MOZAMBIQUE - Health

Final Project Presentation

General Information:

By Austin Preiss

Mozambique is a country located in the southeastern part of Africa. Mozambique shares 2,470 miles of coast along the Indian Ocean to the east. To the west, Mozambique shares borders with Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Swaziland. To the north Mozambique shares a border with Tanzania. Mozambique has a population of about 24 million people and the official language of the country is Portuguese. Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975. June 25 marks the day, called National Day of Mozambique, that the locals celebrate Mozambique's independence. Mozambique had a long civil war after gaining independence which official ended in 1992. The country has been struggling ever since becoming independent. The total area of Mozambique is 313,661 square miles which is about 812,379 kilometers. The capital of Mozambique is Maputo which is also the largest city in country. The government is structured in a multi-party democracy. Christianity is the major religion with about 56% of the population converting to Christianity then comes Islam with 16% of the population and other indigenous beliefs. The currency is called metical. Right now 1 metical is equivalent to .0194340 US. dollars. The life expectancy from men is 50 years while for women it is 52 years.

References:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13890416

http://www.mapsofworld.com/mozambique/facts.html

http://country-facts.findthedata.com/l/149/Mozambique

USAID Interest:

By Cody White

The interest of USAID in Mozambique is a multitude of things, but mainly for our project we focus of Global Health, Environment, and Crisis Response. For Global Health, USIAD is trying to help with HIV/AIDS for 1 in 10 (1.2 million) have the disease. Along with helping with clinics to provide more doctors to overflowing patients. The local Environment is also a big attention grabber to USAID, considering Mozambique is one of the most susceptible counties to climate change. Server weather plays a big role in the contently changing environments. With these changing environments, Crisis Response to those server storms is critical. Floods, tropical storms, and cyclones attribute to the destruction of this countries people. Including all of these things, Our main focus as a group is helping construct roadways and identifying homes and buildings so that the maria prevention team can use our map to help clear out the major mosquito problem in Mozambique. That's why USAID has played a large role in helping those in need during these trying times. Here are some links that show USAID'S involvement in Mozambique.

http://hotosm.github.io/tracing-guides/guide/MozambiqueGuide.html

https://www.usaid.gov/mozambique/global-health

https://www.usaid.gov/mozambique/environment

https://www.usaid.gov/crisis/mozambique

Current State of OpenStreetMap Data:

By Chantry Dunlap

The scope of our project consists of Quelimane, Mozambique, and the surrounding communities and coastline.

While the city of Quelimane has been digitized, the outskirts have only major roads and features. From the legend, it can be concluded that only Quelimane and its immediate surroundings have been completely digitized. Our goal as a team is to complete the areas outlined with squares. Our main focus is digitizing roads and buildings in order to help USAID coordinate indoor spraying campaigns (HOT Tasking Manager). The city of Quelimane appears to have more features digitized than other similarly sized cities in Mozambique. Even Maputo, the capital and largest city of Mozambique, lacks the detail Quelimane has. In Quelimane, almost all buildings have been digitized (including residences), whereas in Maputo, only major buildings have been digitized. Our goal is to achieve the same level of detail that Quelimane has throughout the scope of our project.

Refer to the following images comparing the waterfront areas of Maputo and Quelimane. Note the difference in the amount of buildings that have been digitized:

Maputo:

Quelimane:

Refences:

HOT Tasking Manager - #1498 - Quelimane, Mozambique -- Africa Indoor Residual Spraying Campaign. (n.d.). Retrieved March 19, 2016, from http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1498

OpenStreetMap: Quelimane. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/-17.8783/36.8945

OpenStreetMap: Maputo. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/-25.9671/32.5575

Local OpenStreetMap Community:

By Kendall Merkel

The local Open Street Map community within Mozambique aims to “ produce and distribute free maps with high quality of Mozambican territory” (wiki). There are two projects currently in the works to help improve Mozambican maps. Recently, UVM (The University of Vermont) hosted a mapathon of the city of Ribáuê, to help map for HIV medication distribution for Doctors Wthout Borders. Here is a before and after of the area mapped at this OSM mapathon:

The group out of UVM was able to digitize 347 roads, 173 residential areas, and 107 waterways during this mapathon.

The second project is the Quelimine project currently being worked on by Youth Mappers at Texas Tech University. This project is backed by many different organizations including USAID, Open Street Map, Humanitarian Open Street Map Team, National Geographic, Missing Maps and many other organizations. This project is focusing currently on mapping for resilience and malaria prevention, which is “directly supported by [the] US president’s malaria initiative” (OSMGeoWeek.Org).

These projects are vital to the residents of Mozambique and the OSM community in general. With the help from people mapping on OSM, residents of Mozambique are hopefully able to gain health benefits and improve development within the country.

References:

Ahles, N. (n.d.). Letters from the SAL: UVM Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team - A Year in Review. Retrieved March 29, 2016, from http://letters-sal.blogspot.com/2016/03/uvm-humanitarian-openstreetmap-team.html?utm_source=feedburner

Mapping for Resilience - Malaria Prevention Mapping in Mozambique. (n.d.). Retrieved March 29, 2016, from http://osmgeoweek.org/project/Quelimane/

WikiProject Mozambique. (n.d.). Retrieved March 29, 2016, from https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Mozambique

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