Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa

27/04/2026

Last month we hosted a webinar, Invisible No More: Closing the Gender Data Gap in Humanitarian Emergencies, bringing together Ana Cristína João Manuel from Instituto Nacional de Gestão e Redução do Risco de Desastres - INGD, Pilar Pacheco from Gates Foundation as well as Veronica Chico and Omowonuola Akintola from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) to talk about why women's knowledge goes missing when disasters hit and what it
takes to change that.

Read the full article here:

In January 2026, catastrophic flooding across southern and central Mozambique affected over 800,000 people, with women and children comprising the majority of those affected. Accommodation centers managed by INGD report that children half of those displaced face acute malnutrition and waterborne dis...

23/03/2026

🚨 URGENT CALL FOR MAPPERS 🚨

Massive floods & landslides have devastated Gacha Baba Woreda, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia, burying homes, displacing thousands & causing tragic loss of life.

Help us map project #46833 on https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/46833

19/03/2026

The communities that need accurate maps the most are often the ones missing from them. Here's what we're doing about it together.

We are partnering with Shack Dwellers International Kenya (SDI Kenya) to train community youth and students across 33 informal settlements in Nairobi, building their capacity in open geospatial tools, drone imagery, and Earth observation technology so they can create maps that reflect local knowledge and inform decisions that affect their lives.

Photo credits: SDI Kenya

17/03/2026

11/03/2026

In case you missed our webinar, here is the recap. You can also watch the webinar here 👇🏾

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03/03/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆?

On March 5, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is hosting a live panel with:

▪️Ana Cristina João Manuel, Director, INGD CENOE (National Emergency Operation Centre)
▪️ Pilar Pacheco, Senior Program Officer, Emergency Response, Gates Foundation
▪️ Veronica Chicoónica Chico, Technical Project Coordinator, HOT

They'll discuss the real, practical barriers to centering women in emergency response and what institutional, operational, and investment changes are needed to shift from intention to action.

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: https://shorturl.at/BaIuM
𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿: https://lnkd.in/dfS6YucQ

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