Humanitarian OSM Team/HOT Microgrants/Community Impact Microgrants 2021/Proposal/Mapping of Humanitarian Organizations in Burundi
Your project
This is an opportunity for you to tell us about your project. In this section we'd like to hear about your community, which local challenge your project addresses, what you plan to do and how, your sustainability plan, and how you plan to share your stories.
Describe the local challenge your project is addressing
In this section please describe in detail the challenge that your project addresses. We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
We identify two important challenges related to our project:
In the first place, inefficiency and lack of coordination in the humanitarian and the development fields are common and frequent. These happen for several reasons, but particularly because of inadequate and ineffective information-sharing in the sector, which prevents the creation of aligned solutions, coordinated responses, and use of synergies among all the national and international stakeholders. This lack of coordination directly affects the beneficiaries of those interventions and to important waste of resources. As an example, we have seen three different water sources in a school installed by three different organizations, but after some years none of the system worked.
In second place, the local organizations have very limited visibility in the national and international context despite their huge and continuous work for the local communities. There are thousands of local organizations working in Burundi that have been created to respond to the needs of the communities and address many problems in the most efficient and direct way. But they have a very limited access to resources or partnerships from international actors and donors. This lack of resources and visibility reduces the potential impact that most of these organizations could have in developing durable solutions for their communities and populations; the limitation of resources leads also to a reduced empowerment of the local organizations on the capacity of response to the challenges and needs of their communities which is taken by the international organizations.
Describe your project
In this section, please provide specific details about your mapping objectives. This should include: how you will contribute to help solve the local challenge you are addressing, what you aim to achieve with funding, what volume of mapping you plan to complete and how, and the number individuals are you aiming to include in mapping activities. We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
Our plan is to map out all relevant national and international actors operating in the field of humanitarian and development response. In the context of this microgrant, we will pilot our model in the capital of the country, Bujumbura. This will provide a comprehensive classification and GIS identification of NGOs, donors and community based organisations (CBOs) working in the country. A special attention will be put in organizations that are working on critical activities and actions like the inclusion of women, girls and marginalised groups.
Using an existing network of local humanitarian experts with extensive experience in the field we aim at incorporating both former and active members of the OSM community that have worked in Burundi for this task. Therefore, our community will consist of field presenced experts and remote mappers through the OSM community. This network is the core of our project, and we plan to expand it, not only through the existing OSM community in the region, but through the collaboration of other communities running similar initiatives in the context of the humanitarian response plan in the country. This includes current efforts developed by international donors like the IOM, DEVCO or OCHA.
Secondly, training will become an essential component of our network. We will provide the required training to the field members (that are not currently part of the OSM community) and to the OSM community mappers that will join our network by disseminating the model, methodology and data collection practices required for the project. Our plan is to support and accompany these field experts all the way so they empower and develop themselves as local data experts, benefiting their professional work, and the whole community.
In a third phase, we will divide all the experts/mappers by zones and types of organizations that need to be identified. Remote mappers will receive general guidance from the team and will collaborate with the field experts to assist in the actual mapping. The overall mapping process will consist of a comprehensive dataset and map with the detailed actors operating in the city of Bujumbura. The dimensions of analysis will be: name of the organization, GIS localization where the organizations work, sectors of intervention, and description of the activities that they are developing.
Once the data has been collected, it will be standardized, classified, structured, and published in different open data platforms for its public dissemination: OSM, HOT and HDXI.
Describe your sustainability plan
In this section please describe how your activities will continue post-funding. If you are applying for funding to purchase equipment, explain who will store/use the equipment you purchase, and if you have long term sustainability plans for your community's development. We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
We believe that as much the project will grow, the most traction will generate, and more communities, actors, and donors will be part of it, which will enhance the project and increase its economic sustainability along the time.
