Items tagged:
Participatory mapping
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Helping indigenous communities secure land rights in Nepal
A land rights project in Nepal is working with young people to map land claims and help more than 2,000 Indigenous farmers get legal title to the lands their families have farmed for generations. The project is being supported by local officials and is attracting interest from local governments across Nepal
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Alternative data sources for cities and communities
In the latest in our series of blogs and interviews focusing on the transition to a predominantly urban world, David Satterthwaite looks at community-driven data collection and mapping
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How can we incorporate local knowledge into climate planning and policy? …Maps!
In Kenya, participatory mapping makes it possible for indigenous knowledge to be included in planning and policy where for too long it was excluded, showing technology can bring people’s voices to power
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Monitoring and evaluation, and impact evaluation methods
IIED's work in monitoring, evaluation and learning aims to provide the right type of information at the right time to the right people. Our goal is to learn about what works for whom, under what circumstances, how and why
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Does gender balance improve forestry and fishery management?
A new project aims to map the evidence on gender, natural resource governance and biodiversity conservation. And we're looking for your help
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Maps that build bridges
Thanks to digital participatory mapping, pastoralists are proud of their local knowledge and policymakers want to act on it.
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Community maps reveal rich resources of land policymakers think is empty
Misperceptions of the drylands as barren and empty are leading to their mismanagement. An IIED mapping project aims to create a clearer picture of their value to pastoralists.
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What happens when slum dwellers put themselves on the map
The new issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization – published today – reveals how organisations of the ‘illegal’ urban poor have made themselves matter to city governments by mapping and documenting their informal settlements and the people and businesses in them.
