Presentation for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Webinar by Microgrant recipients on Gender in Mapping in Tanzania on how we are fighting FGM and empowering female mappers in rural Tanzania.

1. HOT Community Webinar:
Gender
Crowd2Map Tanzania

2. Fighting
Female Genital Mutilation
with
Maps

3. 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)

4. 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

5. Local FGM survivor and activist
Rhobi Samwelly
The Tanzania Development Trust supports:
• Local Activists
• Outreach
work
• Safe Houses

6. But girls cannot find the safehouses:
And safehouse staff cannot find them:

7. This is rural Tanzania:
This is Dar es Salaam:

8. Girls
in rural Tanzania
need
MAPS!

9. We are making them!

10. http://bit.ly/C2MDashboard
Where we’ve mapped so far:

11. How we map
1. Set up a task on MapSwipe app to determine where the buildings
are in the area to be mapped – remote volunteers RV
2. Create a task on HOTOSM Task Manager to map the areas with
buildings – RV
3. Add names of buildings, villages etc using Maps.Me app – local
volunteers
4. Validate and add any new buildings, names of roads, land use etc
using printed FieldPapers – local volunteers – email to RV
5. Create PDFs of village maps using QGIS and email to LV to print.
RV = Remote volunteers
LV = Local volunteers

12. 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.

13. Remote mappers recruited via UN online volunteering website slight
majority are female:

14. Majority are new mappers who had never heard
of OSM – womens’ rights are important to them

15. Smartphones a novelty in the areas we are
mapping, and are usually owned by men

16. HOT Microgrant enabled us to
recruit female mappers for the
first time

17. But female mappers face additional
challenges:
• 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 or assaulted

18. 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
How can these challenges be overcome? In their own words

19. 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
violence like women beating
4.To be part of change in our
communities
SO WHY DO THESE WOMEN MAP? IN THEIR OWN WORDS

20. In training men tend to try and take over if there is not enough
equipment to go round

21. When setting up a YouthMapper chapter we specified there should be both
men and women in the posts of responsibility. Almost all of the men
volunteered. None of the women did.

22. • 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
• Support them with official letters etc.
HOW CAN THE HOT COMMUNITY HELP?

23. Better maps have:
• helped 3000+ girls to find safehouses
and avoid being cut
• coincided with a reduced FGM
death rate of 75%

24. We have trained over 600 local mappers around 40% female

25. Mapping is a tool towards
greater gender equality in
Tanzania and we should support
the disadvantaged and
courageous community of rural
female Tanzanian mappers.

26. j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org
@crowd2map
Please join us!