Multi-national | PANORAMA

Geospatial Planning and Risk Mapping

Dynamic risk maps, built using GIS and geospatial analysis, identify high-risk areas and guide resource allocation. This tool can be used for urban planning, disaster risk reduction, or managing natural resources like water or land.

Regularly refreshed data on terrain, vegetation, and weather is crucial for accuracy.
Trained personnel must operate geospatial tools and interpret risk maps.
Risk maps should inform planning and resource allocation at local and regional levels.

The expertise is crucial to help you build the correct framework in order to be scalable.

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

Data Sources

The system combines data from drones, satellites, camera traps, and geospatial tools to create a comprehensive monitoring framework. This approach can be adapted for other environmental challenges, such as flood monitoring, by integrating relevant data sources specific to those contexts.

Reliable access to real-time data from sensors, satellites, drones, and cameras is critical.
High-quality sensors and data processing systems must be available to collect and analyze diverse data types.
Systems must use compatible formats to integrate data seamlessly.

Interconnectivity & interoperability of systems is crucial.
The platform must be software and hardware agnostic.
Cybersecurity and intercommunication are crucial.

Working with communities to ensure them sustainable economic activities and justice

The forestry sector is suffering from corruption and is limiting benefits for local and Indigenous communities. Our solution allows local communities to tackle forest illegalities and land rights violations and at the same time to secure their land rights and economic rights over forest resources by monitoring and protecting their territory, reinforcing sustainable development and autonomy. Data collected through the tool also supports judicial or non-judicial cases when local and indigenous communities suffer human rights abuses.

A good understanding of the current economic activities of the communities is needed
Financial means to engage legal procedures is a must
Collaborate with local partners specialised in legal actions or in sustainable business activities
Parallel advocacy work to secure individual and collective land rights

Sensitization on sustainable economic activities is key for the project success, and it must include all groups of the local or Indigenous community and have specific sensitization for women and girls.
Staff trained or specialised in the different fields (justice/law & sustainable economy) is needed Women and girls are key change agents who have to be fully integrated in projects

Implementation

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

Building strong advocacy networks of local, national and international civil society organisations (CSOs)

Having data collected and analysed through a digital tool is an innovation, although to foster changes and ensure local communities and Indigenous people's protection and sustainable lifestyle the data is used for law enforcement and advocacy purposes. To this end, strong local, national and international advocacy networks are needed to take action against reported abuses and to achieve policy changes. By enabling information to be shared between users and opening up data to the general public, the tool facilitates collaborative working.

Collaborating with CSOs who works on similar topics and share values, visions and goals is essential
Promoting collective data verification and analysis to foster joint responses to alerts and advocacy actions
Maintaining good relationships with a range of institutional actors who know and consider the tool as a valid monitoring tool and support it.

Even if building and strengthening CSOs networks is fundamental, it is important to respect when organisations don’t want to work together and find ways to support each CSO’s work instead of pitting organisations against each other. This requires adaptability in projects and advocacy towards donors.
To ensure that the networks are sustainable, medium- and long-term funding is needed to guarantee that the coordination functions run smoothly (secretariat, coordination of working groups, etc.).

Implementation

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

Adaptable & Efficient Reporting and Monitoring tool

Our solution is based on a digital tool whose goal is to collect and facilitate the analyse of the data sent by community observers and our partners. This tool's efficiency relies on the fact that it is digital, easy to use and low costs for local and Indigenous communities. It enables us to work with hard-to-reach areas around the world, to have quantitative data to support national and international advocacy and to get supporting evidence for legal cases. The adaptability of our solution also lies in the fact that it can be used to monitor a variety of issues (illegal logging - artisanal or industrial, mining, carbon market projects' impact, GBV, etc.), in a variety of contexts.

Sufficient financial resources for the tool to keep running and for the observers to keep apply it
Having a strong technical and development staff team
Building partners’ capacity in using the tool and train community monitors to use it
Ensuring its adaptability to changes in partners' expectations
Having coordination staff team within our organisation and within partners organisations to ensure the efficiency in using the tool

In-person training is the most important thing to ensure the digital tool good use and efficiency. Partners have to be able to understand fully how the tool works and keep being trained for the overall period of the tool implementation
Liase constantly with the partners to ensure the tool and hardwares are working as expected is key
Be aware of all the external factors (political, social, meteorological...) which can slow down or stop data from being collected on the tool
Ensure that complementary training of environmental law and human rights are proposed to local partners and communities, so that they can take efficient law enforcement actions and access to justice and reparations.

Working hand in hand with grassroots organisations/Indigenous and local communities

The evidence is building that granting Indigenous peoples and other local communities' control over their territories improves forest protection. This is because they are directly invested in the survival of forests and want to ensure that future generations can continue to live and thrive in them. Yet a lot of development and environmental and climate-related programs are not created in collaboration with the people who will be impacted by them. Therefore, our solution arose from the challenges that grassroots organisations and Indigenous and local communities brought to our attention. Those communities are the ones living all the forests illegalities and land tenure violations therefore by directly tackling their challenge it ensures the solution to be genuine and efficient. Working with them directly helps us to better understand the contexts they are facing and adapt the tool in consequence.

Build strong and lasting relationships with partners and people using the tool
Having an adaptable tool which allows to be reactive to changes
Adequate financial resources
Collaborating with Indigenous and local, grassroots organisations

Building strong relationships requires cultural sensitivity, time and efforts. It is important to listen closely to stories and challenges people share to be sure that the tools respond to their needs and contexts.
Having beforehand researched on the cultural, traditional and socio-economic context strengthens the collaboration and to make the tool more relevant and impactful. Working with Indigenous-led or locally-led organisations to truly address their challenges

Planning phase

Implementation

Documentation and dissemination of results

Community engagement

Communities must benefit from the data collected.

This is shared with communities for collaborative town and conservation planning for peace, security and HWC prevention

Community-led conservancies can share data for collaborative cross landscape decision making

Control over data sharing or privacy