How mapping can help the fight against Female Genital Mutilation in Tanzania. Using Openstreetmap, Maps.Me and ODK to map communities at risk so the police and activists can better find and protect them.

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

6. Activists
in rural Tanzania
need
MAPS!

7. We are making them!

9. MAPPING ON MAPS.ME
We train 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 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.

12. We trained Digital
Champions, first time
smartphone users to map
their villages and report
Gender Based Violence
using ODK.
Here they see a printed
map of their village for the
first time.

14. We have set up Youthmapper groups at 8
universities across Tanzania

15. Hope now collects all data on ODK (Open
Data Kit) a free app that allows offline
collection and easy data analysis

17. Please join us and help map to help protect girls from FGM!
Rhobi Samwelly
mndlutume@gmail.com
@Crowd2Map