devinitorg/iati-policy-markers huggingface dataset:
Ecological Productivity Management Information System (EcoProMIS) for oil palm and rice in Colombia "Rothamsted will be working with Agricompas, Pixalytics and Elastacloud in the UK and CIAT, Cenipalma, Fedearroz and Solidaridad in Colombia to develop an Ecological Production Management Information System (EcoProMis). This system will provide crop prod The EcoProMIS project aims to help Colombian rice and oil palm farmers to improve productivity and stabilise incomes, allowing them to compete globally whilst responding to climate change and producing responsibly. The project uses satellite Earth Observation alongside environmental and crop data to research the impact of crop and ecosystem management on biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions and productivity. The outcome will be a partnership of farmers, research institutes and industry experts that creates comprehensive sets of crop and ecosystem data. This data will be made freely available for the Colombian partners to improve the environmental, technical and financial efficiency of their processes. It will also provide information to insurance firms, government food processors and further beneficiaries to create income for sustainable knowledge.
CommonSensing: Remote [Common] Sensing for Climate Resilience Small island nations located in the Pacific are exposed
to the damaging effects of climate change. Such
changes in the climate system have direct effects on
the livelihoods, the economy, overall development
and the very existence of many small island nations.
Urgent action to build capacity for climate resilience is
therefore required.
The overall aim of CommonSensing is to use
satellite remote sensing applications to support three
Commonwealth countries: Fiji, the Solomon Islands
and Vanuatu achieve their goal of improved national
resilience to climate change. The project’s main output
is to provide evidence and data needed for these
island states to be able to apply to climate funding
in collaboration with the Commonwealth Climate
Finance Access hub with a much higher degree of
success than presently. This will allow these island
states to obtain the funding they need to protect
critical infrastructure and build resilience into their
economy to combat the growing effects of climate
change.
CommonSensing will deliver impact in two main
areas:
• In terms of Earth Observation (EO) derived
services, CommonSensing will use EO data to
provide partners with access to vital information
regarding disaster and climate risks to inform
planning, food security needs and impact on
the environment. This information will be readily
available to users through easily accessible
services.
• In terms of sustainability and capacity
development, partners aim to contribute to
national and regional technical capabilities to
inform policy and secure funding for climate
change resilience programmes beyond the
three-year project. In addition, CommonSensing
consortium partners are committed to supporting
the long-term sustainability of the information
services they develop with the three partner
countries. The overall aim of CommonSensing is to improve resilience towards climate change, including disaster risk reduction, and contribute to sustainable development in three selected Commonwealth Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The project will combine earth observation data to provide stakeholders with access to important information regarding disaster risks (including disaster risk planning, food security, climate risk and other environmental concerns). This information will be accessible to beneficiaries through a web portal and mobile applications.
Short Study Call - Clyde Space - S. Africa International Partnership Programme (see Programme details section for individual project summaries) This study will determine the application of the greatest benefit to stakeholders in Africa  in the form of early warning system or support in disaster relief. Collaborative workshops and Sandpits in Africa will be used to derive the programme requirements, objectives and roles within the consortium as well as strengthen international relationships. Initial feasibility assessment will be conducted to determine the developments required to perform mission-specific upgrades of the NANOBED to meet end user.
Short Study Call - NOC - Low laying regions International Partnership Programme (see Programme details section for individual project summaries) To provide access to otherwise difficult to access satellite-derived information about coastal vulnerability to environmental threats such as sea level rise, storm surges and extreme wind and wave events. Ultimately enable users to interrogate the information to inform assessment of current vulnerability of coastal regions and to evaluate future risks and adaption requirements.
Verumar: Combatting illegal fishing in the Philippines The Philippines is a nation of approximately 104
million people for whom locally caught fish provide
56% of their total animal protein intake annually.
Increasing the supply of affordable, edible fish is
vital for improved nutrition and food security. Yet
some estimates indicate that illegal, unreported
and unregulated fishing (IUUF) is depriving the
Philippines of fish stocks valued at $1bn-$2bn
annually.
Project Verumar tackles this problem head-on. It
supports the Philippine Government in conserving
and sustainably using their oceans, seas and
marine resources. This is achieved by integrating
and working in concert with the Bureau of
Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and other
stakeholders to scope and introduce new satelliteenabled
capabilities. These enhance fisheries
management and enforcement activities, and
directly enable illegal fishing to be countered with
improved efficiency.
In addition, the project undertakes capacity
building to impart the latest remote sensing skills
and techniques to ensure that the impact of project
Verumar is enduring, while also embedding the
Philippine government’s forward-thinking gender
equality principles and policies across the project,
ensuring women’s full and effective participation
and visibility.
