Presentation at mapathon at Goodwins Law firm in London, July 2019

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

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

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

7. Activists
in rural Tanzania
need
MAPS!

8. We are making them!

12. MAPPING ON MAPS.ME

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

14. We have trained over 1600 local activists to map their
communities in Tanzania, around 40% female

15. Mapping is a tool towards
greater gender equality and
measuring progresses towards
the SDGs.

16. We were invited to organise a
mapathon at UNFPA in New
York in September.
It was attended by 60 people
from UNFPA, UNICEF,
HOTOSM, Youthmappers and
others

17. To coincide with this
we held a global
mapathon events in 60
countries.
Including at the
Ministry for Women in
Somalia, in Mali,
Guinea, Kenya, Niger,
Uganda and many
others.

20. Please join us and help map to help protect girls from FGM!
Janet Chapman
j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org
@Crowd2Map

21. https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/vid
eos/873491619459013/?t=0
https://vimeo.com/190461158