SUSTAINABLE PEACE THROUGH COLLABORATION

PASO Colombia mobilizes the local intelligence and resources of remote rural communities, and connects it to national and international institutional knowledge, capital, and markets.

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Our Pillars Innovation

Building Community

PASO works with communities as partners, transforming them into promoters of the sustainable development of their territories .

Building Markets

PASO and communities collaborate to collectively create economic opportunities to put war behind us.

Sustainable Production

Combining local knowledge with permanent technical support, we promote practices so that productive projects are sustainable and friendly with local resources.

Our Achievements

2,368

Jobs Generated

63

Stakeholders

USD $11.5M

Value of Current CCPs

89%

of the participants perceive that the social fabric of their communities has been strengthened.

Feature Content

Rural Alternative Schools (ERA)

Rural Alternative Schools (ERAs) are productive and educational collaboration platforms where private, public and community resources are used to promote sustainable rural development.

Voices from the Territory

A project that empowers the voice of cultural and communication collectives building peace in 40 of the municipalities most affected by violence and poverty in Colombia.

A networking model, built by campesino communities, the University of Notre Dame and PASO Colombia, proposes rural economic transformation in areas historically affected by conflict and illicit crops.

Women Seeding Peace - Life After Coca

This series presents stories of transformation, sharing the lives of women who have left illicit crops behind to sow a new future of peace in their communities

The Base of the Mountain

This publication is the result of a research of the development process in the ERA of Miranda, recognizing its impacts and contributions to the construction of peace and sustainable development in the Colombian countryside.

Developing Sustainable Alternatives to Coca Crops

Encouraging report of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business reveals “PASO’s Magic” making an in-depth examination of its coca reduction program.

News and Resources

The ERA model continues to demonstrate its strength with record sales in 2022

During 2022, the Rural Alternative Schools achieved the highest sales in their 6 years of life, thanks to the commitment to peace of the peasant and reincorporated communities with which we work, as well as the effective collaborative work model that we have developed with they.

Febrero 20,2023

Paving the road to reconciliation

We share this note made by the UN Verification Mission in Colombia about the commercial and reconciliation advances the members of the Café Venus brand have made with the support of our Rural Alternative School of Tuluá and its partners.

Febrero 15,2023

Workshop for Trauma Management and the Beginning of Resilience with Ex-combatants

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and PASO Colombia joined forces to carry out the workshop "Transitions: Attending to the Wounds of the Soul" in which ex-combatants and people working in the reintegration process learned about managing trauma and the path of psychosocial resilience.

Noviembre 17,2022