Deadline: 2-Dec-22
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s West and North Africa Regional Open Mapping Hub (WNAH) is launching the Mwalai (Impulse & Improve OSM Data program) grant program to enhance data production and improve data quality in the OpenStreetMap database.
Program Objective
- To support the open mapping community, contributors in the West and North African region by providing the required resources to improve quantitatively and qualitatively the OpenStreetMap database.
- To stimulate the contribution to OSM through the use of available low-cost open mapping technologies.
Funding Information
Applicants may apply for an OSM Mapping Project Grant between $3,000 and $10,000.
Eligible Countries
Applications are open to organizations or OSM contributors from fourteen (14) countries: Algeria, Benin, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea (Central), Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Morocco, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations or OSM contributors seeking grants must meet the following technical criteria.
- For organizations:
- Must be legally and locally registered organizations, including OpenStreetMap communities, community-based organizations (CBOs), civil society organizations (CSOs);
- Must have demonstrated accountable leadership, including governance and financial management systems;
- Must have a clear alignment between project objectives and Mwalai program objectives;
- Must include a detailed and realistic budget;
- Must be experienced in the use of mapping technologies related to OSM;
- Must include a detailed and realistic project plan that outlines activities planned (minimum 5 months of activities);
- Organizations may apply for a grant between $5000 and $10,000.
- For OSM contributors
- Be an active OSM contributor with at least 2 years of active contributions focused on data collection, OSM mapping, and quality control;
- Must be experienced in the use of mapping technologies related to OSM;
- Must have a clear alignment between project objectives and Mwalai program objectives;
- Must include a detailed and realistic budget
- Must include a detailed and realistic project plan that outlines activities planned (minimum 5 months of activities);
- Contributors may apply for a grant of between $3,000 and $5000
- Note : Multiple contributors can work together to develop activities.
For more information, visit https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WNAH_Mwalai_Grant-Program-En