community-based socio-economic development indicators

Outputs

• A working document on 'Poverty, Target Groups and Institutional/Governance environment in Keiyo Marakwet'
• A community-based socio-economic development indicators guide book

Activities
Organization: SNV Netherlands:
Task details:

• Guiding on spatial relationships of the project components for the purpose designing the project targeting.
• Preparation of maps for the project components (natural resource conflict maps)
• Development of spatial-based monitoring and evaluation tools

Remark

• Development in Kerio valley had been hampered by the recurrent violent and armed ethnic clashes promoting development agents to change their focus to first pacify the valley to facilitate development

Summary

Prompted by the proceedings in the Africa_GIS conference at UNEP Gigiri on 12 to 18 November, 20001

Activities

• Presentation of paper on behalf of SARDEP/SNV-Netherlands to a GISDECO conference on use of GIS in facilitating dialogue between the government and the civil society held at ITC, Eschede, The Netherlands, on 15 to 18^{th May 2002.}

Activities
Task details:

• Co-designed the competition methodology
• Designed a GIS, GPS, remote sensing techniques-based methodology of random selection of assessment sites
• Conducted a GIS, GPS and remote sensing routines required in the exercise
• Designed a standardization procedure for community generated scores on environmental conservation performance
• Conducted a field based training of 14 government extension workers on aerial photography interpretation and analysis

Outputs

• Establishment of the two winners, one from each of the two districts, of the environmental competition prize of a water project worth US $ 25,000.
• 14 government extension workers with basic skills in interpretation of aerial photographs and use of GPS.
• A guiding document on the methodologies of use of remote sensing techniques, GIS, and GPS in selection of random sites of activities.

Activities
Organization: SNV Netherlands
Task Details:

• GIS based zoning of the community goats grazing area
• Land use characterization and estimation of project area
• Composition of a map for the project area
  Outputs:
  
• A project proposal document with the required spatial date that was funded by the SVN/The Netherlands

Remark

• Replacing large ruminants with small ones was recommended as of range rehabilitation Determination of the appropriate stocking rate called for determination of the project area through GIS modeling and analysis

Activities
Organization: SNV Netherlands
Task Details:

• GPS survey to geo-cord the points experiencing violent and armed conflict among the community members.
• GIS aided zoning of grazing areas facing violent ethnic clashes to facilitate conflict resolution and transformation initiatives.
• Generation of spatial data need for design.
  Outputs:
  
  • "A project proposal document detailing the intended peace building project due to be implement in year 2003
  Remark
  
• The same issues as those prompting task 9 led to the design of the project.

Summary

The task was conducted on request by National Churches Council of Kenya

Activities

• Designing and development of training guide and manual
• Facilitating the training of 6 Church leaders and community development representatives.

Outputs

• Twenty-six church leaders and community leaders able to train others, guide and participate in sustainable development project in the jurisdictional areas.
• A training guide and Trainer of Trainers and a facilitators guide.

Activities
Task Details:

• Participatory design of monitoring and evaluation tools for world vision
• Participatory implementation of monitoring and evaluation tools and procedures
• Conducting the evaluation exercise for all the projects
• Reporting the evaluation findings to the World vision, community leaders and development partners
• Facilitating strategic planning and result-based management
• Designing specific projects proposal guidelines based on the output of the strategic planning workshop
  Outputs:
  
• Monitoring and evaluation tools for use by World Vision (Kenya)
• Monitoring and evaluation report
• 5 year strategic plan for World Vision
• Project proposal guidelines for appraising community generated project proposals

Remark

• World vision program, Kenya, had been implementing a community development program with Maasai, a minority community in Kenya living in the semi-arid areas of Laikipia district. For a period of 7 years (1991 to 1998) the organization The organization has been implementing several projects which include: Water resources development, primary health, advocacy on female genital mutilation, promotion of pastoral girl and boy child, income generating activities, and natural rangeland rehabilitation

Activities
Task Details:

• Conduct a community needs assessment survey
• Gathering of socio-economic and agro-climatic data necessary for development of socio-economic development indicators
• Data analysis and synthesis of report
• Facilitation of a strategic planning and result-based management for the projects envisaged
• Designing of specific project proposal guidelines for appraising community generated projects
  

Remark

• The successful completion of task (1) led to the contracting of task (2).
• World vision Kenya wished to start a new project in this agro-pastoral areas facing with critical problems of poverty, marginalization of the Maasai minority community in Kenya.
• The program wished to empower this minority through socio-economic interventions.

