About RICRP
What is the RICRP?
It is an initiative of the countries of the Americas that come forth in 2014 supported by the Organization of American States (OAS), the World Bank (WB) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), constituted as a systematic horizontal technical cooperation mechanism through which the exchanges aimed at developing, disseminating, and implementing the best practices of Cadastre and Property Registry are promoted, multiplied, strengthened and invigorated, in support of institutional development processes and progress at various levels of government.
The Network is composed of the highest National Cadastre and Property Registry Authorities of the OAS Member States and its highest decision-making body is its Annual Assembly. The RICRP has the OAS as its Technical Secretariat through the Department for Effective Public Management and an Executive Committee as a governance mechanism. The Executive Committee is composed of a country president/chair and a representative country from each of 5 subregions (North America, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andean Region, and Mercosur). This committee is responsible for ensuring compliance with the bylaws of the Network as basic rules for the organization and operation of the Network, and for preparing, coordinating, and supporting the execution of its Annual Work Plan; among others.
Our history
The RICRP arises from the call to action made in an informal meeting by the National Cadastre and Property Registration Agencies of 7 countries of the region in Guatemala City in 2014 within the framework of the Second International South-South exchange forum on Cadastral Management and Land Administration experiences sponsored by the World Bank. In this call, the agencies urged the OAS and the World Bank to constitute a mechanism of exchange and continuous work on the matter, with the capacity to advance the regional agenda in these two areas of public administration.
With that precedent, the Department for Effective Public Management of the OAS guided actions with the support of the World Bank, and FAO, for the generation of the Inter-American Network on Cadastre and Property Registry as a platform for hemispheric exchange. For such purposes, the 1st Inter-American Dialogue on Cadastre and Property Registry was held at the OAS facilities in Washington DC, along with the National Cadastre and Registry Agencies of Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Uruguay.
Strategic Objectives
Promote and maintain spaces for reflection
Shared knowledge, horizontal technical cooperation, training, and exchange of experiences between the agencies or organizations of Cadastre and Property Registry in the Americas
Contribute to the advancement of cadastral and registration systems, the establishment of administration and management land systems and the sustainable development goals
Establish links between governments and society organizations and international organizations.
RICRP Structure
FUNCTIONS OF THE PRESIDENT:
- Represent the Network.
- Convene, through the Technical Secretariat, to the meetings of the Executive Committee and the Annual Meeting.
- Coordinate the support of the Technical Secretariat for resource management and international cooperation.
- Lead the execution of the consigned activities in the annual work plan and articulate its execution.
- Request technical and administrative support from the Technical Secretariat of the Network, and from any of its members, when deemed necessary for its appropriate functioning.
ELECTION:
- The Presidency will be exercised by the President elected by the representatives of the RICRP member institutions in the private session of the Annual Conference.
- The President of the RICRP will assume his/her functions for a period of one (1) year, renewable for one (1) additional consecutive year. All the representatives of member countries are eligible to assume the position of President. The candidate who receives the most votes from all the member countries will be appointed President.
- The nomination for President can be autonomous or proposed by another member of the Network. If there is more than one (1) candidate, a vote will be held among the members present.
- There is no limit for non-consecutive reelections.
Colombia
Sr. Gustavo Marulanda Morales
Director del Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi IGAC.
The Technical Secretariat of the Inter-American Network on Cadastre and Property Registry (RICRP) has been carried out by the OAS since 2015, through the Department for Effective Public Management (DGPE), and execute the following functions:
- Convene and coordinate the meetings of the Executive Committee and the Annual Conference, as well as elaborate the corresponding minutes.
- Support the work of the Executive Committee in the design, approval and execution of the activities established in the Annual Work Plan, the monitoring and evaluation of activities and the management and access to international cooperation opportunities.
- Collaborate with the Executive Committee in the identification of opportunities for cooperation with international financing organizations for development or other sources of financing.
- Assist the Executive Committee in the identification and management of international cooperation resources, as well as serve as a binding institution in the signing of agreements for the execution of RICRP activities and projects.
- Design and execute specific projects according to the Annual Conference and Executive Committee defined guidelines, particularly those that aimed the strengthening horizontal cooperation between the member institutions of the RICRP.
- Collaborate with the Executive Committee and the Presidency in the preservation of relevant documents and records for the historical memory of the Network.
- Coordinate and organize meetings and other activities defined by the RICRP.
- Coordinate the institutional communications of the RICRP with its members, with donor and financing agencies, and with other entities with which operational relations are maintained.
- Manage and update the Web Portal and the Directory of Network Members.
- Maintain active relations with organizations with similar objectives through the formation of an advisory council to the Technical Secretariat, such as: academia, business associations, multilateral banks and entities related to the activities of the RICRP in order to coordinate actions when necessary.
