An overview of Crowd2Map's work. Join our Slack Channel here https://join.slack.com/t/crowd2map/shared_invite/zt-q04pcgqp-oiICJUFnp61Czn5vguV_Ig and our 6th birthday party here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/find-out-about-britain-tanzania-society-and-tanzania-development-trust-tickets-168803013357

1. Mapping to fight
Female Genital Mutilation
in Tanzania

3. This is rural Tanzania:
(Over 10,000 people live
in this area, not shown on
any map)
This is Dar es Salaam:

4. 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)

5. 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

6. Local FGM survivor and Hope
Director Rhobi Samwelly
• Local Activists
• Outreach work
• Safe Houses
• Rhobi told her
survivors story at a UN
special panel on FGM
in New York 2018…
Hope for Girls and Women supports:

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

8. Activists
in rural Tanzania
need
MAPS!

9. Crowd2Map are making them!
• Over 16,000 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…

10. 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

11. Training and retaining mappers…
• Using Free Aps. Canvas and Badgr
• Development and expansion of training materials
• Addressing the most common rookie errors
• Building skills quickly
• Developed badges as an incentive, sign of recognition
• Moved to make mappers independent of support, quicker

12. • Some communities
will be seeing their
environment
represented as a
map for the first
time
Digital champions in villages…

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

16. Join Us…
Help protect these girls and young
women from FGM and GBV
Crowd2Map.org
Janet Chapman
Chair, Tanzania Development Trust,
Crowd2Map founder
j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org