T06.32 Tejidos
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Strengthening the local organizational fabric for reincorporation and reconciliation in Colombia |
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The project defines "fabric" as a collective action that reconstructs something that was broken amid social, political, and/or armed conflict. |
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Implementation period
From 01/Feb/2019 To 30/Sep/2021 |
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General Description
The Fabric project, financed by the European Fund for Peace and implemented by ForumCiv, We Effect, and Fundación Paz y Reconciliación (PARES), in agreement with Social Economies of the Common-ECOMUN- and the Critical Studies of Political Transitions Program-PECT- main objective is that: “the communities affected by the armed conflict have successful reintegration processes that contribute to the prevalence of peace, local development, and the collective construction of the region, restoring peaceful coexistence in Cauca, Putumayo, Arauca, and Tolima.”
To fulfill the main objective, the project designed an action plan based on:
● Creating spaces for dialogue to restore peaceful coexistence and promote reconciliation. ● Strengthening the local organizational fabric for reincorporation and reconciliation (TOLR) in its organizational, technical, associative, and cooperative capacities for local development, regional collective construction, with emphasis on women. ● Creating agreements and synergies for implementing local community reintegration plans and the reincorporation roadmap. |
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Contribution to the Peace Accourds
The Fabric project contributes to the implementation of the Final Peace Agreement in: 1. Methodological strengthening and implementing actions that promote coexistence and guarantees non-repetition in Putumayo, Tolima, Arauca, and Cauca. 2. Strengthening community reincorporation as the project: I) administratively and financially strengthens 13 cooperatives in the four departments where the project operates. III) It promotes eight productive projects through financial support to third parties. III) Supports the implementation of gender, cooperativism, social solidarity economy, and agroecology approaches. 3. Advocacy plans to promote reincorporated population actions in the four departments where the project operates. 4. Support for constructing alternative forms of communication for the reincorporated population and the surrounding communities. |
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Objectives and Results
Among the main objectives and results are: ● Reincorporated men and women, and communities surrounding the ETCR, create spaces for dialogue to restore peaceful coexistence and promote reconciliation. ● Reincorporated men and women, and communities surrounding ETCRs, create synergies and agreements for the successful implementation of PLRCs, PNRs, and local development. ● Implementation of local spaces for coexistence, reconciliation, and reincorporation. ● Implementation of Comprehensive Organizational Strengthening Plans (PIFO) and Local Community Reincorporation Plans (PLRC). ● Advocacy and communication actions that allow cooperatives and associations to promote dialogue agendas at the local, departmental, and national levels. |
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€ 700.000 UE Support |
€ 175.000 Counterpart |
€ 875.000 Total |
| Featured Indicators |
| Indicator | Goal | Last Update | Advance | Current Value | Status |
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| 01. Number of population involved in the implementation of territorially validated PLRCs (disaggregated into reintegrated population and population of surrounding communities and by sex). | 1.220 | December 2021 | 18 % | 230 | Complete |
| 02. Number of dialogue scenarios established and used among the surrounding and reintegrated population for the construction of coexistence. | 4 | December 2021 | 100 % | 4 | Complete |
| 03. Number of TOLR organizations that improve their organizational capabilities measured in Organizational Capabilities Index (ICO), OCTAGON Index and MANGO Index (disaggregated by sex) | 9 | December 2021 | 100 % | 9 | Complete |
| 04. Number of TOLR organizations that participated in cooperative trainings | 9 | December 2021 | 222 % | 20 | Complete |
| 05. Number of TOLR organizations that participated in technical trainings | 9 | December 2021 | 166 % | 15 | Complete |
| 06. Number of public bodies in which TOLR organizations participate in each of the priority territories. | 4 | December 2021 | 150 % | 6 | Complete |
| 07. Number of men and women participating in local reconciliation and reintegration laboratories. | 40 | December 2021 | 85 % | 34 | Complete |
| 08. Number of collective narrative made between reincorporated and neighboring population. | 4 | December 2021 | 100 % | 4 | Complete |
| 09. Number of prioritized PLRC initiatives funded and implemented in the project | 8 | December 2021 | 87 % | 7 | Complete |
| 10. Number of communication teams constituted in the ETCR | 4 | December 2021 | 100 % | 4 | Complete |
| 11. Number of man and women reincorporated FARC EP participating in collective and/or solidarity economy projects supported by the project | 200 | December 2021 | 162 % | 325 | Complete |
| Advocate | Partner | Local Partners and Co-Applicants |
Unión Europea |
FORUMCIV |
Fundación Paz y Reconciliación WE EFFECT Economías Sociales del Común (ECOMUN) Comisión Nacional de Género Agencia para la Reincoporación y Normalización (ARN) Consejo Nacional de Reincorporación (CNR) Programa de Estudios Críticos de las Transiciones Políticas de la Universidad de los Andes (PECT) |
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