As a member of the International Geospatial Society and the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure, Karishma Busgeeth (HDA spatial information and data manager) was invited to attend atraining seminar on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and land management at the International Centre for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICLPST) in Taiwan from 20 March to 2 April 2013.
After a long period of negotiation an implementation protocol (IP) between the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Human Settlements and the HDA was concluded in January 2013.
The HDA has recently produced two videos, one unpacking the human settlement value chain and the other providing an overview of the National Human Settlement Land Indices.
The HDA hosted an informal settlement upgrading workshop on 19 March – this was a follow-on from the partners’ workshop on support for implementation of informal settlement upgrading, held in February. The intention of the workshop was to share with role-players the tools that have been developed to assist provinces and municipalities to undertake informal settlement upgrading.
