Overview
We develop people-friendly geospatial solutions for public use, including webGIS and mobile-based mapping applications. The aim is to bridge information gaps that decision-makers, frontline government staff and (most important) village communities policymakers face, such as lack of access to government administrative boundary information, or compartmentalization of such data between forest and revenue departments. We emphasize public access, ease-of-use (hence make Hindi interfaces available) and user control over data they collect. These technologies are being used for government training, building CSO understanding of the terrain, title-checking by villagers and mapping of community claim areas by villagers.
They include:
Our app
Aamcho CFR Mapping
OUR WEBGIS
Community Forest Resource Rights: Potential and Progress
Potential mapping
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Estimating and Mapping CFR Potential This study estimates (a lower bound for) the potential area that could come under CFR rights and the locations of the villages with this CFR potential in four important central Indian states. -
Chhattisgarh CFR Potential Atlas Date: 15th November, 2024 -
‘Training of Trainers’ for CFR Management Plan preparation – Report of workshop held in Yavatmal district, Maharashtra Date: 7th to 8th December, 2021
Claim Making
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Project: Securing IFR for the forest villages of Madhya Pradesh using geospatial technology Geospatial tools can solve the long pending problem of IFR, by equipping FRCs and gram sabhas to take charge of the claim-making process. -
Trainings on WebGIS for Claiming CFR Rights in Bastar District How do we as researchers help in the implementation of a progressive but complex piece of nature resource legislation? The implementation of the Forest Rights Act of 2006, especially its community rights provisions, has raised this question for us repeatedly. -
Mapping the potential of Community Forest Resource Rights in central India The article is based on ATREE's work on methodologies to estimate the potential area that could come under CFR rights and the locations of villages with CFR potential in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra.