RapGIS · Land acquisition, compensation & resettlement
RapGIS takes each affected parcel from identification to acquisition, and each affected person from census to restored livelihood, on a map your whole team works from.
Why RapGIS
A Resettlement Action Plan touches among many...the surveyors, valuers, GIS officers, finance officers, lawyers, community officers, document controllers and the paying agency. Each keeps their own spreadsheet, and the gaps between them are where the failures and migraines start.
The parcel map, landowner register, household survey, asset inventory, and census may each be maintained separately. If their records do not align, the project can struggle to answer basic questions: Who is affected by this parcel? Which assets belong to this household? Has someone been omitted or counted twice?
The failure: the project loses a dependable connection between people, places, and assets.
Survey data must translate into eligibility determinations, asset valuations, compensation offers, and agreements. A corrected parcel boundary or succession record may affect several downstream decisions.
The failure: a decision gets made using outdated or unverified information, and nobody can easily establish which version was used or why.
A signed agreement, approved compensation schedule, relocation arrangement, or livelihood-restoration plan creates obligations. Each obligation needs an owner, a deadline, evidence of completion, and a way to verify that it was fulfilled.
The failure: the project can report what was approved without reliably showing what was actually delivered.
A complaint about ownership, valuation, succession, or delayed payment may reveal a wider data or process defect. If grievances are merely logged and closed, the underlying issue can persist across multiple affected households.
The failure: the project resolves individual cases without learning from recurring patterns.
Payment is a transaction; restoration is an outcome. A household may receive compensation yet face reduced access to productive land, lost customers, longer journeys, or a diminished income. IFC guidance explicitly addresses baseline data, livelihood restoration, monitoring, and evaluation as parts of the overall process.
The failure: the project measures money disbursed and households relocated, but not whether affected people have recovered their living conditions and livelihoods.
Surveyors, valuers, social specialists, legal teams, finance officers, and project managers each hold part of the picture. When information moves between spreadsheets, reports, emails, and departmental systems, accountability can become fragmented.
The failure: everyone owns a task, but nobody has a complete, current view of the case from beginning to end.
Co-owners, spouses, heirs and tenants change between census and payment. RapGIS keeps ownership shares on the parcel, and succession for deceased landowners passes their exact shares to the heirs.
Structures that appear after the cut-off are a common source of disputes. RapGIS compares the parcel fabric with dated satellite imagery so the evidence is on the map, not in someone's memory.
A parcel can't move to acquisition until it has valid geometry, a verified owner and an approved compensation obligation. The database enforces this, so a shortcut in a spreadsheet can't skip it.
Grievances, consents and documents link to the parcels and persons they concern, and every change is logged. Reporting against IFC PS5 or World Bank ESS5 starts from the record, not from a rebuild.
The parcel lifecycle in RapGIS. Steps in laterite have a gate the system checks before the parcel can move on.
What it does
Each person signs in with a role: surveyor, valuer, compensation officer, grievance officer, resettlement officer and more. Everyone sees the same project; each role can change only its own part.
Map & parcel fabric
Parcels, the acquisition footprint, villages and household locations from the survey GPS, over satellite imagery.
Parcels, persons & ownership
Owners and their shares, assets, valuation, compensation and payments, consents, grievances and documents, on one page per parcel.
Progress
The dashboard counts parcels at each step, consents and valuations against their targets, compensation owed and paid, open grievances and succession cases.
Resettlement
Physically displaced households, the resettlement sites they move to, and the livelihood restoration programmes that follow, with monitoring and evaluation.
Registered against the complainant and the parcels concerned, tracked to resolution. Try it
A versioned document register with access by classification, up to highly confidential. Try it
Import parcels, persons, households with GPS and grievance registers from CSV or KoboToolbox.
One case per deceased landowner's estate, with heirs, shares and the documents the court needs. Try it
Twelve roles from surveyor to IT officer. An IT officer manages accounts; every sign-in and change is in the audit log.
Business rules from the project's requirements are enforced by PostGIS constraints and triggers, and each is traced to a test.
Live demo
The demo holds a synthetic resettlement project in East Embu: 1,450 parcels with their owners, households, valuations, payments and grievances. Pick a role and you're in.
Signs you in as a viewer. For more room, open it in its own tab.
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All names, parcels and amounts in the demo are generated. Visitors share the demo and it resets every night, so please don't enter real personal data. Uploads and imports are switched off.
How it's delivered
Records of affected persons are sensitive: names, ID numbers, family members, payments. RapGIS is installed on a server the client controls, in their office or their own cloud account.
Install
A single Linux server runs the database, the application and HTTPS. We set it up, load your project area and parcel data, and hand over.
Train
Support
Updates, fixes and help as the RAP moves from census to closure. If you'd rather not run a server, we can host an instance for you.
About
Building better systems for land acquisition, compensation and resettlement.
Coordexa Spatial Systems is a land information systems and geospatial technology company developing digital solutions for land acquisition, compensation and resettlement in Kenya.
Founded by Elvis Mutanyi, the company draws on practical experience with the information and workflows that underpin Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs). From parcel schedules and valuation records to succession documentation and grievance registers, these interconnected records are central to project implementation. Yet, when managed across disconnected spreadsheets, documents and GIS datasets, they can make coordination, traceability and informed decision-making unnecessarily difficult.
Our flagship platform, RapGIS, brings these processes into a unified, spatially enabled information management system. It is designed to connect land and affected-person records, support compensation workflows, improve information traceability and give project teams a clearer view of resettlement implementation.
Grounded in the Kenyan land administration context and informed by applicable national legislation and international frameworks, including the IFC Performance Standards and World Bank Environmental and Social Standards, our approach combines geospatial intelligence with structured data management to support more transparent, coordinated and accountable project delivery.
We work with RAP consultants, project developers and acquiring agencies seeking more reliable ways to manage land-related information and resettlement processes.
Our focus is simple: making complex land information more connected, traceable and useful for the decisions that matter.