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Home › Placements › Industrial Training › Community & Flood-Resilience Mapping
Running now 6–8 weeks (annually, Jul–Oct)

Community & Flood-Resilience Mapping

Students work alongside ward and sub-ward leaders to verify community assets and threats, map historical flood extent, run household flood surveys, and produce open building-exposure data for city flood modelling — all uploaded to the Climate Risk Database.

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8Weeks duration
6Lessons in placement

About this placement

Students work alongside ward and sub-ward leaders to verify community assets and threats, map historical flood extent, run household flood surveys, and produce open building-exposure data for city flood modelling — all uploaded to the Climate Risk Database.

Courses & skills covered

This placement includes the following courses from the Resilience Academy training catalog.

Introduction to Ubuntu Linux 6 lessons · ~10 hours · Beginner View course →

Impact & open data

Placements are hands-on: participants produce real geospatial data that is published openly to the Resilience Academy Climate Risk Database and reused by cities, universities and communities.

1Courses provided
6Lessons delivered
—Students per run
OpenData published to the CRD
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Placement history

3 years · 199 students placed to date.

202150 placed · OMDTZ u2014 Lower Msimbazi, Dar es Salaam
2020100 placed · OMDTZ (Ramani Huria 2.5) u2014 Dar es Salaam
201949 placed · HOT / OMDTZ u2014 Dar es Salaam

Placement details

Duration6–8 weeks (annually, Jul–Oct)
LocationDar es Salaam, Tanzania
Eligibility2nd–3rd year undergraduates from partner universities (Ardhi, UDSM), selected by university coordinators for programme and gender diversity.
StipendA daily travel & communication stipend (a safety measure, not a wage) — roughly 10,000–15,000 TSH/day, paid via mobile money.
CertificateNot offered
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Team involved

Msilikale MsilangaResilience Academy Project Manager
Prof. Niina KäyhköPrincipal Investigator (University of Turku)

Funders

World Bank GFDRRFunder (Tanzania Urban Resilience Program)

Partners

OpenMap Development Tanzania
Ardhi University
University of Dar es Salaam

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