The project promotes sustainable and comprehensive rural development that contributes to dignified living, institutional and organizational strengthening, and lasting peacebuilding in the region.

This project is part of the Development Programs with a Regional Focus. Actions within this project are aimed at local economic development, fundamentally rural, with the comprehensive participation of civil society, and the local and departmental public sector, and are based on the needs of the region's actors. It uses the “Leader Approach” with local development based on a region and a close and investments decentralized management.

Among the specific actions to strengthen local economies are: protecting the forest and its water resources; improving in public goods; creating educational models for young people; and promoting environmental sustainability and governance for peace with a gender, generational, intercultural, sustainability, and do-no-harm approach.

The project contributes to point 1 of the Agreement as it implements development programs with a territorial approach, contributes to the development of the family peasant economy and protects the multiethnic and multicultural wealth in order to close the agricultural frontier and save environmentally sensitive areas. These actions generate well-being, good living and respect and guarantee of human rights.

The project contributes to point 3.2 as the governance component develops a program of culture of peace with the ex-combatant population of the ETCR of Mesetas, which recovers trust and restores the social fabric through the continuity of transversal organizational processes such as the school of environmental leadership. Peasant roots and identity are strengthened, contributing to the overcoming of poverty and the peaceful solution of conflicts. Likewise, it encourages community participation and commitment through multilevel dialogue.

The project has four specific results.

●     The first result strengthens inclusive, legal, and competitive local economies through technical assistance on sustainable farms, production of green fertilizers, and environmental recycling culture.  In doing so, this result supports transformation and commercialization.

●     The second result implements environmental management, land legalization, and protection of water resources.  This strengthens environmental goods and services, and encourages community adaptation to climate change.

●     The third result provides improved and expanded public goods for regional social integration.  It does this by supporting education, strengthening and safeguarding rural intangible heritage, and improving school infrastructure and tertiary road infrastructure.

●     The fourth result strengthens social cohesion and improves the social and community fabric, promoting regional rural identity and heritage.

1.       Departamento del Meta – Agencia de Infraestructura del Meta

2.       Corporación Desarrollo para la paz del piedemonte oriental “CORDEPAZ”

3.       Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Área de Manejo Especial de la Macarena “CORMACARENA”

4.       Corporación por la defensa ambiental y el desarrollo sostenible de la AMEM. “CORPOAMEM

5.       Agencia de Infraestructura del Meta (AIM)