Women-Centered Disaster Resilience in Small Islands Developing States
We work with women and girls in Small Island Developing States to help them gain critical mapping skills. This program aims to build local disaster resilience with a gender perspective by fostering collaboration among women leaders.
About the Program
According to the UN, most people displaced and who are vulnerable to displacement due to climate change are women in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Their unequal decision-making power undermines emergency recovery efforts and development at every level, which adds to the hardships usually faced in those islands as a result of their shared similarities, including their isolation from the mainland, their reliance on industries like tourism, and their high vulnerability to natural disasters and climate change with inadequate infrastructures to protect their populations. Furthering these challenges is that there are not enough mapping specialists, OpenStreetMap communities are small or nonexistent, and even few of them are women.
This program focuses on improving the well-being and increasing the agency and resilience of women and girls who live in SIDS by building their capacity to create, access, and use open map data.
Stats
9
partnerships
244
women trained
15
open mapping tools created
Goals
Women-Centered Capacity Building
- Build out women-centered projects in small island developing states that are faced with disasters.
- Women communities in SIDS have the knowledge, tools, funding, and geo-data to implement and advocate for socio-economic change.
- Women in underrepresented groups in SIDS are connected to tools and are motivated to create geographical data and solutions.
- Women communities receive grants for mapping towards social change and are in a position to obtain resources for further activities.
Peer to Peer Support
- Women in SIDS share knowledge and lessons learned from within and across different regions.
- A diverse makeup of women community champions and partners are increasingly networked to each other sharing learning and knowledge.
- Women communities in SIDS have an open dialogue and collaborate with local/global actors from all sectors.
Grow Mapping Communities in SIDS
- Increase the presence of OpenStreetMap (OSM) and open-source communities in SIDS that are underrepresented and underserved in these fields.
- Women communities are trained in core map competencies e.g. project management, Geographic Information Systems mapping, mobile data collection, etc.
- Open mapping champions and influencers (groups and individuals) are identified and strengthened.
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Women-Centered Disaster Resilience in Small Islands Developing States
We work with women and girls in Small Island Developing States to help them gain critical mapping skills. This program aims to build local disaster resilience with a gender perspective by fostering collaboration among women leaders.
Conflict & Displacement
Promoting responsible open spatial data and participatory mapping in complex emergencies to enhance collaboration and support informed humanitarian aid planning in the most vulnerable contexts.
