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    Promotion of Human Rights, Sustainable Development

    and Humanitarian Actions in Colombia

    The Lutheran World FederationDepartment for World Service

    Colombia Program

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    The Lutheran World FederationThe Lutheran World Federation LWF is a global communion of Christian chur-

    ches in the Lutheran tradition. Founded in 1947 in Lund, Sweden, the LWF now

    has 145 member churches in 79 countries all over the world representing 70.5

    million Christians. The LWF acts on behalf of its member churches in areas of

    common interest, such as communication, ecumenical and interfaith relations,

    theology, humanitarian assistance, international affairs, human rights, and va-

    rious aspects of mission and development work. The location of the General

    Secretariat is in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva (Switzerland) which ensures

    close cooperation with the World Council of Churches (WCC) and other world

    Christian communions as well as secular international organizations.

    Department for World ServiceFor over sixty years the DWS has responded to the needs of peoples affected by

    natural or man- made disasters. Special attention is given to internally displa-ced people (IDPs), refugees, victims of conicts, droughts, oods, hurricanes

    and earthquakes. DWS reaches out to everyone with the belief that all people

    are created with an equal set of rights regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion,

    nationality or political conviction. With its presence in more than 30 countries,

    DWS is part of a global network that assists in situations of emergency, rehabi-

    litation and sustainable development. These are fundamental steps to ensure

    that communities can once again reconstruct their lives.

    Member of:

    ACT AllianceACT International and ACT Development merged as of January 1st, 2010, into one

    single organization called ACT Alliance, one of the biggest humanitarian world

    alliances of the world. ACT is an alliance of churches and faith based organiza-

    tions working together in order to eradicate poverty, injustice and human rights

    abuses. It is made up of over 100 organizations and churches working in more

    than 125 countries worldwide.

    The Lutheran World Federation

    Department for World Service

    Colombia ProgramCarrera 22, No. 40-07 Bogot, Colombia

    Telefax +57 1 323 0707 / 338 1196

    Correo: [email protected]

    www.lwfcolombia.org.co

    The Lutheran World Federation (Headquarter)

    Department for World ServiceEcumenical Centre, Route de Ferney 150

    PO Box 2100, 1211 Ginebra 2, Suiza

    Tel: +41 227916522/Fax: +41 227916629

    www.lutheranworld.org

    Member of

    Certicated by

    THE LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATIONDEPARTMENT FORWORLD SERVICE

    Colombia Program

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    The Lutheran World Federation - Department for World Service in Colombia

    Right to foodBy Silvio Schneider, Country Representative

    Why we work in AraucaThe actions of our partners in Arauca 2011Other LWF/DWS projects in Arauca in 2011

    Our land, our only Hope By Leonardo Sarmiento M. LWF/DWS/CO

    Why we work in ChocThe activities of our local partners in Choc 2011Other LWF /DWS projects in Choc in 2011

    Why we work in CundinamarcaThe actions of our partners in Cundinamarca 2011The actions of our local partners with national impact in 201 1

    Other activities of LWF/DWS Colombia in 2011

    Financial Summary 2011

    LWF/DWS Colombian Staff 2011

    Acknowledgements

    The Lutheran World FederationDepartment for World Service in Colombia

    As of 2010 the LWF/DWS is implementing the program Promotion of Human RightsSustainable Development and Humanitarian Actions in Colombia 2010-2015.

    Our MissionTo accompany and to

    strengthen the vulnerable

    Colombian population

    affected by the armed conict,

    by violations of human

    rights and international

    humanitarian law, and by

    natural disasters through a

    service inspired by Christian

    diakonia and based on the

    humanitarian imperatives.

    Our objectives

    Human rights and peace. To support actions of enforceability and ad

    for human rights and their levels of repercussion at regional, nationa

    international levels.

    Sustainable livelihoods. To increase the capacity of urban and rural

    communities to face serious threats to their dignity and to defend an

    their sustainable livelihoods.

    Emergency response and disaster risk management. To empower v

    communities in areas of work of the LWF in their capacity to deal with

    conict and/or natural disasters.

    Strategic approaches

    Integrated approach. The articulation of technical actions with organizational and community

    strengthening towards technical and social sustainability

    Differential (gender and ethnicity). The LWF/DWS is interested particularly in promoting and

    demanding the rights of women, afro-descendants and indigenous people, as well as playing a

    role in the construction of peace and development alternatives. The LWF/DWS aims to contribute

    to their empowerment as full subjects of rights.

    Rights based Approach (RBA). The conscious reference to the norms of Human Rights and their

    objectives helps to ensure that root causes of poverty and exclusion are properly addressed in the

    formulation and implementation of development programs, and avoids that exclusive technical

    objectives become references for development activities.

    Construction of peace. All LWF/DWS actions in Colombia aim ultimately at contributing to the

    construction of peace through the promotion of human dignity, diversity, tolerance, and social

    justice as response to the existing conicts.

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    Right to Food

    SILVIO SCHNEIDERCountry Representative

    economies. Vulnerable communities affected by the

    oods have had their economic and food capacities

    diminished in addition to loss of housing, problemsof health, and the absence of children and youth from

    their schools.

    In response to this situation LWF/DWS CO, and other

    ACT Alliance members, has worked together with lo-

    cal organizations since April 2011 on a wide reaching

    project to help improve the living conditions of hun-

    dreds of families, many of whom continue to suffer

    the consequences not only of the oods but also of

    the violence of the internal armed conict. The oods

    destroyed harvests, banana and rice crops, and the

    few possessions owned by many families living besi-

    de the San Juan River in the Department of Choc. The

    LWF provided food aid and delivered seeds to revive

    food production. This kind of aid is of vital importance,

    particularly for the indigenous peoples who subsist by

    exchanging agricultural produce.

    And in Arauca we continued accompanying local orga-

    nizations in their efforts to stay in their territories in a

    dignied way. The armed conict and the implemen-

    tation of mega-projects in the departme

    ning the security of the Araucan commu

    support of the LWF has been importantfood production and strengthening of

    capacities. This work has been done th

    program and the project ARAUCA: CULT

    AMIDST OF THE CONFLICT, nanced by

    Union.

    Restitution of land illegally appropriated

    Victims and Land Restitution Law signe

    Santos in June 2011 in the presence of

    Secretary. This process has no preceden

    history of Colombia and could be seen a

    step towards the construction of peace

    that land restitution efforts be part of

    tegy for development, which includes

    income-generating programs to ensure

    and dignied standard of living for victim

    ciety organizations that monitor the imp

    the Victims and Land Restitution Law p

    has failed to stop the tragedy of interna

    in Colombia, in a year in which there ha

    lation of violence and a worsening of the

    The Lutheran World Federation Department for World

    Service implements the Program PROMOTION OF

    HUMAN RIGHTS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND

    HUMANITARIAN ACTIONS IN COLOMBIA (2010-2015).

