SOCIO ECONOMIC ATLAS OF KENYA LAUNCH - NAIROBI: NOVEMBER 10th, 2014
The Socio-economic Atlas of Kenya was launched at Harambee house by Cabinet Secretary in Ministry of Planning and Devolution Ms. Anne Waiguru
The Cabinet Secretary pointed out the various data that is visually available that would help in planning at local level that includes infrastructure. The Centre for Training and Integrated Research in ASAL Development (CETRAD) and Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)- University of Bern have had a long term partnership and worked on a 3 year project to produce the Atlas report in a collaboration effort with Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS). The socio-economic atlas is a culmination of the national welfare and poverty mapping project initiated in 2011.
The atlas has 7 chapters and 63 maps and was produced through collaborative efforts of experts in Kenya and Switzerland. The themes covered in the atlas are: population distribution and dynamics, Water, Sanitation and Energy, Household assets and Communications, Poverty and Welfare, Education and Economic activities.
The atlas depicts the results of Kenya Population and Housing Census 2009 and incorporates information from the 2005/06 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey through small area estimation techniques.
The atlas is unique in the high resolution representation of spatial variation of the findings up to the sub location level. In his remarks, Prof. Urs Wiesmann of University of Berne said that the Atlas is unique and represents an important visual planning tool to guide decision making up to the sub location level. The Siwss Ambassador to Kenya Jacques Pitteloud stated that the Atlas report is the first of its kind in Africa and Kenya particularly policy makers at the local level will benefit from the easy visual appeal backed by various data affecting policies for devolved governance.
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CETRAD runs a rich hydromet data and information base generated from its long term and comprehensive monitoring network in the upper Ewaso Ngiro North river basin. Most of this data is now linked through a real time transmission system and interfaced to its database as well as to some selected Water Resources Users Associations (WRUAs) in the upstream areas.