Activities
Organization: SNV Netherlands:
Task Details:

• Participatory field and desk interpretation of aerial photographs for Keiyo and Marakwet districts using the community, government extension workers, and the funding program.
• Participatory GPS surveys for geo-referencing the aerial photographs.
• Digitization of the aerial photographs of Keiyo and Marakwet districts.
• Composition of user tailored sub-location land use maps (for the past 10 years, current status, land use change maps)
• Designing of community impacts monitoring and evaluation tools and procedures for community-based natural resource management project

Outputs
• Environmental status report with past, and present land use maps and narratives
• Spatial database with baseline data for use by development agents
• Stakeholders with basic aerial photograph interpretation skill.
• A community impact monitoring and evaluation guide book

Remark

• The cbnrm project required participatory approaches hence training of stakeholders on basic aerial photography interpretation skills to enable their participation in the exercise.

Activities
Organization: SNV Netherlands
Task Details:

• Delineating the north rift region of Kenya based on agro-pastoral considerations
• Mapping of the small arms and light weapons flow routes and pipelines in the North Rift Kenya
• Data analysis, designing of presentation formats and documentation of results
• Designing and layout of a book titled 'Terrorized Citizens' for publication.
• Designing follow up studies and implementation programs of resultant recommendations
  Outputs:
  
• Small arms and light weapon flow maps for Turkana, West Pokot, Samburu, Marakwet, Trans-Nzoia, and Uasin Gishu and for the overall flows and pipelines in the whole of North rift region including neighboring countries
• A book draft for publication

Remark

• Peace is an inevitable prerequisite to sustainable development.
• The raging insecurity in the north rift valley region of Kenya bordering Uganda, Sudan and Ethiopia has devastating effects on development initiatives for the pastoral communities. The insecurity is a result of conflicts over natural resources (Task 9) which are manifested by firearms aided cattle rustling activities, banditry attacks and war like activities where raiders attack villages, killing people, destroying crops and burning houses. The need for interventional strategies catalyzed the undertaking of the study.
• The understanding of the illegal small arms phenomenon would enable authorities to come up with sustainable, long-term solutions to the problem, such as effective control measures in arms licensing, curbing illegal trade in guns and other light weapons, and hopefully eradicating gun culture in the region in particular and in the country in general
• Book with publishers

Title: Environmental insecurities and conflicts in the north region of Kenya: Towards developing conflict early warning and early response systems for the horn and great lakes region

Summary

• A review of the several studies conducted by organizations and reported by the conventional media reveal some possible uninvestigated links between environmental related problems and violent conflicts raging in the Horn of Africa and Great lakes region.
• A systematic study of the links between the two issues is envisaged as a prerequisite for conflict resolution prevention and management in the two regions. The study would be piloted in the north rift and then scaled up in the entire regions.
• Proposal under review in consultation with Safer World (UK), Safer Africa (SA) and SRIC (K).

