KfW is currently starting an effort to update and complement georeferencing the protected areas portfolio. Currently there is a collection of about 1000 protected areas that are being financed by KfW from the year 2000 onwards. The process involves reviewing the official project documentation and filtering out the names and countries of supported areas. This information is used to identify and download the geographical boundaries as well as relevant policy information from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). About 80-90% of supported areas can be found within this database but geographical boundaries should be confirmed since some of the areas might be outdated. Georeferences for areas that are not in the WDPA must be sent to KfW by the project partners. Our current effort consists in complementing and updating data for 2022 and 2023. The process is based on the open “project location model” from KfW and it will enable the processing open datasets that are provided by the mapme.biodiversity package for our whole portfolio. The data is already being used e.g., by KfW’s operational departments to develop the conservation portfolio in the context of voluntary carbon markets (estimate carbon credit potentials in supported protected areas).
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KfW is progressing on its work to create a curated collection of free and open data portals to enable our staff and partners to better use open data for project planning, monitoring and evaluation.
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KfW supports the development of the Open Source R package mapme.biodiversity. The package is written in R and published on CRAN. It is used by analysts to process big geospatial data efficiently.
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Melvin Wong and Ingrid Dallmann presented “Geospatial impact evaluation of the KfW and the AFD conservation portfolio on forest cover loss” in the Symposium organised by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank, on April 11, 2024.
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We are excited to announce the launch of the BETSAKA project, an initiative to assess the environmental and socio-economic impacts of protected areas in Madagascar from 2000 to 2024.
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Within the context of the MAPME initiative, CartONG is currently developing open-source processing routines to access data from Open Street map to automatically download, subset and process energy infrastructure data.
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Members from the Steering Committee of MAPME are delighted to announce the validation of the Community Strategy.
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KfW is currently starting an effort to update and complement georeferencing the protected areas portfolio.
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KfW is working on an update of the Open Project Location Model. The Open Project Location Model is a data model to systematically collect location-specific information in projects supported by international development cooperation in a structured way.
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Open-source GIS solution for irrigation networks maintenance and rehabilitation needs in Anbar, Iraq
GIZ launches an Open-source GIS solution for irrigation networks maintenance and rehabilitation needs in Anbar, Iraq
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