Mau Spatial Data Clearinghouse is an initiative of research, education and development stakeholders operating within Mau Forest Complex to spur collaborative highland-lowland watershed management.
The mandate of the clearinghouse to promote and facilitate the sharing of geo-spatial datasets as well as information and knowledge products and among the development partners within the Mau region.
The clearinghouse offers guidelines for generating, packaging and sharing of standardized geo-datasets with the complex through Education, Training, and Public Awareness Programmes on
- Seminars on Local Spatial Data Clearinghouse
- Services for Designing Standardized Data Capture Templates as per existing Environmental Policies (Water Act -2002, Forest Act -2005, EMCA-1999, etc)
- Training Sessions on Basic GIS Skills (Freeware GIS softwares)
- Training on GPS Serveys
- Training on Metadata Procedures
The skills would enable development partners to collaboratively design and develop adaptation and mitigation strategies to watershed degradation in the highland-lowland Mau Forest Complex.