In particular, we believe that our project will be able to receive funding and data through different kind of actors:
Experts/Mappers Network: We hope to develop the existing field experts group into a network of mappers in Burundi that can grow and develop along the time. By developing their skills through training and accompaniment, and with the aim of continuing providing reliable data to the whole community, we truly believe that many community mappers will join our network and will continue being engaged after the end of this specific project.
Local and community-based organizations: The possibility of being exposed in an international platform that can offer them visibility in the national and international context, can be a very impactful opportunity for increasing their funding and partnerships with international donors and organizations. They could provide and verify data of the local organizations and context in exchange of having presence in the platform.
National and International organizations: The humanitarian and development organizations are very interested to have updated and reliable information about other organizations and actors that work in the field to build partnerships, to map all the actors in a region or sector, and to take decisions on the provinces that they should prioritize. We are already in conversations with some organizations working in the humanitarian sector to offer mapped information about the organizations working in specific sectors and regions in Burundi and Uganda.
Multilateral organizations and humanitarian agencies: These organizations spend huge amounts of resources in the humanitarian and development sectors each year, and are the most interested in fostering this change for better coordination and decision making in the sector. They see how the limited coordination leads to worse impact actions for the beneficiaries in the field, and a huge waste of the resources they bring. We think that in the medium or long term, it can be possible to develop partnerships and receive funding from some multilateral organizations.
What are your community defined project goals, and how do you define project success?
Please explain you project goals. This can include: setting goals such as "we will train X number of new mappers", "we will register as a legal entity", or "the data will be used by X", and why these goals are important to your community such as "we intent to be legally registered so that we can receive more grant funding in the future", "we intend to engage X number of women in mapping activities so that we can empower local women" or "we want to build a partnership with X so that our data will be used and trusted". We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
Our community defined project goals and our definition of success for each of the goals is:
1. Creation and development of field experts/mappers network:
We aim to create and establish a network of field experts and mappers that are committed to providing reliable mapping information to all the organizations working in the field, and have a deep understanding of the local context.
Success: More than 20 experts/mappers contribute to the project with reliable data.
2. Development of the capacities of experts/mappers to become proficient at data collection and validation:
An important goal of the project is the development of the capacities of the mappers regarding data collection procedures and tools. That will also increase the capacities of the whole community in terms of data collection and data sharing. We aim to do two trainings, one in person (we estimate 10 people) and the other one online (we estimate other 10 people) to cover all the field experts/mappers no matter the place in which they are.
Success: At least 20 experts/mappers have received a 1-week training on data collection and are autonomous in the process of collection of relevant data.
3. Enhance the visibility of the local organisations and the community based organisations in the national and international front:
We are committed to enhance the visibility of the local organizations and the community based organisations that have presence in the areas that we collect data, as we aim to map all the organizations, no matter their size.
Success: Our dataset presents a much higher proportion (more than a 30%) of local organizations than the OCHA dataset in Burundi.
4. Our data is open sourced and public to the most possible community members:
Our aim is that our data serves the whole community. We believe that working in collaboration with other data platforms such as HDX (related with the humanitarian and development sectors) that are open to everyone, in addition to HOT and OSM, multiplies the impact of the data collected and is useful for the most possible people.
Success: Our datasets are uploaded in the 2 platforms: OSM/HOT and HDXI.
What are your community's long term goals?
Please give describe your community's vision. This can include: where you see your community in five years time, how you want your data to be used, future partnerships you'd like to establish, or how you would like your community to grow (or not!). We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
Our vision is to collect and share ground-level information of the humanitarian and development organizations working in the field to facilitate partnerships and help projects increase their efficiencies and social impact, as well as to increase the visibility and operational presence of the local organizations.
In five-years term, we see having an active community of national experts and mappers, and local organizations committed to the initiative of mapping the different actors and initiatives in the humanitarian and development sectors. We believe in growing together as a community that offers public data and information sharing, and enhances its capacities through training and practice.
