Gender Equality
By identifying and addressing gender-specific gaps, open maps provide a more nuanced understanding of how resources, services, and vulnerabilities are distributed across different genders within communities, ensuring an inclusive approach and community ownership in the open mapping process. HOT is committed to fostering inclusivity, and by involving women in mapping initiatives we ensure women and girls prioritize their needs, enabling targeted and effective interventions to promote gender equity and inclusion.
List of Projects
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She Leads & She Inspires (SLSI) was a training and professional development project by our Asia-Pacific Open Mapping Hub that aimed to support women to become OSM community leaders and gain skills in geospatial data and technologies.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gender Based Violence (GBV) cases rose over 20% in Western Uganda. Using open mapping data and tools, our partners addressed GBV through sensitization, training, and mapping key locations.
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OM4A fosters transformative education by empowering students and educators in low-resource schools with open mapping tools, enhancing learning, community engagement, and real-world problem-solving.
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HOT's initiative in Trinidad and Tobago trained female high school students in GIS and open mapping, collaborating with them to map flood-prone areas and create Dignity Bags for disaster preparedness, enhancing community resilience and gender-based disaster response.
