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Amy Coughenour Betancourt

Ms.
Amy
Coughenour Betancourt

Amy Coughenour Betancourt is the CEO of the Cadasta Foundation.  With over 28 years of experience, Amy is a results-oriented, mission-driven executive leader with a proven record of significantly growing organizations. In her role, she has written and presented on land and property rights issues, particularly focused on community and women's rights and the use of geospatial technology to advance the SDGs. Amy comes to Cadasta from the National Cooperative Business Association, CLUSA International (NCBA CLUSA) where she served as the Chief Operating Officer of International Programs from 2011 to 2018. In this role, she oversaw a team of over 800 staff and a near tripling of the portfolio in 20 countries across Africa, Latin America, and Asia working in resilience, food security, and rural development.

Prior to her work at NCBA CLUSA, Amy worked as the Deputy Executive Director of the Pan American Development Foundation; the Deputy Director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Washington Director of the Center for Occupational Research and Development; and as the Vice President for North America for the International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA). She currently serves on the board of Interaction, the premier alliance of International NGOs working in humanitarian assistance and development.

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Global
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Urban Tenure
cadastral administration
cadastral register
cadastres
gender equity in access to land
geographical information systems
land administration
land rights
land tenure
open data
property
property rights

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Cadasta Foundation

Reviving Documentation of Property Rights

Cadasta Foundation is dedicated to the support, continued development and growth of the Cadasta Platform – an innovative, open source suite of tools for the collection and management of ownership, occupancy, and spatial data that meets the unique challenges of this process in much of the world.

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Blog post

CADASTA: How our technology secured land rights for 5 million people in 5 years

Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land documentation
land registration
community forestry
land rights
informal settlements
land tenure
community land rights
formal tenure
informal property
local communities
open data

“Tenure and its governance are crucial factors in the fight against inequality and discrimination, for sustainable use of the environment, social stability and resilience toward the overall achievement of the SDGs.”  FAO, Why Land Rights Matter, 2020

 

Blog post
Working map of a neighborhood in the city of Puri in Odisha State, India. Credit: Cadasta Foundation

Without Property Rights, Prosperity is Built on a Shaky Foundation

India
Global
Urban Tenure
deed registration
forest land
geographical information systems
informal property
informal settlements
land rights
land tenure
property
property rights
tenure security
slums
title deeds
urban areas
urbanization


Like many homeowners in the US, I have a pile of mortgage papers and the deed to our house cluttering my cabinets, and I don’t give them much thought. Likewise, renters have a lease document—usually kept in a folder somewhere—that formalizes their right to use and enjoy that dwelling.

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