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Colombia

December?2025

Colombia is a notable champion of peacebuilding and South-South Cooperation within the United Nations. It plays an active role within the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and launched, in late 2024, a South-South Cooperation Programme for Peacebuilding, titled “From Colombia to the World.” Through this initiative, Colombia makes available the lessons it has drawn from its own experience as a conflict-affected country, to other countries that face similar peacebuilding challenges.

Earlier this year, in May, the PBC convened an Ambassadorial-level meeting on the theme of South-South and Triangular Cooperation for building and sustaining peace. Colombia, represented by the Director-General of the Presidential Agency for International Cooperation, Ms. Eleonora Betancur, briefed on its South-South Cooperation Programme for Peacebuilding. She outlined its components and cited active cooperation with Nigeria, the Philippines, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Cameroon.

In August, subsequently, a PBC delegation visited Colombia for meetings in Bogotá, Medellin, and Valledupar. The delegation engaged with government officials, local authorities, civil society, victims’ groups, and peace signatories of the 2016 Final Peace Agreement. The visit reaffirmed that peacebuilding in Colombia is both a national priority and a shared responsibility of all sectors of society, supported by strong international accompaniment like the PBC.

The mission concluded with an Ambassadorial-level meeting in Bogotá, where Colombia outlined progress made on rural reform, reintegration, and victims’ rights, while also acknowledging persistent challenges, including security risks for former combatants and community leaders. Across the engagements, a recurring message was that the Peace Agreement must remain a policy of the State, pursued comprehensively and inclusively, and understood as a public good that benefits all Colombians.

The Peacebuilding Fund has supported national peacebuilding efforts in Colombia since January 2014. Following the Secretary-General's approval of Colombia's eligibility in 2017 for funding under the PBF's Peacebuilding and Recovery Facility, the PBF became the first contributor to the UN Multi-Donor Trust Fund in Colombia, which has mobilized more than $217 million for the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement. To date, the PBF has invested up to $60 million in Colombia, enhancing integrated UN action and funding Civil Society initiatives aimed at supporting national efforts to implement key provisions of the Peace Agreement. PBF investments have enhanced state-society relations, built community confidence, supported demobilization and transitional justice, empowered women, youth, and vulnerable groups, promoted integrated peacebuilding programs, and piloted innovative approaches such as blended finance.

In 2025, PBF supported the National Peace Service, established by the 2016 Peace Agreement, to engage youth as peacebuilders by offering an alternative to military service, providing certified work experience, education, and strengthening their community participation. In addition, PBF is providing specific support to a public program to accelerate collective productive enterprises led by women peace signatories, with the aim of contributing to territorial development and sustainable peace.