Mau Spatial Data Clearinghouse is an initiative of research, education and developemnt 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

1. Seminars on Local Spatial Data Clearinghouse
2. Services for Designing Standardized Data Capture Templates as per existing Environmental Policies (Water Act -2002, Forest Act -2005, EMCA-1999, etc)
3. Training Sessions on Basic GIS Skills (Freeware GIS softwares)
4. Training on GPS Serveys
5. 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.