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Online Project Nomination Form
Email Address
carolina.vega@icbf.gov.co
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NameOfGroup
Colombian Institute for family welfare
NameOfFocalPoint Comprehensive Care for Ethnic Groups in Colombia
Title
Minutes differentials for ethnic groups such as respect for their customs
and cultures.
StreetAddress
Cra 68 N° 64c - 75
City
Bogotá
StateProvReg
Bogotá D.C.
Country
Colombia
PostalCode
11001
PhoneBusiness
5714377630
PhoneMobile
PhoneFax
Background:
The 1991 Constitution recognizes Colombia as an ethnically and culturally
diverse nation. More than the recognition and respect to the particular
characteristics of each ethnic group, the Constitution provides for these
rights of self determination, including political, economic and educational
arenas. As a result, Colombia, in all instances, has created a regulatory
framework important to ensure the rights of indigenous and Afro-Colombian
communities and propose public policies with a differential approach to the
ethnic groups in Colombia.
1 - Description
The Colombian Family Welfare Institute-ICBF-, understands that social
policies to improve the quality of life for children and families from ethnic
groups in Colombia.To this has created a general framework to guide
public policy and guidelines for differential attention on family, childhood
and adolescence.
These affirmative actions seek to recognize, first, that ethnic groups in
Colombia, and especially indigenous people, and understand issues such
as family structure, nutrition and education of children differently from the
majority of Colombian society, and for that why policies, programs and
projects implemented by the ICBF should be attached to the particularities
of each Colombian ethnic groups.
Name of Initiative:
Comprehensive Care for Ethnic Groups in Colombia: Indigenous, Black
Communities, Afro, Raizal, Palenquera and ROM - Gypsies.
Description:
In Colombia, an estimated 3.6 million people have been displaced, on
average
There are 150,000 new internally displaced persons each year, 75 percent
of these are
women and children. The indigenous and Afro-descendants accounted for
more
70 percent of confined communities from 2004 to 2008, and are vulnerable
to historical structural problems such as exclusion, extreme poverty,
malnutrition, and various forms of violence.
Due to the armed conflict in the territories of indigenous peoples of
Colombia in particular those of the Amazon and Orinoco, are facing a
humanitarian crisis in health and social terms.
Despite government efforts, there are still areas where the corporate action
has been limited and disjointed; reason, the Constitutional Court ruled by
the 004 cars and 382 January 2009 December 2010 pursuant to the
statement T -025, calling attention to the dire humanitarian situation facing
indigenous peoples in Colombia and requires public bodies to local,
regional and national develop immediate actions aimed at ensuring the full
enjoyment of the rights of 35 of these peoples at risk imminent physical and
cultural disappearance.
Thus, the ICBF has taken action in place so that the different social actors
of ethnic groups, can claim the right "to be culturally and ethnically
different," assessing the conceptions about the world and its elements are
essential for understanding culture and the development of their
community, under the principle of intercultural understanding in relation to:
• Traditional forms of organization
• Knowledge that define each cultural group
• Habits of subsistence which ensured the perpetuity and ethnic identity.
In this sense the main activities developed by the ICBF are:
• Programming, monitoring and control in the care of the different ethnic
groups in the 33 regions (corresponding to the 32 departments over the
capital city) with regular programs, in compliance with individualized
attention that recognizes their cultural particularities as to food, beliefs,
habits of living, socialization endogenous and traditional socio-economic
structures, setting guidelines and standards in coordination with the entities
belonging to SNBF.
• Strengthening of the project "Support for Strengthening Families Ethnic
Groups' in 27 Regional components of food self-sufficiency and cultural
reinforcement.
• Implementation of specific projects with 5 Indigenous communities at
imminent risk of physical and cultural extinction under the 095 Agreement
with IOM.
1. Differential Nukak Maku Nutritional Support in Guaviare.
2. Attention to the People Jiw - Guayabero in situations of confinement.
3. -Strengthening the Sikuani Ethnicity in Arauca - Consumption Prevention
SPA.
4. Attention on food security and cultural strengthening Hitnu people.
5. Cultural and food sovereignty Recovery Ward Caño owl.
These projects were implemented in the departments of Meta, Guaviare,
Casanare and Arauca. The main challenge is to help to improve health
conditions and nutrition of children, adolescents and their families, from the
promotion of their traditional subsistence patterns, cultural and
organizational capacity through the promotion of their ancestral knowledge
that contribute their physical and cultural survival.
• Participation in national and departmental cross tables convened by the
Ministry of Interior and Justice and the Presidential Program for Indigenous
and Afro guarantee the rights of ethnic groups in the context of fulfilling the
Constitutional Cars 004. 005, 382, 174 (Saving Plans, Life Plans, Plans of
Action Guarantee Program, among others)
Another important development is constituted ICBF Minutes differentials for
ethnic groups such as respect for their customs and cultures.
