Introduction
Open Her Map team was consisted of 3 people, Mirnayani (Indonesia), Shafiya (Sri Lanka), and Karina (Indonesia). As a follow up of She Leads She Inspires program, Open Her Map was selected to be one out of 10 grant beneficiaries to make a platform to gather information related to the availability of women-only spaces in public facilities, such as the availability of breastfeeding rooms, kids’ playing spaces, women-only restrooms, ladies’ parking spaces, women-only rooms, women-only hours service, and many other women-only spaces’ necessities.
Outcome
By the end of the project, the project achieved the following: Women participants have increased sense of safety and comfort in terms of women-only spaces in public facilities One pilot location in each Jakarta and Moratuwa have increased the number of mapped women-only spaces in public facilities Women participants have increased knowledge on mapping women-only spaces using OpenStreetMap
Output
As of reporting date, the project has successfully delivered the following: 43 participants (Indonesia : 8 people; Sri Lanka : 35 people) attended Kick Off Webinar, 49 correspondents (Indonesia : 24 people; Sri Lanka : 25 people) responded to the mini survey, 34/50 people trained (100% women) during Mapathon Training, 114/50 women-only spaces in public facilities are mapped in the Open Her Map site, 85,96%/100% of Women space mapped and validated in pilot projects, as well as one web map platform which is free and accessible called Openhermap.
Through Open Her Map, everyone can access the information for free or even take part in completing the report. To get Involve, kindly get the training material here.
Discussion
Comment from hpedit00 on 18 October 2023 at 16:44
I was not aware any location on the planet had male and female segregated parking spaces. Curious.