Author: Braima Koroma
During the workshop, mapping of the settlement was undertaken in two informal settlements, both in the west of the city, namely, Dwazark, a hillside community, and Cockle Bay, a coastal community. At the community level, the team brought together men and women from each of the two settlements, to discuss and decide where to map, why and how, as a way to apprehend their community profile, infrastructure, capacity to act and a means to document and monitor where, feeding feed spatial and temporal details into an interactive online database about specific hazards, who is affected, where, how and why. The fieldwork exercise tested various participatory tools such as focus group discussion, mapping using smart phones and applications such as Ramblr to collect data that feed the information gathered into ReMapRisk.
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