Microgrants/Microgrants 2020/Proposal/Mapping the informal settlements of Kampala in response to COVID-19 Outbreak
About your Mapping Community
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Resilience Mappers is a new online mapping community formed in March 2020 after the closure of universities to quickly respond to providing map data in areas where government and aid agencies expect to or have intervention programs in Uganda. Currently we are 5 final year students at Makerere University in Uganda pursuing a bachelors degree in Land surveying and Geomatics. We are all former members of YouthMappers that we joined in 2017 as freshmen and women and have been contributing to OpenStreetMap since then. We hope to provide required geospatial data that is most needed by government and aid agencies in intervention programs against COVID-19. Currently we are located in Kampala, Uganda with three women and two men and we expect to increase our influence and grow our membership and contribution to OSM
What do you need the grant money for?
We want to understand what you plan to buy, how much you plan to buy, and why this will help you to scale your community mapping efforts. There are two tables for you to fill in your response, and you may add more rows as needed. Some examples are in the table for your reference. You are welcome to use a different format in your response, but please make sure to include these details.
The Uganda government launched a program to provide food and relief to the vulnerable poor in the urban settlements of Central Uganda that have been hit hardest by the measures in place to reduce COVID-19 infections. These are motorcycle riders, taxi drivers, manual workers etc. who work hand-to-mouth and are directly affected by the drastic measures to contain the disease.
The majority of these people are in slums and informal settlements in a crowded and underserved neighbourhood. These settlements are under mapped when crosschecked with the current available aerial imagery (Bing). In spite of the delayed food and relief distribution due to a lack of complete spatial data, once the virus becomes established in these communities its magnitude is at risk of being underestimated fuelling unequal allocation of health care resources.
In Kampala alone, there are 50 informal settlements with over 1.5 million people out of Kampala’s 1.8 million people according to Action Aid International. This project aims to map all the roads and buildings within the 50 informal settlements within Kampala using aerial imagery remotely and available street view imagery that is Mapillary to add the basic service units such as health facilities within a span of 12 months. This is in effort to assist government intervention programs in allocation of resources in informal settlements of Kampala.
Methodology to be followed
1. Inception – will conduct meetings on Zoom with stake holders, this includes the possible users of the data and mapping communities and demonstrate workshops on the data collection methods, prepare inception reports and training materials.
2. Training – will set up training for volunteers from mapping communities across the country on zoom. This will guide mappers on the mapping methods to use.
3. Remote mapping – will map all the 50 informal settlements in the five divisions of Kampala. Prize competitions will be held among mapping communities for motivation. Remote mapping will be through
a. mapathons to add all buildings and roads in the informal settlements using JOSM and ID-Editor. Buildings will be tagged as temporary or permanent.
b. using available street view imagery that is Mapillary to add data on service centres especially health facilities, super markets, schools and churches.
4. Quality assurance – Data collected from the above methods will be validated by a team of experienced mappers to prevent map vandalism.
5. Web map – Data collected will be uploaded to a webmap repository showing the informal settlements where it can be accessed by locals in the community, NGOs, aid and government agencies.
6. Co-ordinating with stakeholders – Ensuring the data is available in a format the stakeholders can use, such as web maps, static maps, & exports for particular programmes.
7. Promotion – The project will be promoted on social media like twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook to make contact with the local people to ensure that they take over the role of maintaining the map data that has been prepared.
8. Closing – will include preparing accountabilities, winding up, report writing, and documentation. We are currently contacting the Actogether and Slum Dwellers International to provide insights on the possible use of the data.
