Acuerdo Especial Transformaciones Territoriales Caqueta
- Country/entity
-
Colombia
- Region
-
Americas
- Agreement name
- Acuerdo Especial Transformaciones Territoriales Caqueta
- Date
- 10 Mar 2024
- Agreement status
- Multiparty signed/agreed
- Interim arrangement
- Yes
- Agreement/conflict level
- Intrastate/intrastate conflict
- Stage
- Framework/substantive - partial
- Conflict nature
- Government/territory
- Peace process
- Colombia VII - Petro Peace Dialogues with FARC-EP
- Parties
-
[Government of Colombia]:
Camilo González Posso
Coordinator
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Gloria Quinceno Acevedo
Peace Commissioner Advisor
National Government
Fabio Valencia Cossio
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Feliciano Valencia Medina
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Luz Darí Landázuri Segura
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
[No signature]
Carlos Murgas Guerrero
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Coronel (r) Genny Calvo Olmos
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Yesid Arteta Dávil
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Oscar Gerardo Salazar Muñoz
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Coronel (r) Luis Alfonso Novoa Díaz
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Pedro Arenas
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
[Central General Staff of the FARC-EP]:
Leopoldo Durán García
Head of Delegation of the Central General
Staff of the FARC-EP
Calarcá Córdoba
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Willy Romero
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Andrey Avendaño
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
José Tomás Ojeda
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
[No signature]
Javier 33
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Fernanda Briceño
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Robinson Caicedo Ríos
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Sebastián Martínez
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Cipriano Cortés
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP - Third parties
-
Signed the guarantors as witnesses and depositaries:
Armando Franchi
Counsellor Embassy Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela
Louise Wilson
Deputy Head of Mission
Embassy of Ireland
Phillip Lustenberger
Special Envoy
Swiss Confederation
Dag Nagoda
Minister Counsellor
Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway
Accompanying persons:
Raúl Rosende
Delegate of the Special
Representative of the General Secretary
of the United Nations in Colombia
Edelma Gómez
Mission to Support the
Peace Process of the
Organisation of American
States (MAPP-OEA)
Padre Eliecer Soto Ardila
Representative Episcopal
Conference of Colombia
Humberto Martín Shikiya
Representative World
Council of Churches - Description
- The Government of Colombia and the Central General Staff (EMC) of the FARC-EP made a joint commitment to work towards combating deforestation, furthering sustainable development, and guaranteeing the rights of people in three Colombian departments: Guaviare, Meta and Caquetá.
- Agreement document
- CO_240310_ACUERDO_ESPECIAL_TRANSFORMACIONES_TERRITORIALES_CAQUETA_EN (opens in new tab) | Download PDF
- Agreement document (original language)
- CO_240310_ACUERDO ESPECIAL TRANSFORMACIONES TERRITORIALES CAQUETA (opens in new tab)
Groups
- Children/youth
No specific mention.
- Disabled persons
No specific mention.
- Elderly/age
No specific mention.
- Migrant workers
No specific mention.
- Racial/ethnic/national group
No specific mention.
- Religious groups
No specific mention.
- Indigenous people
- Groups→Indigenous people→SubstantiveA. IMMEDIATE ACTIONS...2. Support the efforts of indigenous communities, which process coca, cannabis and give alternative use, to develop a meeting with the Ministry of Justice, DIAN, and Invima in order to strengthen these economic initiatives.
- Other groups
No specific mention.
- Refugees/displaced persons
No specific mention.
- Social class
No specific mention.
Gender
- Women, girls and gender
No specific mention.
- Men and boys
No specific mention.
- LGBTI
No specific mention.
- Family
No specific mention.
State definition
- Nature of state (general)
No specific mention.
- State configuration
No specific mention.
- Self determination
No specific mention.
- Referendum
No specific mention.
- State symbols
No specific mention.
- Independence/secession
No specific mention.
- Accession/unification
No specific mention.
- Border delimitation
No specific mention.
- Cross-border provision
No specific mention.
Governance
- Political institutions (new or reformed)
No specific mention.
- Elections
No specific mention.
- Electoral commission
No specific mention.
- Political parties reform
No specific mention.
- Civil society
No specific mention.
- Traditional/religious leaders
No specific mention.
- Public administration
No specific mention.
- Constitution
No specific mention.
Power sharing
- Political power sharing
No specific mention.
- Territorial power sharing
No specific mention.
- Economic power sharing
No specific mention.
