Presentation given at OpenStreetMap Local Congress, November 2022, outlining Crowd2Map's work on mapping rural Tanzania for community development, progress towards the SDGs and to help protect girls from FGM. More information here https://crowd2map.org/

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. HUMANITARIAN
www.tasks.hotosm.org

7. Volunteers added clinic locations from
Open Government Data

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

9. 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

10. 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

12. Mapping Locally…

13. 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…

14. 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

15. • 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…

17. 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…

19. 16 Youthmapper Chapters in Tanzania

22. 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

23. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/crowd2map-tanzania

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