Colombia
What is happening in Colombia?
HealthNet TPO enhances protection services and health promotion in Colombia. By increasing access to psychosocial care and fostering safe communities, we empower individuals to realise their rights. Collaborating with community agents, we strengthen mental health capacities, restore social cohesion, and prevent gender-based violence.
After Sudan and Syria, Colombia is the third country with the highest number of people forcibly displaced by armed conflict.
In Colombia, HealthNet TPO develops collaborative research and advocacy initiatives with different sectors of communities and civil society to promote awareness-raising and technical training in psychosocial support and protection actions. Using our Resource Mapping and Mobilisation (RMM) approach, we conduct focus groups, interviews, surveys, and analyses. We share experiences between South Sudan and Colombia through webinars and upcoming projects for 2024-2025.
In addition, in Colombia the focus is on self-care as a revolutionary tool to combat stigma and oppression. We create safe spaces for women and girls to discuss security, SGBV, and peacebuilding. We develop economic initiatives with an MHPSS approach, providing psychological first aid kits, promoting self and collective care from a feminist perspective, and enhancing security and communication within the organisation.
During 2023 we worked with organisations such as Civil Rights Defenders to strengthen self-care and protection strategies for women human rights defenders. For example, in La Macarena, Meta, and Sibundoy, Putumayo, we use the RMM approach and Theory of Change to strengthen community knowledge on MHPSS, GBV, and peacebuilding. This process, recognised by Colombian universities, includes collaborative sessions that certify participants, empowering them to help their communities.
The situation in Colombia
8.6M
victims of forced displacement.
6M
of these victims remain internally displaced in the country.
2.8M
migrants from Venezuela are currently in the country.
16K
cases of recruitment of children and adolescents from 1990 to 2017.
Our projects
Women Advocate Peace in Colombia
Women who feel protected and resilient are more able to become active participants for peacebuilding in their communities. HealthNet TPO supports women and girls, providing psychosocial support and building stronger community networks so that they feel empowered and enabled to engage in decision-making processes for sustainable peace.
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