Building Sustainable Peace with PASO Colombia

PASO Colombia facilitates sustainable peace by developing collaboration platforms that successfully mobilize the local intelligence and resources of remote rural communities, and connects them with national and international institutional knowledge, capital, and markets.

Pitch Deck

Learn how PASO Colombia is building a resilient network of peace by building trust, building markets, and building community.

PASO Pitch Deck 2022 English

One-pager

Take a look at the projects and results of PASO Colombia to date.

PASO One Pager 2022 English

Paso Investment Opportunities

Learn about investment and partnership opportunities with PASO Colombia.

PASO Investment Opportunities 2022 English

Rural Alternative Schools (ERA)

Rural Alternative Schools (ERAs) are productive and educational collaboration platforms that articulate the production factors required to develop successful agricultural projects.

 

What is the ERA?

This video tells the story of the first ERA developed by PASO Colombia in Miranda, Cauca. An experience of collaboration between an association of campesinos (rural farmers) victims of the armed conflict, a cooperative of people in the reincorporation process, public and private institutions.

The Base Of The Mountain: Rural Alternative School Of Miranda, Cauca

This publication, by the Universidad del Valle, is the result of their research on the development process of the ERA of Miranda, recognizing its impacts and contributions to the construction of peace and sustainable development in the Colombian countryside.

National map: Rural Alternative Schools (ERA)

During the last five years PASO Colombia has built 22 collaborative platforms (known as “ERAs”) in the rural areas most affected by decades of armed conflict. Learn more about their particular stories and the ongoing projects of each one of them.

Support to Ex-Coca Grower Families

PASO Colombia designed and implemented a Contingency Plan to support families registered in the government’s National Comprehensive Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS). This plan was funded by the UN Multipartner Trust Fund for Sustaining Peace in Colombia, and implemented by PASO Colombia in coordination with the Presidential Office for Stabilization and Consolidation.

Women Seeding Peace - Life After Coca Crops

Get to know Socorro in San José del Guaviare. She is part of the Women Seeding Peace video series which presents stories of women who left illicit crops behind and participated in the Contingency Plan to Support Ex-Coca Grower Families.

Key Achievements of the Contingency Plan

Working with 1,968 families in 10 municipalities of the country, the Contingency Plan transformed an emergency situation into an opportunity for the development of productive capacities and collective platforms. Learn about its key achievements here.

Developing sustainable alternatives to coca cultivation

Encouraging report of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business reveals “PASO’s Magic” making an in-depth examination of its coca reduction program.

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