International Development Grant
Support to the Afro-Colombian Community Initiative for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace in Colombia
Project Number: CA-3-P005601001
Status: Closed
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Maximum Contribution: $617,774.00
Start Date: February 08, 2018
End Date: March 31, 2019
Duration: 1.1 years
Project Description
The project aims to support Afro-Colombian communities in contributing to the implementation of the Ethnic Chapter of the Colombian Peace Agreement. The Chapter provides a set of principles safeguards and guarantees that seek to ensure the respect of Colombia’s ethnic communities’ rights and restore the rights that have been violated as a result of conflict. Project activities include: (1) advocating for the implementation of the Ethnic Chapter; (2) implementing efforts that support truth and reconciliation for Afro-Colombian women survivors; and (3) establishing gender-sensitive security safeguards in Afro-Colombian communities.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved security measures that incorporate an ethno-racial gender perspective in focus regions; (2) enhanced communication between Afro-Colombian organizations and authorities and transitional justice truth and reconciliation and historical memory mechanisms in Colombia; and (3) increased meaningful consultation in implementation processes of Afro-Colombian communities especially women in Colombia.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved at the end of the project (March 2019) include: (1) supported 51 Afro-Colombian communities to develop and implement security plans and protocols in their communities. Also 78% of surveyed beneficiaries formulated their own self-protection protocol or personal security plan; (2) increased collaboration between the Afro-Colombian community and the Colombian Truth Commission. They requested and began negotiating the terms of an agreement to share documentation on 112 cases of conflict-related sexual violence against Afro-Colombian women and girls assembled through the project; and (3) enabled an increase in invitations by the Colombian government authorities working on peace process implementation to Afro-Colombian women and men to consult on proposed policies and priorities for the regions were Afro-Colombians reside.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
Madre Inc.
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
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Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Foreign Affairs and Trade Gs&Cs