What is its4land all about?

  • Aims to deliver a set of land tenure recording tools that are cheap, fast, easy, and responsible
  • Built upon fit-for-purpose and ICT innovation thinking
  • Counters conventional approaches to land tenure recording
  • Reinforces strategic collaboration between the EU and East Africa
  • Uses established local, national, and international partnerships
  • Combines emerging geospatial technologies, including smart sketchmaps, UAVs, automated feature extraction, and geocloud services- in an end-user responsive and market driven way
  • Develops supportive models for governance, capacity development, and business capitalisation
  • Incorporates gender sensitive analysis and design
  • Set in rapidly developing East Africa: Rwanda, Kenya, and Ethiopia
  • Includes 3 major phases and 8 work packages for contextualization, design, and eventual land sector transformation.
  • Uses Living Labs thinking, localized pilots and demonstrations
  • Experienced consortium that is multi-sectorial, multi-national, and multidisciplinary
  • Includes SMEs and researchers from 3 EU countries and 3 East African countries
  • Responds to the range of barriers that are known to exist using strong networks across East Africa
  • Tailored project management for milestones, deliverables, dissemination and exploitation