Zimbabwe Rural Energy Master Plan 2015
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UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE Department of Geography and Environmental Science P O Box MP167, Mt Pleasant, Harare Zimbabwe Rural Energy Master Plan 2015 Draft Report on Digitisation of Rural Settlements 06 November 2015 Zimbabwe Rural Energy Master Plan 2015 – Draft Report on Digitisation of Rural Settlements (06 November 2015) Table of Contents 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3 2. Scope ........................................................................................................................................... 3 3. Objective ..................................................................................................................................... 4 4. Key Tasks ..................................................................................................................................... 4 5. UZ-DGES Team ............................................................................................................................ 4 6. Methodology ............................................................................................................................... 5 6.1 Data Preparation ................................................................................................................. 5 6.2 Digitising Homesteads ......................................................................................................... 5 6.3 Buffer Delineation and Extraction of Settlements .............................................................. 7 7. Problems Encountered ............................................................................................................... 9 7.1 Lack of Data ......................................................................................................................... 9 7.2 Effort ................................................................................................................................... 9 8. Provincial Summaries ................................................................................................................ 10 8.1 National Overview............................................................................................................. 10 8.2 Manicaland ........................................................................................................................ 12 8.3 MashCentral ...................................................................................................................... 14 8.4 MashEast ........................................................................................................................... 16 8.5 MashWest ......................................................................................................................... 18 8.6 Masvingo ........................................................................................................................... 20 8.7 MatNorth .......................................................................................................................... 22 8.8 MatSouth .......................................................................................................................... 24 8.9 Midlands ............................................................................................................................ 26 9. Conclusion ................................................................................................................................ 29 Appendix A: Rural Settlements in Manicaland Province ..................................................................... 30 Appendix B: Rural Settlements in Mashonaland Central Province ...................................................... 32 Appendix C: Rural Settlements in Mashonaland East Province ........................................................... 34 Appendix D: Rural Settlements in Mashonaland West Province ......................................................... 36 Appendix E: Rural Settlements in Masvingo Province ......................................................................... 38 Appendix F: Rural Settlements in Matabeleland North Province ........................................................ 40 Appendix G: Rural Settlements in Matabeleland South Province ....................................................... 42 Appendix H: Rural Settlements in Midlands Province ......................................................................... 44 2 | P a g e Zimbabwe Rural Energy Master Plan 2015 – Draft Report on Digitisation of Rural Settlements (06 November 2015) 1. Introduction The Rural Electrification Agency (“REA”) on behalf of the Ministry of Energy and Power Development is establishing a Rural Energy Master Plan (“REMP”) that will guide on how access to modern forms of energy can be improved in rural areas. Norconsult is the consultant for this project. The REMP is to be developed as a GIS-based planning tool, which requires the digitisation and geo- referencing of all relevant data. A key dataset that requires compilation in digitised and geo- referenced format is the rural settlements, which include growth points, rural service centres, business centres, A1/A2 farms and villages. In addition to determining accurate geographic coordinates of the settlements, key attributes of each settlement are to be gathered and compiled. In June 2015, Norconsult contracted the University of Zimbabwe’s Department of Geography and Environmental Science (“UZ-DGES”) to digitise and geo-reference all rural settlements in Zimbabwe, together with their key attributes. 2. Scope The scope of the assignment entailed the compilation and delivery of a comprehensive data set of rural settlements in all eight rural provinces of Zimbabwe, in digital and geo-referenced format, complete with the following key attributes (where available): a) Name of settlement b) Location i. Coordinates (of centre of the settlement) ii. Province, District and Ward c) Type of settlement i. Growth point, rural service centre, business centre, resettlement area, A1/A2 farm, or village ii. Administrative centre (yes or no) d) Land use sector: communal land, resettlement area, growth point, state land, small/large scale farm, etc e) Infrastructure in settlement (where this can be identified or data sets are available) i. Number of homesteads and houses (within 1 km of the settlement centre) ii. Public institutions (school, clinics, agritex, police station, post office, etc) iii. Telecom (eg mobile phone or TV tower) iv. Shops and other businesses v. Other productive activities (eg irrigation, mining, tobacco curing, grain milling) The assignment was to be undertaken over a period of 3-4 weeks. 3 | P a g e Zimbabwe Rural Energy Master Plan 2015 – Draft Report on Digitisation of Rural Settlements (06 November 2015) 3. Objective In order to equip REA with a GIS-based planning tool for providing modern energy services in rural areas, the relevant information (energy sources and beneficiaries) needs to be available in digital and geo-referenced format. During the REMP Inception Phase it was established that such information is largely not available in digital and geo-referenced format, which necessitated such data to be compiled and digitised. The objective of this assignment was to digitise and geo-reference all rural settlements in Zimbabwe, and to determine the settlements’ energy-planning-related attributes, as far as possible, from existing data and information. 4. Key Tasks UZ-DGES undertook the following tasks, activities and arrangements as part of this assignment: 1 Digitisation, geo-referencing and classification (in terms of settlement type and land use sector) of identified rural settlements; 2 Determination of settlement attributes as per the list above in Section 2, and compilation of a comprehensive digital and geo-referenced database; 3 Cross-referencing of attribute data obtained from line ministry departments, NGOs and other sources; 4 Preparation of this report summarising the dataset for each province and district. 5. UZ-DGES Team The assignment was undertaken by a competent team of researchers from UZ-DGES, as follows: Name and Position Qualifications Description of Role / Function Coordinator / Georeferenced Professor Amon Murwira PhD in Geographic Information Near Real-time data capture Science and Earth Observation expert (Mobile and Satellite Associate Professor applications) Mr Isaiah Gwitira MPHIL in Geographic Geonetcast satellite reception Information Science and Earth Lecturer – Geoinformation expert Observation Science Masters in Environmental Mr Munyaradzi Davis Shekede Policy and Planning with special GIS and Earth Observation applications in Geographic Lecturer – Geoinformation expert Information Science and Earth Science Observation Mr Liberty Mlambo Near Real Time Expert and Web- BSc in Surveying designer Senior Technician 4 | P a g e Zimbabwe Rural Energy Master Plan 2015 – Draft Report on Digitisation of Rural Settlements (06 November 2015) 6. Methodology In this section we detail the methods that were used to digitise settlements as well as homesteads used in this study. The methods used in this exercise included digitisation, geo-referencing and classification of settlements by type and land use sector of all identified rural settlements. In addition, we also describe how we determined settlement attributes based on the criteria provided by Norconsult. We then detail how we compiled a comprehensive