Land Tenure and Property Rights Staff
Safia Aggarwal
(Ph.D., Geography/Natural Resource Management; M.S., Geography/Ecological Modeling; B.S., Mathematics, Physics)
Safia Aggarwal is an ARD associate and a land tenure, property rights, and natural resource governance specialist with experience in design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of donor supported programs. Dr. Aggarwal also brings expertise in institutional analysis, decentralization/devolution, land use planning, and common property resource management. At ARD, she provides technical expertise to the Land Tenure and Property Rights (LTPR) sector in the analysis, design, and implementation of programs related to land tenure reform, land rights formalization, land conflicts, customary land and resource rights, governance and institutional strengthening, property rights of women and disadvantaged groups, and policy reform. Prior to joining ARD, Dr. Aggarwal was a fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science at USAID in Washington, D.C., where she helped manage global biodiversity conservation and community forestry programs, providing specific oversight to projects in south and southeast Asia. While with USAID, Dr. Aggarwal provided technical support to USAID’s overseas offices carrying out analytical assessments, monitoring and evaluating existing programs, and providing guidance on new initiatives. Dr. Aggarwal has a doctoral degree in Geography from the East-West Center and the University of Hawaii, where she focused on institutional dimensions of commons management. Dr. Aggarwal has a background in computer simulation, ecological modeling, and systems methodologies, which she used to assess the relative impact of intervention strategies on program goals. She speaks Hindi fluently and has working knowledge of Spanish, Nepali, and Urdu.
Mark Freudenberger
(Ph.D., Urban and Regional Planning with specialization in natural resource management; M.A., Urban and Regional Planning; B.A., International Development Studies)
Dr. Mark Freudenberger is a senior associate and the chief of party for the USAID’s Property Rights and Resource Governance project (PRRGP). Dr. Freudenberger is a specialist in resource tenure and property rights, ecoregional conservation and development planning, natural resource management in francophone countries, regional planning, decentralization and rural governance, community co-management of natural resources, and participatory rural appraisal. He brings to this position over 30 years of field experience in natural resource management in Sahelian West Africa and Madagascar. Dr. Freudenberger returns to the United States after 11 years of managing USAID ecoregional conservation and development programs in Fianarantsoa, Madagascar. During this time, he designed and implemented a cyclone recovery program for USAID Madagascar. Previously, as a senior social scientist for the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., he lead a population-environment program but also launched field studies on the social and ecological impacts of diamond mining in national parks of the Central African Republic. During 5 years at the Land Tenure Center of the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Freudenberger pioneered the use of RRA/PRA tools to analyze the evolution of tenure institutions in Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo. After these first 2 formative years, he implemented agricultural education programs for Catholic Relief Services in south central Burkina Faso. Freudenberger grew up as a child in the southern Katanga of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Freudenberger holds a Ph.D. in regional planning and natural resource management from the University of California at Los Angeles. Dissertation field research funded under a Fulbright Fellowship was carried out in the semi-arid regions of northern Senegal on the ecological and social history of the gum arabic tree crop economy. Dr. Freudenberger currently sits on the board of the PAMOJA non-governmental development organization and the BALANCED Advisory Committee for USAID population-environment fellowship programs. Freudenberger speaks fluently French with a working knowledge of Spanish.
Peter Giampaoli
(M.S., Forest Resources; B.S., Wildlife)
Peter Giampaoli is an ARD staff associate with expertise in natural resources management, including forestry and wildlife resources, and land and forest tenure issues. Prior to joining ARD, Mr. Giampaoli worked as both a staff and project consultant with the International Land Coalition Secretariat (ILC), based in Rome, Italy. He was responsible for developing advocacy projects being implemented by ILC member NGOs in East and Southern Africa and managing the evaluation of an existing collaborative research in Uganda. He was also responsible for technical review of forest tenure-related projects. He supported Zambia Land Alliance in their advocacy work related to the draft national land policy in their country, providing detailed comment on the draft and helping to solicit wider input from experts in East and Southern Africa. Prior to his work in Rome, Mr. Giampaoli worked with an ILC member, the Uganda Land Alliance, undertaking research on forest tenure conflicts and Batwa land claims in Central and Southwestern Uganda, project development and management, and strategic planning. He also represented ULA in working group sessions developing Uganda’s national land policy. Mr. Giampaoli served as a Parks/Wildlife Management volunteer in Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda, helping to train park staff, manage park operations, and undertake agroforestry and soil conservation extension activities. In addition to his international work, Mr. Giampaoli has more than 15 years of experience in natural resources management in the U.S. working at the field level for various Federal agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, and the Bureau of Land Management. He has also worked for state agencies administering AmeriCorps programs and supervising AmeriCorps members working on community natural resource and education and mentoring projects.