We think that including all the possible organizations (also the most local and community-based) in our datasets “democratises” the organizations that work in the humanitarian and development sectors, instead of mostly excluding the local organizations as it currently happens in most of the existing datasets used by the multilateral organizations, governments and UN agencies. This shift will bring more durable solutions as well as will increase the empowerment of the local communities and organizations in overcoming the challenges faced locally.
We also aim that the collection and development of data mappings of the organizations working in Burundi in the first place, and afterwards other countries with humanitarian and development interventions, supports all the different actors (donors, implementing organizations, communities, coordination agencies, etc.) in their decision making in the implementation of actions to the local communities.
Last but not least, we believe that offering the mapping of humanitarian and development organizations in different countries, will provide a basic structure of information that will allow further information sharing, collaboration and confidence building that aren’t much present currently in the sector.
List the tools you intend to use during your project and why
Please describe which tools you plan to use to collect, update, clean, or store you data and why. For example: "we plan to use HOT's Tasking Manager to coordinate volunteers" or "we will upload our data to X platform because..." We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
During our project, we intend to use different tools to collect and gather the data in the different locations with the members of the local communities, and to standardize, consolidate and visualize the data.
We will use HOT’s Tasking Manager to coordinate the mappers in the different regions of Burundi. The GIS mapping will consist of the usage of OpenStreetMap to localize the organizations in the different regions of the country. Depending on the final structure of the collection, we may implement a complementary form though KoboTool box to include additional qualitative and structural information like description of the activities and sectors of intervention.
After the collection of the data, in terms of technology we will apply Machine Learning models. We want to structure all the final datasets, tackling the lack of standardization that affects the ability to match entities, sectors and locations. This model will combine enrichment, processing and keyword extraction. The final result will allow the industry to have a standard and unique source of entities and interventions both structured and mapped. These processes will be done through free source tools (like Google Colab) using Python language. Additionally, we plan to combine our information with data from contextual GIS information systems into visual representations to generate trends, outliers, and patterns to better analyze the results.
In terms of internal communication with the team, members we will use whatsapp and email. The training sessions will be offered through Google Meet and we complemented with other interactive tools such as Mentimeter.
For external purposes, we aim to make accessible all the data collected to the most possible members, in this regard, in addition to OpenStreetMap, we will publish it through our own channels (website, LinkedIn, Twitter) and in Humanitarian Data platforms such as the Humanitarian Development Exchange.
Please give examples of how you will use share your stories with others. This can include: how you will publicise your news, where you will collect media content, how you will use social media channels, and if you will reach out beyond your immediate network to share your stories. We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
We think that telling stories is the best way to communicate the importance of our work to the whole community, not only to the one that already understands the importance of the access to open data.
For the collection of stories we have personal and professional experience in our work with the local community members that transmit us the challenges that they face themselves and the local community due to the lack of access to information, lack of coordination, and lack of visibility. This is how we decided to start this project. Our continuous relationship with the community allows us to deepen in the challenges that they face, and share new stories with the whole community.
We are currently sharing these stories throughout a Twitter channel and a LinkedIn channel. In these, we regularly explain the importance of collecting, validating and sharing reliable information from the field, to help in the decision making and coordination of local actions in the humanitarian and development sectors. In our media channels we do collaborations with other influential members of the humanitarian community that they see the importance of having accessible open and reliable data.
Finally, we try to reach new channels of communication in our community and outside of it to talk about the work that we and the larger community is doing in open source data.
Partnerships
Successful applications will demonstrate one or more partnerships with a local data user. Priority will be given to applications for which the data has been requested by a partnering organisation, or where the partner organisation has expressed interest in collecting the data for a specific use or intervention. Example partners include local non-government organisations (NGOs), community based organisations (CBOs), local governments, companies, universities, schools, and other academic institutions.
