Peace Negotiation and Diplomatic Engagement

PASO Colombia is the national implementing partner of the "Voces del Territorio" project, which in 40 PDET municipalities in the country, the hardest hit by the conflict, is generating and strengthening initiatives in communication and culture that contribute to peacebuilding.

Participants of the Guapi ERA strengthen their agricultural project thanks to funds provided by donor countries for implementing the Peace Agreement and managed jointly by the UN Verification Mission and the United Nations Development Program.

This brief introduces our strategy and plans with the goal of sharing strategic learnings. It explores One Earth Future’s thinking in considerable depth, describes our approach to planning, scoping, executing, and closing projects, and is illustrated with some specific examples from our work.

This brief outlines the main WPS developments from the Trump to the Biden Administration. There were some significant changes made by the Biden Administration pertaining to gender policy and coordination in general, which likely will also have implications for WPS going forward.

In Guaviare, farmer families are betting on networking to build peace in their territories. Gathering different partners and approaches, they are now united in the Guaviare Peace Network to collectively support each other in their productive, organizational, and economic projects.

This “Empirically Speaking” column explores the ways that collaboration and coordination can act as drivers of trust in local government and data from OEF's PASO Colombia program that shows a meaningful correlation.

Campesino and excombatant cooperatives join the Catatumbo Peace Network to promote collaborative work and commercial networks of their productive projects from different municipalities in the region.

PASO Colombia joins Voices from the Territory, a project in which we will work alongside communities in 40 PDET municipalities to collaboratively formulate communication projects on their peace-building experiences, using diverse expressions of art, media, and culture.