Supporting work areas are developing options to
sustain the impacts which are being realised under
the IPP, exploring and initiating further international
partnership opportunities and ensuring effective
communications such that knowledge developed
during the Project Verumar IPP is highlighted to key
audiences in the wider space and development
sectors. The project will develop a satellite-enabled, machine-learning solution that will support the Philippine partner Bureau of Fisheries Aquaculture Resources (BFAR) with the identification of illegal and unregulated fishing and management of fisheries.  This will reduce overfishing in Philippine waters and make the national fishing grounds more sustainable and productive in the long term.  

 

By delivering an improved and fully integrated monitoring, control and surveillance system, the project will enable the targeting of specific interventions to provide immediate value at the strategic and operational level to BFAR. As the main international partner, BFAR will also act as the conduit for information, intelligence-sharing and action allocation to a broader network of associated local partners.
Short Study Call - Asimila - Africa International Partnership Programme (see Programme details section for individual project summaries) To undertake an analysis of requirements, stakeholders and data sources for a Sub-Saharan African crop risk monitoring and forecasting system. To identify the priority cropping systems, typical and forecasted pest risks and other influential biotic/abiotic threats.  Scope an implementation project to develop a risk modelling and warning system. Identifying stakeholders including national governments; NGOs; Agro-industry representatives; and National Plant Protection Offices (NPPO) in the target countries.
IPP Delivery costs: staff, overheads and T and S  (not caribou) Delivery and Staff costs for the UKSA International Partnerships Programme funded by GCRF. Programme Delivery Costs: Staff costs, T&S, Assessor, Training etc
IPP Launch Event International Partnership Programme (see Programme details section for individual project summaries) Launch of IPP programme to UK Space sector
IPP Short Study Call 2 IPP Short Study Call 2 Funding High value agriculture in South America is a major contributor to global food supply chains and the local economies. Aim to work with stakeholders in Peru and Colombia to develop and implement a data-cube based processing and storage infrastructure.  Ultimately enable commercially sustainable services to be stood up to deliver spatially and temporally extensive analysis ready and value-added data products.
Airbus Flood and Drought Resilience: Earth Observation-enabled decision support for flood and drought resilience in Ethiopia and Kenya Both Ethiopia and Kenya are flood and drought
prone with significant mortality and economic losses
frequently attributed to such events in each country.
This project focuses on building resilience to these
events in order to lessen risk and support economic
resilience.
In Ethiopia work is focused on developing an
improved understanding of flood and drought
hazards and risks to help build social and economic
resilience to water-related problems. In Kenya the
focus is on the effectiveness of using EO data for the
micro-insurance market and Government Institutions;
an important tool for farmers who currently have
little or no access to detailed information. This will
be supported by the improved delivery of tailored
information to assist decision-making related to flood
and drought at the following geographical levels:
• Ethiopia: at river basin level (working with the
Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation).
• Kenya: at local level (working with women farmer
intermediaries and micro-insurance actors) and
at county and sub-county level (working with the
National Drought Management Authority).
Information will include:
• Ethiopia: assessments of risks and socio-economic
damage due to flood and drought provided to
the Climate Resilience Green Economy secretariat.
Information will be in the form of reports, maps,
statistics, probability of occurrence, model outputs,
etc. This will allow authorities to improve planning
for both food shortages and adaptation measures
for climate change.
• Kenya: historical and current information on
drought and flood occurrences. In particular,
the actual information will inform a continuous
monitoring process for crop status on a 10-day
and 20-metre basis.
This will support the following scenarios:
• micro-insurance providers making decisions on
farmer compensation.
• governmental authorities improving management
of flood disasters and periods of food shortages,
and, addressing government subsidies.
• farmer communities making decisions on selling/
buying pastoral goods on the market during crisis
periods.
Capacity building in both Ethiopia and Kenya will take
place with the end-users of the online dashboard. The project aims to save lives and improve livelihoods in Ethiopia and Kenya through the development of a single dashboard tool that informs longer term planning and investment in Ethiopia and shorter term flood forecasting in Ethiopia and drought financing in Kenya. The dashboard tool will include satellite data on elevation, rainfall, and unprocessed indicators of land use and conditions taken from Sentinel 2 and UK DMC 2 / Kaz ST Sat.
