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One Earth Future's Secure Fisheries, organized a skill-based training session in the Injooni fishing village in Kismayo, Jubbaland Somalia. The training focused on various aspects of fishing equipment, particularly net making, maintenance, and repair. Five members from neighboring fishing communities participated in the session alongside local fishermen.

March 28,2024

Addressing Migration And Value Chains In The Arauca Region

Since 2021, this project generates opportunities for socio-economic inclusion and employment for the vulnerable local population and Venezuelan migrants.

March 27,2024

One Earth Future's Shuraako Program Joins The Invest Somalia Conference and Expo 2024 in Mogadishu

Mogadishu, April 24, 2024 - The Invest Somalia Conference and Expo has a clear message: the time to invest in Somalia are now. Somalia has demonstrated its readiness to embrace investment, setting the stage for fruitful partnerships and initiatives. Organizers and attendees are focused on paving the way for a more interconnected future for the region.

April 24,2024

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April 21, 2023

Coffee to Combat Conflict: Launching Costal Campesino de Colombia in Europe

An emblematic brand for peace borns in Colombia: the first specialty coffee processed by ex-combatants and farmers victims of the armed conflict to be exported to Europe.

February 20, 2023

The ERA model continues to demonstrate its strength with record sales in 2022

During 2022, the Rural Alternative Schools achieved the highest sales in their 6 years of life, thanks to the commitment to peace of the peasant and reincorporated communities with which we work, as well as the effective collaborative work model that we have developed with them.

February 15, 2023

Paving the road to reconciliation

We share this note made by the UN Verification Mission in Colombia about the commercial and reconciliation advances the members of the Café Venus brand have made with the support of our Rural Alternative School of Tuluá and its partners.

ERA Tuluá - Quantica Event - Café Venus.

November 17, 2022

Workshop for Trauma Management and the Beginning of Resilience with Ex-combatants

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and PASO Colombia joined forces to carry out the workshop "Transitions: Attending to the Wounds of the Soul" in which ex-combatants and people working in the reintegration process learned about managing trauma and the path of psychosocial resilience.

Workshop on trauma management and resilience-building with ex-combatants

October 12, 2022

Urban Gardens for Peace. From Rioting to Sowing

PASO Colombia is supporting an urban agriculture project in marginalized neighborhoods of Cali, Colombia. It capitalizes the solidarity and desire for change present in these communities, to sow new forms of collective action that contribute to peace building.

August 24, 2022

PASO Organizes Dialogue on Restorative Justice with the United States Institute of Peace in Cali

Carl Stauffer, an expert in reconciliation from the United States Institute of Peace, held a meeting in Cali to discuss restorative justice and its contributions to the sustainability of the peace process with ex-combatants, representatives of public institutions in the department, and members of so...

July 26, 2022

Peacebuilding in Morales

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.

July 22, 2022

This is how peace is built from the Caucano Pacific

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.

May 16, 2022

Secure Fisheries Joins UNEP in Coastal Climate Security Study

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports have increasingly highlighted the linkages between climate change and security.

May 12, 2022

PASO’s Juan Fernando Lucio Participates in Panel Advocating for Increased Investment in Peace and Security

1% of funding goes towards peace and security. A recent panel on UN Sustainable Development Goal 16 hosted by the Peace and Security Funders Group and Network of Engaged International Donors explored how to change that.

May 11, 2022

Networking for Territorial Peace in Guaviare

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.

Jon Bellish

May 11, 2022

"Brokering" Peace with Coordination, Continuity & Trust-based Confidence

Executive Director Jon Bellish explores an often overlooked actor within the peacebuilding process who can successfully bring implementers and donors together and help avoid common development pitfalls: "The Broker."

Conor Seyle

Robert Chavarria

Andrew Siabato

May 05, 2022

Cultivating Trust in Local Government: PASO Colombia Records Significant Increase

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.

Andres Siabato

Roberto Chavarria

Conor Seyle

April 13, 2022

Cultivating Trust in Local Government: PASO Colombia Records Significant Increase

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.

Hands holding a bunch of medicinal plants in a garden

April 10, 2022

BMFA Students Swap Fish Scales for Map Scales in GIS Workshop

Secure Fisheries Senior Research Associate and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) expert, Paige Roberts, conducted a guest GIS workshop for the Berbera Maritime and Fisheries Academy (BMFA) on March 20-21, 2022 on their campus in Berbera, Somaliland.

Staff Member Paige Roberts helps several girls with GIS workshop on computers

April 08, 2022

Catatumbo Peace Network: Labor Link Impacting The Social Fabric

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.

April 07, 2022

Somaliland Initiates its First Marine Protected Area

The Zeila Co-Management Association, ministries, and partners began planning for the first Marine Protected Area in Somaliland.

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