Budget breakdown
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| Item | What we plan to spend money on? | Expected cost per unit (Euro) | Quantity we plan to buy / subscription length | Expected total cost (Euro) | Why is it needed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Airtime | 10.518395 | 5 people per month for 12 months | 631.1037 | Voice bundles to be bought from telecom companies to facilitate telephone calls. The airtime will be loaded on 5 members’ telephone numbers. This airtime will be used to call stakeholders and to facilitate communication between the members and other mapping communities |
| 2 | Laptop | 341.2473 | 5 people | 1706.2365 | This will be used by the 5 mapping community members who have dedicated their full time to conduct the programming, tasking and running of the project. The laptops will also be used for validating the data remotely mapped from volunteers. |
| 3 | Internet access | 21.3486371 | 12 months for 5 people | 1280.918226 | Internet data bundles will be bought and loaded on 5 telephone contacts of the members of the mapping community. The volunteers and mappers from other communities will connect to the 5 contacts registered to share the internet connection. |
| 4 | Zoom account | 13.8251271 | 12 months | 165.9015252 | This will be used to subscribe to Zoom's host account for 12 months |
| 5 | Prize for mappers: Smart phones | 111.59709 | 1 item per month for 4 months | 111.59709 | To motivate the mappers, 4 phone prizes will be given out every after 3 months. The top contributing community in each month will be given a smart phone for motivation. This will be expected to facilitate their field mapping in future after the uplift of lockdown. |
| 5 | Solar panel + accessories | 171.54594 | Lumpsum | 171.54594 | Due to the lockdown, one of the 5 members of our mapping community cannot access electricity as there are several blackouts that occur almost every week. The solar panel will help him have continuous access to electricity. |
| 7 | Web map developer | 138.3435 | Lumpsum | 148.3435 | A lumpsum amount will be given to a web map developer as stipend such that he dedicates his/her full time to this output. |
| 8 | Facebook promotion | 31.12473 | 12 months | 373.49676 | This amount will be used to create awareness of the project to stakeholders, donors and community mappers through Facebook. This will ensure that the community takes on the role of contributing to the project even after the grant period expires. |
| 9 | Twitter promotion | 31.12473 | 12 months | 373.49676 | This amount will be used to create awareness of the project to stakeholders, donors and community mappers through Twitter. This will ensure that the community takes on the role of contributing to the project even after the grant period expires. |
| 10 | Prize delivery | 32.28015 | Lumpsum | 32.28015 | Delivery of the prizes to 4 mapping communities. Due to the lockdown, third party companies will be used to deliver the prizes to the winners. |
| Total | 4994.920151 |
If you receive a grant, what do you aim to achieve?
It is recommended that this supports mission of the OSM Foundation and your local community. Please provide us with any information you think is relevant including the metrics you expect to achieve. Please write 100-200 words.
The main objective is to map remotely using JOSM, ID-Editor and available street-view imagery the 50 informal settlements in Kampala over a period of 12 months filling in missing data in these areas.
Expected outcomes.
- Build capacity of mappers. Develop technical capacity of local community mappers in using open mapping tools, focusing on remote mapping using street-view imagery. We expect to engage 5 YouthMappers chapters from different universities in Uganda. With an average of 10 volunteers from each chapter, we expect to train about 50 mappers.
- Increase number of settlements, roads and service centres on OpenStreetMap. With a population of 1.5 million people in the informal settlements. Over 300,000 household units are expected be added to OSM. OSMCha will be used to measure this outcome biweekly.
- Develop a web map repository of informal settlements in Kampala. Since there is no single inventory of the informal settlements in Uganda. A web map repository will be created for Kampala’s informal settlements.
- Increase OSM outreach in the community through social media engagements
- Increase facilitation of aid and government intervention programs. Monthly feedback forms and interviews will be obtained from stakeholders to determine whether they are satisfied with the outputs of the project
Do you receive funding from any other sources at the moment?
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Currently we do not have any funding from any other source.
Is there anything you would like OSMF to support you with?
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We would like OSMF to help in sourcing most updated imagery for this project. At the time of preparing this application, we used Bing imagery to spot the data gaps in the informal settlements compared to the available data on OpenStreetMap.
Mapillary has developed tools to assist in adding data to OSM. Since we expect to use it to fill in gaps of service units in the informal settlements, we would appreciate if we get a quick training on how to use these tools.
Declaration
By submitting this form to the OpenStreetMap Foundation, 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 the OSM Foundation to demonstrate this. You understand that the decisions made by the OSM Foundation Microgrants committee are final.
I, Solomon Kica of Resilience Mappers, agree to follow the above declaration.
Endorsements
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This looks like an awesome project, and I'm proud to endorse it - Jonah Adkins
The data created from this project will promote efficacy in the provision of relief to the people affected during this period. I therefore fully support and endorse this project.Ingrid k (talk) 08:51, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
The project could not only be used by the government but the humanitarian communities as well. Its really interesting and I second it! Rehema Nakibuuka (talk) 18:04, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Mapping informal settlements will not only help the government in this covid-19 crisis but will also aid in achievement of the sustainable development goals.And the non government organisations will use this information to deliver effective social and economic aid. Therefore i confidently support and endorse this project.Joweria Namirembe (talk) 20:03, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
This is a wonderful project and I believe that it will support the Government intervention programs in allocation of resources in the informal settlements of Kampala, most especially in the distribution of relief Food and Masks during this period of COVID-19 pandemic. The data collected from this project will also later on be available for use by OSM users,Non governmental agencies and the Private sector in need of spatial data concerning the informal settlements of Kampala. I therefore, strongly believe that this project will help in building the mapping communities within Kampala and Uganda at large. I'm very happy to endorse it. Temadri Peace (talk)