Humanitarian OSM Team/HOT Microgrants/Community Impact Microgrants 2021/Proposal/Mapping of springs in Central hills of Nepal: An initiative for linking lives with map on vulnerable settlements
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.
Spring is a point where water flows from aquifer to earth surface. It may be the result if Karst topography where surface water has a springshed as its recharge area. There is no need of pumping as water comes to surface.
In the mid-hills of Nepal, springs are the foundation of life. More than 10 millions of people of Nepal rely on spring water as their source of drinking water. These years springs in many districts are on the way of drying up quickly and it is making adverse effect on the life of people, basic sanitation and agriculture as well. In some areas ,villages are in the way of migration due to drying up of spring. Yet, springs are insufficiently mapped and rarely researched, and there is few effort to understand and address the issue despite such a problem. Decline of annual precipitation, increase of population and change of geology of the area are seem to be the major factors for the drying of springs. Springs are the underground accumulated water during the monsoon and are the source of water in a small springshed region. Various studies have found that there is about 25-75% decrease in spring discharge over 5 to 50 years. So, mapping of the water source which is spring in the region is crucial for the development of the area.
Women in Nepal do have a smartphone but they are not much technically sound with the use of map, mapping technologies and their use. So, we will give them training on how to fetch data and upload in OpenStreetMap platform. In this way, we will solve water problem as well as empower women in technical aspects.
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.
Population dynamics of Bidur is changing pretty rapidly in recent years. Whereas the area is hard hit by drought for many years this has affected adversely in the springshed of its region. Springs are the main source of drinking water for majority of people because of its cheap work and arrangements are made on community level. But the problem arising is that low discharge of water and high demand of water has created the problem for people living in this area. Alternative source are in need to get in standby stage at any time. Before that, quality assurance of the water, knowledge of surface runoff and its easiness to be supplied to nearby village needs to be determined .These data can be uploaded in OpenStreetMap platform and anyone seeking for data and the concerned authority can function well in that scenario.
Our project area lies in the hilly district of Nuwakot of Nepal. Our project area covers entire part of Bidur Municipality which consists of 13 wards and has over 80 villages. Our project aims on identification, mapping of springs which is the base for the life of the area and identifying some basic physical parameters of water for the preliminary identification for drinking purpose. With these data, rural community and local administration can select project for drinking water and also have alternative source for coming days as the springs are drying up at a rapid rate. With this project ,we work to help women who have to fetch water from a long distance whereas fill up the data gap in the concerned authority to take an action. Till now concerned authorities haven’t worked on rural parts in the name of lack of data and people on community level have to solve any problem if arise.
With the funding, our team would firstly run training program on opensource platform like OpenStreetMap and give training on OSM, JOSM ,id-editor and GPS data collection and upload on OpenStreetMap platform. Then, the team will move forward for mapping of springs in the community of our project area. We have a team of qualified mappers so, we work for high data quality. Our project area is one of earthquake most affected district. In Bidur Municipality, more than 12,500 buildings were destroyed and due to seismic effect on the geology many of the springs had dried up completely and in many areas low discharge is seen till now.
We take mapathon as an independent pre-event by GESAN which will help in publicity of the project around the mapping communities and the same task will help during community training for exposure to HOT Tasking Manager and tell how Humanitarian OpenStreetMap is working for disaster preparedness, response and mapping activities around the world. Gorkha was the epicenter of the massive earthquake of 2015 and here map update is required as post disaster construction is almost complete. We were planning to run a mapathon of Nuwakot district but it is recently completed by an organization, so we are happy to map Gorkha district which was the epicenter Gorkha Earthquake as a pre-event of this project.
Probably more than 30,000 houses and 100km of roads will be mapped during the mapathon and community training. For springs, no preliminary data is available so exact number cannot be predicted but we assume of about 150 springs in the region. Full description of geological, physical quality, discharge rate and other required attributes will be taken and uploaded on OSM platform.