Describe who will use your data
It is important that the data you generate during the project is useful, and that it will be used to advance humanitarian and/or development challenges locally. In this section, please include: if the data you will be collecting has been requested by a partnering organisation, if there is an established formal relationship with the partnering organisation, if there is an existing MoU between you and the partnering organisation, and how long have you been working with the partnering organisation. If your organisation or community is going to be the data user, please describe how you will use the data, and how it ties in with your organisation's work. We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
We are collecting the data because there is a local need, but also a much broader need in the whole humanitarian and development community that we plan to address.
Local need/use of our data: We are currently working in collaboration with two local organizations and other community experts that have expressed the need of mapping the organizations working in Burundi, so there is a consistent and reliable mapping of organizations, and in particular of local organizations working in the sector, classified by their characteristics. That will help many local organizations to have more visibility in the national and international spectrum, as currently they have very limited access to it. The two organizations that we are collaborating with are FENADEB, the coordination organization in Burundi for Child Protection initiatives, and Rise for Africa, a national NGO that tries to solve direct needs of local communities.
International Humanitarian Actors: We are working in collaboration with UN’s OCHA in Burundi, the agency responsible for the coordination of the humanitarian actions. They are using the mapping that we are currently developing for the organizations working in Burundi, and we are in conversations to develop our work furtherly.
Open data platforms: We are collaborating with Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), an initiative from OCHA to open source all the data related to humanitarian interventions. They have validated us as members of the platform and we are already publishing the data collected and verified in their platform. At the same time, with this project we are aiming to use HOTOSM to geo-localize the data that we are collecting.
Describe any other partnerships you plan to mobilise or establish for the purpose of the project
In this section, please describe any additional partners you might be working with. If there are no additional partners (beyond the data user) this must be stated here. We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
There are three main type of partnerships that we plan to develop:
Enlarge and enhance our local experts/mappers and organization partners: For us it is essential to progressively enlarge and enhance the network of the local experts/mappers and local organizations. We believe that sharing the importance of the open source data of the humanitarian interventions that brings to an important visibility of the local organizations; and by providing regular training, tools and accompaniment, the local community and organization members will be able to regularly upload and verify the data of the local interventions and organizations. Our aim is to increase the number of network members and invite them to participate in it as long as possible.
National and International organizations: We know the importance of reliable data for the national and international organizations for both their decision making processes and the visibility of their interventions. This is why we are sharing our project with some organizations in Burundi that might be interested in developing specific mapping of organizations that will furtherly be open to the whole community. As an example, we currently are in conversations with an international organization that is very interested in identifying all the educational organizations working in the field.
Multilateral organizations, Cooperation and UN Agencies: The main donors of the humanitarian and development sector have a huge interest in initiatives that increase the visibility of their efforts, and promote the collaboration of the different actors. That is why our initiative of mapping all the organizations working in the humanitarian and development sector can be very relevant to them, and we are planning to reach them and try to develop a partnership. In Burundi we have already started conversations with some multilateral organizations and UN Agencies.
Inclusivity
Successful applications will include a developed strategy for the inclusion of women, girls, and marginalised groups in mapping activities. This includes the number of women, girls or marginalised groups you plan to engage, and the way in which you plan to interact with them.
How will you ensure that your project activities are inclusive?
Please describe how you will engage women and girls, or other marginalised communities in your mapping activities. Please include the number of women, girls or marginalised groups you plan to work with and how, and at which point in your activities you plan to engage them. We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
The inclusion is at the core of the project presented through two main ways:
Community field experts/mappers: We are working with all the local mappers that are interested in the initiative and have a wide and deep knowledge of the humanitarian and development sector. We will encourage that at least 50% of them are women. We also aim to develop the personal and professional capacities of all the members to establish a community of field experts/mappers with high and equal capacities.
