Urban Vulnerability Mapping: Participatory Data Collection and Mapping of Urban Communities

Urban Poor Consortium and its partners tested an integrated method for data collection, management, and visualisation to empower citizens to be more actively involved in the production and updating of data, as well as in determining policy priorities based on these data.

This toolkit provides the methodology for focusing the data-gathering power of existing communities, increasing their capacity to work together and building awareness of the potential of the data created by this work. The power of this toolkit lies in how it can help citizens identify and articulate their own problems using the supplementing data in their communities.