We aim to participate 60 community members in mapping training, 80 in mapathon. Besides, these we are the member of YouthMappers Chapter-Geomatics Students Association of Nepal and annually enroll 48 students as new mappers and provide training and encourage them in mapping activity. Technical orientation will be given on OSM platform, JOSM, id-editor and GPS handling to all.
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 have a good plan on the sustainability of the overall project and work as a role model for future, likely the instruments will be circulated among the OSM community in a healthy manner. The mini- projector will be used by GESAN as its property and used for future presentation and training activities. Global Positioning System device and water quality measuring devices like PH, Total Dissolved Solid meter and Electrical Conductivity meter would be provided to various YouthMappers Chapter, mapping enthusiastic person around the country but well handling of instruments is must for them.
Any student and researcher seeking for instruments and some interest in mapping would be encouraged to use them and upload their work in OpenStreetMap platform. The instruments will be under GESAN and a Facebook group will be opened after the end of the project which will help person seeking for any technical assistance to reach and contact us easily. We will coordinate with the local authorities and run similar work, aware the general public and work for conservation of springshed in various areas taking this project as our role model and inspiring other people to use the power of open mapping platform of OpenStreetMap and get involved in mapping.
We will perform women empowerment by involving them with field work and mapping activities by giving them proper training on OpenStreetMap platform and teach them how to upload our data on OpenStreetMap. With the successful completion of this project, we can be able to address several problems like clean drinking water, good health, sanitation and gender equality.
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 primary objective on this project is mapping of spring resources and our main goal will be filling the data gap that has hindered in the conservation and any drinking water project from the side of local authority. Success of our project will be determined by the co-ordination from the community, future project by local authority for ensuring drinking water in every community. So, our data will be used by the municipality and that data will be used for the development of drinking water project in vulnerable areas and further project for the conservation of springs through the identification of natural groundwater recharge zone. The focus of this project is to ensure clean drinking water at the doorstep of every house and with this project ,these aims will be surely achieved. On the other hand for long term basis:
-We will give orientation to about 48 members of GESAN and give them training on OSM and JOSM.
-We will train students of Youthmappers GESAN on advanced mapping with knowledge on handling of GPS device and upload .them in OSM platform.
-We will involve 80 mappers in mapathon program and encourage other to contribute in it.
-In the community level we will train 50 people and give them good training on OSM platform, JOSM and id-editor.
-About 10 members of Red Cross District Chapter will be given training on OSM platform and mapping activities. They will be also trained with practice performed by International Red Cross for disaster preparedness and response and how these works are integrated with OSM platform.
-With participatory approach, we will include about 60 women in our field work.
-We will involve with other alumuni from GESAN and other fellows from different Youthmappers chapters as well.
Our project will be marked successful with completion of mapping of springs, local government starts using our data and an environment is created when community and local government works in collaboration for safe drinking water around the region, work in sustainable manner with some backup action plan in case of dried springs and conservation of springshed region to yield good discharge throughout the year.
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 community long term goal is to map most needed areas which should be mapped for disaster preparedness or any sudden, quick response mapping. In five years we want to scale up our team and engage more mappers from various academic background and stay in a single roof and map needed areas. Giving them knowledge on the importance of map would be our first task and then solve real-world problem with maps.
We will further expand our map literacy program and mapping training in various high schools and not only scale up the quantity but ensure quality mapping and active contribution. We will further expand our programs with innovative ideas and engage maximum people in mapping activities. We want our data to be used by researchers, university students, government office and other NGO’s and INGO’s. We would also like to share our experience in the extensive mapping activity. The area may seem to be small but with harsh terrain it would be a role model for any prospect mapping and research person. We annually give OSM training to about 100 people per year through various platform. In five years time, we project to triple the value per year and ensure quality mapping throughout the sessions and engage mappers in mapping activity.
We will do partnership with mapping agencies like Kathmandu Living Labs, Youth Innovation Lab, OSM Nepal and similar non-profit organizations in future ,any other mapping enthusiastic and water activist for further research as well. We wish to make our community as a role model for springshed conservation, environment promotion with mapping activism. We will make a web portal in the future and put all the mapping activities from GESAN in a website so that it will be easy to look our contributions to the OSM community. GESAN Youthmappers chapter is a family with large number of contributors and surely this will make them more motivated to map. Likely, new mappers will feel motivated to map and see their contributions.
