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NEWS: Land Portal celebrates 80 country profiles
13 November 2023
We are celebrating the Land Portal's 80th country profile -- Iraq -- and the 79 that stand behind it. This rich collection represents seven years of work and underpins the Land Portal's commitment to making land information open and accessible. We publish profiles in English, French, Spanish, and…
The green veins of our concrete cities
28 February 2023
It’s Saturday morning. Children, teens, homemakers, senior citizens and other residents have gathered, all ready to work for a common goal: to reclaim this green space for their community. The diverse group hatches their plans under an awning that protects them from the sun, the kind that warms…
Calling for water-sensitive urban designs for Bhutan’s Cities
4 February 2023
Experts look at water-sensitive urban designs for Bhutan’s Cities
Projects
Private Sector/MSME Competitiveness
Durationaab: December 2005 - July 2018
Value: $42,100,000.00
Donors: World Bank Group
General The project objective is to create sustainable conditions for enterprise creation and growth. land tenure activities include: (i) Convert old survey and mapping data to fit the new geodetic surveying infrastructure, and awareness-raising of the professionals about using the new system; (ii)
Swarna Pragati
Durationaab: November 2015 - January 2020
Value: $2,600,000.00
Donors: Omidyar Network
General Swarna Pragati is India’s first affordable rural housing microfinance company and aspires to build a society where everyone has a house in which to live with dignity. The organization aims to be the preferred provider of innovative financial solutions for housing in India, particularly to lo
Sir Ratan Tata Trust
Durationaab: April 2018 - April 2019
Value: $1,700,000.00
Donors: Omidyar Network
General Omidyar Network partnered with Tata Trusts to map the Odisha slum’s informal settlements and to identify 100,0000 households eligible to benefit from the recent Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, which aims to identify, map, and issue titles for parcels of land currently occupied by sl
Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Durationaab: March 2014 - August 2019
Value: $1,900,000.00
Donors: Omidyar Network
General By the year 2050, half of all Indians will live in urban areas, a significant transition that will have widespread economic, political, social, and ecological impacts. To meet these challenges, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) aims to establish an independently funded and ma
LAND-at-scale Somalia: Saameynta – Scaling-up Solutions to Displacement in Somalia
Durationaab: January 2022 - January 2025
Value: €2,000,000.00
Donors: Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency
General Somalia has over 2.9 million Internally Displaced People (IDPs) following decades of civil war and violent conflict. In addition, a significant increase of droughts and floods due to climate change have forced people away from their rural homes. Most IDPs have relocated in Somalia’s cities w
Strengthening Urban Resilience for Growth with Equity: Philippines
Durationaab: January 2015 - January 2020
Value: $47,800,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
General With wealth concentrated in Metro Manila and a few other primary cities, secondary and tertiary cities must elevate their role in spreading economic development. The Strengthening Urban Resilience for Growth with Equity (SURGE) Project is a five-year, $47.8 million project, which fosters the
Data against forced evictions in Brazil: The Zero Evictions Campaign
7 May 2024
How could a problem that affects at least 1,5 million people in a country like Brazil be so unheard of? How could so many families be evicted from their homes by public authorities, or with their endorsement, when staying at home was one of the main measures to contain a global health crisis, such…
Sharing and Exchange: The Land Information Ecosystem in the Arab region
16 February 2021
Download the summary report of this webinar here This webinar was organized in the frame of the 2nd Arab Land Conference. It is widely understood that effective use of land, the sustainable production of food and development are linked. Yet, creating effective policy, which takes into account…
