ZACCA
General Information
Email address
zacca.zanzibar@gmail.com
Primary contact's full name
MAHFOUDH SHAABAN HAJI
Do you have an OSM account?
Yes
If yes, what is your OSM username?
mahfoudhZacca
Please indicate the name(s) and OSM usernames of any additional individual(s) who will be leading the execution of the project if this application is successful
Jamila Ally
If you have an OSM account, please check the boxes that apply
I am an active mapper
What is the name of the community group/organization this pitch is being submitted on behalf of?
ZANZIBAR CLIMATE CHANGE ALLIANCE -ZACCA
Is your organization/community group legally registered?
Yes
If you indicated "No" above, please indicate the name of an organization who would be able to accept the funds on your behalf
N/A
Proposed project location
ZANZIBAR
Have you previously been AWARDED any grants?
Yes
Please indicate the total funding amount you are requesting
11,500,000
Information About the Project
What is the problem that you are working to address in your community?
(In this section please describe in detail the challenge that your project addresses. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
Community generated data has proven to be the most reliable information that reflects the community’s situation and the challenges they face. Working with community members to collect data in their own neighborhood increases data reliability, validity and its ultimate use as the community believes in the data and has a sense of ownership.
Zanzibar Climate Change Alliance expecting to conduct community data (mapping) for improved the disaster and Risk Management related to Floods at `West District –Zanzibar where by four prone flood areas ( Nyerere/Mtumwa jeni /Sebleni and Sogea Shehias) will be well accessed.
The expected community mapping will involve different stakeholders such as 50 students from the Zanzibar School of Health, 20 Students from Zanzibar Youth Mappers, 30 Zanzibar Climate Change Alliance Volunteers, 5 staffs from Zanzibar Disaster Management Unit, 20 community members 5 from each four identified shehias.
The team expected to collect a series of disaster-related data touching on flood from these prone areas, roads water drainage infrastructure, household surveying.
The proposed areas faced with rapidly urbanizing with numbers of unplanned areas in which by 90 percent of the dwellers are located hazard-prone areas.
Community knowledge is the concrete reason to understanding the extent of these problems and how to solve it thus why ZACCA will hardly train all aforementioned stakeholders and communities on how to use cheap and widely available tools, such as mobile phones, GPS units, and satellite imagery to collect data on risks from these expected prone flood areas.
What motivates you to work on this issue?
(what is the reason that triggered, inspired you to work on this issue, we recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
As we all know that flood is one among of the extensive disaster always faced most of African countries especially in vulnerable areas such as Nyerere , Sogea and Mwantenga as this well explained in a proposal.
Thus the project will mostly directly used on solving and uncovering local community problems and challenges particularly floods and other related challenges.
The project put stress on gender consideration where the inclusion of youths and marginalized groups is highly prioritize hence a strong gender balanced representation across the mentioned stakeholders and sectors is well considered .
Have you worked on solving the same issue before?
Yes
If yes, what have you already done to solve this issue?
(Please be specific and highlight your greatest accomplishments, We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.) If none, write N/A
Many have been accomplished in the work done such as group of women and youth mapper in which then become an expert in different institution.
Also through our previous we have encourage the central government in other floods and the proper infrastructures have been improved such as drainage and ponds.
If yes, what challenges have you faced in your work to solve this issue, and how did you respond to these challenges?
(Please be specific and highlight your biggest challenges and how did you solve them, We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.) If none, write N/A
Many challenges have been encounter before , during and even after the work.
1. Misconception of the community about our works, most of them disappointed us during the time of mapping but we keep patient and teach them well the aim of our community work.
2. We take the volunteers from different source example university and NGOs , we started work with them very good but at the middle the number reduced because of a small amount of allowance but unfortunately we replace with committed others.
3. Lack of funding we still encounters thus why this proposal is made.
If no, what do you anticipate as challenges while working towards solving the issue?
(Please be specific and highlight the biggest challenge you might face when working on this project ,We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)If none, write N/A
Financial Challenges which includes the lack of required mapping tools such as GPS , camera and even unmanned tools like Drone etc.
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 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
In our organization every thing has it sustainability plan and through this proposed project our main sustainable plan is by keeping doing monitoring and evaluation on the areas mapped.
Not only that but also we keep a year calendar in which every year we conducting 10 mapping so we reviews the previous mapping through outreach program so as to check whether implemented project has been well sustain if not we check and balance.
Project Goal
What are your community defined project goals
(Please explain your project goals. This can include: setting goals such as "we will train X number of new community, "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 intend to engage X number of women in mapping activities so that we can empower local women” We recommend your response be a minimum of 150 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
This project proposal for Community Mapping for Disaster and Risk Management to prone areas affected by flood seeks to provide an avenue for the community members , university students and NGOs and governmental representatives to:
1. Increase open data which can be uploaded to the Open Street Map. ZACCA expects that this will in turn lead to developments in social-economic activities and humanitarian responses that rely on the available datasets.