The ICBF performs the differential construction of indigenous minutes as
own eating habits, transformation and elimination of cultural practices that
violate fundamental rights, establishment of food sovereignty projects for
communities at risk of extinction and restoration of rights process
concluded with the Indian authorities and care to populations at risk of
displacement.
Implementation processes and challenges.
According to the 1991 Constitution and the Code of Children and
Adolescents, the ICBF has undertaken a differential approach to target
certain groups or individuals who have different needs and that, due to their
specific situations and vulnerability, requiring differential treatment in terms
of policies and programs related to childhood and adolescence.
In this sense, it is understood that Colombian ethnic groups require
different treatment, which is reflected in a general framework to guide
decisions for the specific rights of such communities, built by the
ICBF. Thus, the full protection of the rights of ethnic groups should be
achieved while preserving the characteristics of each community,
respecting the legal minimum for the protection and restoration of rights of
children and adolescents. The principles, procedures and guidelines of the
ICBF should seek access to agency programs by ethnic groups taking into
account their cultural particularities.
The ICBF intends to overcome the paternalistic actions, looks ethnocentric,
authoritarian, exclusions and isolated actions without planning or
consultation by carrying out a policy to recognize ethnic differences
effectively. Thus, it is considered that the actions of the ICBF are effective,
working with ethnic groups should be based on intercultural dialogue,
where dialogue and exchange of knowledge form the basis for the
protection and restoration of rights.
Be part of the base so that the quality of life and welfare of the ethnic
groups are constructed in accordance with the plans of Life of the
communities in which it intends to provide services.
In that sense, "the improvement of living conditions and welfare, is not
conceived as improving infrastructure, ie number of latrines installed, or
number of feet of sewer constructed, if not that, from a human dimension,
set more capacity to resolve issues, to formulate, manage, coordinate, build
and transcend their own model, overcoming economic dependence,
political, social and cultural development according to their aspirations, all
fully within the scope of nature, land, culture, and positive relationships
interdependent and interacting. "Then, it is understood that no ethnic group
is isolated," but always in relation to the rest of the national society, living
within a broader social environment and not in a closed society, you can
access exogenous resources without giving up their identity and determine
their future. "
Regarding the methodology of work, it is important to emphasize that the
indigenous peoples is not viable approach to the rigidity of a particular
methodology is very favorable Intervention Participatory Action-IAP,
because it is based on the notion that the processes are strengthened in a
reciprocal relationship between community and facilitators, such reciprocity
allows a greater degree of commitment and responsibility to the process of
self-determination.This methodology is part of the action at the local level,
where the space community, this methodology allows the linking of
objectives development materials (construction and co-management Auto
productive action), participatory action can transform unfavorable social
situations vulnerable processes that promote the development of peoples,
based on dialogue with communities to strengthen autonomy, organization
and empowerment of the target population.
The ICBF Actions are a contribution to strengthen processes and recovery
assertive cultural identity around the food. It is clear that the prolonged and
continuing state assistance without alternative solutions without raising
territorial and support strategies consistent with an appropriate differential
approach, lead to the loss of the intrinsic potential of a population to be selfsufficient, autonomous and independent.
These processes of ethnic, tend to be successful and are a vital tool for
organizing around the possibilities offered what could be rightly called the
Taste of Knowledge.
Major social, economic and environmental covered by the initiative
Strengthening Indigenous families through the promotion of their ancestral
knowledge seeks to recover and strengthen the worldview and cultural
elements unique to each community, generate attachment to the territory,
strengthening their indigenous organization internally, reducing the situation
of begging in urban areas, among young people prevent high consumption
of alcohol and psychoactive substances (PAS) and, above all, to rebuild
their own agricultural processes that have been lost due to the conflict,
mega and displacement.
Most people living in these departments have previously been displaced
from their ancestral lands and present patterns of human rights
violations. Without exception, all these people come from cultural traditions
of nomadism stationary and have entered a process of sedentarization that
for some has meant extinction, given the difficulty of dealing with new
models of economic management and territorial territories have
not sufficient for their hunting, fishing, gathering fruits and small conucos
planting cassava and plantains.
Also, the soils have been cataloged by constant flooding low fertility and
high rates of extraction of plant and animal resources, which has led to
situations of food shortage. As a result, indigenous communities have been
recorded in recent years, the highest rates of malnutrition at the national
level in both children and adults. The precarious supply becomes critical
aspect of health, where there have been a recurrence of vector-borne
diseases (malaria, yellow fever) and TBC. For all this, the ICBF and IOM
Ward communities prioritized Caño Owl in Casanare, San Jose Jitnú
Shelters of Lipa and the Maelstrom in Arauca, the reservations Sikuani,
Corocito, Estrellita Matecandela and also in Arauca, Guaviare Nukak Maku
in and Jiw Guayabero in the municipalities of Puerto Concordia Mapiripan
and Meta
In Colombia, the International Organization for Migration, IOM, has a
presencesince 1956 and works in comprehensive programs whose
objectives and fields of action consistent with the rules of its constitution,
which was updated and approved by the Council of the Organization in
1987 Brussels and ratified by the Colombian Congress by Act 50 of 1988.
2 - MainPartners
ICBF and the IOM, are strategic partners since 2008. More specifically, in
2011signed an interagency cooperation agreement given the need to pool
efforts andresources to the strengthening, development and monitoring
of projects and processes of comprehensive care for children and
adolescents and their families,aimed at securing and restoring the rights
of Colombian children from early childhood and her life plan, that
is to reduce violence, child abuse, the use and recruitment of children and
adolescents by illegal armed groups.
