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Cadasta Foundation
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Reviving Documentation of Property Rights


Cadasta Foundation is dedicated to the support, continued development and growth of the Cadasta Platform – an innovative, open source suite of tools for the collection and management of ownership, occupancy, and spatial data that meets the unique challenges of this process in much of the world.


We provide the tools and resources for testing new approaches to capturing land and resource rights data and promoting the adoption of ‘fit-for-purpose’ technology and processes. Incorporated as a non-profit, federally-recognized 501(c)(3) organization, Cadasta Foundation aims to simplify, modernize, and expedite the documentation of land and resource rights in places where it does not exist today.


Our Approach


  • A secure, cost effective global platform for the direct capture and documentation of land and resource rights.
  • A collaborative ecosystem of partners using the Cadasta Platform to protect land and resource rights.
  • A research and resource portal for the open sharing of knowledge, best practices and the use of our tools.

Members:

Frank Pichel
Amy Coughenour Betancourt
Madaleine Weber
Antonio Inguane

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Report: Debate on Open Data and Land Governance

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Global

Across most contexts, government data sources on land are largely inaccessible, from land administration data, such as parcel data and ownership information to land investments, contract data and even policy information. In considering data on property ownership specifically, the latest version of the Open Data Barometer shows only two countries, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, obtained a full 100% score on the topic of Land Ownership. When this land administration data is made available, it is commonly made public via a web portal rather than as open data.

Report: Debate on Open Data and Land Governance

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Global

Across most contexts, government data sources on land are largely inaccessible, from land administration data, such as parcel data and ownership information to land investments, contract data and even policy information. In considering data on property ownership specifically, the latest version of the Open Data Barometer shows only two countries, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, obtained a full 100% score on the topic of Land Ownership. When this land administration data is made available, it is commonly made public via a web portal rather than as open data.

Indigenous people’s rights and sustainable livelihoods programme

General

This project forms part of CAFOD’s indigenous people's land and livelihoods programme which aims to support the empowerment of indigenous communities in the Philippines to lead their own development, and improve their quality of life, through increased control and more sustainable management of natural resources within their ancestral lands. The Subanen people who live in the Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, are among the poorest and most marginalized people in the Philippines. Most Subanen communities are located in remote but resource-rich areas, but Subanen people have little, if any, effective representation in decision-making bodies, and indigenous women have even less say. This project will support two indigenous organisations to apply for land rights and develop land use plans for the ancestral lands. Pigsalabukan Gukom de Bayog is a traditional council of the Subanen People of the central region of the Zamboanga Peninsula representing the Bayog Indigenous community. This project will support the community of Bayog to secure their land rights and to undertake a land use planning process in order to reduce resource related conflicts and to ensure the natural resources within the domain will be managed sustainably PDSI is a Subanen women’s network representing the Kumalarang indigenous community. Through this project CAFOD, and will support the community of Kumalarang to secure their land rights and undertake a land use planning process. This process will also ensure that Indigenous women can participate in community decision-making particularly with regard to the management of ancestral lands, maintenance of peace and order, and resolution of conflict.

Land Rigths and Livelihood in Tete Province

General

This action aims to follow up and follow on the previous UE co-funded Project (MOZ286) in 3 districts of Tete Province, namely: Cassoca, Nhatsanga and Chissua. With this Project our partner UPCT (Uniao Provincial dos Camponeses de Tete) is going to strengthen a common understanding of existing legal frameworks and policies amongst companies, communities and other stakeholders in reference to land rights during mining exploration or expropriation. On one hand it will strengthen the capacities of local CSOs, and communities with regard to land rights on the other it will improve legal practices of mining companies also through a close collaboration of duty bearers. Moreover the Project will respond to some urgent needs - mainly linked to food security and agricultural productivity - of the communities affected by mining exploration.