Open Location Codes Research — KMC & University Consortium
Kanifing Municipal Council / University of Essex
Overview
The Kanifing Municipality — one of The Gambia's most densely populated urban areas — lacks a standardised addressing system, creating challenges for property identification, tax collection, and waste management. A multi-university research consortium (Essex, Sciences Po, Oxford, NYU, UTG) partnered with KMC to evaluate the impact of implementing Open Location Codes through a randomised controlled trial.
2M Corp designed and implemented data collection for both the baseline (2024) and endline (2025) surveys, each covering 4,000 households. Survey instruments were developed in SurveyCTO with built-in quality checks and translated into Mandinka, Wolof, and Pulaar. For the endline, HoneyGuide was deployed for real-time data validation and field team performance monitoring.
Quality assurance included a minimum 5% back-check rate per surveyor, real-time data access for the research team, and signed confidentiality agreements with all field staff.
Impact
The research generates rigorous experimental evidence on whether digital addressing can improve local government service delivery and revenue collection — findings with policy implications for rapidly urbanising African cities facing similar challenges.
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