The the UN's 2030 agenda with the 17 sustainability goals forms the platform for Norwegian development policy.
It is the UN's 2030 agenda with the 17 sustainable development goals that form the platform for Norwegian development policy.
The Sustainable Development Goals will help all countries of the world reach the goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, ensuring inclusive development and promoting prosperity, peace and justice.
The aid policy is based on the partner country concept, which assumes that there is a mutual desire for cooperation for development and to build state capacity and competence in the partner countries.
The Norwegian Mapping Authority wants to contribute to the data revolution for sustainable development, as access to updated and applicable geographical data is crucial for informed decision-making and monitoring of progress to achieve sustainability goals.
We have for many years been involved in institutional cooperation and development assistance in our fields of study, which are geodesy, production and management of map data and land registration. These activities have, in particular, been intended to support efforts to promote safe and equal access to land and property and in this way to support the sustainability goals.
70 % of the world population lacks legally recognized evidence of the right to the country they live in or use for production. Securing property rights will radically improve the conditions for poor people to invest in and improve their housing conditions.
The Norwegian Mapping Authority works actively with a number of international organizations in this work:
International organizations
The United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) aims at playing a leading role in setting the agenda for the development of global geospatial information and to promote its use to address key global challenges. It provides a forum to liaise and coordinate among Member States, and between Member States and international organizations
UN-GGIM: Europe shall operate within the scope of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management. UN-GGIM aims at playing a leading role in setting the agenda for the development of global geospatial information and promoting its use to address key global challenges. It provides a forum for liaison and coordination among UN Member States and between UN Member States and international organizations.
The Norwegian Mapping Authority collaborates with UN-Habitat through The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), an alliance of global regional and national partners contributing to poverty alleviation through land reform, improved land management and security of tenure particularly through the development and dissemination of pro-poor and gender-sensitive land tools. The Norwegian Mapping Authority is a member of the International Advisory board which advises the GLTN steering committee on strategic and technical issues with regards to programme implementation, and provides political leadership to champion the land agenda in urban sustainable development goals.
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) is one of the expert bodies of UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) where about 400 people from more than 100 countries participate. UNGEGN follows up the implementation of resolutions from the UNCSGN.
The Norwegian Mapping Authority contributes in the work of United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names together with The Sámi Parliament, The Language Council of Norway and Bergen University.
Each participating country is recommended to make a guide for use of geographical names in maps, Toponymic Guidelines for Map and Other Editors for International Use. In Norway The Norwegian Mapping Authority is responsible for updating this guide together with the linguistic institutions.
The Norwegian Mapping Authority advocates the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure for all forms of tenure: public, private, communal, indigenous, customary, and informal. We take these into account during the implementation of our international projects.
It is necessary for the Norwegian Mapping Authority to coordinate donor activities together with the World Bank since several of our projects are implemented in the same countries or have an overlapping focus.
The United Nations' specialized agency with responsibility for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine pollution by ships.
The Norwegian Mapping Authority represents Norway in the UNECE's Working Party on Land Administration's (WPLA) Steering Committee for the period 2017-2019 and 2019-2021. The overall goals of are the promotion and improvement of land administration and land management in the UNECE region.
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