Objectives
Phase I

• To establish the key environmental related problems facing the NRrK
• To find out the environmentally-related root causes of inter-community conflicts in the NRrK
• To investigate any existing links between environmental insecurity and violent inter-community conflicts in the NRrK
• To make recommendations to stakeholder on the role of environment in violent inter-community conflicts

Phase II

• To identify the traditional resource use management approaches used by the communities of NRrK
• To integrate the scientific approaches of famine early warning system into traditional resource use management approaches in the NRrK
• To develop a community based conflict early warning and early response strategy for NRrK.
• To make recommendation to stakeholders on environmental-related conflict early warning and early response mechanisms for NRrK

Outputs

• Recommendations on conflict resolution, prevention and management NRrK
• A publication for guiding stakeholders in conflict prevention

Summary

• The growing civil insecurity in Kenya is becoming a national concern. The situation is not only impacting negatively to livelihoods but also threatening human live. Further, the concern is sending the wrong signals to foreign investors and thereby narrowing any chance of revitalizing the poor performing economy
• An understanding of the raging insecurity phenomenon is necessary as a step towards restoring and management of civil security in the country for peaceful livelihoods.

Activities

• Field data collection from security firms, private guards and clients
• Analysis of data
• Composition of maps depicting security scenarios in the major urban centers

Outputs

• Publication on private security survey in major urban centers of Kenya
• Policy guidelines
• Community security workshops

Activities
Task Details:

• Composition of Kenya Province Maps for analysis of crime survey for each province
• Designing the layout of the publication
  Output
• A publication on Kenya crime survey

Remark

• The escalation of firearms related crime and firearm misuse in Kenya is becoming an issue of great concern to citizens, civil society, and the government.
• SRIC, concerned with speculations on the rise of firearms-related crimes initiated a progressive annual research project in the subject.
• The project is intended to provide comprehensive information on all crime types within Kenya regardless of the weapon used in the crime and the location of the crime.
• The organization has applied an incremental research methodology.
• Unlike year 2000 publication, a need arose to incorporated an spatial dimension into the year 2001 Crime survey publication

Activities
Task Details:

• Digitization and Composition of maps of the Horn of African and Great lakes Region
• Designing a Conflict Atlas for Horn and Great lakes region
  Output
  
• Atlas of human security and conflicts in Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Region (publication)

Remark

• The atlas will be used by development organization dealing with the issue of armed conflict in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region.
• It will show, region country by country and region by region the geography, conflict history and trends so far, and efforts in place to abate the conflict.
• Ongoing

Activities
Task Details:

• Designing strategy to partnership in data collection, analysis and dissemination for safer world, safer Africa and SCRIC
• Testing the strategy and eventual recommendation to the join media strategy board.
• Outputs
• Publications, Newsletter, electronic information dissemination formats (CD -ROM, Web, TV and Radio programs

Remark

• The concern of parallelism, duplication, and fragmentation of initiatives within human security sector led to the conception of the idea.
• The need to dissemination of information on the programs to stakeholder

Activities
Organization: GTZ-International Services -Somalia
Task details:

• Implement the community based natural resource management concept
• Develop a methodology for community based natural resource management that exploits the emerging GIS, GPS, and remote sensing (multi-temporal data) techniques
• Prepare a project document on mapping of natural resource management
• Implement mapping of natural resource management
• Prepare an extension document on community based natural resource management
• Implement natural resource management strategies using participatory approaches of remote sensing, GIS, and GPS techniques
• Provide all spatial data, compiling and editing the thematic articles, publication and designing the publication layout
• Contribute to development linkages with other donor using scientific papers prepared from the community based natural resource management exercise
• Provide spatial data on land use categories in Bakool and Bay region
• Estimate food security level using spatial modeling routines
• Composite specific maps for the compilation of documents
• Design and guide environmental competition exercise fro communities in the target regions
• Establish grass root based community groups with land use planning skills
• Train community based natural resource management groups on participatory land use planning methodologies
• Integrate community generated information on land use plans, contained in community sketch maps, into the geo-referenced village maps through GIS geo-cording routines
• Moderating farmer and community training and planning workshops
• Liaise regularly with local authorities and local communities to ensure that the objectives of the specific task are smoothly implemented
• Provide timely implementation of LUP and NRM activities of the program
• Organization and conduct Farmer Trainer workshops for on job trainings for introduction of LUP and NRM technologies
• Assist the Project Manager in carrying-out his function including liaising with relevant regional authorities and local communities on technical questions regarding farming systems and focal points for the planning and inputs in implementation of the specific task
• Assure timely implementation of the activities of specific tasks to assure achievement of the overall project goal
• Provide technical on-the-job training in LUP and NRM for national personnel
• Provide technical on-the-job training in LUP and NRM for national personnel
• Present achievements of the specific task at workshops
• Applying all required PRA instruments for a successful implementation of these activities
• Being responsible for gathering and collecting data from the participating communities in relation to performance indicators specified in the project document
  Outputs:
  