2. Merge Zanzibar local community involvement in open mapping and have the necessary resources they need to grow and contribute to the solutions of the granular challenges that affect their daily livelihood especially in flood issues related
3. Build Capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs),students and even government through their department with mapping and GIS skills to tackle community’s technical problems and this will help the growth of the Zanzibar Open Street Map communities .
4. Raise awareness of community on how to tackle and to have preparedness of disaster such as floods and other.
5. The expected data will build upon the already existing data so as to further develop the city flood model to help predict and prepare for future flooding.
What are your project long-term goals?
(Please describe your project vision. This can include: where you see your project 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 project to grow (or not!). We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words)
To Increase open data which can be uploaded to the Open Street Map. ZACCA expects that this will in turn lead to developments in social-economic activities and humanitarian responses that rely on the available datasets.
To merge Zanzibar local community involvement in open mapping and have the necessary resources they need to grow and contribute to the solutions of the granular challenges that affect their daily livelihood especially in flood issues related
To build Capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs),students and even government through their department with mapping and GIS skills to tackle community’s technical problems and this will help the growth of the Zanzibar Open Street Map communities.
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. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
Many tools such as GPS Loggers, Kobo Collect , Capillary , Household survey, FGD, Interviews, Drone Wings, Camera etc,
What additional knowledge or skills do you need to improve the effectiveness of the project?
(if there is any addition training you will need example how to use open source tools ,how to write good report etc please identify them below and why, We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.) If none, write N/A
N/A
Explain how you plan to share your stories
(Please give examples of how you will use to 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 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
Through our social media and other platform such WhatsApp group, Facebook pages, Instagram, YouTube, twitters and other governmental organization such as office of regional and district commission and Disaster management Commission
Ownership
Describe who will own/access and use the 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 who , if there is an established formal relationship with any organization , and 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 will they use the data, and how they will access the data also is there possibility of other similar organizations to access and own the data . We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 400 words.)
The “Okoa Jamii Project” will bring together multiple stakeholders from: a) government sectors including but not limited to Department of Environment , Disaster Management Commission, Union of People with Disability, Disaster Students, Zanzibar Community Youth Mappers, ZACCA volunteers and other youth and women led organization . The project will strive to a strong gender balanced representation across the sectors.
In the above consortium there a representatives of every group in the community so the ownership will be owned by all mentioned and every citznen will have a right to access the data since it will uploaded in OSM.
Describe any other community/organization you plan to approach and share data for the purpose of the project impact
(In this section, please describe any additional partners you might be working with or share data with since they have indicated the need of data that will be collected. If there are no additional partners (beyond the data user) this must be stated here. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.) if none write N/A
The “Okoa Jamii Project” will be implemented by the Zanzibar Climate change Alliance – ZACCA in collaboration with Department of Environment, Disaster Management Commission and Community Youth Mappers .
Inclusion
How will you ensure that your project activities will consider gender/children?
(Please describe how you will engage women/girls and school children in your project activities. Please include the number of women, girls or marginalized 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 100 words and a maximum of 300 words).
Okoa Jamii Project Activities designed to carry ratio of gender and the inclusion of youths and marginalized groups are well considered since all of these group has been a great stakeholders and target of the project as the evidence will be seen in a reports and practical mapping and training,
Open Knowledge Evolution
Explain how you plan to expand your mapping community
(In this section, please include: your approach of working in a peripheral area to expand the knowledge, how will you engage new members from an unexposed community, how many new members you plan to recruit, and how will you retain community members throughout the duration of the project and beyond. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
In fact the stakeholders of the project are some of them have something about open knowledge tools and software but it about 50 % of the targeted community have no the open knowledge tools and software so Okoa Jamii Project will expand the community to increase other places with open knowledge tools and software.
Cooperation
Describe the communities you are already working with
(This may include local government, private sector, institutions or OSM communities (as examples). If you are not already working with any of the above communities, please state this and explain how you plan to work with other communities in your project. We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
The “Okoa Jamii Project” will be implemented by the Zanzibar Climate change Alliance – ZACCA in collaboration with Department of Environment, Disaster Management Commission and Community Youth Mappers and other unmentioned local authorities such as sheha and other local leaders.
Also the project will work together with a representatives from youth and women NGOs.
Describe other communities you plan to approach, or establish relationships with, for the purpose of the project
(We recommend your response be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 300 words.)
People with Disabilities, Health Centers and Flood Community agencies
Supporting Documents
Please share a PDF version of your proposed budget
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Please share a PDF version of your proposed project plan
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Submission
If applicable, please provide a link to your organization's website
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Zanzibar Climate Change Alliance
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ZANZIBAR CLIMATE CHANGE ALLIANCE -ZACCA
Will this grant co-fund an already established project?
No
Please confirm that you have checked your application, and answered the questions to the best of your ability
Yes - I'd like to submit my application