Mapping and Analysing Your City with QGIS, Global Open Data and the Climate Risk Database (CRD)

Tanzanian cities face both sudden shocks, such as floods and infrastructure failures, and slow stresses, such as rapid unplanned growth, rising heat and gaps in basic services. This course shows government officials how to understand and measure the resilience of their own city with QGIS, combining local data from the Climate Risk Database (crd.resilienceacademy.ac.tz) with free global datasets: WorldPop population, GHSL built-up surface, Landsat surface temperature and vegetation, ESA WorldCover, OpenStreetMap and flood hazard maps. Working step by step with Dar es Salaam as the worked example, participants build a ward data profile, map urban growth, heat and green space, access to health, schools and water, and the exposure of critical infrastructure to floods, then combine the evidence into a ward resilience profile with action priorities. Every lesson ends with a map and a plain-language interpretation of what it means for city decisions. The course is designed for municipal and local government planners, engineers, environment and disaster risk officers with basic QGIS skills, and is delivered as six contact-day practicals with step-by-step written guides.