1.
7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
FAO
Rome, Italy
June 26 – 29, 2018
María Alejandra Chaux - FAO COLOMBIA

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7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
Background
Source: National Parks of Colombia (PNN, as its
acronym in Spanish)
Currently, more than 60% of the areas of the National Parks’ system are
characterized by land use, occupation and tenure, which transforms these
protected areas.
92,461.91 hectares have been transformed between 2012 and 2015.
Socio-environmental conflicts in Natural Parks and
surrounding areas

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7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
Background
In 2012, the National Government signed the Agreement for Prosperity 079, which seeks
the conservation and sustainable use of the natural and cultural heritage. A space for
dialogue between governmental institutions and the peasant delegation was created,
with the aim of working on the conflicts associated with:
1) Creation of protected areas with occupation
2) Later informal occupation
3) Inequitable distribution of land
4) Rural poverty and marginalization
5) Fragility of information systems
6) Armed conflict, forced displacement
7) Lack of governance.
Conflict of the agricultural frontier and protected areas in planning, use and tenancy in
indigenous territories.

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7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
Background
The project establishes four components:
1) To strengthen spaces for dialogue at the local and national levels, proposing
solutions to conflicts.
2) To develop guidelines related to the formulation of the productive and social
management of property plans, in order to strengthen governance and
management of conflicts over land use in areas of influence of protected areas.
3) To repair and restore the territorial rights of ethnic communities affected by the
armed conflict.
4) To operate a communication strategy.

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EU Land Governance Programme
Progress
1) Follow up and monitoring of the commitments within the framework of the Agreement,
through local roundtables in 5 protected areas (Nevado del Huila, La Paya, Catatumbo - Barí,
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and El Cocuy), carrying out characterization exercises in the
protected areas that allow the identification of the target population.
Exercises with the community to define the boundaries of the parks; the identification and
formulation of a feasible projects in the parks (sustainable production, ecotourism, ecological
restoration and research); and the identification of a capacity-building program for local
actors.
a. Performance of the national roundtable.
b. Unification of characterizations dimensions.
c. Allowed activities within the parks.
d. Formulation of public policy through a methodological route (definition of the problem,
proposals and solutions).
Four technical working groups have been organized with the participation of the peasant
delegation and the national parks staff to review the issues related to:

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7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
Progress
Local workshop
Local
organizations
Local
Gov.
Regional
Gov.
Environmental
authorities
Other
state
agencies
Trade
associatio
ns
FAO Victims Total
participants
M F
Rioblanco 27 - - - - - 3 - 30 19 11
Santa María 9 1 3 3 - - 5 - 21 16 5
Íquira 3 1 4 3 - - 2 - 13 8 5
Teruel 8 5 5 2 - - 2 - 22 14 8
Santa Marta- Ciénaga 22 1 1 2 3 3 7 - 39 33 6
Aracataca- Fundación 34 2 - 2 1 2 2 43 27 16
Pueblo Bello 19 1 - - - - 3 - 23 15 8
2) Diagnosis on tenure, agricultural uses, demography, conflicts and climate change. Two pilot
areas: covering 18 municipalities. Validation in 7 workspaces, with 191 participants.
Identification of management and territorial development instruments that affect the use of rural
land and natural resources in 11 municipalities.

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7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
Progress
Case
Overlapping
communities with
protected area
Overlapping area collective
territories with protected
areas (%)
Families
currently living
in the territory
Displaced -
non-returned
families
Nukanchipa Llacta 6.864 28 16 -
AGUA NEGRA 1.536 53 53 93
COCOMASUR 24.176 37 69 40
WIWA 248.95 9 480 612
Total 32.824.95 34% 618 745
3) In the characterization exercise for the restitution of territorial rights of ethnic communities, 744
families and 3,054 persons were assisted by the project.
Women participants were 48%, while men were 52%. 85,000 hectares of collective territories were
intervened. Approximately 40% of the collective territories overlap with protected areas.

