Spatial planning and monitoring of landscape interventions: Using maps to link people to their landscapes Presented by Chris Planicka, EcoAgriculture Partners, as part of the East African Learning Landscape Regional Knowledge Exchange, at the African Institute for Capacity Development at Jomo Kenyatta University on June 2-3, 2015. For more information, see: http://bit.ly/1KtnN0S

1. Spatial planning and monitoring of
landscape interventions
Using maps to link people to their landscapes
Chris Planicka, EcoAgriculutre Partners
Regional Knowledge Exchange
AICAD, Kenya
June 3, 2015

3. Steps in the process

4. Preparing to start the spatial planning
process
● Collect topographic and thematic maps
● Introduce participants to planning landscape for
multiple outcomes
● Introduce participants to maps

5. 1. Identify most important
benefits and locations in the
landscape Activities
1. Each participant lists all benefits they are aware of from
their landscape
2. Participants highlight the landscape benefits that are most
important to them (3 to 7 benefits per participant)
3. Participants discuss if these benefits are provided locally
or are coming from somewhere else in the landscape
4. Areas that provide the most important benefits are
marked on a map

6. 2. Identify areas where
change for improved benefit
supply is desired
Activities
1. Participants mark areas in the landscape that have
recently changed or are currently changing
2. Participants discuss how this influence the most
important landscape benefits (Step 1)
3. Participants list objectives for agricultural production,
biodiversity conservation and livelihood security
4. Areas where action is needed to meet these goals are
identified

7. 3.Identify who currently
manages areas where change
is desired
Activities
1. Participants define who governs, owns and manages the
areas where changes is desired?
2. Participants list current administrative mechanisms,
bylaws and regulations to the area and resource
management, local and national level
local and national
Laws and
Regulations

8. 4.Define what and how to
measure landscape resources
Activities
1. Participants define appropriate data type or (proxy)
indicators (land cover) to describe and measure each
landscape benefit
2. Participants identify the size of the benefit-providing
area using a range of maps, and variation in time of the
resource provisioning (e.g. seasonality)
3. Participants define data collection methods (e.g. field
measures, surveys, photography)

9. 5. Asses how a change in
landscape impacts people
Activities
1. Participants propose changes to improve agricultural
production, biodiversity conservation and livelihood
security for the selected locations
2. Participants assess the difference in benefit flows to
sectors/stakeholder groups after change (ie impact
assessment)
3. Participants discuss the potential synergies or conflicts
resulting from a planned change in the landscape
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10. 6. Plan and implement
landscape change
Activities
1. Based on the joint impact assessment, participants
decide on the preferred landscape change
2. Participants stepwise plan for a changed landscape
• Using a range of maps and other spatial information
• Involving relevant governance stakeholders
• For a set time horizon

11. 8. Monitor changes
Activities
1. Participants plan data collection to monitor changes in
the landscape
2. Participants discuss how to make the planning adaptive
to possible future change

12. Users’ guide to spatial planning

13. Tool Showcase: Ground-Based Photo
Monitoring

14. Steps in the process
Establish a
GBPM Team
Design an
Analytical
Framework
Design a
Sampling
Scheme
Collect Data
Organize,
Analyze and
Store

15. Establish a GMPMTeam

16. Design an Analytical Framework

17. Design a Sampling Scheme

18. Collect Data

19. Organize, Analyze and Store