Bilateral Activites

Bilateral Activities

CIDA's priorities in Colombia include basic human needs and rights of people affected by the armed conflict; equitable participation; and capacity to address key causes of violence by promoting good governance and local capacity, through the following initiatives:

Population affected by the armed conflict:

Promoting Durable Solutions for People Displaced by Conflict and Violence in Colombia

Conflict Resolution for Adolescents in Colombia

Education and Peace building for Children Displaced by Conflict in Colombia

Prevention and Assistance to Minors and Victims of Armed Conflict in Colombia

Funding for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

ECOFONDO Rural Recovery

Program Support Unit (PSU)

Equitable participation:

National Community Justice School

Good Governance:

Local Fund for Governance and Human Security

The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives

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http://geo.international.gc.ca/latin-america/colombia/development/cida01-en.asp

Colombia

Colombia needs to regain its confidence – confidence that will convince business to invest in Colombia, that will let workers find employment with dignity and that will allow the young to live happily in their own country.

The Government has set up three basic policies to achieve this objective:

Democratic Security
Transparency and Fight against Corruption
Economic and Social Recovery
Below, some of the principal results from these policies are presented

Government Results

I. Democratic Security

II. Social Security

III. Economic Recovery

a. Basic Economic Indicators

IV. Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law

a. Massacres, Kidnappings and Homicides Victims

b. Antipersonnel Mines Victims

c. International Humantarian Law Denuncations

d. Beneficiaries: Protection program for People at High Risk

V. Demobilized

a. Individual and Collective Demovilizations