Colombia: Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Communities in the Chocó Department promote their Food Security and Nutrition

This Joint Programme seeks to reduce gaps and improve the food security and nutrition of pregnant and lactating women and children up to the age of five years - with an emphasis on children aged 0 to 2 years – of indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities suffering from marginalisation, vulnerability and exclusion, in nine municipalities in the Chocó department, affected by armed violence.

Through an innovative model based on combining a community-based approach with strengthening local institutions, the programme aims to:

i) Promote the physical, cognitive and socio-emotional development of children;

ii) Strengthen human capital and production so that communities can exercise their right to food; improve inter-ethnic relations to maintain the harmony within these territories which has been shared for many generations;

iii) Contribute to gender equality; 

iv) Reduce the inter-generational perpetuation of malnutrition and poverty; r

v) Reduce conditions of inequality; and

vi) Contribute to achieving the MDGs.