- Military power sharing
No specific mention.
Human rights and equality
- Human rights/RoL general
- The National Government and the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP ratify their interest in the protection of strategic ecosystems and their connectivities, which is why they express their decision to work for the containment of deforestation, sustainable development, and the guarantee of the rights of the populations that inhabit in the protected areas and zones of law 2 of 1959.
- Bill of rights/similar
No specific mention.
- Treaty incorporation
No specific mention.
- Civil and political rights
No specific mention.
- Socio-economic rights
- Human rights and equality→Socio-economic rights→Cultural lifeThis special agreement will be developed as a component of sustainable development, harmonised with plans for environmental management at national, regional, departmental, municipal and local level, which allows for the protection of both the biodiversity, its basins, soils and subsoils, and also guarantees human beings, communities and peoples, as subjects of rights (economic, social, cultural and environmental) and special protection, as well as guaranteeing their permanence as part of the cultural, social and economic heritage of the territory.
Rights related issues
- Citizenship
No specific mention.
- Democracy
No specific mention.
- Detention procedures
No specific mention.
- Media and communication
No specific mention.
- Mobility/access
No specific mention.
- Protection measures
No specific mention.
- Other
No specific mention.
Rights institutions
- NHRI
No specific mention.
- Regional or international human rights institutions
No specific mention.
Justice sector reform
- Criminal justice and emergency law
No specific mention.
- State of emergency provisions
No specific mention.
- Judiciary and courts
No specific mention.
- Prisons and detention
No specific mention.
- Traditional Laws
No specific mention.
Socio-economic reconstruction
- Development or socio-economic reconstruction
- Socio-economic reconstruction→Development or socio-economic reconstruction→Socio-economic developmentThe National Government and the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP ratify their interest in the protection of strategic ecosystems and their connectivities, which is why they express their decision to work for the containment of deforestation, sustainable development, and the guarantee of the rights of the populations that inhabit in the protected areas and zones of law 2 of 1959.We, the parties, are aware of the right of the communities to the agreement of plans for socio-environmental development of a sustainable nature, which requires a methodology of the Peace Dialogues Table that contemplates the participation of the grassroots organisations of the territory, with adequate time and commitments, that provides clarity on the right to land and on the sustainability of the plans that are built on the ground, within the framework of the agreements and protocols established by the parties.This special agreement will be developed as a component of sustainable development, harmonised with plans for environmental management at national, regional, departmental, municipal and local level, which allows for the protection of both the biodiversity, its basins, soils and subsoils, and also guarantees human beings, communities and peoples, as subjects of rights (economic, social, cultural and environmental) and special protection, as well as guaranteeing their permanence as part of the cultural, social and economic heritage of the territory....D. PATHWAY FOR INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION...Rezoning with sustainable use zones for national natural parks with people and peasant housing for national natural parks (article 29 of the National Development Plan);Socio-economic reconstruction→Development or socio-economic reconstruction→Infrastructure and reconstructionD. PATHWAY FOR INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION...Contracting with Community Action Boards for the construction of secondary and tertiary roads.
- National economic plan
No specific mention.
- Natural resources
No specific mention.
- International funds
No specific mention.
- Business
- The above requires, inter alia:- Identify peasant economy projects in areas of the departments:...A. IMMEDIATE ACTIONS...Evaluate the possibility of a guarantee for the commercialisation of harvests (the table should be directed so that the AMNA buys what the farmers produce), farmers‘ markets as a mechanism to be able to commercialise and avoid intermediaries, agreement on fixed prices for both supplies and farmers’ products....2. Support the efforts of indigenous communities, which process coca, cannabis and give alternative use, to develop a meeting with the Ministry of Justice, DIAN, and Invima in order to strengthen these economic initiatives.
- Taxation
No specific mention.
- Banks
No specific mention.
Land, property and environment
- Land reform/rights
- Land, property and environment→Land reform/rights→Land reform and managementWe, the parties, are aware of the right of the communities to the agreement of plans for socio-environmental development of a sustainable nature, which requires a methodology of the Peace Dialogues Table that contemplates the participation of the grassroots organisations of the territory, with adequate time and commitments, that provides clarity on the right to land and on the sustainability of the plans that are built on the ground, within the framework of the agreements and protocols established by the parties.This special agreement will be developed as a component of sustainable development, harmonised with plans for environmental management at national, regional, departmental, municipal and local level, which allows for the protection of both the biodiversity, its basins, soils and subsoils, and also guarantees human beings, communities and peoples, as subjects of rights (economic, social, cultural and environmental) and special protection, as well as guaranteeing their permanence as part of the cultural, social and economic heritage of the territory....A. IMMEDIATE ACTIONS...proposals for land formalisation in Yarí and pilot plans for housing, electricity, etc....Establish reference coordinates and verify the number of hectares for land formalisation and coca substitution with the agrarian bank's credit programme....D. PATHWAY FOR INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION...Rezoning with sustainable use zones for national natural parks with people and peasant housing for national natural parks (article 29 of the National Development Plan);
- Pastoralist/nomadism rights
No specific mention.
- Cultural heritage
- Land, property and environment→Cultural heritage→PromotionThis special agreement will be developed as a component of sustainable development, harmonised with plans for environmental management at national, regional, departmental, municipal and local level, which allows for the protection of both the biodiversity, its basins, soils and subsoils, and also guarantees human beings, communities and peoples, as subjects of rights (economic, social, cultural and environmental) and special protection, as well as guaranteeing their permanence as part of the cultural, social and economic heritage of the territory.
- Environment
- The National Government and the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP ratify their interest in the protection of strategic ecosystems and their connectivities, which is why they express their decision to work for the containment of deforestation, sustainable development, and the guarantee of the rights of the populations that inhabit in the protected areas and zones of law 2 of 1959.We, the parties, are aware of the right of the communities to the agreement of plans for socio-environmental development of a sustainable nature, which requires a methodology of the Peace Dialogues Table that contemplates the participation of the grassroots organisations of the territory, with adequate time and commitments, that provides clarity on the right to land and on the sustainability of the plans that are built on the ground, within the framework of the agreements and protocols established by the parties.This special agreement will be developed as a component of sustainable development, harmonised with plans for environmental management at national, regional, departmental, municipal and local level, which allows for the protection of both the biodiversity, its basins, soils and subsoils, and also guarantees human beings, communities and peoples, as subjects of rights (economic, social, cultural and environmental) and special protection, as well as guaranteeing their permanence as part of the cultural, social and economic heritage of the territory....D. PATHWAY FOR INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION...Rezoning with sustainable use zones for national natural parks with people and peasant housing for national natural parks (article 29 of the National Development Plan);
- Water or riparian rights or access
No specific mention.
Security sector
- Security Guarantees
No specific mention.
- Ceasefire
No specific mention.
- Police
No specific mention.
- Armed forces
No specific mention.
- DDR
No specific mention.
- Intelligence services
No specific mention.
- Parastatal/rebel and opposition group forces
No specific mention.
- Withdrawal of foreign forces
No specific mention.
- Corruption
No specific mention.
- Crime/organised crime
- D. PATHWAY FOR INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION...- Review the status of roads for territorial plans and those associated with deforestation and illegal activities.
- Drugs
No specific mention.
- Terrorism
No specific mention.
Transitional justice
- Transitional justice general
No specific mention.
- Amnesty/pardon
No specific mention.
- Courts
No specific mention.
- Mechanism
No specific mention.
- Prisoner release
No specific mention.
- Vetting
No specific mention.
- Victims
No specific mention.
- Missing persons
No specific mention.
- Reparations
No specific mention.
- Reconciliation
No specific mention.
Implementation
- UN signatory
- Accompanying persons:Raúl Rosende, Delegate of the Special Representative of the General Secretary of the United Nations in Colombia
- Other international signatory
- Signed the guarantors as witnesses and depositaries:Armando Franchi, Counsellor Embassy Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaLouise Wilson, Deputy Head of Mission Embassy of IrelandPhillip Lustenberger, Special Envoy, Swiss ConfederationDag Nagoda, Minister Counsellor, Embassy of the Kingdom of NorwayAccompanying persons:...Edelma Gómez, Mission to Support the Peace Process of the Organisation of American States (MAPP-OEA)...Humberto Martín Shikiya, Representative World Council of Churches
- Referendum for agreement
No specific mention.
- International mission/force/similar
No specific mention.
- Enforcement mechanism
No specific mention.
- Related cases
No specific mention.
- Source
No specific mention.
Source agreement
PEACE DIALOGUES TABLE BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA AND THE CENTRAL GENERAL STAFF OF THE FARC-EP
SPECIAL AGREEMENT ON TERRITORIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN CAQUETÁ, META AND GUAVIARE
The National Government and the Central General Staff of the FARC-EP ratify their interest in the protection of strategic ecosystems and their connectivities, which is why they express their decision to work for the containment of deforestation, sustainable development, and the guarantee of the rights of the populations that inhabit in the protected areas and zones of law 2 of 1959.
We, the parties, are aware of the right of the communities to the agreement of plans for socio-environmental development of a sustainable nature, which requires a methodology of the Peace Dialogues Table that contemplates the participation of the grassroots organisations of the territory, with adequate time and commitments, that provides clarity on the right to land and on the sustainability of the plans that are built on the ground, within the framework of the agreements and protocols established by the parties.
This special agreement will be developed as a component of sustainable development, harmonised with plans for environmental management at national, regional, departmental, municipal and local level, which allows for the protection of both the biodiversity, its basins, soils and subsoils, and also guarantees human beings, communities and peoples, as subjects of rights (economic, social, cultural and environmental) and special protection, as well as guaranteeing their permanence as part of the cultural, social and economic heritage of the territory.
The above requires, inter alia:
- Identify peasant economy projects in areas of the departments:
Guaviare, Meta and Caquetá.
Organise dialogue with interested families and communities.
- Participatory criteria, with autonomy, pluralism, constructive relations with institutions and those in charge of plans and projects in government entities.
- Form a joint commission for the processes
- Programme of meetings and visits
- Route of work
A. IMMEDIATE ACTIONS
1. Integral experience in Yarí:
proposals for land formalisation in Yarí and pilot plans for housing, electricity, etc.
Experience of sustainable livestock farming with genetic improvement and stabilisation or reconversion in Yarí, Meta and Guaviare (pilot plans in these departments).
Promote a proposal for a cold storage and pasteurisation plant in San Vicente del Caguán.
Establish reference coordinates and verify the number of hectares for land formalisation and coca substitution with the agrarian bank's credit programme.
On this point, the agrarian judges can provide a solution.
Evaluate the possibility of a guarantee for the commercialisation of harvests (the table should be directed so that the AMNA buys what the farmers produce), farmers‘ markets as a mechanism to be able to commercialise and avoid intermediaries, agreement on fixed prices for both supplies and farmers’ products.
Biodigesters and pigsties.
2. Support the efforts of indigenous communities, which process coca, cannabis and give alternative use, to develop a meeting with the Ministry of Justice, DIAN, and Invima in order to strengthen these economic initiatives.
B. IMMEDIATE ACTIVITIES:
1.
- Meeting with agriculture min and environment min, PNN ANT and ADR - 8, 9 and 10 April San Vicente del Caguán
- 10 April visit to the ZRC Lozada Guayabero- Yarí
- Participatory process
- Diagnosis:
- Conduct a study of the properties.
Characterisation
- Economic, social and legal assessment
- Formulation of project/sub-projects
- Cost and alternatives analysis.
- Action plan
2. Education.
Study a mechanism to formalise the boarding school in the Yari savannas with participation, community ownership and selection of teachers with the community.
Schedule visit and consult with education min.
Proposal of a University in Lozada Guayabero and technological education with a rural and environmental focus.
Study the proposal for an Amazonian Centre for technological training and revitalise the headquarters of the University of Amazonia.
Reform Decree 882 for teachers
C. IMMEDIATE ACTIVITIES:
1.
- Visits and Dialogues
- Meeting with education min in Bogotá in April
- Shared projects evaluation
- Participatory route
- Consultation with institutions
- Dialogue between organisations and leaders driving the projects
- Formulation of projects
- Social and legal assessment
- Cost and alternatives analysis
- Action plan
3. Reforestation.
Ongoing initiatives of Forestry Development Nuclei and hold an upcoming technical meeting with officials from the environment min.
To have an explanation of the Fund for Life and Biodiversity, credit and promotion policies.
Seek diagnoses and projects for the viability of productive reconversion from academic and scientific entities;
support the genetic banks that currently exist.
Advance in contracting with JACs and associations within the existing regulatory frameworks.
Among the areas for forest development are, in Caquetá:
Solano, Ilusión, El Camuya, Ciudad Yari, Cuemaní, Bajo Caguán, and the area between the left bank of the Caguán river and the Tunia river.
In Guaviare:
Agua Bonita, Los Puertos, Charras, Nueva Ilusión, Miraflores, Nueva York.
Chuapal - Manavires, , Angolet, In Meta:
Mapirián, ZRC Güejar - Cafre de Puerto Rico, Vista Hermosa, others to be added.
