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American Red Cross West Africa Project

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American Red Cross West Africa Project
Description
From February to October 2016, the American Red Cross and its local Red Cross partners completed an effort to extensively map areas within a 15-kilometer distance of the shared borders between Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The goal of this work was to create an open and comprehensive dataset of communities for West Africa and to ensure that decision makers, humanitarian workers, and community stakeholders are better aware of water, sanitation, health, and community resources before and during the next crisis. To complete this mapping, the American Red Cross launched a mapping center in Guéckédou, Guinea, and used it as both a base of operations and a community engagement facility. Over 100 volunteers helped to complete a rapid assessment of the region, visiting over 7,000 communities by motorbike to complete a vulnerability survey with the village leader. Next, over 100 communities were selected for a round of detailed mapping, focusing on collecting the location and information about every water point, health facility and other community resource in the area. In addition, we led technical skills trainings and mapping events both in Guéckédou and across the region. **ALL DATA EXCEPT FOR THE OpenStreetMap EXTRACTS ARE LICENSED AS CC-BY 4.0**
Creator
American Red Cross
Publisher
The Centre for Humanitarian Data
Temporal Coverage
2016-02-01 to 2016-10-31
Date Issued
2016-12-22
Access Rights
Public
Date Added
May 31, 2024
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-08-23.

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    American Red Cross (2016). American Red Cross West Africa Project. The Centre for Humanitarian Data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/9e3665cb-e4a3-4749-9622-f5c8146542c3 (dataset)
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