PASO Colombia works to build mutually beneficial partnerships among rural communities, ex-combatants, private companies, and public and international organizations. These collaborative commercial partnerships (CCPs) provide communities with an alternative to violent conflict by supporting agricultural projects through commercialization, funding, and technical training.
Partnership with Otraparte Coffee - Paramillo
COOPEMPRENDER is a cooperative of ex-combatants that has been supported by PASO Colombia since 2018, through the Rural Alternative School (ERA) of Ituango, Antioquia.
Partnership With The Colinas Community
Through this collaborative commercial partnership participants at the Rural Alternative School (ERA) in San Jose del Guaviare sell organic feed for animals to the community around the Colinas hamlet and to the cooperatives COOJAPAL and COOMACOL.
Partnership with Hugo Restrepo & Co
Within the Rural Alternative School (ERA) of Miranda, Cauca, a CCP has been developed between PASO Colombia, Hugo Restrepo & Cía S.A., and the two cooperatives of peasants and ex-combatants participating in this ERA to cultivate and sell tabasco chili peppers.
Partnership with Illy Caffè
PASO Colombia established contacts with and worked to build confidence between ex-combatants and the National Federation of Coffee Growers in the department of Cauca.
