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Harmonising Subnational Boundaries

Discusses GRID3’s work to support the harmonization, production, and use of digitised legal/administrative units, operational units, and statistical areas. GRID3’s boundaries work has three primary areas of focus: improving and harmonizing operational units; fostering improved collaboration on boundary harmonisation among disparate government bodies; and using boundaries harmonization to support census efforts. This paper focuses on case studies in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zambia.

Authors Center for International Earth Science Information Network; Flowminder Foundation; United Nations Population Fund; WorldPop, University of Southampton
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