Cadastas Land Rights Challenge Fund

The Land Rights Challenge Fund was designed to help partners better leverage Cadasta’s innovative technical tools and services to document and secure land and resource rights worldwide. The Land Rights Challenge Fund featured multiple grant programs through 2021, each designed to advance land rights and tenure security for vulnerable populations around the world.

 

Are you working to document and secure land and resource rights for vulnerable individuals and communities?
Do you face barriers due to lack of funding, equipment, or other resources?
Do you have ideas about innovative and high-impact solutions to expand the reach of Cadasta’s tools and services around the world?

Cadasta envisions a world where even the most marginalized individuals and communities can benefit from the opportunities afforded by secure land and resource rights. The goal of the Land Rights Challenge Fund is to support Cadasta partners—including grassroots community groups, local nonprofit organizations, and other land rights stakeholders and advocates—to better utilize Cadasta’s tools and services to make data-driven decisions and put vulnerable communities and their needs on the map.

All grants enable the use of Cadasta’s tools, including mobile applications for data collection and web applications for data management and analysis. Grantees also have access to Cadasta’s high-quality imagery, data layers, dashboards, and analytical tools for monitoring, advocating, storytelling, and reporting. Cadasta’s platform and tools are built on open standards and access, and are supported by Esri ArcGIS technology—the world’s leading, cloud-based mapping and analytics platform.

Data Accelerator Grant Summary

Cadasta’s Data Accelerator Grant is designed to support our partners in overcoming small staffing and technology barriers to their data collection efforts using Cadasta’s tools.  

Land rights are the foundation of stability and prosperity.

Cadasta Land Rights Challenge Fund grantees receive:

Access to Technology

Cadasta will provide the software for mobile data collection and desktop platform applications. The grants can cover costs for hardware.

Financial Support

Grant funds to overcome staffing, technology, and other barriers, or to test new ideas, using Cadasta’s tools.

Training and Technical Support

Recipients will receive training and technical support from Cadasta’s team of technical and program implementation experts to ensure household and community impact.

 

The Land Rights Challenge Fund is available in partnership with Omidyar Network and UK Aid.