The research done in the Kikuletwa Catchment area pointed out some coordination challenges between authorities in charge of water resource management. River committees formed mainly by smallholder, farmers have been operating independently and neither communicate…
Tanzania is the most flood-affected country in East Africa, and city governments across the country are underprepared to meet the challenges of urbanization, including the increased vulnerability to climate-related hazards. Tanzanian towns and cities have…
In most developing countries, solid waste is often disposed of in unregulated dumps, openlyburned, and thrown into water bodies. These practices have serious consequences for health, safety, and the environment. Proper solid waste mechanisms are…
Since 2015, the World Bank has been supporting efforts to collect geospatial data forurban resilience through the Tanzania Urban Resilience Program. In 2022, Open MapDevelopment Tanzania, in collaboration with Resilience Academy, worked withuniversity students to…
The World Food Programme (WFP) in Tanzania funded OpenMap Development Tanzania(OMDTZ) to conduct a detailed mapping survey of mills across Tanzania and collect informationabout mills including locations, distribution, capacity, fortifications, and commodities milled byspecific machines.…
The Open Skies Fellowship has successfully established a foundation for technology fellowship in East Africa through a unique agile management and selection process. Over the 32 months of its implementation, the fellowship has supported a…
OMDTZ was in partnership with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) from January 2019 to August 2023 in the implementation of the project in Tanzania and is providing machine-generated road data editing, general validation, and submission…
This is the ongoing project with the objective to undertake a baseline assessment by gathering information on solid waste collection and cleaning services in the Dar es Salaam region within 41 urban wards. This…