The IGN FI/ BRLi consortium has been awarded the regional contract to assess hazards, vulnerabilities and risks in the Member States of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the international organisation promoting the economic, social and cultural development of the following Member States: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Continue reading
A consortium made up of IGN FI/ GEOFIT/ GEODESIGN & BIZ has been awarded the delegated project management contract in Cameroon to carry out the activities comprising module 1 of the Project entitled “Modernisation of Land Registration and Estates”. The project, costing 1,465,480€ net of tax, is being financed by Continue reading
The OSFACO project that aims to improve knowledge of past and present dynamics in terms of land use and land use change in several Central and Western African countries using spatial observation tools, has just published its newsletter n°10. This newsletter includes more specifically the publication of the proceedings of the Continue reading
In October 2014 IGN FI was awarded a contract to carry out digital mapping of the entire country of Benin at a scale of 1:50,000. Apart from a very few exceptions, the cartography of Benin had never been updated since the country gained its independence. The project to update Benin’s national Continue reading
The French Institute in Benin is organising an exhibition devoted to the Tatas, the remarkable architectural heritage of North Benin, from April 16th to 30th 2019. This exhibition comprising photographs and mapping of the tourism sites is compiled from data gathered and produced as part of the project to modernize Continue reading
IGN FI travelled to Addis Ababa to give a training course to the Ethiopian Geospatial Information Institute (EGII) teams on how remote sensing can contribute to land cover projects. This training course falls within the terms of a framework cooperation agreement concluded between CNES/EGII (formerly EMA, the Ethiopian Mapping Agency) and Continue reading
An International Conference on the use of Satellite imagery for sustainable management of territories in Africa took place from 13 to 15 March in Cotonou, Benin, organised by IGN FI and IRD as part of the OSFACO project. This event was attended by representatives of the AFD, the French Embassy, the Continue reading
IGN FI will once again be attending the 20th Annual Conference of the World Bank, which is on the theme of Land and Poverty. The theme of the Conference, which will take place in Washington from March 25-29, is Catalyzing Innovation. The main stakeholders in the field of land governance (funders, Continue reading
IGN FI was part of the French delegation that made the trip from 12 to 15 March to Kenya and Ethiopia on the sidelines of the French President’s official visit to these two countries. In total, about twenty French companies (including BRL engineering, CIM, Captels, Ducrocq, Faure Herman, Enensys, Enersys, Fayat, Continue reading
The kick-off meeting for the Forest and Wildlife Inventory took place on Tuesday 5 March 2019, attended by the Minister for Water and Forests and the international grouping of ONFI / IGN FI / IGN, engaged to provide support to Ivory Coast in carrying out the second inventory of its Continue reading