Local and community-based Organizations: As it has previously exposed, our project wants to map all the organizations working in the humanitarian and development sectors, and in particular those that are working on critical activities and actions like the inclusion of women, girls and marginalised groups. The current initiatives that map the operational presence of the different organizations are very limited and invisibilizes the local organizations and communities to advantage the bigger and international ones. The bottom-up approach that we are proposing for mapping organizations in the humanitarian and development sectors is totally groundbreaking and much more inclusive for everyone. It will allow us to visibilize all the local organizations that are doing very deep and durable work with and for the communities. Of course, we will be very sensible to include all the organizations working for women and children, which usually are majority between the local ones.
Expansion
Successful applications will show how communities intend to grow community engagement. This includes a practical approach on how many new mappers you aim to recruit and how they will be involved in community activities. Priority will be given to communities that also include a plan for ongoing engagement beyond the grant period. If this is not relevant to your project, please explain why.
Explain how you plan to expand your mapping community
In this section, please include: your approach to recruiting new mappers, how will you engage new mappers, how many new members you plan to recruit, and how will you retain community members throughout the duration of project and beyond. We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
We hope that our project is a live community that grows and develops its size and capacities along the time.
We already work with some local experts related to the humanitarian sector, but we are aiming to make the network grow along the time, and in particular during the project. We will start with the former mappers of the previous projects developed in Burundi, in particular those that collaborated with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). We will contact them and offer the possibility of being part of our network of mappers. In addition, we aim to contact other people and organizations working in the humanitarian sector and explaining our vision.
If they are interested in the idea, we will invite all of them to join our community and we will offer training, tools and means for developing them as autonomous members of the project. Through this offering and the good experience of the new and former members, we expect to attract more experts and mappers of the local communities in which we have presence.
Additionally, we believe that as our project grows and is more widely known, more experts and mappers without previous link to the project or the people involved in it, will feel invited to become part of our community; as well as we think that local and national organizations will become part of the wider community by uploading and validating the data regarding their organization or regarding partner organizations.
Last but not least, as we are going to work in partnership with the open source community through platforms as OSM, HOTOSM, HDX, we believe that they will bring new synergies and collaboration with many other members, organizations and initiatives of the whole community.
Collaboration
Priority will be given to applications that collaborate with other OSM communities in the region. This can be country specific or regional and can include collaboration with Youth Mappers Chapters, or members of the HOT community to help with training, validation (as examples). For support in sourcing collaborators, email microgrants@hotosm.org.
Describe other OSM communities you are already working with
This may include Youth Mappers chapters, or members of OSMF (as examples). If you are not already collaborating with an OSM community, please state this and explain how you plan to work with other communities in your project in the following question.
The initiative is very recent, we have started the conversations with HOTOSM members and we are very interested in becoming part of the community by developing a network of experts in Burundi, and collecting and sharing the data with the wider community, in this open source approach that we also believe.
We believe that building the capacities of the local community in Burundi can be very beneficial for many different members: local communities, national and international organizations, donors, the whole community.
Currently we are already working with 2 national organizations (Rise for Africa and FENADEB) and 8 local experts in the collection and gathering of information, and we are aiming to share this data in HOTOSM in the following weeks/months.
Describe other OSM communities you plan to approach, or establish relationships with, for the purpose of the project
We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words..
As we are new in this initiative, we are very interested in knowing more in depth and continue learning from the resources and materials, the initiatives and projects, and from other members of the community. To do so, we are already learning from former and current OSM projects, and we plan to contact members and staff of the community. As explained earlier we already have started conversations with HOT staff to understand more about the tools and procedures of the platform and how it can be most impactful for the entire community.
As Burundi currently doesn’t have open projects, we will contact the former community members that collaborated with Doctors Without Borders (MSF in French) in the country with three different initiatives to invite them to become part of the project. As each project requires different focus and skills, we will introduce the project to the new members/former OSM community members, refresh with them the use of the OSM tools, and train them in the other complementary tools that we might use in the project.
Finally, we are open to establish new partnerships that can be very positive for the project and the wider community and for the moment we might be unaware: invitation from current or former OSM and HOT mappers, synergies that might arise with other open source community members, national and international organizations that want to join our initiative and be part of the HOTOSM system, etc.
Project plan and budget
Priority will be given to applications that collaborate with other OSM communities in the region. This can be country specific or regional and can include collaboration with Youth Mappers Chapters, or members of the HOT community to help with training, validation (as examples). For support in sourcing collaborators, email microgrants@hotosm.org.
Budget breakdown
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| What do you plan to spend the money on? |
Units | Quantity Description |
Rate | Rate Description |
Expected cost (in US Dollars) |
Total cost for budget item (USD) |
Why is it needed? (please give as much detail as possible) | |
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| 1 | Administrative Costs (Total: 1,250 US$) | |||||||
| Exchange rate and banking fees | 1 | lumpsum | 1 | Time | 400 | 400 | Exchange Rate and banking fees for disbursement and handling of funds | |
| Legal and Administrative Costs | 1 | lumpsum | 1 | Time | 400 | 400 | Legal and Administrative fees to cover registration expenses, legal services and consultants. | |
| Office supplies and stationary | 1 | lumpsum | 6 | Months | 75 | 450 | Office supplies: Wifi, Call expenses, Electricity, Paper and other office costs. | |
| 2 | Community Participation and Involvement (Total: 900 US$) | |||||||
| Internet/Social Media Advertising | 1 | lumpsum | 5 | months | 30 | 150 | Advertisement on our Social Media and internet channels to communicate about the project to the
wider community, and to other organizations, to attract more collaborators and interest in the project and the open source initiative. We are budgeting 30US$ per month, during 5 months of the project. | |
| Awards | 3 | Awards | 3 | Times | 50 | 450 | In order to stimulate all the members to collaborate and to do a thorough and efficient work in the data collection and validation, we will provide, three times, 2 awards for the collaborators with most entries (at least 95% of them validated
afterwards) and 1 award for the collaborator with most validations. Each award will have a value of 50US$. | |
| Tokens for Collaboration | 1 | lumpsum | 3 | Times | 100 | 300 | We plan to have special contributions and experts to contribute to the project as a special guests in our training, providing a webinar about the project and the importance of open source data. We will plan to have 3 special collaborations and we will offer a token valued in 100US$ per each one of them. | |
| 3 | Training Costs (850 US$) | |||||||
| Transport Costs | 10 | people | 5 | Days | 10 | 500 | The participants will have 10 US$ for transportation costs to go and return from the training place. | |
| Meals | 12 | people | 5 | Days | 5 | 300 | A main meal will be offered, along with some drinks during the training to the participants. | |
| Materials | 1 | lumpsum | 1 | Times | 50 | 50 | Materials will be used during the training: flipcharts, markers, papers, pens... | |
| 4 | Data Collection Costs (Total: 2,000 US$) | |||||||
| Transportation Costs | 20 | members | 5 | Months | 10 | 1,000 | 20 collaborators of the project will have 10 US$ per each of the 5 months in which they will be collecting data to reach the places needed to collect or validate the data. | |
| Communication Costs | 20 | members | 5 | Months | 10 | 1,000 | 20 collaborators will have 10US$ per month to cover their communication expenses (internet and phone line) to reach the different organizations and collaborators. | |
| Total Cost: 5,000US$ | ||||||||
Project plan
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Declaration
By submitting this form to Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, you certify the information contained in this application is correct, and that if you are awarded a grant, you will use it only for the purposes described above. You will provide written documentation and receipts for all of your expenses to Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team to demonstrate this. You understand that the decisions made by the HOT Microgrants committee are final.
Arnau Rovira (arnaurm)
Pablo Bernal (Pablo Bernal)
Endorsements
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- I fully endorse this project - strong idea and detailed project plan --Kateregga1 (talk) 13:26, 2 February 2021 (UTC)