Implementation of the land certification component of the PRRPB (Projet de Restauration et de Résilience du Paysage du Burundi – Burundi Landscape Restoration and Resilience Project) involved 26 hills. Over 105,000 hill surveys were carried out in Buhinyuza, Isare and Matongo. The production of more than 103,000 land certificates, with Continue reading
Starting in October 2021, the Component 1 of the Integrated Flood Management Project in Senegal (PGIIS – Projet de Gestion Intégrée des Inondations au Sénégal) consists of producing fine cartographic data on the entire territory and on several key areas, and setting up an integrated flood management platform. During the Continue reading
The Technical Secretariat of the Integrated Urban Land Management System (SIGFU) project held its second meeting on Tuesday 16 May 2023 at SIGFU headquarters. Chaired by Mr DIALLO Abdoulaye, Director of the Domaine Urbain, this working session provided an opportunity to discuss a number of key issues relating to the 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
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
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