    One of the strategic objectives has to do with Sustai-

    nable Livelihoods and Food Security, and it is from this

    perspective that we present this report for sharing

    what we have done together with our partners and

    communities in 2011.

    During 2011 the violence caused by armed groups per-

    sisted, with continued strong offensives of the national

    armed forces in territories of historical dominance of the

    guerrillas and ghting with illegal armed groups made

    up of former paramilitaries. The consequences of hos-

    tilities continue to affect disproportionately the civilianpopulation, which continues to be victim of killings, for-

    ced displacements, exiles, abductions, sexual violence,

    forced recruitment, just to name some violations that

    should be sanctioned in the light of human rights and

    international humanitarian law.

    The dispute over territory is indeed the most important

    reason for the persistence of the armed conict, due to

    its continued economic, political and social importance.

    The areas most affected by the conict are dominated

    by legal and illegal economies that favor private inter-

    ests, or in some cases armed actors, and thus affecting

    the food security of the population.

    But the year 2011 was also characterized byheavy rainy seasons affecting large parts of

    the country in what was a clear result of cli-

    mate change. Over 3.5 million Colombians

    were affected at different times of the year,

    with consequences both for micro and macro

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    Why we work in

    Arauca

    The year 2011 marked a milestone in the long tradition

    of oil extraction in Arauca. In the rst months several

    multinational rms deployed teams and heavy ma-

    chinery in the municipalities of Fortul, Arauca, Tame

    and Arauquita for oil exploration. One multinationalcompany, which used to produce less than 1,000 ba-

    rrels a day, is now producing 100,000, and started to

    plant wells in the municipalities of Arauca and Puer-

    to Rondn. Oil exploitation in Arauca comes hand in

    hand with a strategy of military security. It is the most

    militarized department of Colombia and with a strong

    presence and activity of illegal armed groups.

    The continued harassment of the civilian population,

    selective deaths, bombings in rural areas, indiscri-

    minate use of landmines, the massive presence of

    unexploded devices, armed blockades by the ille-

    gal actors, ambushes, and military confrontations,

    among other factors, greatly affected the mobility

    and the integrity of the farmers and indigenous com-

    munities of the department. According to reports ofOBSAR Observacin y Solidaridad, there were 216

    armed actions in the department in 2011.

    Indigenous communities in particular remain the

    most violated in their rights, despite the mechanisms

    of protection issued by the Consti

    through the Edits 004 and 382, the l

    the comprehensive and permanent a

    Hitnu and Makaguan peoples regardi

    and nutrition. The death of Dumar Crado, indigenous Makaguan leader

    Peroza Wampiare, of the Hitnu peopl

    ment of indigenous Makaguan wom

    munity La Colorada, whose partners

    the harassment to which are submitt

    lies in the Community La Colorada,

    refuse to return to their territory for

    actions against their integrity; as wel

    degradation being experienced by s

    the Betoyes community due to consu

    hol with high degree of toxicity; all th

    that submit the indigenous peoples

    physical extermination and contribut

    disintegration in the department of Ar

    This situation of peasant and indigwas worsened by the heavy rains that

    ted some regions, destroying large t

    pastures and the road system of th

    and left it submerged by the oods f

    months.

    Brasil

    Arauca

    Venezuela

    Per

    Ecuador

    Panam

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    The actions of our partnersin Arauca 2011

    Las Galaxias - Agricultural Association (AAG)

    The Association is a non-prot organization created in

    June 2008 with the support and accompaniment of

    the LWF in Arauca. Thanks to a process of organiza-

    tional strengthening through exchange of knowled-

    ge, the Association has managed to widen its

    coverage among the farmers of the region. The As-

    sociation is implementing productive initiatives that

    aim to make it possible for farmers to stay on their

    lands, and promoting dignity, self-protection, food

    security, peaceful togetherness and sustainability.

    In 2011, the LWF supported the AAGs process of orga-

    nizational strengthening, resulting in the enlargementboth in terms of territorial coverage and the number

    of afliated farmers. The Association achieved greater

    ownership of responsibilities and the improvement

    of capacities to comply with the statutes as well as

    to propose changes and strategies for achieving its

    objectives. The participation of members in the bi-

    monthly assemblies was also improved, as was the

    performance of the members of the Board of Directors

    with regard to the corresponding registration and le

    of records as well as the exercise of accountability.

    On the other hand the AAG was able to share good

    practices related to the maintenance of a rice mill,

    improve knowledge of seeds and further analysis of

    classes of eld and its inuence on the quality of rice,

    promote the diversity of food products to increase the

    availability of food, as well as the construction andcommissioning of two ponds for sh farming. Produc-

    tion and training in sh farming was carried out with

    an average of 15 members, some of which will build

    their own ponds and design a strategy for sales and

    consumption and give continuity to the sh farming.

    Arauca Peasant Association - ACA

    ACA is a non-prot association of peasants in Arauca,

    which looks for peaceful responses to the States

    abandonment and repression in the department. It is

    driven by the principle of equity in its search to gui-

    de the organizational process of the peasants. The

    Association also aims at peace with social justice in

    Arauca, including the defense of human rights and

    the dignity of the life of the peasantry. ACA carries out

    social research on the root causes of problems of the

    peasantry and proposes possible solutions, as well

    as education and training of its members and partici-

    patory construction of new social and economic mo-

    dels that respond to the interests and needs of the

    peasant sector.

    In 2011 the ACA strengthened its organization through

    the improvement of the participation and leadership tra-

    ining of its members, as well as the promotion of human

    rights and a productive agro-ecological approach for the

    dignied staying of the population in th

    the support of the LWF, ACA managed to

    ve committees in the Department of A

    extended their knowledge about the pe

    The afliation of new members continu

    305 new associates in 2011.

    The agro-ecological schools were streng

    plemented with the installation of com

    and extensive community participation

    to implement the knowledge in their fa

    youth leadership was also carried out in

    of the ACA in Arauquita, with the partic

    interested in working in their communiin the consolidation of a group of multip

    ponsibility to disseminate the lessons le

    shops. Finally, three training sessions

    knowledge were organized for the Boa

    the Association.