Data is crucial for policy makers. So, we plan to move our work in disciplined manner, so in future days we will do partnership with state development projects. We will advocate on the reliability and accuracy of the mapping data and how they can be economically viable and technically correct.
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.
We will use following tools and technology during the project:
-HOT Tasking Manager to create our task for mapping purpose. There will be co-ordination of mappers through Facebook group and messenger group.
-Mapping will be done by JOSM and id-editor in Maxar imagery.
-For spring mapping, modern handheld GPS would be used to find out the co-ordinate of the location and its altitude.
-Open Map Kit /Open Data Kit would be used for data collection during the project.
-Manual data entry will also be taken for assurance to the primary data as government offices in Nepal seek for hardpaper copy as essential part.
-For update and cleaning, opensource GIS software which is QGIS will be used and final map will be published and displayed through QGIS.
-Storage of the data will be made in a POSTGIS database as well.
-A github website will be created with required coding and it will demonstrate all the data acquired in a user friendly way with OSM baselaye r.
Please give examples of how you will use share your stories with others. This can include: how you will publicize 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.
Our project work involves lives of thousands of people. Sharing our work to the general public, various departments, researchers and obviously mapping enthusiastic people who believe that mapping can change the community. In this modern era, we can share our experience through digital media which is an easy option and a powerful option for having a wide audience coverage. Blogs at regular interval update will update our various work. We will also make a facebook and twitter account in the name of this project and will give continuous information from these account as well. Similarly, vidoes will be posted on Youtube about the condition of various villages and how our data acquisition task is in progress. We will also make continuous update of our task through personal post and post from official page of GESAN on Facebook. Most people are connected on Facebook and are constantly in access to it, so Facebook will be our platform for sharing our experience and reflect the story to people. We will also post our findings to different geo and open mapping groups in Facebook and slack. We will also broadcast our final report through local radio network.
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 organization, or where the partner organization has expressed interest in collecting the data for a specific use or intervention. Example partners include local non-government organizations (NGOs), community based organizations (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 organization, if there is an established formal relationship with the partnering organization, if there is an existing MoU between you and the partnering organization, and how long have you been working with the partnering organization. If your organization or community is going to be the data user, please describe how you will use the data, and how it ties in with your organization's work. We recommend your response be a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words.
Our primary data users are the local administrative government and the drinking water board of Bidur Municipality. So, these two are our primary data users and they are responsible for implementation of any development projects in future as well. Moreover, these data will be used by every ward as its resource and help local people a lot. Our data will be of high level of accuracy and accepted as there is clear description of methodology during the process and also describe about those open source platform and their functionality.
Furthermore, many NGO and INGO also seek for those data which are always lacking, so we will provide them as well. Red Cross District Chapter will be given data which will be helpful for them during any disaster period or identification of outbreak of any water-borne disease in future. Water is life so any organization working on map and water are our data users. As the data is opensource and uploaded on OpenStreetMap anyone can access them at any time. Currently, we haven’t signed MoU with our data users but on initial talk they are very interested to join this initiative. And soon after the project gets accepted in the microgrant, we will sign MoU with them. Furthermore, we will provide work as a reference work in the central campus of Tribhuvan University Department of Hydrology and encourage students to use the data and carryout further research. Data will also be made available in various shapefile format like .shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj and .kml, .kmz file formats. So, reseachers seeking for open data in the specific file format can easily access them.
This way, we will try to reach maximum of people about our work and digital platform to share our stories to maximum number of audience.
Describe any other partnerships you plan to mobilize 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.
Our primary data user is the local authority itself and the Bidur Drinking water committee. So, currently we don’t have any partnership with any organization. But we ensure that these data are freely available to everyone as they are already uploaded on open platform of OpenStreetMap and anyone can access them at any time.
