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DESCRIPTION:The Open Mapping Hub Eastern and Southern Africa\, presents ins
 ights and learnings from our Open Mapping Grants program in the region. Th
 rough this program\, local organizations and groups of mappers identified 
 local challenges and designed projects that utilized open mapping processe
 s and tools to address these challenges. In this talk\, we will showcase i
 nsights in setting up a granting program\, and present our learning from f
 unding\, and supporting the implementation of 8 projects\, across 3 implem
 entation themes in 5 countries across Eastern and Southern Africa. \n\nWe 
 will discuss key themes of this granting program such as project selection
 \, community engagement\, local knowledge and context awareness\, capacity
  development efforts\, collaboration strategies involving diverse stakehol
 ders\, data quality and data sharing\, and impact evaluation through outco
 me documentation. The presentation invites participants to leverage these 
 learnings and insights to implement open mapping grants and projects in th
 eir own regions\, addressing local challenges.
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LOCATION:Room 1
SUMMARY:Open Mapping Grants - Insights and Learnings from Eastern and South
 ern Africa - David Luswata\, Sophie Mower
URL:https://pretalx.com/sotm-africa-2023/talk/FVWJG9/
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