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WELCOME TO OUR MAPATHON

3 STEPS TO GET READY

Head to openstreetmap.org

and click ‘log in / sign up’ in the top right hand corner, and sign up

1. Create an Account

2. Confirm account

3. Review 1-Pager

Check your email and confirm your account by clicking the link provided

Read through the guide on your table to get familiar with how to map

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MAPATHON TO END FGM

AGENDA

Introduction: what is mapping and why do we do it?
Mapping & FGM: mapping to end Female Genital Mutilation in Tanzania
Mapathon: learning to map in OpenStreetMap
Mapping & the SDGs: How can participatory mapping support programming
Project example: Mapping in Uganda supporting UNHCR

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MISSING MAPS

WHAT IS IT? 150,000 VOLUNTEERS

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MISSING MAPS

HOW DO WE DO IT?

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MISSING MAPS

WHO DO WE SUPPORT?

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This is the highest quality map an NGO working in a location like the ones we map could expect to have. About 80,000 people live in the area shown below. From this map it’s hard to understand connectivity, population size, and how to pinpoint issues in the event of health crises or outbreaks.

CURRENT MAPS

HOW TO DELIVER HEALTHCARE HERE?

Suggested: 3 min

If you need to delete a slide because of time, this one might be the best?

This is a place in Democratic Republic of Congo which is unmapped, where we are working with MSF. It might look like there’s a lot of detail here, but actually this is a huge area (bottom road 225km, top road 190km long). People in this area tend to have a lot of children and work in subsistence jobs. There are also a lot of people in the top right area of the map, where currently it looks blank. One of the biggest health issues in this area is malnutrition. Children come into health centres where the red dots are to be treated for malnutrition. They stay in hospital for two weeks and when they are discharged, they are not completely better. They need to come back every week to be weighed and receive plumpynut (fortified peanut butter sachets for malnourished children). If they do not come back, then they often then end up in hospital again for another two week stay. This is a) really bad for their health, and b) very expensive for the charity providing the healthcare. However, there are very clear reasons why families wouldn’t return with their child as they are travelling up to 200km to access the health centres and have very very limited resources. We mapped the area, so that instead of having to take in children for repeated stays in hospital, the hospitals could hire motorbike drivers to drive out and provide the food packages to the children. This is a lot better for their health, as well as saving a lot of money for the hospital so they can continue to work on other health problems.

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FIGHTING FGM WITH MAPS

MAPPING RURAL TANZANIA

FGM is the cutting of female genitalia for cultural or religious reasons:

Type 1: partial or total removal of the clitoris

Type 2: as Type 1 with additional removal of labia minora and often labia majora

Type 3: re-arrangement of the genitals to narrow the vaginal opening

Type 4: all other procedures (pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauterizing)

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FGM IN RURAL TANZANIA

WHY DO WE NEED MAPS

We run community outreach and education programs, and provide shelter to girls at risk of FGM in Safe Houses.

Maps are critical for:

Community outreach: We need to know where all the villages are to ensure no one is left behind in outreach/education programs

Emergency response: FGM typically happens during a ‘cutting season’ in school holidays. We receive emergency reports about girls at risk of FGM and we need to find them that very same day to rescue them. Without maps this is very difficult.

Rural Tanzania

Dar es Salaam

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SAFE HOUSES

WE NEED TO FIND GIRLS & THEY NEED TO FIND US

Impact: since we started using maps in our work we have

Helped 3000 girls find Safe houses and avoid being cut
Reduced FGM by 72% in our area (from 3700 to 1076)

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CROWD2MAP TANZANIA

9500+ VOLUNTEERS MAKING MAPS

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Identify areas for detailed mapping: using MapSwipe, volunteers swipe through satellite imagery identifying populated places

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Remote mapping: using the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager, volunteers map buildings and roads

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Remote validation: remote volunteers validate the map

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Field mapping: local mappers use Maps.Me app to add information: village names, schools, hospitals, etc

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Printing maps: create PDF printable maps which are shared to local volunteers, local government, anyone who wants to use them

Remote volunteers

Local volunteers

Remote volunteers

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Circular buildings are harder to spot than square buildings! Look out for:

Defined half moon shadows
Raised points in the centre
Surrounding paths and fencing

MAPPING DEMO

PROJECT 5284: MAPPING BUILDINGS

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Yumbe, Uganda

UGANDA REFUGEE CRISIS

1.5 million refugees, and the world’s youngest population (78% under 30) which has growing needs. Data is not effectively used to support the crisis: scale, continuity, coordination.

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PARTICIPATION

Refugees, partners, host communities come together to map the places they live and work

This information comes from the communities themselves - often in very remote locations where no data exists

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Community engagement

Simple, low tech, offline solutions

Visualisation and access in open tools

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Community members on motorbikes...

… mapping every water point (2,413 in Arua District)

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DATA OPENLY AVAILABLE

FOR UN AGENCIES, NGOS

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MAPPING AND THE SDGS

ACHIEVING & MONITORING

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Citizen generated data: huge untapped opportunity to close SDG data gap. Community mapping harnesses informal data producers to fill gaps of formal data users and validate existing data sources

Leveraging community knowledge: re-writing the rulebook on how data is gathered from, and represents a community – from the preserve of elite professionals to empowering locals.

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Local people, local tools, just add knowledge

FIELD MAPPING

SUSTAINABLE, LOW COST, LOCAL

Training: leave behind the knowledge and capacity for the project to continue

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Community: locally appropriate methodology

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Tools: home made or already owned, low tech Android apps

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