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Response to emergency caused by floods in Choco Department, Colombia The emergency started with the overflowing and flooding of rivers on the 18th October 2016 affecting 20 municipalities in Chocó Department, generating loss of crops, homes, and livelihoods of more than 17,000 families. The heavy rains in early to mid November 2016, some of the strongest in recent history, have aggravated the original situation in those municipalities and affected an additional municipality of Bahia Solano with 1,600 families.  While the waters have gone down slightly from original levels, most areas remain flooded, and the pre-existing conditions of extreme poverty and vulnerability, lack of state services and armed conflict in the region, have aggravated the emergency situation. Chocó is Colombia’s poorest department. It faces serious challenges in terms of governance and a lack of state presence (for example around health and education), so in general the local government’s capacity to respond to emergencies is not very strong.
Strengthening local grassroot capacity on peace, human rights and gender issues This grant funds the social programme of a Catholic diocese in one of the areas of Colombia most affected by the conflict, a traditional stronghold of the FARC guerrillas. The new 2014-2016 strategy of the dioceses will continues to develop the capacity of the parish groups (EPPAS) established in the previous strategic plan focussing on local advocacy initiatives, developing local action plans to support vulnerable groups in the parish (IDPs, children, old people and women) and / or protect the environment, and strengthen the rights of women. The Church is one of the few civilian agencies institutions working in this region, and CAFOD currently one of very few development agencies.
Improving living conditions in the 3 de Junio community, Cartagena In the period 2014-16 CAFOD would like to support the Diocese of Cartagena to provide assistance to residents of the 3 de Junio community to help them to fulfil their basic needs more adequately.  The initial phase of the project will involve the project’s design by partner staff and community members, where needs will be highlighted, and key needs to be addressed through the project will be agreed on.

The Diocese of Cartagena would like representatives from the community to form a community group which will disseminate information and learning to other residents and promote involvement in the project.  A youth group consisting of children and young people will also be established to carry out cultural activities related to issues or problems facing the community.  There will also be work with a women’s group.
CINEP Partner Visit to the UK This is a small operational activity budget which covers CAFOD costs to accompany and support long-term strategic partner CINEP's visit to the UK. During the visit CINEP meet with academics and potential donors, carried out advocacy work with UK decision makers and media work, and shared CINEP's work with CAFOD staff.
Colombia Venezuela Migration Crisis A large-scale humanitarian crisis is developing after hundreds of thousands (Venezuelans and Colombians, who had fled Colombia's armed conflict) have come to Colombia since 2014. They are leaving Venezuela as it is increasingly difficult to access food and medicines. In the last year there has been a marked increase and even more so in the last 4 months where there has been an increase of 50% of people leaving Venezuela. The poorest of the poor have started to leave to avoid starvation. Venezuela does not produce enough food to provide food to their people, and prices on the black market are unaffordable.
SNPS/Caritas Colombia proposed a reduced 6 month project in 5 departments (close to the border and Cundinamarca) - (initially it was 7 departments with 14 municipalities, but it had to be reduced due to a shortcoming in the funds received after the EA). The project has 5 components: 1. Food, 2. non- food items and Shelter, 3. Health, 4. Protection and 5. Advocacy.  Other Caritas agencies contributing to this project which was launched through an EA appeal are Caritas Germany, Caritas Spain, Secours Catholique (Caritas France), Caritas Japan, Caritas Hong Kong and Caritas Korea.
Social Inclusion for Peacebuilding in the ethnic territories of Chocó The project will benefit social and ethnic territorial organisations in the department of Chocó, specifically in the jurisdiction served by the Social Pastoral of the Diocese of Quibdó and the AfroColombian community councils represented by the organisation Cocomopoca, located in the municipalities of Atrato, Lloró, Bagadó, Certegui, Carmen de Atrato, Bojayá, Río Quito, and Quibdó. 
Its main objective is that the pastoral agents of the Diocese of Quibdó and the leaders of COCOMOPOCA participate, lead and promote peace actions in the framework of the implementation of the peace accords and facilitate tools of good governance for their actions in the region.
The implementation of training processes for leaders and young people, updating and construction of tools of governance of COCOMOPOCA's ethnic authority and institutional policies of Pastoral Social, political actions of lobby and advocacy, legal accompaniment and litigation, monitoring and verification of what is happening in the territories (ethnic territorial focused development plans (PEDETs), Atrato River Ruling T622, advocacy actions, humanitarian missions, etc.) are planned.
Towards reconciliation and peace in Colombia CINEP have a new three-year plan (2021 to 2023), with the two first year embedded in their five-year strategic plan for January 2018 to December 2022. CAFOD is providing institutional support for CINEP to carry out this work - CINEP are a long-term partner that CAFOD have been supporting for many years (this is a new cycle of COL200). 
CINEP/PPP's vision is "By 2022, we plan to be a Centre guided by the Society of Jesus that will have developed proposals for region and nation building, aimed at promoting and protecting life, human rights, sustainable development and peace." 
CINEP/PPP works on two areas 1) Conflict, State and Peace (including work on  peace education and land management) 2) Social Mobilization, Human Rights and Interculturality  (including work on social movements) through research, advocacy and education. In this three year cycle CINEP is seeking to contributes to creating conditions for reducing inequalities, expanding democracy and building citizenships, within the framework of the effective implementation of the peace agreements and processes. CINEP is also seeking to contribute to reconciliation and the enforceability of rights with a diversity and gender-based approach.
Humanitarian relief to victims of conflict The Magdalena Medio Peace and Development Programme, funded by the World Bank and the Japanese development agency, is a model of development work in the midst of the conflict, and also supports a ‘peace laboratory’ funded by the European Union.  CAFOD's grant funds emergency assistance and information work in the UK.
Advocacy and reconciliation in communities afected by socio-political and environmental conflicts The project seeks to contribute to reconciliation process in Colombia through the strengthening of democracy, including advocacy. It will be implemented at different -but interlinked- levels to achieve the proposed objectives. At local level the strengthening of the advocacy and public opinion capacities of civil society organizations and ecclesiastical jurisdictions will foster a process of advocacy in the territories most affected responding to their local problems. At national level SNPS will influence and generate public opinion regarding the different topics of interest of local territorial organizations, as well as generating campaigns and communicative strategies for the positioning of different topics aimed at peace and reconciliation. Finally, at international level with the accompaniment of the Caritas Working Group for Colombia (GTC) and the different advocacy platforms, political pressure exercises can be carried out as well as education and awareness about issues relevant to the country.
Income generating projects for women in southern Tolima, Colombia CEUDES (Democratic Development Units Corporation) is a small flexible NGO based on a consortium of 18 social science professionals running a number of programmes with minimum infrastructure.  The basic premise is democracy, which means participatory management and a perspective of changing the grossly unequal distribution of power and wealth in Colombia.  In the present situation of conflict, CEUDES works with several of the civil society peace networks. A particular emphasis is support and training for women headed households.   

This project is based in southern Tolima working with indigenous women’s groups to improve the agricultural practices of the community through training in sustainable organic farming techniques and distribution of materials.
Strengthening peasants farmers against extractivism This project will be carried out in two regions of Colombia: Cajamarca, in the department of Tolima, and in El Carmen de Atrato, in the department of Chocó, through three lines of action: (i) contribute to the advancement of the processes of enforceability for the guarantee and respect of the rights of peasant farmers in relation to the decisions that affect their territories; (ii) strengthen peasant farmers as subjects of rights in Colombia; and (iii) influence legal reforms in relation to the extractive model in Colombia.
Colombia partner learning exchange and training on complaints handling This project aims for all Colombia partners to meet and, in the light of the Andes Team's revised regional strategy and in the context of Laudato Si', to understand where synergies exist and opportunities for working together. It also aims to provide partners with a face to face opportunity to understand and discuss the requirements of the new PFA and its implications for their work and the communities they serve. The partner workshop is being held to provide the foundation for partners to work on accountability and put in place a feedback and complaints mechanisms, based on sharing experiences of strong partners that have already developed these mechanisms and taking into account experiences of other sister agencies.
FUNVIPAZ External Evaluation Funds to pay for an external evaluation of COL224.

COL224: This grant funds the social programme of a Catholic diocese in one of the areas of Colombia most affected by the conflict. This project is the continuation of COL196. The new 2021-2023 strategy of the dioceses will continue to develop the capacity of the parish groups (EPPAS) bringing a stronger focus on integral ecology and Care for Our Common Home in the context of the Amazon Synod and Querida Amazonia with the aim of developing and implementing a plan for the protection of the Amazon in the area of intervention, led by the local communities. Children play a key role in this. It also seeks to strengthen participation in the democratic process thorough local advocacy initiatives and developing local actions.  A specific component will focus on communication.
Capacity strengthening and advocacy - IFICO This project seeks to contribute to the construction and development of a strategy for advocacy, research, training, advocacy, communication and public opinion in the processes of the National Secretariat of Social Pastoral - Caritas Colombia (SNPS-CC) and the Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions, also improving local leadership in the response to crises in Colombia in favour of the most vulnerable.
Eco /Echo in San Lucas This project is part of a Cross-Regional Peacebuilding with an Integral Ecology lens pilot project covering five countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In Colombia it is being implemented in a region permeated by decades of armed conflict, presence of illicit economies and armed actors and limited presence of State institutions, where violence has been normalised and young people are trapped in a vicious circle of poverty, illegality and violence, which also contributes to environmental degradation and deforestation. The project will be developed in a mining settlement inhabited mostly by families from various municipalities of the Magdalena Medio region, and also by migrants from various departments of Colombia and Venezuela. This settlement is located in the Serranía de San Lucas, a natural complex of extraordinary beauty with "high levels of anthropic intervention (mining, illicit crops, agricultural systems, timber exploitation); it is currently a territory disputed by illegal armed actors". 
At least two initiatives with an integral ecological approach will be agreed and implemented with the school in the area and with grassroots organisations in this territory, and individual and community changes will be promoted through training exercises that will favour (in children, women and leaders in the area) the exercise of socio-emotional and environmental competencies favourable to the care of  Our Common Home and peace.
Building social inclusion for peace consolidation in the ethnic territories of Chocó Afro-descendant, indigenous and mestizo ethnic communities in Choco Department Colombia have faced historical abandonment by the Colombian State and borne the brunt of action of various armed groups, which has caused multiple human rights violations. This project aims to strengthen the Afro-descendant, indigenous and mestizo communities of Chocó in their governance structures, for them to become the drivers of the development of their territories, and participate in the quest, implementation and consolidation of peace in the territories. To achieve this, the project has 3 expected results: 1.Cocomopoca and SEPAS Quibdó will have designed and implemented a training and advocacy plan with policy and judicial elements to foster peace and ethnic development; 2. SEPAS Quibdó and Cocomopoca are engaged and recognised for the monitoring and support to the implementation of the peace process and the implementation of the Constitutional Court ruling T622 and other relevant rulings; 3. A community undertaking for green gold mining has been designed. It builds on the accumulated experience of CAFOD partner SEPAS-Quibdó (Pastoral Social Quibdó, Pastoral Action team of the Diocese of Quibdó) and Cocomopoca (Afro-Colombian communities of Alto Atrato) and on the progress made in previous projects funded by CAFOD and SCIAF.
Humanitarian Assistance to victims of severe weather conditions, Colombia This project is an emergency response to continuing severe climatic conditions affecting Colombia (including heavy rains, flooding, gales, and hail). An estimated 751,744 people have been affected up to 5th November 2007. This project will meet the needs of 1,200 families (SNPS are assuming there are 5 people per family = 6,000 people) in the following areas of the Caribbean region in the departments of Atlántico, Magdalena, Bolívar, Córdoba and Guajira. The Project will last for 6 months (5 months for project activities, 1 month for reporting) and will focus on Caribbean region in the departments of Atlántico, Magdalena, Bolívar, Córdoba and Guajira. The total SOA appeals for £106,015.82 (equivalent of 438,350,000 Colombian pesos using CAFOD exchange rate for November 2007 where £1 = 4,134.76).
CHURCH WORK FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION IN COLOMBIA One of CAFOD's principal partners in Colombia, SNPS is the social department of the Colombian Church and a member of the Caritas Network.   Aim: ‘To assist the social and charitable work of the Church in Colombia in order to achieve integral human development and the construction of a new society based on solidarity, justice, peace and respect for human rights, in the light of the Word of God and the social teaching of the Church’. SNPS coordinates a network of offices throughout Colombia that seek to promote peace and reconciliation, defend human rights and assist victims of the 50 year conflict. CAFOD also supports the Caritas’ international advocacy campaign, Peace is Possible in Colombia.
Hidroituango Emergency Response The Hidroituango dam on the river Cauca in Antioquia Department is the largest hydro damn project in Colombia. It was in the final stages of construction with water already filling up with a stream being regulated through a tunnel that was letting some of the water out. This tunnel was blocked and when it cleared on 12 May 2018, it caused  flooding downstream that swept through a riverside hamlet. Six hundred people were left homeless and two bridges, two schools and a health centre were destroyed. To avoid further catastrophe the engine rooms were flooded.