IPP Short Study Call 2 International Partnership Programme (see Programme details section for individual project summaries) To fund short study calls to check feasibity of projects in advance of Call 2. The UK Space Agency’s International Partnerships Programme (IPP) is a £152M multi-year programme, which will use expertise in space based solutions, applications and capability to provide a sustainable, economic or societal benefit to emerging nations and developing economies. The goals for IPP are listed below:
Primary Aim:
Using UKSA’s expertise and capability delivered through industry and academia, to deliver solutions whose outputs lead to a measurable and sustainable economic or societal benefit/impact in chosen partner country or region

Secondary Aim:
• Develop valued and sustainable partnership arrangements which lead to growth opportunities for the Space community 
• Show the additional capability that space based solutions and applications have over terrestrial systems or can be added to bring benefit
• Use industry’s and academia’s unique expertise to complement existing effort or lead in areas where we have the expertise
Short Study Call - Vivid - Ethiopia International Partnership Programme (see Programme details section for individual project summaries) To support work on developing a policy tool to build resilience to flood and drought risk in Ethiopia, using satellite data to greatly improve the geographic and temporal granularity on flood and drought risk � and integrate this with economic and demographic information to value these risks for different user groups.
Earth Observation System (EASOS) EASOS provides a platform that enables the Malaysian Government to help tackle country-specific environmental, security and human challenges. Malaysia is an emerging economy with multiple environmental monitoring challenges that are managed by a range of different ministries, both nationally and regionally. Natural disasters and illegal activities are costing hundreds of millions of dollars in economic losses and direct clean-up cost. In 2014 alone, the combined impacts on the Malaysian economy of flooding, marine pollution and illegal logging was estimated at more than $12.5 billion - EASOS tackles these challenges.
EASOS is made up of three domains: FloodWatch, ForestWatch and MarineWatch, which all use the same platform. A common thread across all domains is the integration of frequent-periodic satellite data intended to provide information not otherwise available to authorities. This project will provide informed and coordinated decision making capability to 23 government agencies in Malaysia through a user centred dashboard delivering information and analysis on three environmental challenges: flooding, illegal logging and marine pollution.
Monitoring Agricultural Productivity for Climate Adaptation Mongolia (MAPCAM) MAPCAM (Monitoring Agricultural Production for Climate Adaptation in Mongolia) will provide satellite-derived information on crop distribution and growth to help stakeholders in Mongolia’s agricultural sector to plan for increased production and resilience to climate change. Mongolia experiences extremes of climate and has already witnessed above-average impacts from climate change on domestically grown agricultural crops.   

The establishment of the MAPCAM parcel-based agricultural information system within Mongolia promises to be world-leading in the way that it integrates the collection and use of cropping data for crop intelligence, production forecasting, regulatory controls and agricultural statistics, combined with it offering producers a crop recording system and tool for smart farming. There are expected to be many requirements and opportunities for further expansion, both for further improving the operational system established in Mongolia, and for new developments in other countries. Mongolia experiences extremes of climate and has already witnessed above average impacts from climate change. Domestically grown agricultural crops contribute over 50% of national dietary intake. In order to support its policy of self-sufficiency for key crops, the Government of Mongolia requires better information on cropped areas as metrics for analysis of productivity that will allow better policy formulation and the prescription of appropriate interventions, thus securing the impacts on food security and resilience to climate change sought by the project.
The primary objective is to develop the capability to acquire and use such information throughout the growing season: detailed data on the location, extent, type and variability of crops derived from innovative satellite technology. Secondarily there will be scope to deliver co-benefits through additional services to a wider group of organisations involved in agricultural management and production.
Partnerships will be formed with Mongolian government, academic institutions, and private entities, to develop understanding of the requirements and a specification for crop monitoring and information services. Key to success will be new capacity, built through an Operational Phase, that will lead to the development of a routine monitoring activity that facilitates better evidence-based policy making and interventions to enable adaption to a changing climate with a positive impact on rural livelihoods, gender equality, youth opportunities and national food security.
Sustainability will be ensured by adapting business processes in need of information whose efficiency could be substantially improved by reallocating existing domestic spending to solutions based on satellite technology.
Short Study Call - Geospatial - Malaysia International Partnership Programme (see Programme details section for individual project summaries) Ultimate aims are to enable improved detection of unlicensed palm oil cultivation, generate intelligence regarding crop health and environmental growing conditions and ultimately use this intelligence to improve efficiency, increase yield and minimise environmental impacts related to the upstream Palm Oil Industry, particularly amongst small holders. Propose to meet with The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), FELDA and representatives of RSPO in order to build upon existing relationships, discuss and better understand their user requirements and thereby to develop and refine our approach that will achieve the ambitious aims of the open call project.
