Land Records and Geo-Spatial Information Systems Linked to Green Growth (LRGIGG)

Project Summary:

The objective of this grant is to support governments to develop accurate geo-spatial land mapping and data infrastructure that will provide accurate and timely information to guide smart and environmentally sound decision making around land and natural resource usage. There is an urgent need for accurate and comprehensive databases that provide information on natural resources, deforestation, habitat, and land uses.  Land records, tenure and zoning records are necessary for establishing accurate operations in areas such as: water quality, coastal zone management, and mapping desertification among other such issues to combat environment degradation and issues such as flood zones, deforestation and other substantial land issues.  Access to such information can provide governments the ability to accurately assess each situation and establish plans and policies tailored to the needs of their country.  

 This KGGTF program will provide funding for Honduras, Nicaragua, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Pakistan to receive knowledge and training on how to comprehensively support the mainstreaming of land records, information and geo-spatial systems.   These countries will learn how to develop a cadaster-centric approach to surveying land and integrating data for effective E-Government.  The geo-spatial and data infrastructure tools will enable improved planning, decision-making, policy implementation, monitoring and the development of a range of government web-based services to support effective governance and city development. 

List of Activities:

1. Overarching green Growth Strategy and Planning 

• Activities: assessment of the local institutional capacity to design and implement land records and geo-information systems to promote green growth (LRGIGG)
• Provide support to the countries to design and implement a SMART Monitoring and Evaluation System.

2. Green Growth Planning and Implementation Systems

• Organization of one  workshop(s) per country and one regional to identify the main components of  ICT- LRGIGG
• Development of pilot programs to implement the ICT LRGIGG

3. Promotion of Access to resources and institutional capacity building/knowledge exchange to drive green growth in action

• Guidelines to prepare Resilience Plans
• Stakeholders awareness
• Stimulation plan to promote participation of private sector

Outcomes:

Output 1:

• i) Action Plans to support the strengthening of the institutional capacity
• ii) Action plans to support the design and implementation of M&E systems 
• iii) Action plans to prepare stakeholder participation

Output 2:

• i) Components operational 
• ii) Pilot Programs operational

Output 3:

• i) Guidelines to prepare Resilience Plans
• ii) Stakeholders awareness.
• iii) Stimulation plan to promote participation of private sector

Outcomes:

• Improved Efficiency: ICTs The proposed LRGIGG – ICT would improve environmental performance and address climate change across the economy. Further environmental benefits of ICT applications are evident in areas such as water management, biodiversity protection, natural resources management, pollution reduction. The ICT will contribute to improve planning at local government levels and smart cities in terms of allocation of resources for urban planning and development of utilities. Korea is well advanced in eGovernment. This TA will help to share knowledge in the use electronic communication devices to provide public services and will allow the communication with all levels of government (city, state/province, national, and international), facilitating citizen involvement in governance using information and communication technology (ICT) (such as computers and websites) and business process re-engineering. 
• Increased Competitiveness: The objective is to promote a paradigm shift. Developing ICT – LRGIGG will facilitate the decisions to improve and/or expand infrastructure necessary to sustain growth. It will also improve the skills of the local workforce to promote innovation and efficiency. 
• Greater Resilience: This TA will help to increase the capacity of the countries to foster economic growth and development while ensuring that natural resources are protected and managed correctly. The resilience capacity needs to be developed within the countries and involving different stakeholders. This TA will help to action plans such as (i) disaster management plans, (ii) deforestation; (iii) pollution control; (iv) agroforestry and smart agriculture; (v) land resources and land uses in both urban and rural areas. Governments could use this data to prepare plans to incentive and stimulate the participation of the private sector to increase the resilience of the country by implementing environmentally friendly practices.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT): Korea’s Land Policy Bureau
• Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation (LX): Government Agency under the MOLIT (Cadastral Maps)
• National Geographic Information Institute (NGII): Government Agency under the MOLIT (Topographic Maps)
• Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement (KRIHS): Government Research Institute under the MOLIT
• UN-GGIM