  • Designed, developed, and introduced Participatory Integrated Community Development (PICD) process, tools and approaches to national staff and community members with special consideration to a society recovering from long-term war torn impacts, absence of legitimate government, collapsed government supporting for production services, and fragile security situation. We have co-authored a Training Manual of the PICD process
  • Initiated a Publication "Beroleey" for the project to disseminate improved Farming Systems Techniques to other organizations and beneficiary communities
  • Developed and produced a CD-ROM for documentation and dissemination of improved farming systems approaches and techniques
  • Designed, Developed and implemented Management Information Systems (MIS) for Re-integration of Ex-combatants, Internally Displaced Person and Returnees into rural livelihood in Bay and Bakool Region of the war torn South Somalia.
  • Designed and developed Training Resource Materials in water resource development and agro-forestry practices for improved farming system in bay Bakool Somalia
  Remark
  
  • The concern of parallelism, duplication, and fragmentation of initiatives within human security sector led to the conception of the idea.
  • The need to dissemination of information on the programs to stakeholder

Activities
Task details:

• Setup a Website for the organization using Open Source Technologies(OST)
• Registration of Domain for the organization
• Hosting the web site with a suitable ISP
• Advising on suitable OS platform, Scripting language, and server-client operability considerations
• Setting up a website development server in the organization
• Design and develop of a dynamic website for the organization using open source technologies.
• Uploading the website to the website.
• Design, develop and implement website management routines for the organization using the OST.
• Setting up a Web-based Mapping platform for using Open Source Technology(OST)
• Configuring the Server in conjunction with the ISP to host a web server and the map sever for the organization
• Advising on suitable OS platform, Scripting language, and 3-tier operability considerations
• Setting up the web mapping development server for the organization
• Design and develop of a dynamic map sever for the organization using open source technologies
• Uploading the map sever content to website
• Design, develop and implement management routines for the web-mapping technology for organization using the OST
  Outputs:
  
  • Registered of Domain for the organization
  • Hosted a web site for the organization
  • Web site under development using ( HTML, PHP, Mysql, Apache) under windows and Linux platform
  • Map server under development using (Apache, PHP/Mapscript, Mysql) under windows and Linux platform
  • Produced sample shape files of Nakuru for the implementation of Webmap serve
  Remark
  
• The need to share spatial resources in Africa is indispensable. With the high need of putting Africa a spatial platform which is being challenged by the high investment and operational cost and further, complicated by scarcity of skills.
• This pioneer project is intended to test the ease with which the existing web-mapping skills can be transferred to Africa first in the non-profit making domain and later to the private and public domains.
• It is envisaged that should the project prove viable it will form a new development phase for Africa in her endeavors to organize here fragmented spatial data sets.
• The phase will be characterized expanded and close collaboration among GIS and ICT specialists, development agencies both within private and public sectors and policy makers each with specific but supplemental mandate.
• The expected output of this phase will be greater sharing of spatial data and resources; reduction of the prevailing parallelism and double funding for mapping projects targeting same geographic areas and thus improved value for development funds in Africa

Activities
Task details:

• Digitization to update maps of the North Rift Horn of African and Great lakes Region
• Delineating the new concept of north rift region of Kenya based on agro-pastoral considerations
• Mapping of the security issues in the North Rift Kenya
• Mapping of development issues in the North Rift region of Kenya
• Data analysis, designing spatial data formats for result presentation
• Designing and layout of a book titled ‘The North Rift Region of Kenya: An Agenda for Peace, Security and Development Outputs
• Maps for North Rift Region of Kenya depicting Security and development agenda
• A draft book for publication (awaiting publication)

Activities
Task details:
Phase 1
Objectives

• To provide a framework for sustainable urban planning and management practices in nakuru municipality
• To build technical skills and to improve participation of local stakeholders
• To create a Local Urban Observatory Toolkit (Nakinfo software)
• To stimulate the development of municipal spatial and environmental planning and management Activities
• Setting up a functional office with adequate IT infrastructure
• Acquisition of high resolution satellite image of Nakuru municipality
• Survey to determine most urgent development priorities in Nakuru
• Carry out a participatory mapping exercise
• Process data in a GIS environment
• Programming Nakinfo Application
• Providing capacity building to MCN and CBO
• Participatory Scrutiny of Information layers
  Phase 2
  Activities
  Establishing a Sustainable LUO
  
• Step-by-step process
• Assessment of current situation Institutionalization of LUO Nakuru
• Institutional arrangement at the moment
• Current plan of institutionalizing LUO within municipality
• Stakeholders and Steering Committee: Who could be the driving force, who could be implementing or hosting?
• Alternative plans Data Generation Techniques Analytical Techniques and Spatial disaggregated Priority Areas of Nakuru and required set of indicators
• Identification of objectives
• Priority setting based on previous workshops and the results of the development priority survey (basic infrastructure, economic development, crime and security, social development)
• Formulation of urban development indicators Data collection strategy
• Stock-taking of existing info within and outside NakInfo and identification of information needs
• Indicator and data collection strategy for NakInfo
• Data collection strategy, survey
• Data evaluation and monitoring strategy Dissemination strategy and policy formulation:
• How does the information stored in NakInfo reach people?
• Who will analyse the information
• How can the information be translated into policy/action? And who will do that Nakuru Action Plan (group work)
• Institutionalization of LUO
• Data collection strategy/NakInfo
• Information dissemination strategy•

Remark

• Rapid urban growth in Nakuru has caused serious strain on the existing urban infrastructure and social services. Urban areas face many environmental problems such as uncontrolled and uncoordinated development resulting to inadequate sanitation, pollution of water sources, poor and inadequate shelter and a general degradation of the ecosystem. Trying to access relevant information on any of these issues is close to impossible for most inhabitants of Nakuru, and for many development partners as well. Consequently, community participation in urban planning and policy making has remained almost non-existent.
• In light of the above and due to the fact that information is increasingly becoming recognized as one of the most critical inputs for urban planning and development, the Municipal council of Nakuru in partnership with the Intermediate Technology Development Group Eastern Africa (ITDG-EA), UN-HABITAT and the Society for Development Studies (SDS - India has come up with a strategy of setting up a Local Urban Observatory (LUO) Project aimed at building up an information system that will help in monitoring urban development through collection of information and development of urban indicators and building the capacity of members as well as providing planners and decision makers with relevant and accurate information on urban development issues to assist them to arrive at a fair and informed decisions.

Activities
Task:

• Review the GG Kariuki Bill table in Parliament in November, 2004 with a view of identify the weakness in terms of securing the private and common resource properties for the local human communities living within or adjacent to wildlife habits or migration and dispersal zones as well as the government of Kenya
• Develop a critique on the sections that are detrimental to the livelihoods of wildlife communities
• Develop a corrective and alternative bill, to the GGK bill, which seeks to secure the private and common resource property as well as the good governance interest for the government of Kenya.

Activities
Task:

The specific task of the evaluation included:
• Evaluation of human resources
• Evaluation of project performance in terms of vision, mandate, mission, objects and output.
• Stakeholder analysis
• Value for money audit
• Visioning capacity of the organization in terms of opportunities to address socio-economic plights and conservation of the biodiversity of Mau forest complex

Remark
The Ogiek community, the last remaining hunter gatherers indigenous people within Mau forest, in Kenya have been subjected into unprecedented socio-economic plights occasioned by land rights conflicts over Mau forest complex with the various government regimes.

