Advocacy efforts led by the Pontifical University Javeriana and the Afro-Caribbean Community Councils have resulted in a collective land title for the Guacoche community to…
Advocacy efforts led by the Pontifical University Javeriana and the Afro-Caribbean Community Councils have resulted in a collective land title for the Guacoche community to…
On March 14, 2016, the Arhuaco community of Colombia consolidated a new mapping system to continue safeguarding a recent expansion of their community lands. In…
Leaders from 10 different countries issued recommendations for incorporating the viewpoints of women in policy decisions related to land rights, climate change, and sustainable economic…
Much like the rest of the developing world, Colombian rural women face an uphill battle in the recognition of their land rights. Advocacy by Federación…
A new map of deforestation and mining and hydrocarbon investments along the Pacific coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru provides a key advocacy tool for…
INDUFOR completed research in Cameroon, Indonesia and Colombia to identify and validate the need for an international Land and Forest Tenure Facility from the perspective…
On March 21-22, RRI held its 14th Regional Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change in Bogot?, Colombia, titled, Extractive Industries, Communities and Territorial Rights:…
In the South American sub-region, Instituto Latinoamericano para una Sociedad y un Derecho Alternativos (ILSA) led a series of analyses and workshops to define a…
At the June 26 Seminar on ?Early Actions, Forest Governance, and the Process of the National REDD+ Strategy,? in Santa Marta, Colombia, representatives of forest…
ACOFOP and Ut?zChe? organized an exchange between Guatemalan forest communities and community representatives from Peru and Colombia from May 21-25 in Guatemala. The groups visited…
The fourth phase of the RRI Latin America project ?The Territory and Governance Initiative? led by HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, came to a close in March,…
The Latin American Institute for Alternative Society and Law (ISLA) of Colombia hosted the Virtual Forum on Governance in Indigenous Territories Overlapped by Protected Areas,…
The second Workshop on Climate Change, Financial Mechanisms for Emissions Reductions, and the Role of Communities in Bogot?, Colombia heightened the understanding of the impacts…
The Latin America Institute for Alternative Law and Society (ILSA) organized a workshop titled Climate Change, Financial Mechanisms for Emissions Reductions, and the Role of…
Intercooperation and El Centro de Estudios Jur?dicos e Investigaci?n Social (CEJIS), with support from the International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and the Communal…
Intercooperation, with support from La Asociaci?n Coordinadora Ind?gena y Campesina de Agroforester?a Comunitaria de Centroam?rica (ACICAFOC), Forest Trends, and the International Union for Conservation of…
In a workshop held in Ecuadorian Amazon, indigenous leaders, NGO representatives, government officials and forest experts from Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, and Nicaragua…
In collaboration with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Forest Peoples Program (FPP), the Coordinating Association of Indigenous and Community Agroforestry in Central…