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The ERA of the brotherhood in Saravena will seek to improve the living conditions of the migrant population, integrating it into the thriving economy of the Araucanian municipality under all the necessary biosecurity measures.

The new Alternative Rural School of Communication in Mutatá, Antioquia, opens a call for people who are currently developing a productive project in the COOFORTUNA, COOEMPRENDER cooperatives, or who belong to the community of San José de León. Registration open until December 31, 2020.

PASO Colombia has been awarded a USD $9,600 “Imagining Our Image” grant from the 2020 National Stimulus Program of the Ministry of Culture.

The Institute of Research and Intervention for Peace of the Universidad del Valle and PASO Colombia have rescheduled the forum RURAL ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS (ERAs) AND ECONOMIC REINCORPORATION IN COLOMBIA for next Thursday, November 19. Join us from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (COT)

Virtual meeting on Alternative Rural Schools (ERA) and Economic Reincorporation in Colombia

The closing phase of the Contingency Plan established poultry projects as legal economic alternatives to coca crops in El Dovio.

The COOMULSEPAZ Multiactive Women Seeding Peace Cooperative, founded by women participating in the Contingency Plan, is responsible for coordinating activities that will ensure that there will be no shortage of food in Anorí.

A Virtual Farmers Market was created as a strategy to face COVID-19 crisis in Colombia countryside.

Ex-combatant cooperatives will provide animal feed to ex-coca grower families and will buy their products at fair prices.

The Alternative Rural School (ERA) of Pasca provides food to Bogotá during the COVID-19 pandemic

The program “Land of Dreams” from RCN Radio, interviewed Pontus Ohrstedt, Head of the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund for Sustaining Peace in Colombia, and Juan Fernando Lucio, National Director of PASO Colombia.

The new Alternative Rural School in Carmen del Darién brings together a women's association and a cooperative of ex-combatants to jointly develop projects around medicinal plants and their transformation.

At the Rural Alternative School of Miranda, new projects are being developed that will allow its participants to face the difficult situation generated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

OEF’s PASO Colombia program partners with the University of Notre Dame, facilitating the greater impact of peacebuilding efforts in Colombia.

Community gardens in the department of Cesar provide food security for rural communities during the COVID-19 quarantine.