📋 Tender Overview
In Colombia, violence against civilians by armed groups has once again increased, despite many peace efforts. To help people who are directly affected, Switzerland provides immediate assistance to families in urgent need and also supports them in rebuilding their lives step by step, so they are better prepared for the future. An important part of the project is that more and more of the aid is delivered through local Colombian organizations, ensuring that the support is close to the people and adapted to their reality and that response capacities remain in place for the future. This work complements Switzerland’s broader efforts for peace and development in Colombia.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Colombia
Migration and Development
Agriculture & food security
Water
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Forced displacement (refugees, IDP, human trafficking)
Household food security
Water sanitation
15.09.2025 - 31.10.2027
CHF 3’630’000
The project in brief
Background Despite extensive peace efforts by the government with its Total Peace policy supported by the international community, violence by armed groups has risen sharply again in 2025. Armed groups now control more territory than ever before, well over 50% of the country, and 9.3m people or 75% of the entire rural population. Their violence caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in 2025. The humanitarian crisis triggered by armed groups is exacerbated by natural disasters caused by climate change, such as floods and droughts. The impact on communities exceeded considerably the one recorded in the first half of 2024. If this trend continues, 2025 will likely mark the year with the worst humanitarian conditions of the last decade. As of May 2025, 9.1m people are in need and face threats of violence, evidenced by 146,000 new displacements and 86’000 new confinements since January 2025, exacerbating already existing humanitarian crises. 7.3m people remain internally displaced. Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in peripheral regions, especially in the Pacific region, are suffering the most from the humanitarian crisis. There is no significant state support for these communities. In the wake of the cancellation of US aid and the humanitarian reset aid from the international community has also been severely curtailed.
Objectives Support to the Intersectoral Mechanism for Humanitarian Assistance and Early Recovery (Mecanismo Intersectorial de Ayuda Humanitaria y Recuperación Temprana MIRE+) with the overall objective to increase resilience of the most vulnerable indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities of Colombia’s poorest department of Chocó affected by conflicts and natural disasters through humanitarian assistance such as access to services, community strengthening, and local development processes increasingly delivered respectively led by local institutions and stakeholder.
Target groups MIRE+ serves indigenous and afro-colombian communities affected by the armed conflict and
