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By maintaining and protecting 101,000 ha of rainforest in the provinces of Jambi and South Sumatra, the first areas to be designated for ecosystem restoration in Indonesia, some 15.2 million tonnes of CO2 are to be securely stored over a 30-year period to serve as a model for how inactive production forest licences can be applied to a further 24 million ha of rainforest. The project calls for measures for example to combat the causes of deforestation and forest degradation, restore forest regions, develop an REDD strategy for Indonesia and other areas of rainforest around the globe and integrate biodiversity aspects, as well as to ensure the financial sustainability of the initiative.

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The establishment of a rural cadastre registry contributes to the clarification of property and usage rights for natural ressources. This constitues the legal framework which is necessary for investments in Benin's agriculture sector.

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The project aims to preserve forest ecosystems in the Pacific and thus contribute to climate change mitigation. To this end it is supporting three island states in creating the conditions necessary for par-ticipation in an international financing mechanism for reducing emissions from the forest sector (REDD+). Together with the partners it is developing REDD+ strategies and policies and boosting capabilities in the field of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) at national level. At local level the project is working with communities and user groups to implement REDD+ pilot projects which directly protect the forest, while at regional level a coherent regional REDD+ policy is being developed. Apart from this the project is establishing a regional REDD+ information and support platform by setting up a virtual network of users and REDD+ specialists, installing a data platform and carrying out training for operating the network.

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The objective of the project is to develop an open source enterprise software application that supports core cadastre and registration functions. The project will provide support for the customization of the initial SOLA software and its implementation in Tonga. The project will establish an open source community of users and developers around the SOLA software and improve sustainability, efficiency and transparency.

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The Environmental Protection Program of Azerbaijan aims to contribute to the preservation of Azerbaijan's biodiversity without reducing the income of poor rural households in the long term.

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The “Capacity Building for Improvement of Land Administration and Procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina” – CILAP project, is a long term project aimed to build capacity and transfer knowledge with the overall objective to increase the effectiveness and reliability of land administration processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From the beginning CILAP project is planned, described and approved for six (6) years period with the goal to support geodetic authorities in BH during the whole implementation period of Real Estate Registration Project (RERP), funded by World Bank loan. The Project contributes to expected long- term impact: -By efficient land administration contribute to economic and social development, sustainable market and usage of real estates, and BiH accession to EU. The expected impact will be reached if the project main goal is fulfilled, and it is: -Confidence in Geodetic Authorities in BiH strengthened through delivering of efficient services and providing of secure and reliable information to the customers.

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The objective of the project is to develop an open source enterprise software application that supports core cadastre and registration functions. The project will provide support for the customization of the initial SOLA software and its implementation in Nigeria. The project will establish an open source community of users and developers around the SOLA software and improve sustainability, efficiency and transparency.

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This project aims to enhance capacity for dealing with the risk for floods and other natural hazards in Pakistan by producing test data for a small pilot area. The project consists of three components: 1. Procurement of airborne laser scanning and aerial photography, as well as high-resolution satellite images for a pilot area; 2. Establish capacity at SoP for efficient distribution of geographic information; 3. Enhance the capacity at SoP to provide training in modern surveying, mapping and geographic information, to its own employees as well as to students from outside

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This project is intended to form part of the overall support programme specifically envisaged to provide targeted support for the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (Voluntary Guidelines) at country level over a period of 30 months. Relevant components under this proposal focus on i) building awareness and supporting the development of multi-stakeholder national forums in selected countries; and iii) supporting the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines in Sierra Leone through a multi-sectoral intervention. Component 3 will focus on providing technical support to Sierra Leone in the following five thematic areas: Legal Framework Assessment, Land Administration and Enabling Technologies, Fisheries Tenure, Forestry Tenure and Right to Food.

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Central America is the tropical region most severely affected by climate change worldwide. Soil degradation, forest loss and monocultures make it even more vulnerable to climate change. Regional efforts to harmonise climate protection activities and biodiversity goals have so far been unsuccessful. The project will create carbon sinks through forest landscape restoration (FLR) and establish these across the entire region. FLR is seen here as an approach that treats the entire landscape as a whole. The objective of the project is to restore forest resources in a way that is appropriate to the landscape as part of REDD+ in Central America. Therefore, in supporting measures for preserving landscapes (e.g. compensation mechanisms), the different types of use that lead to increased carbon storage must be taken into account and the various user groups (small-scale forest owners) must be involved in designing the mechanisms. The lessons learned, especially with regard to the negotiation process and the implementation of compensation mechanisms related to FLR, will be fed into the international discussion on climate change, particularly into dialogue on REDD+.

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The intention of this project is to support the National Land Commission Secretariat in revising the existing land tax rates for both rural and urban areas and proposing a new land tax system with the aim of increasing and decentralizing revenue generation, reducing land speculation, and providing broader and more equitable access to land. This will impact on land use patterns in Bhutan and aims to provide a predictable, inflation-proof and sustainable stream of revenue to support local services, and influence economic activity in desired ways, whilst being affordable and equitable to the taxpayer, and inexpensive to administer.

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The project targets efforts to preserve the largest contiguous tropical forest complex in the world in three countries with areas located within the so-called Guiana Shield (Guyana, Surinam and Brazil). To this end, the project supports comprehensive conservation area management in the Brazilian states of Amapá and Pará. In Guyana and Surinam, inventory analyses are being conducted to quantify carbon, biodiversity and deforestation factors to provide a foundation for developing national REDD demonstration projects.