Category:GISEEM

ISEEM project will be assisting three community’s in Kenya to map out their sustainable livelihoods base. It is a three year project funded by the Finnish Foreign Ministry (FORMIN).

We are working with two local NGOs to assist in the implementation and three different communities in the Aberdares and Mt Kenya region.

GISEEM combines geo-informatics to capture and help in the translation a X-platform of knowledge and information as narrated and told by the local communities about their lives, livelihoods and factors that have played a role in forming and moulding their relationship with nature and the general environment.

The data is captured using handheld GPS and later processed to produce maps. The maps will be an added tool to the community for advocacy, lobbying, dialogue and consensus building.

The local communities are trained in the skills of GIS mapping and data storage.

The trained local GIS team then train other community members to use GPS to map out their resources.

The maps produced are an added tool for planning of the use of natural resource including the development of Community Forestry Management Plans as required under the Forest Act.