4. Activities.
- Technical meeting with environment min.
- Evaluation of ongoing initiatives in Guaviare and Caquetá
- Consultative process
- Synthesis of projects
- Action plan
5. National Parks.
To have an exchange with those responsible for the PNN in the region on environmental management and the socio-economic activity of the small producers who live there.
Activities.
- Meeting with PNN - April
- Participatory process in Parks
- Proposal agreement
- Action plan
6. Demonstrative experience in coca farming areas to promote sustainable, eco-silvopastoral and agro-ecological economies.
- Identification of areas.
- Diagnostic and consultative process
- Formulation of projects
- Action plan
7. Health:
Hospital resources.
Primary health care (San Vicente del Caguán and La Macarena).
Activities:
- Strengthening of hospital and health networks in municipalities with territorial transformation initiatives
- Targeting of resources already earmarked for these facilities
- Identification of sites for primary care
- Respect for the Medical Mission and to the access to medicines.
D. PATHWAY FOR INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION
Elaboration of framework document for consultation processes
Taking into account the following proposals:
Contracting with Community Action Boards for the construction of secondary and tertiary roads.
Specify the legally established routes.
Evaluate the situation of land for projects in relation to the various categories of Law 2a.
Rezoning with sustainable use zones for national natural parks with people and peasant housing for national natural parks (article 29 of the National Development Plan);
Legislative review and review of the National Parks System.
Watershed management.
- Review the status of roads for territorial plans and those associated with deforestation and illegal activities.
Government response on the Marginal de la Selva is requested.
- Define methodology to address land and rural reform proposals and immediate land access initiatives related to halting deforestation.
Includes zoning, roads, clean electrification.
- Work on a plan of immediate and other medium and long term actions.
Importance of a CONPES.
- National and international funding possibilities.
Creation of the necessary funds and sources.
- Creation of a bank of projects.
- Runways:
civil aeronautics.
A request must be made to formalise the runway for safe operation.
E. METHODOLOGICAL ROUTE:
Set up joint committee Today
Draft documents
Previous meetings Ministries, international community, scientific entities and comercialization San Vicente del Caguán (ARN, ADR, Parks/education/roads/Invías/Mines and Energy mk 27 Visit (Yarí- Lozada) or else 8, 9 and 10 April
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Signed at San José del Guaviare on 10 March 2024.
Signed by the parties:
Camilo González Posso
Coordinator
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Leopoldo Durán García
Head of Delegation of the Central General
Staff of the FARC-EP
PEACE DIALOGUES TABLE BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA AND THE CENTRAL GENERAL STAFF OF THE FARC-EP
Gloria Quinceno Acevedo
Peace Commissioner Advisor
National Government
Calarcá Córdoba
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Fabio Valencia Cossio
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Willy Romero
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Feliciano Valencia Medina
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Andrey Avendaño
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Luz Darí Landázuri Segura
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
José Tomás Ojeda
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
[No signature]
Carlos Murgas Guerrero
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
[No signature]
Javier 33
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Coronel (r) Genny Calvo Olmos
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Fernanda Briceño
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
PEACE DIALOGUES TABLE BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA AND THE CENTRAL GENERAL STAFF OF THE FARC-EP
Yesid Arteta Dávil
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Robinson Caicedo Ríos
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Oscar Gerardo Salazar Muñoz
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Sebastián Martínez
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Coronel (r) Luis Alfonso Novoa Díaz
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
Cipriano Cortés
Delegation of the Central
General Staff of the FARC-EP
Pedro Arenas
Delegation of the National Government
in the Peace Dialogues Table
PEACE DIALOGUES TABLE BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA AND THE CENTRAL GENERAL STAFF OF THE FARC-EP
Signed the guarantors as witnesses and depositaries:
Armando Franchi, Counsellor Embassy Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Louise Wilson, Deputy Head of Mission Embassy of Ireland
Phillip Lustenberger, Special Envoy, Swiss Confederation
Dag Nagoda, Minister Counsellor, Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway
Accompanying persons:
Raúl Rosende, Delegate of the Special Representative of the General Secretary of the United Nations in Colombia
Edelma Gómez, Mission to Support the Peace Process of the Organisation of American States (MAPP-OEA)
Padre Eliecer Soto Ardila, Representative Episcopal Conference of Colombia
Humberto Martín Shikiya, Representative World Council of Churches