Bridges to Prosperity
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
B2P is creating a suite of rural access briefs on key subject areas to illustrate the importance of consistent safe access in the rural context. Each brief is intended to be a digestible and engaging summary of the potential for trail bridges and other rural transportation infrastructure to effect significant change in the subject area at hand.
For example, the Climate and Environment brief is intended to illustrate 1) the effect of climate change on rural communities and 2) the role of trail bridges in mitigating or reversing those effects. The example brief linked below is not complete, but shows how data visualisations could be used in a brief of this kind. B2P believes in evidence-based decision making, and the power of good information to change hearts and minds, and intends to design new briefs for each subject area around the data visualisations we feel most effectively convey the message of each brief.
Example draft brief: https://bridges.box.com/s/7ljpy9qt9868kl7pkziv2fp8bearl72l
Make sure you watch the event kickoff recording.
This is the second project with Bridges to Prosperity and the data and challenges provided are quite different.
Based on "briefs", the data provided might be a single measure or no measure at all, and this will require the volunteers to be very creative to express those.
B2P has shared that sometimes it is a struggle to express something that's essentially a single measure in a way that's interesting and engaging.
Key messaging for each briefs
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Climate change poses an acute threat to rural communities, and safe access mitigates that theat
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Feeder roads are a proven intervention in the effort to end rural poverty, and trailbridges provide critical access to feeder roads
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Trailbridges are a critical link between the urban and rural contexts
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Trailbridges provide the consistent access that's required for agricultural life cycles and supply chains
Call-to-Action
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Audience
National governments, private and governmental funding agencies
“The briefs would be used as print and digital collateral to share with strategic partners and stakeholders, including institutional funder and government partners. If the volunteers could produce dashboards with elements that would convert well to print, that would be ideal! ”
Two kickoff events
We will have 2 kickoff events. Abbie Noriega, VP of Evaluation of Bridges to Prosperity will share with us information about the briefs and required deliverables.
The first part of these events will also be the launch of VFSG Champions, so don't miss these!
Watch recording of the first kickoff event
Deadline to submit
Access to data
How to participate
· Sign up as a volunteer, if you haven’t already.
· Join Viz for Social Good Slack and project channel #02_project-discussion
· Submit your visualization to https://forms.gle/QKEBUBTzpkeZKjZbA
· Use social media tags @B2P, @VizFSG, #vizforsocialgood
· Attend a live virtual event on 23 July 7 am MDT(USA – Colorado), where you may get the opportunity to pitch your visualizations to the Bridges to Prosperity team. (Eventbrite RSVP link)