Deforestation prevention with land-use monitoring and valuation in Cote d'Ivoire The project’s aim is to alleviate two key development
problems in Côte d’Ivoire: rural poverty, which
afflicts more than half of the rural population; and
deforestation for economic development, which has
led to the loss of 80% of the country’s natural forests.
It will contribute to efforts to reduce poverty and protect
forests by developing tools that help policy-makers
preserve and expand forests to the greatest benefits
of rural communities, and to integrate relatively
unproductive smallholders into more valuable
global supply chains. Three tools have been
created:
• Land use inventory that classifies and differentiates
physical surface cover types.
• Natural capital valuation framework that informs
national reforestation and forest protection
strategies, and supports the extension of
sustainable supply chains. This will integrate
the land-use inventory with other economic
information on the value of production and
eco-systems services to map the value of land
under different uses, recorded in a natural
capital accounting balance sheet.
• Forest disturbance early warning system to tighten
enforcement of land-use rules.
These will drive two key outcomes: improved
monitoring and enforcement efforts that prevent
forest loss and prioritise afforestation; and better
targeted support to local economic development
and sustainable supply chains through Payment
for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes.
All three tools represent substantial improvements
upon what is currently available, but the real benefit
of the project lies in their combination and close
integration into policy and regulatory activity. The
tools initially covered an area in the south west of
Côte d’Ivoire covered by the Emissions Reduction
Programme (ERP) initiative. The ERP region was
chosen as it contains much of the country’s
remaining natural forest and is the focus of the
development of sustainable supply chains and PES
schemes in the country. The project has now been
extended to cover the whole country. Using publicly available Earth Observation imagery, Vivid aim to create land-use tracking and deforestation warning systems for the Ivory Coast. This will improve monitoring to help and inform enforcement efforts, better target support to local economic development and sustainable supply chains through payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes. Overall this will prevent forest loss and prioritise afforestation.
Dengue Mosquito Simulation from Satellites (D-MOSS) Dengue is the fastest-growing mosquito-borne viral
infection in the world today. It is present in over
150 countries, and approximately 40 percent of
the world’s population now live in countries where
dengueis a daily risk.
The D-MOSS project is developing a dengue fever
early warning system that generates several months
advance warning of likely dengue outbreaks
utilising Earth Observation (EO). An advance
warning on dengue risk, could help public health
officials plan cost-effective actions in advance and
move away from a reactive system where disease
control interventions occur after a dengue outbreak
occurs.
One of the key D-MOSS components is a water
assessment module that provides the additional
benefit of improving water management in
transboundary river basins. Seven of the nine major
river basins that drain to Vietnam are transboundary
in nature and it is estimated that some two-thirds of
Vietnam’s water resources comes from neighbouring
countries, making water management challenging.
In recent years countries upstream of Vietnam have
increased their water use and Vietnam is currently
facing increasingly negative impacts from the water
policies of upstream countries. The development
of an EO‑based water availability system will help
the Vietnamese Government to improve their
water resources monitoring and management in
transboundary river basins.
The dengue fever and water management
challenges are similar in other countries in South
Asia and as of June 2019, the project has been
extended to cover Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Sri
Lanka, Thailand and The Philippines. This work will provide a tool that enables advance warning of likely dengue outbreaks, allowing public health authorities to mobilise resources to those most in need. The project will also provide forecasts of dengue fever under a range of climate change scenarios. The system will link Earth Observation data with climate forecasting and a land-surface model to predict for the first time the impacts of various elements (such as water availability, land-use, climate), on the likelihood of future dengue epidemics. The dengue forecasting tool will also include a water assessment module, delivering the additional benefit of improving water management in Viet Nam's transboundary river basins.
Short Study Call - Rheatech - Kenya/Uganda International Partnership Programme (see Programme details section for individual project summaries) Include: ability to better forecast and mitigate droughts on a local actionable scale by a UK-led supply chain; NGOs will be able to target resources thus saving time, money and lives; local stakeholders can improve their lives and better protect key assets such as livestock and crops. The consortium will establish a highly scalable system for the analysis and delivery of drought forecast and mitigation information that is low cost to operate commercially. Once proven the system will be adaptable for any drought-affected areas globally.
Short Study Call - Earth Observation - C America, International Partnership Programme (see Programme details section for individual project summaries) To secure commitments for major governmental partnerships and international support across Central and South America for a multi-national pilot programme proposal, to help governments and industry remove illegally sourced tropical hardwood from the global supply chain. To develop integrated national implementation plans and secure government contracts for UK industry.