The project develops a multi-sectoral action, creating economic opportunities with criteria for economic, environmental, and social sustainability, with cross-cutting actions in rights, ethnic, community resilience, and regional approaches. It takes into account both priorities expressed in the development plans of Pasto, Tumaco, Ipiales, and Nariño, as well as relevant points in the peace agendas created in the region and the demands from the population.

The project promotes development, strengthening actors and institutions in their management, planning, coordination, communication, and participation capacities, as well as in capacities related to economic development policies, water, and basic sanitation, local institutions and spaces for dialogue, and gender equality. The project fosters spaces for dialogue to encourage the participation of civil society, mainly agricultural producers, women, and victims of the armed conflict.

The interventions are led by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation.  This agency has extensive experience in the area in programs related to strengthening local governments, and their geographic focus is on Tumaco, Pasto, and Ipiales.

The project contributes to the first point of the Peace Agreement, which lays the foundations for rural transformation, seeking to create the conditions of well-being and dignified living for this population, and its intervention is aligned with the following public policies:

●     Economic development and entrepreneurial culture for employment.

●     Water supply and sanitation.

●     Local institutions and spaces for dialogue.

●     Women's rights and gender equality.

The first objective is to stimulate access to livelihoods by strengthening production chains, establishing commercial agreements, creating an entrepreneurial culture, and promoting the employment of youth, women, and victims of conflict. Furthermore, the project promotes  sub-national mechanisms’ capacities to improve the efficient and sustainable management of water and sanitation services.

The second objective is to strengthen the State presence. The project seeks to consolidate local governance by improving planning and investment capacity in the region, consolidating spaces for citizen dialogue, supporting Victims Municipal Work Groups, and spaces for ethnic authorities. The project works on implementing departmental and municipal gender equality public policies.  It works with women's organizations in political advocacy and in applying comprehensive protections guaranteed to women through the women victims of gender-based violence public policy.

• Departamento de Nariño
• Municipio de Pasto
• Municipio de Ipiales
• Municipio de Tumaco
• Gobernación de Nariño