• The community has formed a grassroot-based civil society dubbed Ogiek welfare council to lobby and conduct advocacy initiatives in a bid to reclaim the territorial domains as well addressing the socio-economic plights.
• The organization has been in operation from 1997 and 2004 through financial support from ICCO, FORD FOUNDATION, IGWIA, COTTON WOOD FOUNDATION, IUCN and RAIN FOREST FOUNDATION among others.
• In December, 2004, it became prudent to evaluate the organization’s performance in terms of project design, implementation and management. Specific task included: evaluation of human resource development, beneficiary impact assessment, value for money audit and strategic project visioning.

Activities
Task:

The specific task of the evaluation included:
• To carry out a study on the internally displaced people in Kuria with a view to come up with statistical data of the affected.
• Establish the chronology of events that led to the evictions and subsequent interventions by the community.
• To identify the causes and effects of land conflicts on the Kuria people
• To establish the relationship between the Kuria and Maasai in Transmara
• To come up with recommendations and strategy of resolving the identified issues
• To establish Historical perspectives on occupation of the said land, Land use types, ownership and settlement patterns before and after 1989 in Kuria district

Remark

• AAK has planned to conduct a Land Issues Survey among the Kuria people for the displacements of 1240 families estimated at 13,000 people who are currently homeless and living as squatters and internally displaced persons. There is little information on the actual causes of conflict in the country and hence several theories have been advanced to explain the trends which include bad governance and marginalization of the citizenry. What became evidence superficial effects and trends which included ethnic violent flares in areas where there had been no friction between diverse communities which was followed by persistent cattle rusting and general theft by the actors or violence and resulting in ethnic hatred and accusations.
• From the ongoing concern Action Aid Kenya has a taken a keen on the plights of this community in terms. In a bid to intervene several questions need to be answered so as to make informed interventions: The questions include:
• What are the chronological underpinnings that led to the eviction of Kuria people from Trans-mara district?
• What opportunities do exist for conflict resolution and management between the Kuria and Maasai communities
• What opportunities do exist for socio-economic, political and Technological development for Kuria people
• What opportunities do exist for lobbying and advocacy to attain sustainable livelihoods

Activities
Key:

• Capacity building of Communities on participatory pgis and community mapping
• Acquisition and preparation of base maps
• Delineation of indigenous territories in Mau Forest Complex
• Participatory Land use Management for community based natural resource management

Remark
Mau forest Complex, a key water towers, biodiversity site, and a home of the Ogiek indigenous people is under threat of extinction.
The Ogiek indigenous people have undertaken several initiative to reclaim their ancestral territories, conserve their environment and develop sustainable land use plan for their domains. These composite needs have occasioned the quest for spatial information as basis for advocacy and planning. ERMIS Africa with it expertise on PGIS and community mapping is undertaking this task.

Activities
Task:

Key Training Areas
1. Participatory spatial planning & management (PSP) in land & land resources has a growing dynamic of empowerment and good governance imperatives, strengthened in many countries by decentralization processes.
2. The dynamics of land resource changes imply that local and regional actors must deal with many spatial conflicts due to shifting interests and power balances, and globalizing spatial economies.
3. Participatory mapping & PGIS approaches, together with appropriate hardware and software, provide relevant and effective tools to address these issues.
1. Conventional Participatory Approaches to development
2. PRA-RRA Spatial data acquisition participatory survey
3. Participation in spatial (land use) planning (Approaches and Technologies)
4. Stakeholders Analysis, Conflict Analysis
5. ITK & ISK –indigenous technology and spatial knowledge
6. Cultural and Gendered spatial knowledge
7. Mobile GIS Technologies
8. Aerial photograph and satellite interpretation
9. Participatory 3D modeling (P3DM) and Visualization
10. GIS Software Applications and Issues

Remark

• The training was conceived due to the growing imperatives of empowerment and good governance in rural and regional spatial planning and management, reinforced in many ACP countries by political processes of decentralization and devolution.
• Concurrently, rural and regional socio-economic spaces and their land resources are increasingly dynamic due to changes in space-economies under globalization, shifting power interests, resource pressures, and growing concerns over environmental degradation, etc.
• In response several PGIS practitioners were brought together for training on the above issues. The participants represented:
  1. Kenya (RCMRD, UON)
  2. Uganda (ICRAF)
  3. Tanzania (MOL, UD)
  4. Zambia (JICA)
  5. Cameroon (CDE)
  6. South Africa (PLLD, CC)
  7. Ethiopia (CASE)
  8. Iran (IUCN -CEESP)
  9. Colombia (UOC)

Activities
Task:

Key Training Areas
• A member of the international organizing committee
• The Local focal point
• Local logistical fundraiser and conference manager
• The deliberations of the conference were as follows:
  1. Participated in the organizing of the conference and facilitation of plenary sessions
  2. Track 1: land and resource rights and entitlements,
  3. Track 2: participatory land use planning and collaborative natural resource management
  4. Track 3: conflict management and amelioration
  5. Track 4: Integration of PGIS with GIS institutions
  6. Working Groups (4) discussing lessons learned from on-field implementation
  7. Parallel sessions - Regional working groups: defining the way forward including setting priorities
  Outputs from the Conference:
  1. Regional PGIS Networks (Eastern and Central Africa, Southern Africa)
  2. Participatory Learning and Action Note Series (to be co-published by CTA, IIED, ITC, ERMIS Africa, Christensen Fund)

Remark

• Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) ACP-EC Agro Business Park 2
  6708 PW Wageningen, The Netherlands
  cta.int
  
• International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)
  P.O. Box 6,
  7500 AA Enschede
  The Netherlands
  itc.nl
  
• GIS for Developing Countries (GISDECO) Network
  P.O. Box 6,
  7500 AA Enschede
  The Netherlands
  
• West Virginia University, Department of Geology and Geography
  Office of International Programs
  Washington, DC 20006 U.S.A.
  www.geo.wvu.edu
  
• International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) – Regional Centre for Africa P.O. Box 66873
  Nairobi, Kenya
  iirr.org
  

Activities
Task:

Key Training Areas
1. Participatory spatial planning & management (PSP) in land & land resources has a growing dynamic of empowerment and good governance imperatives, strengthened in many countries by decentralization processes.
2. The dynamics of land resource changes imply that local and regional actors must deal with many spatial conflicts due to shifting interests and power balances, and globalizing spatial economies.
3. Participatory mapping & PGIS approaches, together with appropriate hardware and software, provide relevant and effective tools to address these issues.
1. Conventional Participatory Approaches to development
2. PRA-RRA Spatial data acquisition participatory survey
3. Participation in spatial (land use) planning (Approaches and Technologies)
4. Stakeholders Analysis, Conflict Analysis
5. ITK & ISK –indigenous technology and spatial knowledge
6. Cultural and Gendered spatial knowledge
7. Mobile GIS Technologies
8. Aerial photograph and satellite interpretation
9. Participatory 3D modeling (P3DM) and Visualization
10. GIS Software Applications and Issues

Remark

• The training was conceived due to the growing imperatives of empowerment and good governance in rural and regional spatial planning and management, reinforced in many ACP countries by political processes of decentralization and devolution.
• Concurrently, rural and regional socio-economic spaces and their land resources are increasingly dynamic due to changes in space-economies under globalization, shifting power interests, resource pressures, and growing concerns over environmental degradation, etc.
• In response several PGIS practitioners were brought together for training on the above issues. The participants represented:
  1. Kenya
  2. Uganda (ICRAF)
  3. Tanzania (MOL, UD)
  4. Zambia (JICA)
  5. South Africa (PLLD, CC)
  6. Lesotho

