Cadasta has been included in fhi360 ’s Inventory of Digital Tech for Resilience in Asia-Pacific . The inventory contains more than 100 entries of technologies that are being used to enhance the resilience of individuals, families, communities, businesses, and/or governments. Cadasta was selected for its innovative use of technology to document the…

Cadasta Foundation has been accepted as a member of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), an alliance of global, regional, and national organizations working to create the foundation for sustainable development through land reform, improved land management, and strengthening land tenure for women, men, and communities. Given the pivotal role that the GLTN plays in working…

XYHT Magazine, a monthly magazine for professional land surveyors focused on issues related to land surveying, featured an article on Cadasta Foundation in its April 2017 issue. The article, which includes interviews with Cadasta staff and partners, explains how Cadasta works around the globe to expedite the documentation of land rights. The piece explains Cadasta’s…

Cadasta, which was founded two years ago to expedite the documentation of land rights around the world, is launching a search for a new CEO. The news comes as Noel Taylor, a co-founder and a veteran international development expert with 20 years of experience in the land rights sector, gave notice to the board that…

In advanced industrial countries we take much infrastructure for granted, such as cadastres with plots mapped at survey grade. In many countries, however, more than 70% of the land is outside the land register. Most people among the world’s poor do not have any official record at all of their land rights. This facilitates mass encroachments…

For the last decade, the international development community has – at great expense – repeatedly and unsuccessfully worked to create sustainable large-scale and cost-effective modern land tenure systems for emerging economies. In Ghana, the World Bank spent many millions building a land registry which was plagued by delays, costs overruns, and inefficiencies . In…

An estimated 70 percent of land in emerging economies is undocumented. In rural areas, from Chad to Cambodia, a majority of smallholders farm without the security of having legal rights to their land. In urban areas, from Delhi to Durban, an estimated 25 percent of residents live in homes to which they have no documented legal right. The…

As more than 1,000 global leaders in land rights gather in Washington DC this week for the annual World Bank Land and Poverty conference , there will, no doubt, be much discussion focused on gathering data to measure global progress towards documenting and strengthening land rights for all women and men. But it is…

At the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, the pre-eminent event in the global land tenure sector, Cadasta staff will present three papers to conference attendees. The papers are: Thinking Local: Can Local Land Administration Systems Avoid the Pitfalls of National Land Systems Mapping as Empowerment: Lessons from a Year of Participatory Community Mapping…

A functioning land administration sector is the foundation of a national economy, critical for economic growth. Unfortunately, effective land registry and cadastral systems with national coverage exist in only a fraction of the world’s countries. Without accurate information regarding land rights, many development goals – food security, sustainable resource management, climate change mitigation and equal…