afro-colombian and indigenous program

AFRO-COLOMBIAN AND
INDIGENOUS PROGRAM
Land Strategy
The Program’s two-pronged land strategy works to: a) support the implementation of public policies which protect ethnic
land rights or lead to land formalization or restitution, and b) promote the design and implementation of land use
management plans with indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in the Program’s targeted intervention areas.
The strategy’s focus on ethnic rights transcends the concept of ‘Land’ and recognizes the collective nature of ethnic
groups as well as the importance of their territory as a cosmological, geopolitical and cultural space necessary to
guarantee these communities’ way of life and their survival.
Recognition and Formalization of Ethnic Territorial Rights
USAID is supporting land titling processes and collective territory
expansions in coordination with INCODER and in consultation with AfroColombian community councils, indigenous councils and traditional
authorities.
Collective Titling of Afro-Colombian Land
During its first two years, the Program has supported nine collective titling
processes benefiting 21,869 Afro-Colombian families on approximately
111,723 hectares.
Formalization of Indigenous Collective Territories
USAID is currently supporting titling, expansion and recognition of
indigenous collective territories on approximately 88,000 hectares
benefiting 8,778 families.
Guaranteeing Raizal Land Rights
In the department of San Andrés and Providencia, USAID is working with
INCODER and Raizal organizations to develop a land tenure study to
determine the Raizal population’s current territorial rights and develop
recommendations for the application of protective measures.
Ethnic Land Use Planning
In Chocó and Cauca, the Program will support two land use plans with one
Afro-Colombian community council and one indigenous council in order to
build their administrative and management capacities to improve their
relationship with other territorial actors.
Support to guarantee ethnic Support to reparations and restitution
USAID supported the GOC in designing a model to collect data related to
land rights
The Program is supporting ethnic
territorial land processes on nearly
200,000 hectares, benefiting more than
30,600 families in the Sierra Nevada de
Santa Marta, Cauca, Chocó,Valle del
Cauca, Guajira and Bolívar.
damages and infringements on victimized ethnic territories in order to
support the government’s comprehensive reparations and land restitution
policies. The Land Unit and Victims Unit will apply this model for the first
time in the department of Chocó with the Afro-Colombian collective
territories of La Larga-Tumarado and Pedeguita-Mancilla and the indigenous
collective territories of Arquía, Tanela, Cutí y Dogibí.
LAND PROCEDURES SUPPORTED
CARIBBEAN
Land Titling of Afro-Colombian
Collective Territories
Bolívar: Makankamaná Community Co
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of San Basilio de Palenque
- 3,353 hectares
- 927 families
Cartagena: La Boquilla Community Council
- 39 hectares
- 2,179 families
Maicao
La Guajira
Cartagena
Sierra Nevada
de Santa Marta
Atlántico
Cartagena: Puerto Rey Community Council
- 6,000 hectares
- 200 families
Cartagena: Tierra Baja Community Council
- 81 hectares
- 300 families
San Basilio de
Palenque Magdalena
Bolívar
Cartagena: Arroyo de Piedra Community Council
- 2,000 hectares
- 165 families
Islas del Rosario: Orika Community Council
- 250 hectares
- 300 families
Titled land
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Constitution of
Indigenous Collective
Territories
Maicao: Wayuu Collective
Territories
- 2,000 hectares
- 250 families
Expansion of
Indigenous Collective
Territories
Sierra Nevada: Kogui-Malayo-Arhuaco
Collective Territory
- 48,000 hectares
- 3,400 families
Sierra Nevada: Kankuamo Collective
Territory
-3,000 hectares
- 2,000 families
Sierra Nevada: Arhuaco Collective Territory
- 30,000 hectares
- 3,000 families
PACIFIC
Clarification of legal rights and bordering areas of COCOMACIA and COCOMOPOCA
with indigenous territories in Chocó (Quibdó, Bojayá, Atrato, Bagadó and Lloró)
- 14,000 families
Chocó
Chocó
Expansion of the Eperara Siapidara Collective Territory of Joaquincito in
Buenaventura and López de Micay
- 5,000 hectares
- 48 families
Legal recognition of 20 indigenous collective territories in Cauca
(Popayán , Páez, Caldono, Inza)
- 80 families
Valle del Cauca
Collective titling of the Rio Naya Community
Council in Buenaventura and López de Micay
- 100,000 hectares
- 3,798 families
Cauca
Goals
* The number of hectares and families included in this briefer are estimates provided by the communities.
The official data will be included in the resolutions or titles issued by INCODER.
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