Choose from remote and local mapping tasks below.
Help Crowd2Map map rural Tanzania to better protect girls from Female Genital Mutilation. Tanzania has a very high incidence of Female Genital Mutilation, extreme poverty, early marriage and Gender Based Violence. NGOs on the ground need better maps to facilitate their outreach work and protect girls at risk of FGM. You can watch a short film explaining how here.
The Red Cross is mapping the Ayeyarwady Delta area in Myanmar as part of a multi-year mapping and data readiness activity to better understand where critical infrastructure and roads are to inform decision making during potential disasters. As recently as 2008 a cyclone killed at least 77,000 people with over 55,900 missing, and left about 2.5 million homeless. The map data will help the Red Cross to better understand where people live in relation to potential hazards so that we can help them be prepared for the disaster and so national decision makers can make better decisions in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.
MSF teams working in Zamfara state, northern Nigeria, respond to a variety of different health needs. These include emergency response to disease outbreaks across the area, outreach, care for children under five, etc. Accurate maps of the area will assist the MSF teams with epidemiological analysis, disease surveillance and logistical planning.
MSF is working in Bouna and Moissala in Chad since 2010 to support primary health care and prevention. This MapSwipe project will help MSF in the understanding of where all villages in the Bouna and Moissala health districts are. This will help in in carrying out geo-point sampling procedures for community surveys and a better programming of health activities.
MSF is supporting health centres in Embu County in Kenya to develop a model of care for Non Communicable Diseases such as diabetes or epilepsy. In order to have a good understanding of the area of interest of the project, it would be valuable to have a high detailed map of the county. This map will help the team to know the accessibility to the health facilities as well as their catchment area.
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