Fighting
Female Genital Mutilation
with
Maps

FGM
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 the labia minora and often the 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)

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

Local FGM survivor and Hope
Director Rhobi Samwelly
Hope for Girls and Women supports:
• Local Activists
• Outreach
work
• Safe Houses

What we do:
• Run 2 Safe Houses
• Community Outreach
• Set up anti-FGM school clubs
• Film Screenings
• Map the villages where girls are at risk
• Set up Digital Champions there to monitor and protect girls
• Re-educate cutters
• Help in prosecutions for FGM, rape and GBV.

This is rural Tanzania:
This is Dar es Salaam:

Activists
in rural Tanzania
need
MAPS!

We are making them!

Slack channel is good for
generating a community, and
for volunteers to ask
questions and get instant
feedback on their 1st
mapping attempts etc.
Join here
https://bit.ly/C2MSlack

When you achieve 100% you get a badge.
Currently we have a quizzes for buildings, and roads, with more to come.
https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/JAHNEB

We have set up Youthmapper groups at 8
universities across Tanzania

MAPPING ON MAPS.ME
We train field mappers
in rural Tanzania to add
their local knowledge to
the map using
Maps.Me, a free
smartphone app that
works offline.

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.

In 2019, with funding from
WomenConnect we
trained 87 Digital
Champions, first time
smartphone users to map
their villages and report
Gender Based Violence
using ODK.
Here they see a printed
map of their village for the
first time.
This is an ongoing project
that we want to expand to
other districts.

The Digital Champions report Gender
Based Violence to the District Social
Welfare Officers using ODK.
ODK is a free opensource app that
works offline.
They are also using it to follow up
girls who have returned from the Safe
Houses after the cutting season.

After initial funding stopped in
2019 we continued training via
WhatsApp.
Digital Champions are now
involved in research on FGM risk
with Nottingham University.

Hope now collects all data on ODK to
allow easy data analysis

I was invited to speak at the
UN General Assembly in New
York in September 2018, and
also organise a mapathon at
UNFPA.

https://esaro.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-
pdf/unfpa_pub_2020_en_state_of_world_population_
0.pdf

https://esaro.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-
pdf/unfpa_pub_2020_en_state_of_world_population_0.pdf

Please join us and help map to help protect girls from FGM!
Janet Chapman Rhobi Samwelly
j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org mndlutume@gmail.com
@Crowd2Map @HopeForGirlsTZ