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.
Our team itself is inclusive in nature with good participation and full support from our fellow female mappers. And we work such that we get interaction and provide equal opportunities to everyone in spite of their gender or any sort of social background. Our team consists of top female mappers of Nepal and ensure to reach and expand the initiative of LetGirlsMap to next level throughout the project.
During the field work, our trail will be set by the women leaders of the community. Women’s are generally assigned for fetching water and so end beneficiary are women of the society so they can get involved in some other productive work. Moreover, there are some marginalized community in some places and in those sites we will include them in field work, interact with them and not only that understand their problem and provide them with some realistic ideas to change their life. This way, we will involve local people in the participatory GIS approach in mapping and field data collection and assistance. And also represent women and marginalized communities.
We have two girls in our project team similarly, we will involve about 30 female mappers in the mapathon campaign. During map literacy and training program we will ensure a good number of women in the training. Similarly, we will hire a female geologist for our field work. More than 60 women will assist us in the field work each from their own respective community, they would get direct chance to use and learn the operation of instruments and various methodology applied. Our female team members will lead the prime role in map literacy and training work so they feel confident enough in further days while remaining members will play a supportive and helping role.
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 are the members of the inaugural chapter of Youthmappers. We work as Youthmappers Geomatics Engineering Students’ Association Nepal. So we involve our community members in mapping activity throughout the year. We also endorse about 48 student annually as a mapper by providing them with map literacy, OSM basic and advanced training and many more on open platform. Similarly, we will involve new mappers in our mapathon program. Our female mappers will also ensure good participation and encourage other in mapping. So, an additional of 40 mappers will be on our way. During our training on community level, we will train about 60 people with OSM and mapping activities from HOT Tasking Manager. We believe in quality mappers so our emphasis will be giving good knowledge and training on mapping so that they will involve in mapping practice for a long time. We will set an example of how Humanitarian OpenStreetMap is working for the disaster preparedness and humanitarian response throughout the globe and show how so many lives are benefitted by mapping activities. This will surely be a motivation for all to continue mapping to feel the change. Community people will be demonstrated with how their contribution can change the society, this will surely trigger them to work in open mapping platform of OpenStreetMap.
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.
We are the students from Youthmappers Chapter-GESAN which is an inaugural chapter of YouthMappers. So, we will run our project as a valuable part of YouthMappers chapter. GESAN is a non-profit organization working for the skill development of the students and working in the field of mapping by providing map literacy and training in various geospatial technology including mapping activities. It has been actively working in mapping background since 2014 A.D and working in geospatial background. It has a good reputation in mapping activities under various themes like forest mapping, rural trail mapping and many more like that.
GESAN has worked and successfully completed several mapping campaigns around the world with OpenStreetMap communities like Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL), Youth Innovation Lab, WFP, Geomatics Student’s Society (GES), Agri Youthmappers Lamjung Chapter on different themes. We are on the way to expand our links to mappers and have collaborative work with OSM communities around the world.
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..
We are the members of Inaugural Chapter of YouthMappers.So, under the umbrella of YouthMappers Geomatics Engineering Students Association Nepal,we constantly perform mapping activities in collaboration with mapping organizations like Geomatics Engineering Society (GES,KU), Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL), Youth Innovation Lab,NAXA, OSM Nepal and various YouthMappers chapter around the country. In the past, we have successfully performed mapping activities under various themes in different phases of time with these organizations. And we will approach to collaborate with our mapping agencies to perform mapping activity.
We will also invite any mapping enthusiastic individual and other OSM mapping organizations around the world to get involved in mapping activities.
