From the first session to the graduation ceremony, every element of this programme was designed and delivered under the UN Mappers Kenya banner. By the end of week two they had made real contributions to the global humanitarian map through the HOT Tasking Manager.
From the first session to the graduation ceremony, every element of this programme was designed and delivered under the UN Mappers Kenya banner.
Then in Week 4 they came back to their desks and turned that field data into flood risk models of Nairobi subcounties.
By the end of week two they had made real contributions to the global humanitarian map through the HOT Tasking Manager.
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From the first session to the graduation ceremony, every element of this programme was designed and delivered under the UN Mappers Kenya banner. By the end of week two they had made real contributions to the global humanitarian map through the HOT Tasking Manager. For most of them it was the first time their work had ever left their laptop and gone somewhere that mattered.
In June 2026, UN Mappers Kenya launched its first ever Youth Climate Mapping Externship,a seven-week virtual programme designed to put real geospatial tools in the hands of young Kenyans and point them at real climate problems in Nairobi.
Nineteen university students answered the call. Phase 2 — Map (Weeks 3 and 4) This is where things got real. Participants trained in KoboToolbox and Chat Map, then on a Saturday in July they went to Kibera, smartphones out, GPS on, walking through Woodley and Sarang'ombe to validate a waste mapping study that had not been revisited since 2020.
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