Community Mapping for Flood Resilience – The case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

[Chambi Chachage]

"This paper is based on the experiences from the Ramani Huria -community mapping project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where spatial data of the informal settlements have been collected and uploaded into the OpenStreetMap for improved community flood resilience. The project has been run through the participation of the community members, university students, local government officers and Tanzanian authorities. The objective of Ramani Huria is to map the whole city of Dar es Salaam and by March 2018, more than 50% of Dar es Salaam has been mapped. The mapped area comprises over 4 million people, 450,000 buildings and 1,700 schools. Furthermore more than 470 university students have been trained and more that 300 Red Cross community members have been involved in the mappings. Since most of the communities have not been using maps before, maps have been able to support establishment of a planning process where communities have increased their resilience to floods by understanding where the vulnerabilities in their living environment are" - ATTACHED

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Community Mapping for Flood Resilience – The case of Dar es ...