Peter Hetz
(M.Ed./M.S., Adult Education and Natural Resources Management)
Peter Hetz is a senior associate with ARD since 1996. He has alternately served as Senior Technical Manager, Environment and Natural Resources sector coordinator, and Chief of Party for a USAID biodiversity conservation and economic growth project in Bulgaria since joining ARD. Mr. Hetz specializes in issues related to natural resources management, biodiversity conservation, and community land tenure and property rights. He has over 29 years of professional experience with 20 of these years spent in long-term assignments in Africa. In addition to a strong record of performance in protected areas management and integrated conservation and development, he has provided leadership for community-based natural resources management, customary land and natural resources tenure, land rights, land use planning, and common pool resources management. He also has professional non- formal and formal education and training experience complemented by both non-formal and formal education curriculum and course development, practical training delivery, and training needs assessments. Mr. Hetz also has a strong practical background in both national and international NGO capacity building, environmental education, and environmental impact assessment. His work emphasizes development and economic growth predicated on secure property rights, sustainable natural resources management, land use planning, and biodiversity conservation. He has taught university-level lecture and field courses in African ecology, land use, rural community development, and natural resources conservation/management. He has a working knowledge of Kiswahili, Bulgarian, and French.
Amy Regas
(M.A., International Affairs)
Amy Regas is a senior associate in the land tenure and property rights sector and currently serves as the training task team leader for the Property Rights and Resource Governance Task Order. She possesses 17 years of experience in implementing multi-disciplinary activities funded by USAID, the World Bank, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and other donors. Ms. Regas has provided technical assistance, developed new business, and managed projects related to natural resource management, land tenure and property rights, land titling, registry modernization, cadastre development, and policy and legal reform. She recently analyzed the impact of a USAID-funded activity in Ecuador aimed at strengthening territorial rights of indigenous peoples and assessed pilot regularization projects in Colombia. Prior to joining ARD, Ms. Regas was a land specialist for the MCC where she contributed to the design of Burkina Faso’s MCC land project and evaluated a pilot property regularization project in Nicaragua. Earlier, as a director for Chemonics International, she managed the Bolivia Land Titling Project and the Guyana Deeds Registry Project. Ms. Regas coordinated the Inter-American Alliance for Real Property Rights (2004–2007), a network of advocates promoting the advancement of property rights systems in the Western Hemisphere. Ms. Regas has worked in 14 countries in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. She holds a Master’s degree in international affairs with an emphasis in economic development from George Washington University.
Michael Roth
(Ph.D., Agricultural Economics; M.S., Agricultural Economics) Dr. Roth is a senior associate and head of ARD’s land tenure and property rights sector. Formerly a Senior Social Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Land Tenure Center, he conducted policy-oriented research on land tenure and resource policy. He has conducted land subsector assessments in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, and land tenure and property rights assessments in Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, and the Ukraine. Dr. Roth was formally Program Director of the Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS) Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) and principal investigator of BASIS CRSP projects in Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, and South Africa. He also served as the University’s Project Director of the Zimbabwe Land Reform and Resettlement Project. He conducted research on land tenure and property rights in the Gambia, Ghana, and Mozambique under the USAID-funded Peri-Urban Areas of Africa project, and on linkages among customary tenure, formalization, and agricultural performance in Somalia and Uganda under the USAID-funded land markets project. Dr. Roth is currently the leader of USAID’s Lessons Learned: Property Rights and Natural Resources Management Task Order within ARD and serves as the Senior Technical Advisor/Manager for USAID/Ethiopia’s Strengthening Land Tenure and Administration Program. Beyond Technical Advisor, his responsibilities have included training, monitoring and evaluation, project design, and strategic planning.
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