This project represents the second phase in a strategic partnership focusing on promotion of the surveying works and the myriad products of surveying. The key objective of this intervention is to maintain provision: of advisory services in developing the national capacities for effective geo-spatial surveys, generating! multi-purpose knowledge from such surveys to efficiently boost national efforts in achieving the key,directions of the Saudi Vision 2030 as well as promoting the national implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).The completion of the previous phase has been instrumental in nurturing the idea of developing the :foundation of financial sustainability whereby the General Commission of Survey (GCS) will achieve a high level of efficiency in all its hydrological and geospatial products. It is through this quality and I efficiency that the GCS wishes to expand marketing of its products and to broaden the public awareness:

I about its products and services. The core around which all aspects of this project revolve is the design and operationalizing of a National Centre for Geospatial Data.

The project has four interconnected outputs:

1) National Centre for Geospatial Data strengthened and operationalized

2) National capacities developed

3) Advisory services provided towards achievement of financial sustainability and contribution to the national economy

4) Advocacy promoted for a wider visibility of GCS . Capacity development will also focus on training in the core areas of land survey; geodetic survey;, topographic survey' and hydrological survey.

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