Activities
Task:

Key Training Areas
1. Principles of Watershed Management
2. Participatory Methodologies in Spatial information management and communication
3. Principles and Practice of GIS and Remote sensing
4. ArcGIS 9.1 software hands-on operations
5. GIS0-based Watershed Monitoring and Modeling
6. Watershed Decision support systems

Remark

• SUMAWA is a collaborative initiative for problem model assessment and human capacity building for the rehabilitation of the River Njoro watershed in Kenya. The multidisciplinary team is composed of faculty members from Egerton University, the University of Wyoming, the University of California at Davis, Utah State University and Moi University, as well as partners from other Kenyan institutions such as the Kenya Department of Fisheries and Kenya Wildlife Service. This project is a component of the Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program supported by USAID through a grant to the University of California Davis and by contributions from the participating institutions.

Activities
Task:

Key Training Areas
1. Participatory spatial planning & management (PSP) in land & land resources has a growing dynamic of empowerment and good governance imperatives, strengthened in many countries by decentralization processes.
2. The dynamics of land resource changes imply that local and regional actors must deal with many spatial conflicts due to shifting interests and power balances, and globalizing spatial economies.
3. Participatory mapping & PGIS approaches, together with appropriate hardware and software, provide relevant and effective tools to address these issues.
4. Conventional Participatory Approaches to development
5. PRA-RRA Spatial data acquisition participatory survey
6. Participation in spatial (land use) planning (Approaches and Technologies)
7. Stakeholders Analysis, Conflict Analysis
8. ITK & ISK –indigenous technology and spatial knowledge
1. Cultural and Gendered spatial knowledge
2. Mobile GIS Technologies
3. Aerial photograph and satellite interpretation
4. Participatory 3D modeling (P3DM) and Visualization
5. GIS Software Applications and Issues

Remark

• The training was conceived due to the growing imperatives of empowerment and good governance in rural and regional spatial planning and management, reinforced in many ACP countries by political processes of decentralization and devolution.
• Concurrently, rural and regional socio-economic spaces and their land resources are increasingly dynamic due to changes in space-economies under globalization, shifting power interests, resource pressures, and growing concerns over environmental degradation, etc.
• In response several PGIS practitioners were brought together for training on the above issues. The participants represented:

Activities
Trainees: Location: Nakuru, Kenya

Key Training Areas
1. Participatory spatial planning & management (PSP) in land & land resources has a growing dynamic of empowerment and good governance imperatives, strengthened in many countries by decentralization processes.
2. The dynamics of land resource changes imply that local and regional actors must deal with many spatial conflicts due to shifting interests and power balances, and globalizing spatial economies.
3. Participatory mapping & PGIS approaches, together with appropriate hardware and software, provide relevant and effective tools to address these issues.
4. Conventional Participatory Approaches to development
5. PRA-RRA Spatial data acquisition participatory survey
6. Participation in spatial (land use) planning (Approaches and Technologies)
7. Stakeholders Analysis, Conflict Analysis
8. ITK & ISK –indigenous technology and spatial knowledge

Remark

• This training was organized by ERMIS Africa with financial and technical assistance from CTA and IPACC. The exercise was part and parcel of the on-going struggle of the Ogiek Indigenous People for the recognition of their ancestral territorial rights. The training was in ERMIS Africa’s context of regional mandate to build capacities of development practitioners in spatial information management and communication. This is in realization that mapping is a crucial step in securing and planning for the management of territories, cultures and natural resources of local communities which are otherwise put under increasing pressure by globalization, higher economic forces and top-down land distribution.
  Participants were drawn from the following countries
  1. Kenya
  2. Uganda (ICRAF)
  3. Tanzania (MOL, INGENOUS PEOPLE)
  4. Zambia (ZLA)
  5. South Africa
  6. Ethiopia
  7. Botswana