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Nicholas J Parkinson is a communications specialist with Tetra Tech ARD who covers USAID-funded land tenure and conservation programs around the world. He is involved in several projects including one of USAID’s largest and most ambitious land tenure investments in Colombia: Land for Prosperity. Nicholas is a former journalist with 10+ years of experience in NGO communications, reporting, and writing in South America, the Middle East, and East and West Africa. He also has led writing workshops that giving local communicators the tools and confidence to communicate the success of their activities. In Colombia, Nicholas is challenged with adapting communications models to an unconventional development project that combines institutional strengthening with land tenure.
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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.
Securing Land Rights for Female Farmers in India
By: Thais Bessa, gender advisor at Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG).
Purnima Kora is an ambitious farmer. She owns two small parcels of land that she purchased with her husband’s support and years of savings she earned from farming PepsiCo potatoes and rice, as well as by leveraging micro loans through a women’s self-help group. She also leases another half-acre plot to farm potatoes.
Land Formalization Goes Live
A Colombian Mayor surprises her constituents with land titles and uses live video and social media to spread civic messages about formalizing land tenure
Fuentedeoro’s Mayor, Patricia Mancera, took the world on a digital tour of her town. On Monday last week, Mancera’s team went live on Facebook, while walking door-to-door to deliver registered property titles to dozens of neighbors living in Fuentedeoro’s urban center.