Celebrating 10 Years of Advancing Land Rights
This year marks a significant milestone at Cadasta–ten years of putting people and their land on the map. In 2015, Cadasta was founded with a bold vision: to build a transformative global ecosystem of partners, technology, and data to protect land and property rights and address the world’s most pressing land challenges.
Today, this vision has translated into meaningful global impact documenting 30+ million hectares, equipping 7+ million people with the resources they need to map and secure their land, strengthening climate resilience, advancing gender equity, and unlocking economic opportunities.
Insecure land tenure affects the ability of people, communities, and organizations to make changes to land that can advance climate adaptation and mitigation.
Cadasta is the world’s leading global land technology and services Platform. Our tools empower vulnerable communities to affordably and easily document, map, and secure inclusive land and resource rights at scale for a more sustainable and equitable planet.
By creating an accessible digital record of land, housing, and resource rights, we help empower individuals, organizations, communities, and governments with the information they need to make data-driven decisions to secure their land rights and improve resource governance.
Our Esri-powered platform provides state-of-the-art software, tools, security, and services to support the documentation of land and resource rights to build stronger, more sustainable communities.
Cadasta’s platform, tools, and data are supported by Esri’s GIS mapping software which offers the most powerful mapping and spatial data analytics technology available.
Our Audacious Vision
By 2040, Cadasta will catalyze land systems change,
leading to inclusive land and resource rights
for half the world’s one billion tenure-insecure people.
The Stand for Her Land Campaign is closing the implementation gap for women’s land rights: the gulf between the strong standards in place to protect women’s rights to land, and the realization of those rights in practice, so that millions of women can realize the transformational power of rights to land.
Home Equals is a five-year global advocacy campaign dedicated to achieving policy change, at all levels, to ensure that people living in informal settlements have equitable access to adequate housing. Together, with partners, governments and communities, we can create lasting change so that people living in informal settlements have safe and secure homes.
