A presentation at Data4Good summit in May 2021.

1. Community mapping in Tanzania:
a local solution towards SDG
monitoring

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

5. But girls and their parents couldn’t find the
safehouses:
And safehouse staff couldn’t find them:

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

7. Activists
in rural Tanzania
need
MAPS!

8. Remote mappers
from all over the
world trace roads
and buildings
from satellite
images to make a
base map in
OpenStreetMap
– an open source
map.
Anyone with an
internet
connection can
get involved – so
please get in
touch if you
would like to
help.

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

11. And train the police and
activists to use the maps
to quickly find and
protect girls at risk.
And also add missing
places to the map.

13. We trained Digital
Champions in each village
in Serengeti to map their
village, and to report GBV.
Here new smartphone
users see a map of their
village for the first time.

15. Digital Champions were selected
from the Women and Children’s
Protection Committee by the
village. They had never used a
smartphone before.
Training included how to use the
phone that they were provided
with. It also included a micro sd
(memory) card with
downloaded videos, books and
other materials about
agriculture, health and womens’
rights.

16. Digital Champions were
trained how to report
incidents of GBV using a
free app called ODK,
Open Data Kit.
Incidents went to Social
Welfare who dealt with
them.

17. Digital Champions were joined
into a WhatsApp group for
ongoing training and support, as
well as training in person and
training visits by Safe House staff.

18. Digital Champions
being trained on an
app called
PlantVillage Nuru on
how to detect pests in
maize and cassava.

19. Ending FGM has many components as
well as the Digital Champions:
Community work
Anti-FGM clubs and work in schools
Re-educating Cutters
Entrepreneurship training
Digital Champions are working with
Nottingham University on researching
on risk factors for FGM and how they
vary between villages.
More information here.

22. Digital Champions
also surveyed access
to services such as
water and
pharmacies in their
villages.

26. In Matare Village,
after an
introduction to
the SDGs
villagers were
asked which
were most
relevant to their
community.

27. Priorities
were:
• Access to
healthcare
• Access to
clean water
• Better roads
to market

28. Next steps:
Sample
village every
6 months to
track
progress.

29. Janet Chapman Rhobi Samwelly
j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org hopeforgirlsandwomenserengeti@gmail.com
@Crowd2Map @HopeForGirlsTZ