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    Regional Youth and Students Associa-tion - ASOJER

    ASOJER is a non-governmental organization of youth

    and students with 11 years of experience in commu-

    nity participation and facilitation of spaces for youth

    convergence and accompanying young people and

    students from the region projecting their uninter-

    ested contribution on human rights and other rele-

    vant themes in the society. ASOJER offers accom-

    paniment to social organizations of the Department

    of Arauca in the work of enforceability and respect

    for their rights. It has four municipal sections, and

    in phase of restructuring several committees in dis-

    tricts, schools, and communities.

    In 2011, with the support of the LWF, the youth partici-

    pation was organizationally strengthened through the

    development of four municipal and one regional mee-

    tings resulting in the visibility of the youth movement

    within a society that is overcoming stigmatization and

    persecution of social leaders and movements and start

    understanding that young people are a fundamental

    part of the society. ASOJER established a work plan

    for each municipality and a regional team, who will be

    responsible for driving the processes in relation to the

    plans of life of social organizations of the Centre East of

    Colombia as part of a navigation chart for the organized

    civil society of Colombia.

    The Standing Committee or theDeense o Human Rights - CPDH-Section Arauca

    The CPDH was founded in November 2000 by a group

    of people and social actors in order to support, accom-

    pany and empower the civil society of the Departmentof Arauca, which has been victim of the worsening of

    the conict in this region of the country. Its main ofce

    is in the Municipality of Arauquita, and it has successfu-

    lly become a meeting point for the different social sec-

    tors, victims and their relatives.

    In 2011, with the support of the LWF, CPDH was able to

    carry out legal consultations and subsequent follow-up

    and accompaniment to victims of violence and to the

    vulnerable population in Arauca. Human rights abuses

    were made visible through the dissemination of regular

    public reports, urging the need for peace, and without

    hiding the everyday reality that civilians are experien-cing as a result of t he armed conict.

    The CPDH led the organization of the commemoration

    of the rst anniversary of the execution of three children

    presumably killed by members of the national army in

    the community of Flor Amarillo, municipality of Tame.

    It was attended by about 60 CPDH members and over

    1000 people of the Department. Other organizations de-

    fending human rights also participated, such as Huma-

    nidad Vigente, the Lutheran World Federation, Caritas

    - Pastoral Social, ACA, the President of the Commission

    for Peace of the Departmental Assembly, the Munici-

    pal Council of Tame, a delegate of the Mayors Ofce of

    Tame, the I.C.B.F. and others.

    Human Rights Foundation Joel Sierra

    Joel Sierra is a non-governmental organization for the

    defense of human rights with thirteen years of expe-

    rience in the dissemination, promotion and defense

    of rights in Eastern Colombia, with emphasis on the

    holistic conception of human rights, and denouncing

    violations of human rights and international huma-

    nitarian law in Arauca. The organization carries out

    advocacy with the national Government, the media

    and the international community.

    Joel Sierra performs accompaniment and legal advice to

    victims of violations of human rights, as well as aware-

    ness-raising, training, promotion and dissemination ofthe human rights. The activities aim at the recovery of the

    memory, truth, justice, comprehensive reparation and the

    full enjoyment of the rights that allow the construction of

    a society with social justice and equity.

    In 2011, with the support of the LWF, Joel Sierra has legally advi-

    sed more than 80 cases related to rights abuses suffered by indivi-

    duals, social organizations and communities in the region, and by

    victims of repression of the State and human rights violations and

    infringements of international humanitarian law and to people im-

    mersed in the social humanitarian crisis, pushing them to develop

    legal actions of enforceability of their fundamental rights. The or-ganization was also able to develop activities towards the creation

    and implementation of a database on violations of human rights

    and breaches of international humanitarian law occurred in A rauca.

    Other LWF Projects in Araucain 2011Project: Humanitarian Assistance toDisplaced Populations and Communities atRisk in Arauca

    Funded by the Church of Sweden

    The project Humanitarian Assistance to Displaced Po-

    pulations and Communities at Risk in Arauca was

    implemented between July 2010 and November 2011.

    The main objective was to provide protection, relief

    and assistance to people and communities affected

    by the armed conict. This was done through deli-

    very of humanitarian aid to displaced people and

    actions aimed at the reduction of their vulnerability.

    The project was carried out in four peasant commu-

    nities, specically in regard to: risks by natural and

    man-made disasters, risk of accidents by anti-per-

    sonnel mines and unexploded munitions, the abili-

    ty to resolve conicts without reproducing forms of

    violence, deciency of horticultural products in their

    self-sufciency and self-supporting.

    A total of 365 displaced families benetted from the de-livery of food and non-food items in the Municipalities

    of Tame, Arauquita, Fortul and Arauca. In addition, 204

    people participated in trainings for the improvement

    of their food diet and strengthened their food security

    through production in 24 family gardens.

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    The communities worked on the elaboration of an emergency plan and routes for local at-

    tention to the population in situation of displacement, and learned about their rights and

    the constitutional guarantees that were not known to them due to the absence of State

    in the area. Their leaders participated in the socialization of the Emergency Plan before

    the local government bodies and will continue to supervise, taking advantage of the tools

    learned. Similarly, the communities participated in trainings related to natural and anthro-

    pogenic disasters (especially related to oil exploitation).

    A theater play was created with a group of young people who managed to convey a mes-

    sage about the possibility of t ransforming conicts without the use of violence, thereby

    inviting to the reection of the practices usually employed in daily life situations. The par-

    ticipants of the discussions on this subject highlighted the need to promote values, espe-

    cially dialogue as an indispensable tool in the construction of agreements, the importance

    of putting oneself in the place of the other, and encourage listening besides showing will

    to keep these t houghts inside their family groups.Likewise, progress was made in the prevention of accidents by contamination from

    weapons, and the communities are aware of the existing risks and are prepared to assume

    behaviors that may protect them and others. They have organized preventive campaigns

    that reached and educated over 700 people, many of them youth and children that replica-

    ted the lessons learned in their own families.

    Project: Cultivating peace in the midst o the confict in ArauFunded by the European Union and the Church of Sweden

    From March 2010 until March 2013, the LWF supported by Church of Sweden and toget

    with Humanidad Vigente and Caritas Pastoral Social as local partners, is implementing t

    project with the participation of four peasant communities located in the municipalit

    of Tame and Fortul and six indigenous communities affected by the armed conict, f

    of them in a situation of displacement and two recipients of IDPs. The project seeks

    strengthen the integration of the social actors for the promotion of human dignity in

    der to contribute to overcoming situations of socio-political violence, from a participat

    approach and through this, to contribute to the reduction of poverty and the building

    peace in Arauca.