Mike Mora
Secretary of the Inter-American Network on Cadastre and Property Registry, Specialist, Department for Effective Public Management, OAS
RICRP Executive Committee
Sr. Gustavo Marulanda Morales, Director del Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi IGAC.
- Región Mercosur: Uruguay, Dirección General de Registros, (DGR).
- Región Andina: Bolivia, Ministerio de Justicia y Transparencia Institucional.
- Región Centroamérica: Honduras, Instituto de la Propiedad, (IP).
- Región Caribe: República Dominicana, Administración General del Registro Inmobiliario
- Región Norteamérica: México, INEGI
Lic. Claudio Martínez Topete, INEGI
- Región Norteamericana México, Claudio Martínez Topete, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, (INEGI)
- Región Caribe: República Dominicana, Jhonattan Toribio Frías, Administración general del registro inmobiliario.
- Región Andina:
Ecuador, Diana Carolina Velasco Aguilar, Dirección Nacional de Registros Públicos, (DINARP). - Región Mercosur: Argentina, Martín E. Ibarra Medina, (CFC).
- Región Centroamérica: Panamá, Bayardo Ortega Carrillo, (RPP)
Jhonattan Toribio, Registro Inmobiliario
Andean Region: Colombia, Olga Lucia López, Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC) y Goethny Fernanda García, Superintendencia de Notariado y Registro (SNR).
Central American Region: Honduras, José Noé Cortés, Instituto de la Propiedad (IP).
Mercosur: Lourdes González, Dirección General de los Registros Públicos y Gloria Paredes, Servicio Nacional de Catastro.
North American Region: México, Claudio Martínez Topete, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI).
Caribbean Region: Jamaica, Elizabeth Stair, National Land Agency.
Jhonattan Toribio, Registro Inmobiliario
Andean Region: Colombia, Olga Lucia López, Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC) y Goethny Fernanda García, Superintendencia de Notariado y Registro (SNR).
Central American Region: Honduras, José Noé Cortés, Instituto de la Propiedad (IP).
Mercosur: Lourdes González, Dirección General de los Registros Públicos y Gloria Paredes, Servicio Nacional de Catastro.
North American Region: México, Claudio Martínez Topete, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI).
Caribbean Region: Jamaica, Elizabeth Stair, National Land Agency.
Organismo de Formalización de la Propiedad Informal (COFOPRI)
North American Region: Vacancy
Central American Region: Costa Rica, Mauricio Soley, Registro Nacional.
- Caribbean Region: República Dominicana. Jhonattan Toribio, Registro Inmobiliario.
- Andean Region: Ecuador, Lorena Naranjo, Dirección Nacional de Registro de Datos Públicos (Dinardap).
- Mercosur: Chile, María Alicia Muñoz, Servicio de Impuestos Internos.
Sylvia Amado, Dirección Nacional de Catastro.
- North American Region: Vacante.
- Central American Region: Nicaragua, Procuraduría General de la República.
- Caribbean Region: Jamaica, National Land Agency, Elizabeth Stair, Chief Executive Officer.
- Andean Region: Colombia, Superintendencia de Notariado y Registro (SNR).
- Mercosur: Paraguay, Servicio Nacional de Catastro y Dirección General de los Registros Públicos (DGRP).
Sylvia Amado, Dirección Nacional de Catastro.
- North American Region: México, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI).
- Central American Region: Costa Rica, Registro Nacional.
- Caribbean Region: Jamaica, National Land Agency, Elizabeth Stair, Chief Executive Officer.
- Andean Region: Colombia, Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC).
- Mercosur: Argentina, Consejo Federal de Catastro (CFC).
Carlos González, Administrador de la ANATI.
- North American Region: México, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) (Mantiene la representación el Lic. Claudio Martínez).
- Central American Region: El Salvador, Centro Nacional de Registros (CNR), Lic. Rogelio Canales, Director Ejecutivo.
- Caribbean Region: Jamaica, National Land Agency, Elizabeth Stair, Chief Executive Officer.
- Andean Region: Ecuador, Sistema Nacional de Información de Tierras Rurales e Infraestructura Tecnológica (SIGTIERRAS), Antonio Bermeo, Director Ejecutivo.
- Mercosur: Brasil, Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária(INCRA), Leonardo Góes, Presidente.
Juan Antonio Nieto Escalante, Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC).
- North American Region: México, Claudio Martínez, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI).
- Central American Region: Panamá, Carlos González, Autoridad Nacional de Administración de Tierras (ANATI).
- Caribbean Region: St. Kitts &Nevis, Land Registry.
- Andean Region: Perú, Superintendencia Nacional de los Registros Públicos (SUNARP).
- Mercosur: Uruguay, Sylvia Amado, Dirección General del Catastro.
Juan Antonio Nieto Escalante, Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC).