Brain Trust for the Colombian Transition - Support to Territorial Peace Implementation

This project aims to strengthen the implementation of Colombia's "Territorial-focused Development Plans" (known as PDETs in Spanish). The project does this by supporting the combined work of “Territorial Trust ” a sub-national network of peace implementation actors in PDET regions. And the Colombian Brain Trust a network of experts who played a direct and significant role in the Colombian peace negotiations in Havana. Together the Brain and Territorial Trusts provide analysis policy advice and recommendations to policy-makers on peace implementation emphasizing PDET implementation. Project activities include: (1) holding sessions with the Brain and Territorial Trusts that serve to identify debate and analyze challenges and solutions; formulating policy recommendations and defining engagement strategies aimed at catalyzing PDET implementation; (2) conducting workshops aimed at building knowledge on lessons learned from different conflict contexts; (3) preparing and distributing policy analyses on risks and opportunities for peace implementation in Colombia; and (4) conducting public outreach with broader audiences including actors with different political views or technical interpretations of the Peace Agreement’s implementation.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) established greater consensus among the general population in Colombia on critical matters related to the implementation of the Peace Agreement including its gender components; and (2) enhanced a gender-responsive implementation of the Peace Agreement in Colombia by national and local level policymakers especially in the territories that were most affected by the armed conflict.