    During 2011, the project concluded a series of training sessions on food autonomy and so

    reignty with 62 women and 13 men participants from peasant communities. These trainistrengthened knowledge of agro-ecological production, recognition of food species of region, food processing and solidarity proposals for the implementation of productive tiatives. The process also strengthened productive plots in public schools of Puerto NidMalvinas, and Filipinas. 93 indigenous families strengthened its food production and accto water for human consumption with the support of the project, through the implemention of traditional systems of cultivation of vegetables and access to ground water syste

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    48 men and women community leaders participatedin an educational process aimed at the understan-ding of the current economic system and its implica-tions for the lives of farmers in t he region, with a viewto the construction and strengthening of alternativedevelopment plans in the beneciary communitiesof the project. Likewise, a comprehensive trainingprocess was carried out with indigenous communi-ties, with the aim of strengthening their ownershipof their life plans.

    37 people (22 men and 15 women) participated in trai-ning processes for strengthening of human relations.40 young people took part in therapeutic groups and289 people in meetings for the recovery of histori-cal memory, of which 161 were women. Another 40people, 20 women and 20 men, strengthened theirknowledge of mechanisms of enforceability of rightsand legal issues related to land and territory. Theproject also includes an Observatory that registerscases of human rights violations and breaches of in-ternational humanitarian law. The Observatory alsoanalyzes, follows up and disseminates informationon the situation of socio-political violence in the De-partment of Arauca.

    Furthermore, the project is carrying out a secondtraining cycle, this time in a holistic manner that in-cludes food security, mental health and legal toolsfor the protection of human rights. 190 people par-ticipate in the communities of Malvinas, San Jos

    Obrero (Caranal) and Filipinas. Finally, the projectis constructing and implementing an agenda for ad-vocacy involving the project beneciaries and socialorganizations of the Department. Research has alsobeen carried out on violations of the right to land andterritory of indigenous communities.

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    At that moment Rigoberto joins in the conversation. He is another

    leader of the community, older than Juan and was Governor of

    the community some years ago. We continue talking and we ask

    them about the food situation in the community.

    Please tell us how the families are eating these days?

    Rigoberto: Well, we rarely get to eat three times a day

    How many times do you eat each day?

    Rigoberto: We eat breakfast and then we eat something in the

    evening.

    And what do you normally eat?

    Rigoberto: For breakfast we eat rice, water with brown sugar

    and some bread, and in the evening rice, beans and something

    to drink. But we dont have meat, here we cant hunt alligators

    and armadillos like we used to.

    Juan: Since we were displaced we have received humanitarian

    aid from all kinds of institutions. Living here, without land and

    eating canned food we are contaminating our bodies. The food

    we receive has a lot of chemicals and it is affecting our health.

    The difcult food situation in the community became obvious

    to us while we were talking to Juan and Rigoberto. The children

    were playing their traditional games but many of them had respi-

    ratory diseases and problems with parasites.

    We asked Juan to present us to some of the women of the com-

    munity and he took us to his mother, Magola, a very quiet but

    active woman.

    We asked Magola to say something in their ancestral language,

    but she says that she does not know how as her parents died

    before being able to teach her. This made us aware of how the

    indigenous groups of Arauca are losing their cultures.

    We decided to ask Magola about the food situation in her fa-

    mily and she answered almost the same as Rigoberto, that they

    usually eat only twice a day and that their diet is not balanced

    with few proteins, minerals and sometimes carbohydrates.

    What did you eat when you were living in your reserve in La Es-

    peranza?

    Magola: In La Esperanza we were eating well, we ate chcharo,

    chigiro, babilla, lapa, cachicamo and iguanas (all local ani-

    mals).

    Rigoberto: There we were able to nd sh, ba

    chcharo, picure, araguato, well a bit of every

    Juan: In our land we were also able to grow and plantain.

    These answers show how important their ter

    communities who traditionally are collectors, h

    men, and who live in harmony with their enviro

    What does your land mean to you?

    Juan: Without our territory we are nothing, w

    territory we are able to keep our culture, tradi

    and traditional medicine. We can live from t

    and wild animals, and our culture as our main

    In Arauca there are 6 indigenous groups: In

    Sikuani, Betoy and Makaguan. According t

    Constitutional Court they are in danger of cult

    extinction. With regard to the food situation t

    Court says for example that 71% of Hitnu chi

    malnutrition. The response from the Colombiabeen inadequate and insufcient.

    It is now 11 oclock and the sun has forced us

    We are with Juan and his wife, who together

    land next to their hut where they are planting

    Juan says that their only option is to cultivat

    they are, so we decide to ask one last questio

    Will you return completely to your land?

    Juan: We are waiting until the end of this ye

    sults from the Constitutional Courts decision

    be implemented by the national authorities,

    administration and the administration of th

    Tame. We are waiting for them to tell us the

    they will and will not do. Until now we have not

    They told us that we would be given some lan

    happened and if there is no political will we

    the decision as a community. We will have to rtory even if it is dangerous, that is our only ho

    3. The ConstitutionalCourts decisions 004rom 2009and 382 romgovernmenta mandate to urgently take acti on to protect 35i ndigthatare threatened by culturaland physicalextinction because oindigenousgroups inArauca are all included.

    Our land, our only HopeBy Leonardo Sarmient o M. LWF/DWS/CO

    We are driving along the road from Arauca to Tame. After two

    and a half hours of driving through the plains we have passed

    150 kms of land for cattle, rice plantations, some remnants of

    forest, small farms, areas for oil exploitation and many army

    checkpoints. When we almost arrive at the farm known as Be-

    toyes the road becomes winding and a change of scenery lets

    us know that we are arriving at the reserves of the indigenous

    groups Betoy and Makaguan1. It is easy to recognize the area

    as there are lots of people from these ethnic groups: children

    sitting on the side of the road, women carrying heavy packs of

    wood, men with their bows and arrows. The indigenous people

    of Arauca walk a lot, often hundreds of kilometers. One of the

    reasons for this is that historically they are semi nomadic cul-

    tures, hunters and gatherers; although it is difcult to imagine

    that they still are as so much has changed in Arauca. It is n ow along time since the indigenous groups were the only inhabitants

    of these lands.

    1. Two o the sixindigenousgroupsoArauca

    It is seven in the morning and we are in the rural part of Betoyes

    when we arrive at the entrance of the temporary reserve of the

    community La Esperanza (the Hope). Three women in a hut with

    palm roof are moving the hot coals; it seems like it is time for

    breakfast. We walk another 150 meters until we get to another

    gate which leads to the place where the community settled 4

    years ago. We see a small school which was recently built and

    some huts built of wood and guadua and with palm roofs. Smoke

    comes out of each of the huts which show that it is denitely time

    for breakfast.

