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Displaying 1 - 10 of 15Las raíces de un árbol sagrado
Con el apoyo de USAID, una comunidad Afrocolombiana que ha vivido en el Caribe por generaciones recibió un título de tierras colectivo.
Protecting the Roots of a Sacred Tree
With USAID support, an Afro-Colombian community received a collective land title, guaranteeing ownership of their traditional lands.
"The world is dressing up in diversity."
The Wait is Over
The USAID-funded Land for Prosperity Activity is developing capacity in land administration across all levels of government to strengthen land rights in underfunded municipalities across Colombia.
Beating the Stereotypes in Land Administration
How a land surveyor in a rural Land Office in Colombia has overcome challenges to find herself in a career dominated by men.
Massive Land Formalization Campaigns Begin Delivering Rural Land Titles
Preparing Land Experts in Colombia
'You Cannot Live Here'
USAID is supporting the government with a strategy to create municipal land offices that manage local land administration campaigns and deliver land titles to rural Colombians
Creating a Land Registry in Colombia that works for Everyone
USAID and Colombia’s Superintendence of Notary and Registry (SNR) continue recovering important land records by digitizing files and building the entity’s capacity to serve a healthy land market.
In 2016, when USAID tried to support the Colombian government with the digitization of rural land and property files, this initiative encountered resistance.
Peeling Back the Layers of Land Ownership in Colombia
Collaborative social work is preparing communities for the historic task of untangling land ownership in a municipality plagued with conflict and displacement.
Land ownership in Tumaco, Colombia, is like an onion. When a layer of history is peeled back, another layer lies beneath it. Over time, these onions—these parcels that once belonged to agro-industrial farms, latifundista families, and indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities—have been abandoned and reclaimed, again and again.