Mercy Corps - Tender to Supply, Install and Support Wajir GIS Lab Equipment - Jobs in Kenya

The idea for The Wajir County GIS lab journey came from the pastoralism and policy workshop for senior County government officials from Wajir in April 2018 in Isiolo.

The objective of this and follow on activities is to strengthen the productivity and resilience of pastoralism in the context of Wajir by developing a policy and institutional framework in support of pastoralism.

GIS lab team will seek to map all grazing land and document them through community led resource mapping activities and further gazette designated areas as protected land for grazing and empower the communities as the key decision makers on matters involving rangelands.

The County government has already built the GIS lab with adequate space within the lands department, the department is already planning to get additional GIS professional staff so that they have dedicated GIS staff for the lab.

Mercy Corps under the BRACED project in partnership with Geo data department and International institute for Environment and development is expected to support setting up of the GIS with the appropriate hardware and software to operationalize the facility.

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