    We walk among the huts greeting women and children who

    gather around the res where the rst meal of the day is being

    prepared. Some of the children play next to their mothers; others

    help to clean the pots and plates while they curiously observe

    us. The Governor of the reserve comes out of one of the huts to

    greet us. His name is Juan and he looks young, serious but nice.

    We start to talk to him about the recent history of the community.

    Juan please tell us a bit about your community

    Juan: My people is the Makaguan, we are Guajibo Makaguan, living in the area of Betoyes, Municipality of Tame, Arauca.

    How did you arrive here?

    Juan: We arrived here 5 years ago. We lived in our ancient lands called La Esperanza but were displaced by the violence, because of

    the assassinations and massacres.

    How many families belong to the community La Esperanza?

    Juan: We are about 35 families. Here we are currently 13 families; the others have gone back to our reserve. We are trying to return,

    but also to get more land for the community.

    The indigenous community of La Esperanza, together with another two communities (Iguanitos and Cao Claro) left their lands in

    January 2007. They feared for their lives as they had been caught in the middle of the conict between the two guerilla groups FARC

    and ELN2, Following the displacement they looked for places to stay close to their lands as they did not want to move to the cities as

    they feared the complete loss of their culture. Finally a sister community called Parreros agreed to let them stay on a small part of their

    territory, where is where they live today.

    2. Thisconictbeganin2005apparently orcontrololand and accessto economic resources. Theconrontationended in2010whena ceasefre was agreed.

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    Why we work in

    Choc

    The exceptionally rich biodiversity of Choc is also the main threat to its popula-

    tion, given that for centuries it has been exploited without benetting the right-

    ful ancestral owners of these lands. The most common examples at the moment

    are the protable contracts signed by the State - owner of the subsoil - with

    multinational mining companies without the prior consent of the populations.

    This persistent exclusion and marginalization means that companies workingin Choc are able to take advantage of the basic needs of people in order to

    achieve their economic and corporate goals.

    In this context the inhabitants of Choc view with mistrust and pessimism the

    possible consequences of mining activities given their limited economic, ecolo-

    gical and social results.. This in contrast to the fact that Choc is the Colombian

    Department with the most hectares of collective ownership, including territo-

    ries collectively owned by indigenous and afro-descendents communities.

    After the rainy seasons of 2010 and 2011, the response by the State and huma-

    nitarian organizations has been broad and effective regarding the acute crisis.

    However, the States efforts to address structural causes of poverty and vulne-

    rability have fallen short, including in the areas of infrastructure and fulllment

    of unfullled basic needs. This has resulted in the grade of vulnerability of the

    Chocoan populations continue to be as high as it was before the heavy rains.

    All the above weakens the capacity and independence of civil society organi-

    zations and the enforceability of rights. The (national) Governments economic

    interests are prioritized over the economic, social, cultural and environmental

    rights of the Chocoans. The interests of the illegal armed actors present in the

    Department also weaken social organizations. The Departments population is

    hardworking and optimistic, warranting and legitimizing the presence and work

    of international humanitarian organizations such as the LWF in its territory.

    Brasil

    Choc

    Venezuela

    Per

    Ecuador

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    General Community Council o the San Juan River - ACADESAN

    The activities of our localpartners in Choc 2011

    ACADESAN is a territorial ethnic organization that governs and manages

    700,000 hectares in four collective titles in the municipalities of Istmina, Me-

    dio San Juan, Novita, Sip, and Litoral de San Juan in the Choc Department

    and a small strip in the Department of Valle. There are 70 communities in

    this territory given that two communities have previously been abandoned

    by its inhabitants in the Riviera del San Juan (Chavica and Cacahual) due to

    the armed conict.

    The LWF continued to support the institutional strengthening and increasing

    the capacity for local response. During 2011 the LWF supported 9 workshops

    for monitoring and socialization of manuals, internal regulations and statutes

    in the Cajn zone, one of the 9 areas that comprise the General Council. In

    addition, 2 regional assemblies of the ACADESAN Board of Directors were held.

    These activities correspond to the strategy of institutional strengthening of the

    Community Council of the San Juan River, with the aim of regulating the use of

    natural resources of the collective territories, its relations with other actors and

    internal relations between members of t he organization.

    Association o Indigenous Governors o the Embera, Wounaan, KatCham and Tule peoples o the Department o Choc, ASOREWA

    The Association of Indigenous Governors of the Embera, Wounaan, Kato,

    Cham and Tule peoples of the Department of Choc-OREWA-, has its ori-

    gins in 1979 when indigenous students of the Embera and Wounaan peo-

    ples, motivated by the rise of the regional indigenous movements such as

    the CRIC, agreed to establish the Embera-Wounaan student organization

    of the Choc. The aim of the organization was to do advocacy work based

    on the Law 89 of 1990, for the defense and protection of the rights of in-

    digenous peoples in the region. Special emphasis was given to territorial

    rights and denouncing the abandonment, m isery and prostration in which

    they found themselves.

    During 2011, the Asorewa held its ninth Regional Congress of indigenous peo-

    ples of the Choc Department, and with the support of the LWF carried out

    preparatory zonal assemblies aiming at expanding the participation of indi-

    genous women of Eastern Choc in the Congress. In addition, they continued

    the process of strengthening the information system of t he Asorewa through

    training for the implementation of the human rights violations database.

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    Mayor Community Council o thePeasant Organization o the AtratoRiver - COCOMOPOCA

    The Mayor Community Council of the Peasant Organi-

    zation of the Atrato River - COCOMOPOCA is a terri-torial ethnic organization comprised of 43 commu-

    nity councils covering four municipalities of Atrato,

    Bagad, Crtegui and Llor in the Department of

    Choc, inhabited by afro-descendants who live on

    the banks of the Atrato River and its tributaries.

    Through accompaniment for political empowerment,

    territorial management and institutional strengthening,

    the Cocomopoca held three training workshops of the

    44 boards of local community councils on mining legis-

    lation and previous consultation. The LWF supported

    the elaboration of a general proposal to deal with mi-

    ning in the territory and continued with the adminis-

    trative strengthening of the Organization through the

    nancing of a full-time Secretary who is in charge of the

    administration of the Organization and of the physical

    and electronic ling system that supported the nancial

    and administrative activities in 2011.

