About Ermis 
Participatory 3-Dimensional Modelling and Mapping
(August 13th - 31st, 2007)
1. Introduction
2. Training Mapping Context
3. Field Mapping Context
4. Training Objectives
5. Training Programme
6. Participants:
7. Course Certification:
8. Tuition Fee
9. Field Trips:
10. Transport, Accommodation and Meals
11. Contacts
INTRODUCTION:
ERMIS Africa in collaboration with Moi University has organised a training course on Participatory 3-Dimensional Modelling and Mapping (P3DM) in Kenya. The training exercise will be hosted by ERMIS College at Eldoret Town and Sengwer Indigenous People Development Program (SIDP) in Cherangany area in Trans-nzoia district.
Training Mapping Context:
The training is part of our collaborative research, training and development programme which is designed to capacity build indigenous people in Africa by equipping them with modern skills in spatial technologies and approaches towards safeguarding their territories, cultures, and natural resources as well as engagement in endogenous development. These initiatives have received donor support and for the second time , ERMIS Africa will be facilitating a community mapping exercise for an Indigenous Community "The Sengwer Indigenous People" who have received a funding from Rainforest Foundation (UK) to map their rights and entitlement over their ancestral territories in Cherangany Hills, as well as deliver the 5th Regional PGIS Training for development practitioners from Eastern, Central and Southern Africa.
Field Mapping Context:
Currently, the Sengwer Indigenous People have expressed concern over historical injustices by the colonial and post governments. Their plights have been climaxed by the decision by World Bank to fund the Kenyan Government for the establishment of "Western Kenya Community Driven Development and Flood Mitigation Project (WKCDD/FM) and the Natural Resources Management Project (NRM)" without consulting and against their wish. The community has claimed that the project will adversely amplify the Government scheme to dispose them off their ancestral territory; enhance their omission from the country’s social- political and economic agenda; and accelerate the assimilative schemes into major ethnic groups. In a bid to safeguard their rights and entitlements, the 15 tribes making up the Sengwer Indigenous People, have planned to map their territorial claims. Community mapping teams composed of elders, youths, and children will, in an inter-generational knowledge sharing mechanism, map and document their ancestral entitlements (territories, landscape, culture, natural resources etc). The information generated will be used by the community towards advocacy for their territorial rights and entitlements over Cherangany hills and for engagement in endogenous development initiative.
Training Objectives
ERMIS Africa and Moi University will collaboratively facilitate the community mapping exercise and PGIS training sessions to build capacities of these indigenous people and development practitioners from the Eastern and Central Africa Region. This Collaborative PGIS Capacity Building Programme is designed to meet the following objectives:
1.Build the capacities of development practitioners and indigenous communities on good PGIS practice in terms of
- Applying good PGIS technologies, approaches and Ethics within indigenous People’s context
- Promote local and regional collaborative research, training and development among NGO’s , Universities, CSO’s , Middle Level Learning Institutions, and Indigenous People.
- Promote co-existence, sustainable use and partnership among local communities in the development and implementation of conservation strategies that affect their lands, territories, waters, and cultures.
- Enhance drawing of agreements that respect the rights and recognise the responsibility of indigenous people to conserve biodiversity, ecological integrity, and natural resources harboured in those protected areas.
- Boost decentralisation, participation, transparency, and capacity building in all matters pertaining to the mutual interest of protected areas and of indigenous and other traditional people.
- Advance full and equitable sharing of benefit associated with protected territorial areas with due recognition to the rights of other legitimate stakeholders
Upon delivery of the training course, we expect the participating development practitioners to replicate the efforts within their local context towards utilising good PGIS practice in supporting communities to design, plan, implement and manage projects that safeguards their territories, cultures and natural resources as well as undertake endogenous development initiatives.
Training Programme
The training programme exercise is designed to include 3 sessions:
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1. Contextualising PGIS: (6 days)
a.Ecological (Flora, Fauna and Watershed), Landscape, Tenure, Culture, Gender, Policy, etc;
b.Elementary P-GIS Practical Sessions
2. Field-based Participatory 3-Dimension Modelling and Mapping Sessions as well as GPS Field surveys (6 days)
3. Advanced Data Extraction, Map Composition and Information Sharing Technologies (5 days)
The venue of the training will comprise a mix of Classroom, GIS Laboratory, and Field work scheduled as follows:
1. Session 1 and 3: will be conducted at ERMIS College and Moi University, Department of Geography, Main Campus, Eldoret.
2. Session 2: will be conducted in SIDP Cultural Center in Kapolet Village, Cherangany Hills, Trans-nzoia district An elaborate programme is available in our website www.ermisafrica.org While the Lecture theatres and GIS Laboratory sessions will utilise a mix of scientific expertise and participatory experience in grassroot projects accumulated over the years by ERMIS Africa and Moi University, the field-based sessions will utilise indigenous knowledge systems accumulated over generations by Elders, youth and children from Sengwer Indigenous People.
Participants will also experience a tremendously rich rural setting presented by the ecology, landscape, and sociology of Cherangany Hills.
While the Lecture theatres and GIS Laboratory sessions will utilise a mix of scientific expertise and participatory experience in grassroot projects accumulated over the years by ERMIS Africa and Moi University, the field-based sessions will utilise indigenous knowledge systems accumulated over generations by Elders, youth and children from Sengwer Indigenous People.
Participants will also experience a tremendously rich rural setting presented by the ecology, landscape, and sociology of Cherangany Hills
Participants:
The training is designed for:
1. Community development practitioners
2. Researchers, Scholars and Trainers
3. Professional Aspirants
4. Government officers
5. National and International Observers
The training will accommodate "ONLY 20 Participants" to allow full interactive learning based on the first to register and make payment. No reservation will be done by mere submission of registration form.
Trainers: Joint facilitation will be done by High Profiled Researchers, Lecturers and Technologist from Africa and Italy:
1. Lecturers and Researchers from Moi University,
2. Geospatial, Web and Decision Support Systems & Technologies Specialist from ERMIS Africa,
3. Geospatial Technologists Volunteers to ERMIS from Italy
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