Kenya Digital Public Works: creating high-quality urban geographic data for the Kenya Informal Settlement Improvement Project 2 while providing short-term income and employment opportunities for Kenya’s vulnerable youth.

From Aerial Imagery to Machine Learning: innovating land mapping and accessibility for sustainable development in Muranga County, Kenya

Secure Tenure on Zanzibar: innovation program promoting tenure security in African cities.

Community Mapping Urban Risks in Mwanza Tanzania: mapping campaigns, training, and skill-building of university students and local government authorities, and the generation of up-to-date, open, and accurate exposure data actionable for flood risk modeling and flood scenario generation purposes in Mwanza.

Engaging Local Youth for Solid Waste Mapping in Mogadishu: building local capacity in various data collection methodologies required to generate up-to-date information and insights to support solid waste management in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Digitizing the Outputs of the Zanzibar Mapping Initiative: digitizing UAV imagery for the Zanzibar Archipelago.

Africa Digital Jobs for Urban Resilience: Zanzibar baseline mapping improvement and StreetView mapping: Testing two micro-tasking workflows to comprehensively improve OpenStreetMap in Zanzibar.

Open Cities Zanzibar: creating and releasing open spatial data about the built environment, critical infrastructure, and natural hazards.

Mtaa Safi: information and communication management platform for citizens and development workers to share information on environmental issues.

Using Active Learning to Map Agricultural Fields in Africa: digitizing of crop field boundaries visible in high-resolution satellite imagery.

Putting Communities and Rights on the Map in Southern Kenya: rigorous field testing of higher-grade, cost-effective, easy-to-use, and scalable tools and approaches to positioning and field data collection for registering community and individual property boundaries.

Mapping Community Land in Tana River, Kenya: using mapping and GIS tools to help communities protect their customary and indigenous land. This produced the first-ever community land maps in Kenya.

Documenting Potential Impact of Development Project on Communities in Lamu County: mapping potential conflict and public security risks stemming from the construction of the Lamu Port, South Sudan, Ethiopia Transport Corridor, with a specific focus on Lamu Port.

Linking Perceptions of Safety to Infrastructure Upgrading in Informal Settlements: developing GIS-based participatory mapping approach to reinforce settlement-specific designs aimed at linking perceptions of safety to infrastructural upgrading in informal settlements.

Historical Fires and Response Mechanisms: researching historical occurrences of fires and fire response mechanisms in Nairobi’s informal settlements.

Capacity Building in Field Surveying for Young Professionals: providing training and technical support to the Edo State government GIS team in Nigeria.

Beneficiary Engagement for Monitoring and Evaluations Grantee to Digital Jobs Africa: supporting youth engagement and M&E initiatives for Digital Jobs Africa initiative.