    After more than 11 years of incessant hard work of theCOCOMOPOCA, during which they persistently claimed

    rights over their ancestral territory, on September 17,

    2011 a ceremony was held to award the collective title

    of 77 thousand hectares. This was the culmination of a

    period of more than one decade, and at the same time

    the starting point of a new phase for the Organization.

    Cocomopoca now faces the challenge of organizing its

    territory, and creating tools for managing it now not as a

    claimer but as an owner.

    The LWF provided logistical support to carry out the

    Assembly for the reception of the collective title, faci-

    litating the participation of communities in the awards

    ceremony, and guaranteeing food, mobilization and vi-

    sibility of their presence at the memorable 17 Septem-

    ber, 2011.

    Association o Women or a Lie

    with Dignity and Solidarity -AMVDS

    The Association of Women for a Life with Dignity

    and Solidarity was legally established in 2008

    and is comprised of a group of Chocoan women

    heads of household, who carry out activities for

    the well-being of the communities of Quibd. The

    Association is managing 5 productive projects

    which include 57 women, who are committed to

    the search for the well-being and development

    of the region and the construction of a new para-

    digm that values the role of women as leaders of

    economically sustainable projects.

    In 2011, the LWF supported the Association in stren-gthening processes of social and political participa-

    tion, aiming at reaching organizational maturity. The

    support was summarized in the support to 2 gene-

    ral assemblies, 4 regional assemblies and 1 meeting

    with another women group (exchange of experien-

    ces) and follow up on administrative issues with the

    treasurer, the secretary and the legal representative

    of the Association.

    Furthermore, the LWF continued supporting establis-

    hed productive initiatives through improving their

    administrative skills and the search for certifying

    some products and services. For this reason one of

    the productive initiatives (Cambios y Cambias) was

    strengthened in order to broaden its coverage andallow for the participation of new women interested

    in becoming members of the AMVDS

    The Lie, Justice and Peace Co

    o the Social Ministry o tho Quibd - COVIJUPA

    The objective of the Life, Justice and P

    sion is the defense and promotion

    expressions, as a rst condition for th

    of a peace with social justice, the def

    rights and the international humanit

    the rights of the afro-descendant, i

    mestizo communities. The COVIJUPA

    port and assistance to those affected

    violence and the armed conict, by f

    ment, killings and disappearances.

    The LWF remains committed to suppo

    mentally friendly productive alternativ

    cognition of the just work of craftsmen areas with greater social problems and

    conict in the country. To do so, in 2011

    nued to support t he promotion of produ

    ft at the Alternative Just and Solidarity

    by COVIJUPA in order to share with the p

    another world is possible when using na

    hand-made, with original designs, and m

    processes in which the people are part

    ternatives of peace against the war.

    With the support of the LWF it was poss

    the Fair through communication (yers

    spots) and make visible the products a

    from the participating groups, and con

    creation of an adequate and secure spac

    groups of products of the Fair, and the rkitchen where women could offer typic

    meals with products of the region and t

    experiences to schools and school cante

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    Other LWF projectsin Choc in 2011

    on internal regulations, identication of risks of natural

    or human origin, and strengthening organizational mo-

    tivation, vulnerabilities and risks of emergencies, pro-

    tection plans, and psychosocial support. During these

    activities 16 contingency plans for community emer-

    gencies were elaborated and socialized.

    The project sought to improve the food security of the

    communities, by delivering kits of seeds, tools and te-

    chnical assistance to families, in order to cultivate 200

    hectares of crops of vegetables and establish 200 home

    gardens. These activities were accompanied by 2 work-

    shops per community, on techniques of cultivation, pro-

    duction of fertilizers and organic plague control.

    As a further result, the representative community orga-

    nizations ACIVA and ACADESAN were able to participa-

    te directly in the implementation of the project, and to

    test their response and management capacity because

    they should be at the forefront of the implementation of

    the planned activities, of the procureme

    and to buy the necessary items, and all

    nistrative requirements and report on th

    activities in order to ensure the outcom

    port to both organizations.

    Project: Assistance or Fooin Communities aected by Confict in the Middle San JChoc

    Funded by ECHO and Church of Sw

    This project began in June 2011 in or

    communities affected by oods as well a

    conict in the area. The implementation

    in May 2012, and the overall objective is

    manitarian assistance and improving foo

    Afro-Colombian and 5 indigenous comm

    Middle San Juan, Department of Choc.

    Project: Complex Emergencies inColombia: Floods in Confict Zones -COL111

    Diakonie Katastrophenhile Germany- Christian Aid - ICCO/PCS - LWF/DWSCO

    Funded by ACT Alliance

    The overall objective of this project was to assist the

    population affected by oods in the last two months

    of 2010 and early 2011 in 24 rural communities at

    risk and in situations of displacement, and 3 urban

    displaced communities in the Departments of Cundi-namarca, Valle del Cauca, Crdoba and Choc, whe-

    re members of the Alliance ACT work permanently.

    The LWF accompanied 16 rural communities of Choc in

    the framework of this project, of which 10 communities

    are of afro descendants and 6 are of indigenous popula-

    tion. For the implementation of this project coordination

    was carried out with ACADESAN and ACIVA as represen-

    tative organizations of the beneciary communities.

    Emergency food kits were delivered to 200 beneciary

    families twice, and also 32 workshops of good eating

    habits for the population of the 16 priority communities

    were carried out.

    The LWF supported adaptation and renovation of a hos-

    tel for the use of the 6 beneciary indigenous commu-

    nities for present or future emergencies. This hostel, as

    well as being repaired, was equipped with cabins, mats,

    roofs, linens, chairs, utensils, kitchen, electric energy

    and separate toilets for men and women.

    Regarding the strengthening of family capacities to res-

    pond to emergencies through community building and

    psycho-social tools, the LWF carried out 32 workshops

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    The project is being implemented with the par-

    ticipation and consultation of organizations re-

    presenting the beneciary communities, namely

    ACADESAN and JOON KIIRJUG - the Association

    of Governors of the Wounaan Community of the

    Middle San Juan.

    In order to address the immediate nutritional

    deciencies emergency food assistance was de-

    livered to 350 rural families. Consultations werecarried out with communities and beneciary

    families on food items that were not currently

    available in the area, and the rst kits delivered

    were designed to last for 2 months. The second

    delivery was made at the end of the year, before

    the eventual emergency due to a new rainy sea-

    son in the rst weeks of 2012.

