Consultancy for the production of digitized community resource maps in selected sub-catchments in Garissa, Kenya - 2015

Organization: Fafi Integrated Development Association (FaIDA)
 

Project: Improving resilience of pastoral communities in Garissa County of North Eastern Kenya to drought through sustainable natural resource management
 

Study / Consultancy Title: Consultancy for the production of digitized community resource maps in selected sub-catchments
 

Location: Garissa County, Northeastern Kenya
 

Reporting to: Executive Director, FaIDA
 

Start Date: As soon as Possible
 

Application deadline: 12th Oct, 2015
 

 

Overview of the Organization: Fafi Integrated Development Association (FaIDA), is an expanding and vibrant African-based Non-governmental organization, working with communities to create environments in which native African communities can thrive to realize their full potentials. 

We work to prevent and overcome situations that adversely affect community well-being by: reinvigorating the economy, developing skills for life and work, providing humanitarian aid, and influencing policy. 

Our belief that economic, social and environmental security is the bedrock of a healthy community drives the nature and intent of our programming. FaIDA has been strengthening rural livelihood and delivering innovative development projects.
 

Project Summary: Improving resilience of pastoral communities in Garissa County of Northeastern Kenya to drought through sustainable natural resource management is a Project supported by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). 

The project seeks to build resilience of the pastoral communities to climate change especially drought by improving natural resources management. 

The project will improve the state of natural resource management through implementation of land rehabilitation and restoration work on degraded rangelands, improving sustainable use of natural resources through community based rangeland management programs, integration of environmental considerations into all economic planning and programming activities in the region, galvanizing community support for environmental protection and sustainable use of resources and building government and community capacity to manage shared natural resources.

Purpose and scope of the consultancy: In order to sustainably manage resources effectively and derive maximum benefits from the existing natural resources it is essential to know location, distribution and amount of available resources in a given area per season. 

One of project result area aims at enhancing access to sustainably managed natural resources by drought-prone communities’. 

To achieve the result a number of activities are planned key among them being participatory approach to gather input on the current and envisioned future use and access of natural resources through visioning and dialogue with the communities. 

This will be undertaken by facilitating community consultations to develop two rangeland resource use maps within the context of the project area.  

Two stage approaches are planned to achieve participatory mapping the first one directed towards facilitation of community consultations to develop rangeland resource use maps using appropriate technologies which provide input into development of a vision for future resource management (already accomplished for two target sub-catchments) and the second stage digitization of the current and vision maps.
 

Specific tasks and methodology: Using current and vision paper maps already produced by community members’ digital maps of the two sub-catchments will be produced.

For each sub-catchment men, women and youth had drawn current and vision maps and during digitization components from three groups will be consolidated into one current and vision maps for each sub-catchment. 

To accomplish digitization the following activities will be carried out:

1. Scan or photograph the maps to enable these to be retained and stored and used off site.Where necessary these scanned maps (raster images) will be processed to improve clarity (sharpened).


2. Develop a tag structure by comparing all the legends from across all maps to generate a series of preset classes that will be used as the tags when digitising the features from the maps


3. Georeference the scanned images. Some of the features of maps may allow georectification and warping of the image to act as an underlay within the GIS to convert information from the paper to the GIS. If this is not feasible (due to lack of accurately identifiable features) the mapping will be generated by interpretation.


4. Collation of Historic Maps/ Topographic Maps that may help to give context and the collation of base-mapping as well as the STRM terrain data. This will be used as the backdrop for capture of the data. The mapping will be dependent to some extent on the availability of the imagery layers (but it is thought that the Bing layers will be appropriate for this mapping).


5. Interpret the scanned maps into the GIS digital mapping environment


6. Where features cannot be distinguished or the naming of features is uncertain these will be noted within the data so that these can be referred back to FaIDA project team for clarification. The resulting corrections will be incorporated into the mapping platform.


7. Validate the resulting captured maps with community-based feedback; this may result in additional requirements for participatory mapping, field support to run GIS/JOSM based field validation workshops and editing of the GIS data..


8. Attribution for the resource features based on the data currently on the maps alone

Deliverables
 

a) Georeferenced current and vision maps for two sub-catchments in format that are printable
 

b) GIS data sets that can be used for validation using GIS/JOSM and allows addition of attributes (tags)  

Intellectual Property Rights: All documentation related to the assignment shall remain the sole and exclusive property of FaIDA

Application Process

Due to urgency, the procurement committees review all applications as they arrive. 

All applicants must meet the minimum requirements described above, and those unable to meet these requirements will not be considered. FaIDA is an equal opportunity employer.

 Each application package should include the following:

1. An application letter addressing the selection criteria including how the firm’s/group’s previous experience matches the consultancy objectives as well as the interest for the position. It should also indicate the candidate’s availability and consultancy rates. The letter should be no longer than two pages.


2. A brief proposal with methodology and work plan (not more than 10 pages).


3. A sample of recently digitized community maps for a similar assignment or related works.


4. Updated CVs for all consultants including relevant work experience and qualifications.


5. Contact details of 3 references.

Applications not including all of the above information will not be reviewed. 

All applications should be sent to FaIDA at info@faidakenya.org with the subject line: 

Application for Consultancy to digitize community resource maps – NRM Project Garissa County