Cadasta is pleased to award a Data Accelerator Grant to Yayasan Puter Indonesia, an organization that works with NGOs, community groups, the private sector, and the government to implement community planning and empowerment activities.
Under Cadasta’s Global Land Rights Challenge Fund, Cadasta launched its Data Accelerator Grant in late 2019 to help partners better leverage Cadasta’s innovative tools and services to document land and resource rights worldwide. The first round of the Data Accelerator Grant was awarded to three African organizations in April 2020.
Yayasan Puter Indonesia is the second organization to receive a grant under the second round of the Data Accelerator Grant. The organization will use the Data Accelerator Grant funds, Cadasta’s suite of tools, and a grant provided by Global Land Alliance to conduct household surveys and collect land rights data in the Jonggat district of Indonesia, representing approximately 4,072 households. The household survey will map the local communities’ land in the Labulia Village to provide land tenure clarity. The data collected in this exercise will also help improve the community’s climate resilience by allowing community members to make better decisions regarding their land use and resource management.
Commenting on how the grant will support their work, Chairman of Yayasan Puter Indonesia Taryono Darusman said, “The Data Accelerator Grant and tools provided by Cadasta will accelerate and substantially complement the village boundary-setting initiative by local government and community mapping process at the local level where resources and capacity are limited.”
“We are pleased to award a Cadasta Data Accelerator Grant to Yayasan Puter Indonesia,” said Cadasta’s CEO Amy Coughenour Betancourt, “By using the grant funds and Cadasta’s Platform to document the Labulia Village, they can support and empower the local community to make more informed and data-driven decisions regarding land use and resource planning.”
For more information, including application requirements and selection criteria, visit: 145944a268.nxcli.io/grants or contact: grants@145944a268.nxcli.io
About Yayasan Puter Indonesia:
The mission of Yayasan Puter Indonesia is to help the implementation of the role of the Indonesian people in determining, developing, achieving, enjoying, and maintaining the best quality of life. Through empowerment efforts with a community approach, Puter Indonesia Foundation has focused on community planning activities and is committed to helping NGOs, community groups, the private sector, and the government plan programs or projects within the framework of a thorough and complete approach. To meet this goal, Puter Indonesia has a core staff and many specialists in the network of people with a broad array of skills and experience who come together to apply this extensive knowledge and experience on issues facing the development of communities in Indonesia.
Notes to Editors:
- Yayasan Puter Indonesia’s website: www.https://puterindonesia.org/
- Yayasan Puter Indonesia’s Media Contact: Kelvin Cungiharjo (Kelvin.cungiharjo@puter.or.id; cungiharjokelvin@gmail.com )
About Cadasta Foundation:
Founded in 2015, Cadasta Foundation is a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit that develops and promotes the use of simple digital tools and technology to help partners efficiently document, analyze, store, and share critical land and resource rights information. By creating an accessible digital record of land, property, and resource rights, we help empower individuals, communities, organizations, governments, and businesses with the information they need to make data-driven decisions and put vulnerable communities and their needs on the map.
For more information about Cadasta’s work visit: https://145944a268.nxcli.io/
Notes to Editors:
- Cadasta Land Rights Challenge Fund: https://145944a268.nxcli.io/grants/
- Cadasta’s Twitter: @CadastaOrg
- Cadasta Press: https://145944a268.nxcli.io/press/
- Cadasta Media Contact: Madaleine Weber, Communications Director, mweber@145944a268.nxcli.io