Organised Editing/Activities/Somalia IDP Camps 2024/25

From OpenStreetMap Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Background

The humanitarian situation in Somalia has seen a rapid deterioration since 2016 due to unprecedented drought. Poor rainfall has contributed to crop failure, livestock depletion and extreme food insecurity for at least a quarter of the population. Simultaneously Somalia continues to be affected by protracted conflict, and the combination of these two crises have exacerbated displacement trends, with an estimated 1.1 million people now displaced from their homes.

Ground Truth Solutions

Ground Truth Solutions and Raagsan are piloting a participatory targeting approach to identify participants for a GIZ graduation project in the town of Kismayo, Somalia. Ground Truth Solutions had qualitative discussions with community members to understand how they think targeting should best be carried out and their main recommendation is to carry out door-to-door assessment visits covering all buildings in the most vulnerable areas of Kismayo to identify the poorest households and ensure no one is left behind.

In order to do that, Ground Truth Solutions need the support of the OSM community to help map all the buildings in the selected areas, including host community and IDP sites. Most host community areas are well-mapped, with few exceptions. However, this is not the case for IDP sites where most support is needed. The assignment includes adding new buildings using satellite imagery as well as making any necessary edits to already mapped buildings in case they do not match with the imagery.

Mapping will start with Kismayo, Somalia. HOT is supporting Ground Truth Solutions with Tasking Manager project creation to start with (because they are new to Tasking Manager), but the intention is to ensure that Ground Truth Solutions have a dedicated precense on Tasking Manager in the medium term after the short term time-sensitive remote mapping needs are met.

Impact Initiatives

See: https://www.impact-initiatives.org/where-we-work/somalia/

With more accurate mapping of the areas hosting displaced populations, data analysts from Impact Initiatives will be able to:

  1. Clearly identifying shelter typologies to differentiate internally displaced structures from host structures.
  2. With a robust displaced structure dataset, base a robust sampling framework on broad settlement distinction.
  3. Refine more precise displaced cluster delineations for humanitarian needs assessments on the ground.

Contacts

Hashtag

  • #GroundTruthSolutions

Timeframe

Starting: November 2024

Ending: 2025

Remote Mapping Coordination

HOT Tasking Manager projects and their progress can be seen here. For any projects that are marked 'Published', select the link in the Project ID column and it will launch the project and you will be able to contribute.

Project Instructions

Retrieved from "https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Organised_Editing/Activities/Somalia_IDP_Camps_2024/25&oldid=2808549"