The document discusses efforts to combat female genital mutilation (FGM) in Tanzania through the creation of accessible maps to help girls locate safehouses. It highlights the prevalence of FGM, the mapping process involving remote and local volunteers, and successful outcomes such as assisting over 3,000 girls and reducing the death rate from FGM by 75%. The initiative emphasizes community involvement and the need for additional support and volunteers.

1. Fighting
Female Genital Mutilation
with
Maps

2. 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)

3. 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

4. Local FGM survivor Rhobi Samwelly
The Tanzania Development Trust supports:
• Safe Houses
• Outreachwork

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

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

7. Girls
in rural Tanzania
need
MAPS!

8. We are making them!

9. With
• Accessible to anyone with internet access
• Driven by a global community with detailed local knowledge
!!

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. Using MapSwipe app to identify areas
with buildings

13. HOTOSM Tasking Manager – remote
volunteers trace roads and buildings
from
satellite images

14. Local Volunteers use
Map.Me app to add
names of buildings etc

15. Local Volunteers use
printed FieldPapers to
validate & add new
buildings and names of
roads etc

16. Example of an
annotated
FieldPaper
emailed to RV

17. • 7500+ mappers
• 2.9 million buildings added
RVs produce paper maps with
QGIS

18. People like Rhobi now have digital maps:
MapMap
MapMap
And some girls have paper maps:

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

20. We have trained over 600 local mappers!

21. 2017
$5000 grant
• To buy 48 smartphones
• To train village-level community change agents in 12 areas of Tanzania
• To generate village and ward-level maps of water, health and land-rights

22. j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org
@crowd2map
We really need you! Please join us!