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Building Knowledge Society at Grassroots:
Participatory village mapping workshop by Amader Gram ICT4D project
5-6 April 2005, Khulna, Bangladesh
Participatory mapping is a process involving all members of the community. The object is to map aspects of the villager's land and resources that are important to them. The key ingredient in participatory mapping is that it is participatory, and the community controls the outcome as well as all stages of the mapping process. All individuals have the opportunity to join in the making of the maps, both through field surveys, drafting and feedback. The value of these maps is that they respond to the needs and wants of the community.
The Amader Gram (Our Villages) project of southwest Bangladesh (Khulna and Bagerhat) is documenting village resources through its database program (for details please visit: http://www.amadergram.org/projects.html). At this stage the project is lining up the trend of local development issues those are based on responses to questions about a pattern of changes in the community over a specified period of time.
Under the project Amader Gram the village decides who will participate in the surveying and drafting, and what they want to map. The ensuing few days (generally 3 to 5) are spent teaching mapping skills, including: Longitude and longitude (and often UTM), Scale, Contours, Compass, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), surveying, and Map making techniques. Finally, facilitators will go out with the villagers during the survey portion of the project. Our purpose here is simply to observe, and provide technical support when needed; however, the community members are the ones conducting the survey and operating the equipment.
Preliminary draft maps are often drawn in the village, and later refined in our office in Khulna. This part of the process is also community directed, and the drafting and plotting of field data is by individuals from the village. We provide the resources and teach the technical aspects required making these maps, but it is ultimately the villagers who draw them. The finished maps are then taken back to the village(s) and discussed in a series of public meetings, ensuring that they adequately reflect the needs and interests of the community. We feel that by making the maps available for feedback, the process maintains legitimacy and fosters community ownership and trust.
The proposed day-long workshop on our process sharing will be held in Khulna on 5-6 April 2005 at the Hotel Royal International. Interested people are requested to contact for registration at info@amadergram.org (attention: Ms. Kochi).
Reza Salim
Project Director
Amader Gram ICT4D Project
www.amadergram.org
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