Representatives from the iTaukei Land Trust Board (TLTB) attended Fiji's Geospatial Country Level Action Plan Stakeholder Consultation at the Pacific Community (HQ) in Suva on Tuesday (14 June 2022).
The consultation was organised by the Pacific Geospatial and Surveying Council (PGSC) together with the Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources Fiji and the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), facilitated by the Pacific Community.
Geographical Information System (GIS) has become one of the corners stone of TLTB’s work tools aimed at enabling a seamless process in land management and decision-making. It creates, manages, analyzes, and maps all types of data connected to a map integrating location data (where things are) with all types of descriptive information (what things are like there). This provides a foundation for mapping and analysis that is used in almost every industry. GIS helps users understand patterns, relationships, and geographic context.
The Country Action Plan aims to strengthen the geospatial arrangement in supporting the national development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). It contains various components of geospatial management from budgetary and financing of projects to governance, standards, partnerships, data and innovation. It is designed in response to the recognition of the direct benefits of the integrated geospatial information in providing evidence-based decision-making solutions, improving planning for economic growth and delivering better services.
Participants were from government, statutory bodies and NGOs who collaborated and re-looked at the existing Action Plan of 2018, examining different parts of the document and of which recommendations were made.
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