Project profile — Organization of American States Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased effectiveness of the Government of Colombia’s reparation process policies, with a special focus on prioritized cases, including women; (2) increased effectiveness of Government of Colombia’s implementation of the Transitional Justice Process, including increased access to women; and (3) increased effectiveness of the Government of Colombia’s decision-making process, especially where communities have been affected by armed and social conflict.

Results achieved as of December 2020 include: (1) improved public information on accessing the transitional mechanism for victims of the Colombian conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who reside in-country or abroad; (2) more ethnically-sensitive investigative approaches adopted by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace’s (JEP) Investigation and Prosecution Unit; (3) increased access for the JEP in conflict-affected departments with high incidences of child recruitment in the armed conflict, leading to increased participation of victims in a legal case concerning the recruitment and use of children and adolescents in the armed conflict; (4) improved conflict-sensitive processes adopted by the Illicit Crop Substitution Program through the implementation of tailored approaches to negotiating crop substitution plans at local levels; and (5) improved awareness among national and local institutions working on peace-building and the implementation of the Peace Agreement of conflict dynamics and the impacts of the conflict on women, girls, boys and men from conflict-affected regions where the project operates.