Organization

Nearly a billion people in rural communities throughout the world lack transportation access to critical destinations like health centers, schools, markets, and towns with employment opportunities. Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) works with isolated communities to build trail bridges over impassable rivers, and create lasting connections to essential services and opportunities.

To date, B2P has built more than 340 bridges that serve 1.1 million people in 20 countries. Its projects have been demonstrated to create a pivotal change in rural communities, with farm profits increasing by 75% and wage labor increasing by 36% following bridge construction. B2P currently operates programs in Rwanda and Uganda. 

Project Information  

A key metric for the organization is the number of communities, and by extension, the number of people, served by each of its bridges. B2P operates a population catchment survey program to understand the geographic reach of its trail bridges in Rwanda and the specific ways in which trail bridges serve as connections to key destinations for rural communities.

Visualizing data from its catchment survey program will make it possible for B2P to communicate a complex impact concept to key stakeholders, including communities, government partners, and funders, as well as the general public. It will also help elevate the conversation about rural transportation infrastructure and the importance of prioritizing last-mile infrastructure in development plans.

Call-to-Action  

Help solve the problem of rural isolation by donating, or sharing these findings with your network

Audience 

Government partners, funders, the general public, and through feedback sessions hosted by local monitoring staff, communities

Use of Data Visualization

Website, social media, annual reports, grant applications, other communications

Organization’s Tableau Public account

Data

1. Catchment survey data for six randomly selected bridges; the data dictionary is included

2. Bridge site information (including coordinates)

3. Shapefiles for Rwanda villages

4. Administrative divisions and codes for Rwanda, as published by the National Institute of Statistics for Rwanda

5. Possible external sources for data:

   1. National Institute of Statistics for Rwanda

   2. Worldpop’s Rwanda datasets 

   3. Rural access index (RAI), a World Bank indicator 

6. The assortment of logos, pictures, icons, and fonts

Deadline to submit

September 30th, 2020

How to participate

·       Sign up as a volunteer, if you haven’t already.

·       Join Viz for Social Good Slack and project channel #project-2020-bridges-to-prosperity

·       Submit your visualization to  Viz for Social Good – Bridges to Prosperity

·       Use social media tags @B2P, @VizFSG, #vizforsocialgood

·       Attend a live virtual event on October 10th, 8 am MST, where you may get the opportunity to pitch your visualizations to the Bridges to Prosperity team. RSVP here.