Maps for sustainable development goals
Lack of reliable and up-to-date geospatial data is one of the challenges for many developing countries to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Since 2006, the Norwegian Mapping Authority has been significantly engaged with development projects in several countries in the former Soviet states – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Ukraine.
Lack of up-to-date data
Although different and unique, these countries still have a common history through over 70 years during the Soviet Union when all land and buildings were in common property or belonged to state.
Project facts
Georgia
- Project duration: November 2017 – May 2022
- Priority area: Institutional cooperation and good governance
- Cooperating partner: National Agency of Public Registry under the Ministry of Justice (Georgian language)
Kyrgyzstan
- Project duration: January 2017 – March 2022
- Priority area: Institutional cooperation and good governance
- Cooperating partner: State Agency on Land Resources (Kyrgyz language)
Moldova
- Project duration: January 2020 – December 2022
- Project area: Institutional cooperation and good governance
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Cooperating partner: Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre (Romanian and Russian language)
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the new states undertook massive national privatisation and established a new class of property owners. In some of the countries, the process is still ongoing. Politically motivated, the privatisation process in most cases was done without proper maps. These maps are now over 30 years old.
Clearly, it has resulted in errors with property boundaries and land disputes. The countries lacked up-to-date geospatial data – aerial imagery, terrain and mapping data to support property registration and cadastre.
Results of the Norwegian Support
With the financial support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we are able to provide high-quality services to our cooperating partners focusing on their priorities and needs.
Since 2006, a great number of projects was successfully implemented delivering tangible results, bringing new technologies and establishing professional and technical capacity to ensure sustainability and efficient use of the delivered products and transferred knowledge.
New projects
Currently, we implement projects in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Ukraine aimed at supporting efficient, secure and transparent real estate registration, providing access to geospatial information to all interested users and improving public services.
The main goal is to enable the countries and our cooperating partners to support planning, monitoring, reporting on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
We are also involved in the implementation of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework in these countries.
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