    With respect to food security in the medium

    term, it was improved in 15 rural communities

    through technical assistance for the cultivation

    of 350 hectares of land for basic subsistence

    crops. Technical assistance was begun with the

    600 beneciary families, and 40 families parti-

    cipated in processes of poultry breeding in or-der to contribute to food and nutrition security

    (FNS).

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    Why we work in

    Cundinamarca

    The department of Cundinamarca has a strategic lo-

    cation in the Centre of the country, and all varieties

    of climate, areas of cultivation, animal husbandry,

    with access in all directions of the country, the in-

    dustry and agricultural sectors are highly technica-lly developed. Cundinamarca is offering important

    contributions to the national economy.

    Despite this, Cundinamarca currently presents sig-

    nicant decits, particularly with regard to road

    infrastructure, water and employment. The rst as-

    pect is very much related to non-compliances of the

    enforcement to law run works with public resour-

    ces. The second, 70% of the municipalities do not

    have access to safe drinking water and in cases in

    which the service is provided it is supplied without

    continuity. And thirdly, the high variety of economic

    activity, in part due to the entry of transnational in-

    vestments and the intention of large companies to

    position themselves in the international markets,

    all together have produced a signicant social andeconomic balance.

    However, there is also the lack of institutional ca-

    pacity to respond to the needs of the population

    affected by the armed conict, in par

    in situation of displacement. Accord

    an independent NGO, in 2011, 82.112

    sons from other parts of the country

    in Cundinamarca.

    Soacha continues to be the municip

    reception of IDPs in Cundinamarca. T

    increase of population and urbaniza

    with a low rate of development, o

    blems of insecurity, poverty, unemp

    and sexual violence, and poor acces

    vices. The situation is aggravated w

    phical location of Soacha as the set

    of illegal armed groups that exercis

    social control.

    Furthermore, the municipality of So

    high risk for emergencies caused by

    ters, such as landslides, mudslides,

    caused by deciencies in the sewers

    truction of homes, many of them lo

    land, and thus increasing the difcu

    mic situation of many families.

    Brasil

    Cundinamarca

    Venezuela

    Per

    Ecuador

    Panam

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    The actions of our local partnersin Cundinamarca 2011

    Foundation or Education andDevelopment (FEDES)

    FEDES was created in 1994 by a group of professionals with

    experience in research, community work, and in the pro-

    motion of human rights. FEDES is a non-governmental,

    independent, pluralistic and non-prot organization that

    promotes educational and social processes on integral

    and sustainable development of the communities, espe-

    cially those marginalized and excluded. FEDES is part of

    a network of collective bodies for coordination and work

    on issues of human rights and social development.

    In the work with youth and initiatives for peace, FEDES

    continued accompanying the process of consolidation and

    strengthening of the Platform Youth of Soacha and develo-

    ped the III Forum on Youth and human rights for buildingawareness on public issues. The platform has been inserted

    in scenarios of participation for building municipal public

    policies such as the Round Table for Childhood, the Com-

    mittee for Social Policies, and the Committee for Fostering

    Policies on Childhood and Youth.

    Foundation Education, Researchand Development - FIDHAP

    FIDHAP is a non-governmental organization that

    addresses social issues from a perspective of

    comprehensive, interdisciplinary and collective

    intervention in development, acting in different

    areas at local, regional and national levels with

    interrelated programs. FIDHAP implements three

    programs: Regional Program on Environmen-

    tal Urban Management, Urban Habitat Agenda

    for Development and Housing, and the Human

    Rights and Political Participation Program.

    In the framework of the accompaniment to the Wo-

    men Group of the Round Table of Dialogue and Ma-nagement on Development of Cundinamarca and

    Soacha, two workshops were developed to reinfor-

    ce issues of legislation and laws favoring women,

    such as the Law 1253/2008 and the Declaration

    092.

    In 2011 FIDHAP was able to consolidate the pilot projects aimed at ensuring the food sec

    of households headed by women in urban and rural contexts, started two years ago. Wo

    of the municipalities of Soacha and Silvania worked throughout the year in activities relat

    the breeding of chickens and maintenance of home gardens, with an impact not only on

    food security but also on income generation, as women are marketing their products. T

    have participated in farmers markets and are preparing food for different events.

    Actions of our local partners withnational impact in 2011Fund or Emergency Aid and Organizational Strengthening inProtection and Sel-protection - FFP

    The Fund is an initiative of civil society organizations, which seeks to strengthen the sec

    conditions and the individual and collective protection capacity of organizations worki

    the defense of human rights, peace and social interests in a context of systematic viola

    of human rights and of international humanitarian law. The Fund is administered by a S

    ring Committee consisting of four organizations, and gives six aid modalities for diffe

    people and human rights organizations and social activists that could have more dif

    accessing other protection possibilities.

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    With the support of the LWF in 2011, 27 people,

    with their respective family groups, received

    protection through the Fund of Emergency Aid,

    in a context in which the risk situation remained

    severe for rights defenders and social activists.

    The Colombian Platorm onHuman Rights, Democracy andDevelopment.

    The Colombian Platform on Human rights,

    Democracy and Development is a network

    consisting of more than 100 social organi-

    zations at national, regional and local le-

    vels. It is dedicated to the work of advocacy,

    education, enforceability and research in

    economic, social and cultural rights in the

    country. The platform has 12 regional chap-

    ters, a national coordination (integrated by

    5 organizations), and a technical secretariat

    performed by one organization. Both the

    technical secretariat and the national coor-dination are chosen at the instance of deci-

    sion of the platform, its National Assembly,

    which meets every two years. The Colom-

    bian Platform is part of the Inter-American

    Platform of Human Rights, Democracy and

    Development, a continental network with 16

    national chapters in Latin America .

    With the support of the LWF, the Platform was

    able to perform training processes and held the

    national training school on Economic, Social

    and Cultural Rights and on the impacts of lar-

    ge-scale mining in Colombia. From an alliance

    with local academics and social organizations,

    the national school and their local expressions

    helped to prepare and present the Campaignon Land and Territory, to be developed in 2012.

    This same alliance is currently working on the

    publication of the book The devil of mining in

    Colombia

    LWF DWS Latin Americanand Caribbean RegionalConsultation

    The Colombia program was the hostof the Regional Consultation orga-

    nized by the Department for World

    Service of the Lutheran World Fe-

    deration in the month of May. Un-

    der the theme Risk reduction and

    Advocacy, representatives of the

    programs in the region, related

    agencies and local partners sha-

    red reections on the global vul-

    nerability determined by factors

    such as poverty, social inequality,

    environmental degradation and

    population growth, and the res-

    ponse capacity and disaster pre-

    paredness actions that should

    be based on risk managementapproach. The consultation made

    recommendations that to be in-

    corporated into the programs in

    the region.

