Humanitarian OSM Team/Working groups/Community/Mentorship

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The HOT Community Working Group initiated a Mentorship Program to provide peer to peer learning and knowledge exchange in the humanitarian and open mapping space. We built upon the knowledge and efforts of other mapping communities in conducting their mentorship program, most specifically Women+ in Geospatial (W+G) Mentorship Programme.

The pilot program was initiated in 2022 and another one in 2023.

Background

Mentorship is a powerful tool to help people learn, share, and contribute to communities. This initiative is much needed in open communities where there are people with years of experience and others willing to learn and share out of a passion for the objectives of the community. However, there is no mentorship program that specifically provides for people with a passion for open geo data. This problem presents an opportunity to leverage the capacity of the working group to encourage knowledge-sharing through mentorship.

The Program is also inspired by Angela Teyvi during her Community Working Group Ask Me Anything (AMA) Session in March 2022. Angela shared how mentorship has played a major role in her career development and capability in humanitarian open mapping. You can watch the recording here.

2022 (Pilot) Mentorship Program

In the pilot phase, the mentorship structure is peer mentorship. In peer mentorship, all members receive mentorship and are organized by a group facilitator who is already part of the group. The choice of this type of mentorship is to boost the interest, knowledge, and confidence of mentors to become great mentors for the next cohort of mentees.

Objectives

  • Increased confidence amongst participants in mentoring others
  • Mentors share their skills and knowledge within their groups (peer support and learning)
  • Retain the participants to be future mentors in the programme
  • Full attendance or completing the pilot

Key details and Outcome

Peer-to-peer Mentorship

DURATION

3 months (September 17 to December 17 2022)

3 AREA OF FOCUS
  1. Professional development
  2. Open geospatial skills
  3. Open Community Building
  4. Data in Humanitarian

Program

  • 21 peer mentors
  • 5 groups
  • ~30 peer-to-peer mentorship sessions
  • 3 Peer Mentors Sessions
  • Confidence level to mentor increase from 4.35% (pre-program) to 4.7% (post program)

Guides

Legacy Projects


2023 Mentorship Program

Building on the pilot mentorship program, we are proceeding with a Mentor-mentee and group mentorship structure. Lessons, feedback, suggestions from the pilot will be heavily incorporated into this design.


Objectives

  • Career and professional development of its members
  • Retaining membership
  • Increase community engagement
  • Develop emerging leaders
  • Promote diversity and inclusivity in the community
  • Build relationships in the global network of humanitarian open mapping communities/contributors

Guides

Key details and Outcome

2 TYPES OF MENTORSHIP

  • 1-to-1 mentorship
  • Group mentorship (1 mentor to 2-3 mentees)
DURATION

5 months (May to October 2023)

4 AREA OF FOCUS
  1. Professional development
  2. Open geospatial skills
  3. Open Community Building
  4. Data in humanitarian work
Program
  • 28 Pairs and groups
    • Mentors: 28
    • Mentees: 50
  • Opted Out: 18
  • 81% Retention Rate
  • ~25 Coordinators meetups
  • Country: 46
  • ~145 Pair / Group sessions
  • 14 Mentorship Shoutout Tuesdays
  • 2 All Mentors Session
  • ~18 Legacy Projects

Legacy Projects

Professional development
Open geospatial skills
Open Community Building
Data in humanitarian work

Write ups

What happened next?

Future Ideas

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