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? | Unit being purchased | Expected cost (in US Dollars) | Total cost for budget item(in US Dollars) | Why is it needed? (please give as much detail as possible) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPS Receiver | 2 | $144 each | $288 | This will enable us to buy GPS device for field data collection |
| WIFI Internet | 1 | $30 per month | $90 (approx 3 months) | This will enable us to run training on OSM ,JOSM ,id-editor and also helps to run the mapathon in a easy way.With this, we can ensure maximum number of participants per training session. |
| Water quality assessment meters | 3 | 62 each | $186(includes PH meter,TDS meter,EC meter) | This will enable us to buy double callibration PH meter,Total Dissolved Solid meter,Electrical Conductivity meter which are used to measure primary water quality data of the spring data which will be uploaded on OSM. |
| Mini Projector | 1 | $96 | $96 | During the training session,we will use mini projector to present our slides and run the sessions in a more learning environment |
| Training Cost | $600 | $600 | We will run three training sessions in the community level and the cost includes hall charges, snacks for participants, merchendise for remembrance and certificates to recognize for volunteer contribution | |
| Communication | 6 people | $15 | $90 | It includes communication bill of the team members throughput the project tenure. This covers voice charge,internet charges and communication with local authorities.For all 6 members of the field mapping team. |
| Data Acquisition |
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$8 per day for 16 days | $512 | This will allow us to provide daily stipend to our 64 helper during the field work. Each of 4 will be from different village for different location. |
| Transportation | 72 | $4.8 on return journey | $345.60 | This includes our one time long distance return journey to the project area and several internal journey around different villages. |
| Fooding and accomodation | 8 people | $10 per person for 16 days | $1,280 | We will use the sum to have our fooding and accomodation cost covered up for 6 field mappers and two technical experts during the training session and field verification process. |
| GIS Analyst and Geologist | 2 | $280 each | $560 | We will hire geologist in our field work who will give additional data of the geology of the spring location and other related attribures.Similarly GIS analyst will be responsible in handling the field data,process the data ,store them and update them in OSM platform with due consideration of quality assurance.One will also keep those data in POSTGIS database,develop a web map with OSM baselayer and make an interactive web map with user friendly functionality and publish them in github.The data will be processed in QGIS platform and final map willl be published and printed. |
| Covid protection set combo | 1 | $86.00 | $86 | This set includes a infrared thermal gun,3 packs of face masks 50 piece each for entire project for every trainer and trainees and sanitizer bottles for the field workers. |
| Reflective jacket | 8 | $8.80 | $70.40 | This will be used by the trainers and field workers during the process of data acquisition to get recognized as a mapper of HOT with print of HOT logo on it. |
| Miscelleneous | $330 | $330 | This will allow us to spend funding on extra activities such as buying stationary items, attractive gifts to mapathon winners,map printing,flex printing,etc. | |
| Total: $4534 |
Project plan
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| Training project members on GPS handling,water quality parameter testing and ODK/OMK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Training Community with OSM iD-Editor, JOSM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Field data collection and verification of data with the involvment of community members | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Adding the data collected from the field to update map in OSM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Geoprocessing work,extraction of data from ODK/OMK ,web page development,database update and map preparation with QGIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Creation of report to the public authority and providing necessary maps and data | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Declaration
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Name || OSM Username
Achyut Kumar Aryal || Achyut Kumar Aryal
Aakriti Lamichhane || Aakriti Lamichhane
Ashok Gahatraj || Ashok vk jr
Angad Lamichhane || Lamichhane
Sudha Singh Bhandari || Sudhasinghbhandari
Sunil Bhattarai || sunil_bhattarai26
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- I fully endorse this project - strong idea and detailed project plan --Kateregga1 (talk) 13:26, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- I like and endorse this idea: In this case geodata have direct impact on people's ability to survive in rural areas. No water = no life. Less water = smart management needed. This young team has good answer for one significant problem. -- Marek Kleciak (talk) 06:30, 3 February 2021(UTC)
- I completely endorse this mapping project; mapping of springs in central hills of Nepal resolves the significant problem faced by the rural community with the aid of local people and skilled geospatial enthusiasts with the adaptation of modern tech devices. -- Zosi (talk) 17:50, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
- I liked the idea. If implemented well, this project will create strong data for the stakeholders to carry out their actions for tackling one of the basic problems in the region--Rabin Ojha (talk) 03:19, 8 February 2021 (UTC)