Enhancing Global Land Data with Wirebox

who are Prindex_

Prindex is a global initiative of the Global Land Alliance born initially from a partnership between GLA and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

Since its inception, Prindex has been instrumental in advancing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1.4, which focuses on ensuring equal rights to ownership and control of land and property by 2030. Prindex’s data plays a crucial role in tracking progress towards this goal, especially through SDG Indicator 1.4.2, which measures perceptions of tenure security across various populations. By collecting comprehensive and comparable data from over 140 countries.

why wirebox_

Wirebox have been developing websites and applications for over 15 years. Our experience helps advise clients how best to use the latest technologies to build from the ground up or improve existing systems.

Prindex had an existing Wagtail site and required changes for the new 2025 year which required extensive updates to showcase new data obtained in recent years.

The data structure had changed for over 140 countries and feedback from the last website needed to be incorporated into the new build.

0ur approach_

When Wirebox start any project, we follow our process

• Step 1 – Discovery
  We held an initial workshop remotely due to most of the Prindex team being in different countries and timezones.  The purpose of the workshop was initially to achieve and gather all the information we needed to start the project off. 

  Prindex had an existing site and the prindex team outlined the parts they wanted to improve and change from previous years. The dataset was changing as well, which meant data could be displayed in a different way.
  
  Feedback from users were discussed to see how we can improve on the new version.

• Step 2 – Analyse
  With all the information at hand, it is important to review and analysis the approach needed to make the project a success. 

  With the dataset being large, the team had to explore how we could use it to display in the most optimal way while not affecting the experience of the site usage in terms of speed.

• Step 3 – Define
  Working through prototyping to design building an optimal UX. 

  The site replied a lot of data and displaying this would require detailed prototyping to reach the most optimal way.

• Step 4 – Development
  Building the site in latest web technology which was available. Prindex preference was Wagtail which the last site was built it.

  Python being a great coding language to work through vast amounts of date.

• Step 5 – Testing
  Testing the site from browser to backend testing
• Step 6 – Delivery
  Pushing the site live and managing transition from the old to the new site.

Outcome_

The prindex website was updated to the new branding for 2025 with the main updates on the Global Data Page

The new global page followed the original page with a map of the world. It has updated features which work better in mobile like.

Insecurity Table

Displaying a large dataset for users to be able to view and digest is difficult.

We had to also display different years to show the changes between Tenure Insecurity and Security

We managed to achieve this with a table showing each county which you can select and compare dynamically

Comparing counties in graph format

How was the work achieved

The site used the Wagtail CMS to generate the pages and make them editable.

An API was developed against the CSV database to make the data available to the table and graphing engines.

The data was large and indexing was required to make lookup fast.

Next Steps

The next steps will be to develop more in depth data per country and will be coming our in Q2 of 2025