Ogiek Mapping

The Ogiek indigenous community of Eastern Mau region within the greater Mau Complex has embarked onto mapping their ancestral territories in a bid to secure their cultural heritage. They are integrating their traditional spatial knowledge systems with emerging modern PGIS technologies and approaches to delineate, inventory, analyze, document, present their ancestral entitlements which is under threat of erosion by the surrounding dominant tribes and dispossession through implementation of unsound government policies.

The community has planned to develop territorial maps for each of the 21 clans. The mapping approach and process has been piloted by ERMIS Africa which is supporting the community mapping process and a consensus has been arrived to use aerial photography and Participatory 3-D model to produce the maps. The community elders have appointed clan-based mapping teams who will spearhead the process. At certain stages of the process the community members of 8 identified stages: forming mapping teams, acquisition of primary mapping data sources, capacity-building of communities mapping teams, conducting ground-based mapping, preliminary production of maps, community-based ratification of maps, production and dissemination of maps.

The maps are hoped to be used for securing of their ancestral territories, preservation of cultural heritage, and management of their commonly shared natural resources.

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