Through the Convention 095 of 2011 signed between IOM and ICBF,
have been able to combine efforts and resources to build, develop
and monitor projects and processes of comprehensive care for children and
adolescents and their families, aimed at ensure and restore the rights from
early childhood, his life plan in order to reduce violence, child abuse, the
use and recruitment of children by illegal armed groups, among other forms
of infringement.
Likewise for the implementation of projects in the territories have been
linkedorganizations and indigenous authorities as beneficiaries of the
project since the conclusion territorial entities in the territory as the support
and monitoring.
Insurance in the accompanying and ongoing technical support lies a
valuable strategy for populations vulnerable, began the activities of these
projects, believing also that in practice, the simplest and most noble tasks
as planting a plant, prune a garden, wash clothes or clean garbage from a
community center in the long run could generate a change on attitudes and
behaviors of individuals, but more ambitiously on societies.
3 - Achievements
In one sense the conditions of marginalization and poverty of many people
willing to accompany professionals require or direct if required,
sociocultural processes communities seeking to develop a proposal that is
validated in the field itself when people who claim their demands impact
between recognize the need for professional, technical and intellectual
move to where the greatest need, to sidewalks, the houses, guards,
settlements, etc.., to build alternative solutions to the practical needs of
people. Designing a better society, more inclusive, participatory and
respectful of difference is a process that is built shoulder to shoulder, rolled
up his pants and making use of the force since the dawn of time the human
spirit has fueled the change.
Within this framework of intercultural understanding have attended the
following families:
• 318 Children and Adolescents in 49 families of the guards Corocito,
Matecandela and La Estrellita.
• 190 indigenous families of the 40 settlements Barrancón Agua Bonita and
San Jose del Guaviare Hitnu Families
• 114, 450 people about the Ward of St. Joseph of Lipa and the Maelstrom.
• 3352 Indigenous in 11 communities in the Caño Ward Owl.
• 221 families of the Guards (1105 people) Mocuare, Caño La Sal and
settlements and Puerto Alvira y Puerto Caco.
4 - Sustainability
These projects aims to contribute to strengthening the political and
socialleaders of the indigenous youth for human development in
order to affect thewelfare of their communities,
strengthening the production systems by
supporting families through the promotion and transmission of ancestral
knowledge, strengthen social and family networks and
community projectbuilding a family life around work collectively, all with
the aim to help restore the cultural fabric strengthen dialogue and intraethnic with these indigenous peoples in search of cultural autonomy,
food and its own jurisdiction.
5 - Innovation
These projects are formulated in concert with indigenous
peoplebeneficiaries, from the harmless action approach that
recognizesthe cultural and current status of
each tribe intervened, another key objective of these projects is to
minimize the negative effectsthat might arise
from interventions institutional especially on environmental
issues generated by humanitarian assistance
6 - Replicability
Given that these projects have a positive impact on communities in the
components of food self-sufficiency and cultural recovery, implemented in a
concerted and adjusted to the socio-cultural contexts where they are
deployed,are perfectly reproducible and its model can be adapted to the
particulars of any community.
These projects contribute to the areas of education, social inclusion,
outreach, environmental, construction of social networks, food security and
health, contributing to:
7 - Contribution
• Recognize, strengthen and implement agro-ecological practices and
Zoocría according to the traditional knowledge of communities and food
needs of indigenous beneficiaries, improving living habits and traditional
production systems.
• Support and promote the process of strengthening cultural and
educational through the recovery of traditional values represented in their
material culture, gastronomy and promotion of social and political
leadership that strengthens traditional structures.
• Retrieve the memory and history itself through local meetings knowing,
authorities, leaders and traditional healers in order to contribute to the
construction of intercultural health models.
• Strengthen social and family networks and community for the construction
of a proposed family life around work group and the improvement of living
conditions.
• Promote the appropriate use and reuse of solid waste generated
by institutional humanitarian assistance and interventions to ensure
no contamination of the territories.
8 - Awareness
9 - Other
These projects are socialized in the context of cross-tables of the National
Family Welfare have also been documented by film records that have been
reported in various institutional and community spaces.
It is important to note that projects run on shoestring budgets and still have
generated a great impact, involving community work permanently in order
to leave capacity in the beneficiary families.