Developing Environmental Education Tools Based on Geodata to Create Awareness for the Kakamega-Nandi Forests Ecosystem

Over the last 100 years the Kakamega-Nandi forests area, western Kenya, experienced a loss of about 60 % in natural forest cover due to human interferences. In order to create awareness for sustainable forest use among the local population, tools for environmental education have been developed. The tools, here among others a jigsaw puzzle and a card game, aim at making use of geospatial data because map reading literacy is considered a prerequisite in any natural resource management and planning. The tools are introduced as well as the chosen participatory approach, which allowed enhancement of prototypes in an iterative manner.