The IGN FI/ GEOFIT/ LADEC consortium has just completed the land tenure security project in the communes of Buhinyuza, Isale and Matongo in Burundi: an interview with the 2 project leaders. What did this project consist of? Burundi, which is part of the “Bonn Challenge” – a challenge to restore Continue reading
ONF International, IGN FI and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), have produced a methodology for assessing the carbon storage capacities of mangroves in the different compartments. According to Adrien Moiret, remote sensing & GIS expert, “the preservation of mangroves is of crucial importance because of their major role in Continue reading
The Liberia Land Authority (LLA) now has its Operational Field Manual for the Formalisation of Customary Land Rights, developed and provided by IGN FI, in partnership with Tetratech. This reference document is the result of a 12-month project financed by the World Bank, which mobilised IGN FI experts. The manual Continue reading
The Steering Committee of the Integrated Urban Land Management System (SIGFU) implementation project held its second meeting on Friday 24 March. Chaired by the Director General of Urban Planning and Land Tenure, Mr. KRA Kouman, this committee is made up of general and central directors of the different administrations, stakeholders Continue reading
Financed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) with the support of the French Development Agency (AFD), the Integrated Flood Management Project in Senegal (PGIIS) is being carried out in its component 1 by the IGN FI/BRLi consortium. The main activities of this component are the production and dissemination of cartographic Continue reading
The end-of-project seminar of the Burundi Landscape Restoration and Resilience Project (PRRPB) was held on 23 March 2023 in Bujumbura, in the presence of many officials. The final workshop aimed at sharing the results and experience of the PRRPB in land certification, the approach and the lessons learned throughout the Continue reading
At the beginning of 2022, IGN FI won a contract with the Senegalese Air Force for visual flight mapping of the territory. For several decades, pilots in Senegal had to fly using aeronautical maps dating from the 1970s. Cartographer Alain Rivas and project manager Auriane Sacoman, founder of the “Air Continue reading
On the occasion of a supervisory mission carried out in Matongo by the World Bank in Burundi on the 20th of February 2023 to visit various achievements by the Burundi Landscape Restoration and Resilience Project (PRRPB) under the Global Environment Facility (GEF), The Commune organised ceremonies to hand over the Continue reading
Within the framework of the Burundi Resilience and Landscape Restoration Project (PRRPB), the communes of Isare (Bujumbura province) and Buhinyuza (Muyinga province) benefit from support for the establishment and operation of services in charge of formalising land rights by issuing land certificates (LC) to owners. The activities of the ‘land Continue reading
Every three months IGN Magazine brings you the latest news from IGN plus in-depth reports providing insights into the world of geographic and forest information and the issues surrounding it. In this issue: Headlines The IGN’s anthropocene atlas Special issue of “1 Hebdo” GeoDataDays The geo-commons factory Forest memento In-depth Continue reading
