Training for the use of FFP methodology in Colombia

One of Kadaster International's main contributions to the Colombian government is the creation, piloting and implementation of the Fit for Purpose methodology, which seeks to 'fit for purpose' land administration systems to manage current land issues in a specific context, in this case the Colombian cadastral reality.

This fast, cost-efficient and collaborative methodology can be easily replicated and scaled, allowing the different institutions associated with land administration to use it in the ways that best fit their mission. 

During 2022 the Kadaster team shared the methodology and trained different institutions in its use and potentialities such as the topography group of the project Support to the Multipurpose Cadastre in Colombia executed by the GFA of the GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), interested in applying participatory methodologies in cadastre.

Also to the land group of the Governor's Office of Huila. The Governor's Office of Huila aims to formalize 1,000 properties by 2023. With the FFP methodology, it hopes to speed up the process, as it allows the communities of the villages in the targeted municipalities to participate in the collection of information in the field. 

At the beginning of the year, training sessions were held with a group from the National Land Agency and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ANT is currently applying components of the methodology for the collection of cadastral information in forested areas through a pilot project in Ciénaga (Magdalena) and Pradera (Valle del Cauca).