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7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
Progress
• 19 publications on twitter
• 6 web publications
• 1 web streaming (in the parks)
• Participation in the VI
International Environmental
Fair (FIMA 2018)
• 1 Video (Spanish and English)
• 9 tantrums as a tool for adapting
technical content
• 1 Institutional banner
• 3 Newsletters
• 1,200 high resolution photos
• 300 postcards
• 3 press bulletins
• 6 Videoclips (photography workshops,
diagnostic validation)

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7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
Capacity building Activities
Diverse participatory methods have been implemented to carry out tasks such as:
• Technical working groups between the parties to reach consensus and present inputs to the peasant
delegation and government entities.
• Socialization of project progress with institutional actors and communities, through workshops with the
technical teams of the Agricultural Rural Planning Unit (UPRA) and the Land Restitution Unit (URT).
• Use of social cartography, collective and individual semi-structured interviews, focus group, participatory
timeline, historical mapping and trend lines on the environmental components of the territory and land
use.
• Analysis of socio-environmental conflicts.

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EU Land Governance Programme
Capacity building Activities
28
24
153
49
23
17
84
27
AGUAS NEGRAS KITCHWA WIWA COCOMASUR
Process of characterization of territorial impacts
Target population by sex and ethnicity.
MEN WOMEN

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7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
Capacity building Activities
Process of characterization of territorial impacts.
Target population.
Case Events
Average number
people per event
% of participants attending
two or more events
Participants in the
event
AGUAS NEGRAS 12 11 36 51
KITCHWA 7 20 28 41
WIWA 10 37.5 63 237
COCOMASUR 10 16 47 76
TOTAL 39 47 174 405

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7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
Capacity building Activities
• 5 photograph and communications workshops (La Lengüeta, Santa
María, Chiscas, Lagunillas, Kanwara).
• 151 participants in photograph and communication workshops (86 men,
65 women, 34 farmers, 50 young people).
• Dissemination of 6 video clips to participants in activities.
• Improvement of skills to communicate rural situations.
• Strengthening of communication mechanisms and visibility of processes
at both local and institutional levels.

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EU Land Governance Programme
Challenges
• Construction of a dialogue that allows confidence and participation, in order to develop
management capacities and consolidate the governance of land, fishing and forest tenure,
to mitigate conflicts in protected areas.
• Strategies for overcoming restrictions by illegal armed groups in territories.
• Develop innovative products that meet the communication needs of local communities,
improving communication channels between local actors and the most relevant institutions
on the issues of land use, occupation and tenure.

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7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
Lessons Learned
• The formulation of projects and initiatives should be conceived in a participatory manner, based on
primary information.
• The implementation of the VGGT should be carried out through agreements, and joint work
between the institutions and the social organizations with the purpose of building capacities,
including communication products.
• The governance of natural resources starts from a social and historical construction, determined by
the characteristics and dynamics of the territory; therefore, the success in the implementation of
development initiatives depends, to a large extent, on the permanent dialogue between
community and territorial actors and the executing entities.
• Supporting all the technical teams is essential to understand the context of each territory and to
design adequate communication products.

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EU Land Governance Programme
Recommendations
• Ensure community outreach at the beginning of the process.
• Promote a dialogue, participation, capacity building and trust between communities and
institutions in order to build local and territorial development.
• Provide ongoing support to the project's technical teams to identify communication and
capacity building needs at the local level.
• Work in close coordination with the project partners to optimize efforts, resources and
opportunities to achieve better results.

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EU Land Governance Programme
Next Steps
• Generate inputs through the National Development Plan 2018-2022, in order to achieve continuity.
• Carry out the mid-term evaluation of the project, and make modifications in accordance with the
recommendations.
• Continue to support the development of local dialogue platforms to identify public policy inputs.
• Support the characterization processes in the pilot areas.
• Encourage the implementation of projects and agreements between the parties.
• Uphold the continuity of working groups to bring inputs for public policy design.
• Construction of guidelines for the promotion and strengthening of responsible governance of land,
fisheries and forest tenure, through public management instruments and community initiatives.

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7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
Next Steps
• Implement the capacity building plan.
• Project Formulation complementing the plans of landscape management.
• Dissemination of information through the territory.
• Present claims before specialized land restitution judges.
• Legal and material restoration of territorial rights.
• Ownership formalization of the territories that are not legally recognized.
• Progress in restitution with a transformative character.
• Continue to disseminate the activities to all stakeholders.
• We are exploring the second phase.

18.
Thank you!
7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
FAO
Rome, Italy
June 26 – 29, 2018