On 16 May 2018, authorities issued evacuation orders for eight municipalities downstream from the dam amid fears of another wave of flooding as heavy rains continue. The total number of inhabitants in the eight municipalities is believed to number up to 120,000.  The situation remains highly unstable among fears that the dam may break and hundreds of thousands may be affected downstream. 
CAFOD partner SNPS/Caritas Colombiana, working with the local Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos, is seeking to provide food and psychosocial support to the most vulnerable among IDPs: 3000 people in total (300HH).
Empowering ethnic communities in the context of the peace process in Alto Atrato, Chocó With this project, the Diocese of Quibdó aims to accompany the Afro-Colombian communities of Alto Atrato, Chocó, Colombia (Cocomopoca) in the defence of their existence, traditional livelihoods and well-being as one of Colombia’s most excluded ethnic groups. The project will strengthen Cocomopoca and support the implementation of its ethnic development plan in the context of the implementation of the peace agreement with the FARC and the peace negotiation with the ELN. 
The Diocese of Quibdó has played a crucial role in ensuring an "ethnic chapter" regarding Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in the FARC peace agreement and is monitoring the implementation, as well as contributing to the negotiations with the ELN guerrilla. The project will also support these efforts.
Strengthening pastoral processes in peace building, human rights and care for Our Common Home -IFI COVID has affected Colombia significantly and the pandemic, as well as the measures in response have exacerbated underlying issues, including having an impact the economic and socio-political stability. This project seeks to strengthen a coordinated response under the leadership of SNPS-Caritas Colombia, working together with four Church Provinces and Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions (EJ). Project participants will engage in research, training and advocacy-including communication- related to peace and reconciliation, protection of human rights and care for the common home.
Emergency Response to floods in Colombia This proposal responds to a request from the Social Department of the Colombian bishops conference (SNPS), a CAFOD strategic partner, to coordinate the distribution of humanitarian aid to 5,000 families affected by the severe floods that have afflicted Colombia since October, affecting 29 of Colombia’s 32 departments, with a total as at 23 May 2011 of three and a half million victims, including 464 dead, 566 injured and 79 missing. 

This is a follow-up request to one supported in December 2010 (COL174/1/1), since the floods have been exceptional in their severity and duration.

SNPS will provide food packages, equipment and materials for cooking, personal hygiene and cleaning, clothing and materials to rebuild houses to 5,000 families affected by the floods in 5 dioceses.  In addition SNPS will provide seeds, livestock, tools and support to re-establish livelihoods.
Integral Ecology in the Colombian Amazon This grant funds the social programme of a Catholic diocese in one of the areas of Colombia most affected by the conflict. This project is the continuation of COL196. The new 2021-2023 strategy of the dioceses will continue to develop the capacity of the parish groups (EPPAS) bringing a stronger focus on integral ecology and Care for Our Common Home in the context of the Amazon Synod and Querida Amazonia with the aim of developing and implementing a plan for the protection of the Amazon in the area of intervention, led by the local communities. Children play a key role in this. It also seeks to strengthen participation in the democratic process thorough local advocacy initiatives and developing local actions.  A specific component will focus on communication.
Emergeny response for indigenous people forcibly displaced to Quibdo Since 14 February, at least 111 Katio Indigenous people from the Vivicora community in the Indigenous Resguardo Tahami in Choco Department have been forcibly displaced due to threats to their lives from the ELN guerrilla and the risk to be caught in the crossfire of the combat between the Colombian army and the ELN. Due to this situation at least 962 Indigenous people of 8 communities are in confinement (not able to move, facing lack of access to food, services and goods).
The project will provide emergency response in terms of food and non-food items, as well as psychological support.
Building an environment of peace and "buen vivir" with ethnic communities in Chocó The project will benefit social and ethnic territorial organisations in the department of Chocó, served by the Social Pastoral of the Diocese of Quibdó and the AfroColombian community council COCOMOPOCA.  Its main objective is to strengthen the appropriation of the territorial reality and the culture of peace in the territories and ethnic authorities, through collective actions aimed at overcoming poverty, sustainable development, the environment, local governance, healthy coexistence and reconciliation. The project aims to achieve three results: 1) Support for the community strengthening processes of COCOMOPOCA, the processes of the Community Action Councils (JACs) supported by the Pastoral Social. 2) Productive enterprises with women and young people have been promoted, focusing on the creation of added value, entrepreneurial culture and innovation. 3) Strengthened institutional capacity for an integral and effective management of the strategic plan of COCOMOPOCA and the Pastoral Social, within the scope of the legal, advocacy and administrative components and accompaniment of the Peace Process in Colombia