    ACT Alliance ForumColombia

    The LWF exercised the coordination

    of the ACT Forum Colombia in

    2011, along with Lutheran World

    Relief - LWR and IELCO. The Forum

    focused on the formulation of an

    appeal with the participation of

    four of its members (Christian Aid,

    ICCO/PCS, Diakonie and LWF) as a

    joint response to the humanitarian

    crisis generated by the armed con-

    ict and oods. It also provided

    training to its members on the vic-

    tims and restitution of land Law.

    Platorm o European DevelopmentOrganizations in Colombia - PODEC

    PODEC is a space of conuence of European non-governmental

    organizations, which seeks to inuence international poli-

    cies of cooperation towards Colombia in order to support the

    comprehensive development of the people, the political ne-gotiation of the armed conict and the humanitarian emer-

    gency assistance from a rights perspective. The added value

    of PODEC consists in linking European NGOs of different ori-

    gins and proles in order to have com mon goals in Colombia.

    On the one hand the heterogeneity, but on the other side the

    interest in Colombia and especially on the issues of develo-

    pment and human rights as the potential of this platform.

    During 2011, PODEC distributed to embassies and other interna-

    tional organizations the Publication on Research Nr. 6: Analysis

    of the Plan of Consolidation of Montes de Maria: A look from

    the perspective of development, democracy, human rights and

    international cooperation; and nr. 7: Act 1448 2011 on victims

    and restitution of land, with an analysis and recommendations

    for the international cooperation.

    PODEC also published 10 virtual newsletters with informationon issues of cooperation, conict and peace, and development

    in Colombia.

    Other activities of LWFDWS Colombia in 2011

    75th Anniversary o IELCO

    The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia - IELCO celebra-

    ted its 75th anniversary in October, 2011, and the LWF could

    express its commitment to continue supporting IELCO in the

    process of institutional strengthening based on the objecti-

    ves of their participatory strategic plan 2010-2019. With the

    support of LWF the Ministry of Diaconia trained 43 local and

    regional referents in order to ensure the continuity of the

    processes initiated in 2010. This support involves training

    and education of local and regional referents on facilitation

    and PME tools to act as multipliers in the congregations and

    regions.

    PEAC Ecumenical Accompaniment ProColombia

    This is an international ecumenical initiative involving t

    can Council of churches, ACT Alliance, the World Coun

    the Lutheran World Federation and other organizat

    ches in supporting local initiatives seeking for intern

    rity in situations of threat and persecution of leaders

    ties affected by more than 4 decades of violence and

    in Colombia. LWF participated in the meetings of th

    reference group upon the request of the Secretary-

    FLM, Rev. Martin Junge, and sought to contribute wi

    ce and presence in eld so that the PEAC be enable

    protection concept and a methodology that can ens

    of this initiative. The program should start its implem

    Onofre, by September 2012.

    Humanitarian Country Team

    The LWF participated actively in the Humanitarian Cou

    in the local humanitarian teams of Arauca and Choc,

    OCHA/United Nations. The most important result of the H

    the formulation of the humanitarian common framewo

    which recognizes the existence of an armed conict ge

    humanitarian crisis in Colombia. In the same vein, 16 inmanitarian organizations active in Colombia (including

    Council for refugees, Oxfam, Caritas Germany, Civis, PCS

    many, and others) developed a common positioning in

    the title THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN COLOMBIA CAUS

    MED CONFLICT. The document serves as a basis for adv

    nal and international level.

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    Financial Summary 2011

    Execution per project (in euros) 2011

    Breakdown o unds through Geneva and per donnors

    2011

    Women

    Men

    Breakdown o unds raised locally and by donnors 2011

    Breakdown o unds by project 2011

    Women and men in LWF Sta2011, 2010 y 2009

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    LWF/DWS Colombian Staff 2011

    Annual Report 2011Photos

    LWF/DWS Partners

    LWF/WS Staff ColombiaChurch of Sweden

    Graphic Design and Printing

    Gineth Andrea Jimnez

    [email protected]

    Jaime Lpez Rodrguez

    [email protected]

    Lutherischer Weltbund

    Deutsches Nationalkomitee

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    AcknowledgementsWith the support of Church of Sweden (CoS), The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mis-

    sion (FELM), Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), German National Com-mittee, the European Union, ECHO and the Swedish Agency for international coope-

    ration for development (SIDA), during the year 2011 it was possible to accompany

    and reach out to communities and civil society organizations who still have the hope

    of living one day in a better and peaceful country. Thanks to the national and local

    organizations and communities of Choc, Arauca and Cundinamarca, for allowing us

    to be with them, to accompany them and to learn from their strength. Thanks to the

    Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia (IELCO), to the LWF/DWS headquarter in

    Geneva for their support and friendship and to our friends on the following platforms

    where we participate: ACT Alliance Colombia Forum, Platform of European Develo-

    pment Organizations in Colombia (PODEC), UN Humanitarian Country Team, Round

    Table of Swedish Organizations working in Colombia, and the Space for dialogue

    among cooperation organizations in Choco. And nally, we thank our staff colleagues

    in Choc, Arauca and Bogota for the great efforts, commitment, professionalism and

    dedication in serving the communities we work with.

    Bogot

    Silvio SchneiderCountry Representative

    Rosario Adriana JimnezFinancial Manager

    Constanza ClavijoProgram Coordinator

    Martin SjgrenProgram Ofcer

    Judith CastilloAccountant

    Mnica Daz

    Administrative Assistant

    Mariela MenesesOfce Assistant

    ChocChristian DegasperiOfce Director (until July)

    Wilson SalazarOfce Director (since August)

    Jos Manuel OrtizProject Coordinator

    Laura BermdezAdministrative and AccountingAssistant (since September)

    Arauca

    Leonardo SarmientoOfce Director

    Andrea VillarrealProject Director (until November)

    Roco GarcaAdministrative and FinancialCoordinator (until February)

    Sorangela Tobn

    Administrative and FinancialCoordinator (since March)

    Claudia RodrguezAdministrative and AccountingAssistant

    Diana BetancourtProgram Ofcer

    Guillermo MurciaAssistant / Projects Logistics(until Nevember)

    Neomice PrietoAgricultural Professional

    Ana Lorena GonzlezPsychosocial Area

    David Peroza

    Legal AreaGerson CortsLegal Area (until November)

    Jessika JimnezOfce Assistant

    T h e L u t h e r a n W o r l d F e d e r a t i o n

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