Over the past 7 years, Crowd2Map has mapped rural areas in Tanzania with over 17,000 volunteers contributing. They have mapped over 5.3 million buildings, nearly 300,000 km of roads, and over 12,000 sq km, adding over 10,000 points of interest. This mapping helps end female genital mutilation (FGM) by identifying safe houses and routes for activists. Recently, they have trained over 151 local digital champions and youth mappers to continue mapping in their villages and educate about FGM and gender-based violence. As a result of these mapping efforts, over 3,000 girls have avoided being cut, and the FGM death rate has reduced by 75%.

1. Seven years of mapping in rural
Tanzania

4. Crowd2Map are making them!
• Over 17,000 Volunteers
• Worldwide contributors
• Over 5.3 Million buildings
• Nearly 300,000 km roads
• Over 12,000 sq km mapped
• Nearly 10,000 POI
• Water points
• Health facilities
Since October 2015…

5. WE’RE MAPPING RURAL TANZANIA TO HELP END FGM & FOR DEVELOPMENT:
• Remote mapping via Tasking Manager
• Fieldmapping with Organic Maps & ODK

6. REMOTE MAPPERS VS COMMUNITY MAPPERS
Highly educated to degree level or
beyond
Many did not complete secondary
school
Have used maps in their daily life since
childhood
Had never seen a map of their local area
Own and can skilfully use a large range
of technology
Had never used a smartphone, or laptop
or been online.

8. HOT Microgrant in 2017 enabled us to recruit
female mappers for the first time

9. But female mappers face additional challenges
with:
• Men telling them they are “wasting their
time” and should be at home doing their
chores
• Harrassment, threats and inappropriate
touching from men, particularly when
travelling on public transport
• Plots to lure them to remote places to be
raped

10. SO WHY DO WOMEN MAP? IN THEIR WORDS
1. We do it to help increase
development in our communities.
2.To help girls escape FGM -activists
houses are being added and roads.
3.To help other women in villages be
able to escape gender based
violences like women beating
4.To be part of change in our
communities

11. How can these challenges be overcome? IN THEIR WORDS
1.Educating people about maps
and mapping and its importance
to the community and nation at
large.
2.Men in villages to be educated
on gender equality and treating
women right.
3.Security to be increased in
villages; for example presence
of more police stations

12. HOW CAN THE MAPPING COMMUNITY HELP?
• Recognise additional challenges faced
• Put in structures to assist ie 50% participation,
women only groups, role models, being mindful
of male domination in training.
• Mapping aspects that are of importance to
women.
• More materials on why mapping rural areas
benefits women.
• Recognising additional funding needs

13. TRADITIONAL ROLES

15. HUMANITARIAN
www.tasks.hotosm.org

17. Volunteers added clinic locations from
Open Government Data

18. Using water point location data to add
village names.

19. Slack channel is good for
generating a community, and
for volunteers to ask
questions and get instant
feedback on their 1st
mapping attempts etc. – if
anyone would like to join
please let me know!
Connecting Volunteers…
https://join.slack.com/t/crowd2map/shared_invite/zt-q04pcgqp-oiICJUFnp61Czn5vguV_Ig

20. Training and retaining mappers…
Quizzes and Badges
• Development and expansion of training materials
• Addressing the most common errors
• Building skills quickly
• Developed badges as an incentive, sign of recognition
• Moved to make mappers independent of support, quicker

22. Mapping Locally…

23. And trained the police
and activists to use the
maps to quickly find
and protect girls at risk.
And also add missing
places to the map.
Allows route finding
Building a community of contributors…

24. Girls are rounded up during the
‘Cutting Season’
when they are on school holidays
70% +
50% +
Less than 50%
FGM Prevalence in Tanzanian Women and Girls 2016

25. • Over 151 Digital champions are
now trained
• Support from UNFPA Tz
• Digital Champions also educate
their communities on FGM and
GBV – in their village
• Using ODK Maps and Organic
Maps
• Pharmacies, churches, clinics,
police stations and safe places
are also mapped.
Digital champions in villages…

27. Better maps have:
• Helped 3000+ girls to find safehouses
and avoid being cut
• Coincided with a reduced FGM
death rate of 75%
7 years of mapping has yielded results…

29. 16 Youthmapper Chapters in Tanzania

32. Volunteer Opportunities with Crowd2Map
• Mapping
• Validating
• Creating Kobo/ODK forms, and inputting ODK data into OSM
• Giving feedback to new mappers
• Delivering online training
• Creating training videos
• Developing badges
• Creating maps
• Helping with social media
• Hosting mapathons

34. Join Us…
Crowd2Map.org
Janet Chapman
Chair, Tanzania Development Trust,
Crowd2Map founder
j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org