Planning with us, not for us: Community informal settlement mapping
Lucy Fondo, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), Florian Marembo, Alessandra Figueiredo, Anni Rosalen Beukes
A lack of spatial data covering built and natural environments in informal settlements is a serious issue when it comes to advocacy for and planning of settlement upgrades, provision of services and community resilience programmes (amongst other things). This panel session brings together experts by experience to discuss in what ways community-led, participatory mapping can address this barrier to action through the provision of high quality and relevant data as well as the challenges that they have experienced.