Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula
Portfolio and Programs Manager
Shazmane is the Portfolio and Programs Manager at HOT, where she works on overseeing strategic planning, program delivery, and cross-initiative coordination to drive impactful, outcome-focused work.
With a background in geography, GIS, and humanitarian mapping, Shazmane has worked across diverse contexts in Africa, Central Asia and the Caribbean, collaborating with communities, civil society organizations, and public institutions to advance data-driven decision-making and resilience.
She is particularly interested in open geospatial data, climate action, and capacity strengthening, and believe in inclusive, community-led approaches as a foundation for sustainable and equitable outcomes.
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May 3, 2022
DRC et Haïti, un transfert de connaissances inter-communautaire
Lorsqu'il est devenu évident que le projet de collaboration entre HOT et l'organisation communautaire COSMHANNE en Haïti nécessitait un volet de formation technique OSM en français, la communauté OSM RDC est intervenue.
May 3, 2022
DRC x Haiti Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer
When it became clear that the collaborative project between HOT and the COSMHANNE community organisation in Haiti would need a technical OSM training component in French, the OSM DRC community stepped in.
May 9, 2022
La cartographie en situation de conflit
Des événements et des expériences récentes, dont les événements survenus l'an dernier en Afghanistan et la guerre en Ukraine, ont incité HOT - et l'ensemble de la communauté de cartographie humanitaire - à réexaminer ce qui peut être fait dans le context de OpenStreetMap, sur le plan éthique et pratique, pour aider les populations touchées par des conflits.
May 9, 2022
Mapping in Conflict
Recent events and experiences, including last year’s developments in Afghanistan and the war in Ukraine, have prompted HOT—and the wider humanitarian mapping community—to revisit what can be ethically and practically done to help people caught in conflict within the context of OSM.
June 24, 2022
Open Cities Africa: Bamako - Community Mapping for a Resilient Bamako
With ‘Community Mapping for a Resilient Bamako’, HOT was able to contribute to data sharing, raise awareness of flooding, and build the capacity of the community for the collection and use of flood risk data.
June 28, 2022
Open Cities Africa: Bamako - Cartographie communautaire pour un Bamako résilient
Le projet Open Cities Africa, " Cartographie communautaire pour un Bamako résilient ", initié en 2020, s'est achevé en mai 2022. L'objectif de ce projet financé par la Banque mondiale consistait à mettre en évidence le besoin d'infrastructures d'information pour développer et renforcer la résilience urbaine à Bamako, au Mali.
Dec. 16, 2022
Announcement of HOT and Caribbean School of Data Partnership: Open Mapping Technical Training in the Caribbean Region
We are partnering with the Mona School of Business and Management's (MSBM) Caribbean School of Data (CSOD) project to launch an Open Mapping Technical Training program in the Caribbean.
Dec. 6, 2023
Launching HOT’s responsible and ethical data framework
At the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, we promote open and accessible data. What happens, though, when open data inadvertently brings attention to the location of something that could cause harm to the people in that area?
