This report provides an overview of the main protection concerns in Colombia. It exposes the main threats of armed conflict and its differentiated impact on the population. It presents by population group the community’s coping mechanisms and reactive responses to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from the various protection threats they are exposed to.

Between January–September 2022, more than 150,000 people crossed into Panama from Colombia through the Darién Gap. Although migrants have historically used the Darién route to reach Central America, the flow of migrants through this route considerably increased between 2021–2022. 

On 8 October, category one hurricane Julia swept through La Guajira department in northeastern Colombia. The hurricane affected over 159,000 people. Uribia municipality faced the highest impact with at least 22,000 people affected as at 8 October. 

This report aims to provide an overview of the displacement and confinement situation and the differentiated impact on indigenous peoples and Afrodescendant communities observed between January–August 2022. It presents the main conflict dynamics in the subregions of Telembí, Sanquianga, and Pacífico del Sur in Nariño department.

This report analyses events involving APMs and ERW in Colombia since the signing of the Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP in 2016 and their humanitarian impact. It also highlights the existing and growing risk of casualties from APMs and ERW

Putumayo, a department in southwest Colombia bordering Ecuador and Perú, is a strategic corridor for human trafficking, drug and arms trafficking, and resource extraction. Indigenous communities are especially at risk of confinement and limitations on their daily activities.

This report analyses how armed conflict in Colombia has affected children and youth. It looks at specific trends and conflict dynamics in the most conflict-affected departments. It also provides an overview of the general impacts of conflict and specific impacts of displacement and confinement.

ACAPS identified five risks to the humanitarian context and published an overview report in November 2021 looking at the following six months. After monitoring each risk and its corresponding indicators and reviewing any relevant developments since November, ACAPS analysts and technical experts were able to update the risk outlook, creating the basis for this risk update.

This document analyses forced confinement in Colombia, identifying the types of confinement, trends in various departments, and the most affected populations. It also shows the impact of confinements on communities, including the sociocultural impact. It is based on a review of secondary sources. Interviews with key informants provided additional information. 

This document analyses forced confinement in Colombia, identifying the types of confinement, trends in various departments, and the most affected populations. It also shows the impact of confinements on communities, including the sociocultural impact.

On 2 January 2022, confrontations began in rural areas along Arauca River on the Colombia-Venezuela border. As at 24 January, the Colombian Government and humanitarian organisations recorded 36 people killed, around 1,530 IDPs, 21 families displaced from Venezuela, and at least five indigenous communities still affected by confinement.

The analysis in this report is based on a review of secondary sources, such as early warnings from the Ombudsman’s Office of Colombia (Defensoría del Pueblo), media reports, databases of Colombian government institutions in charge of monitoring the armed conflict, reports from think tanks, and key informant interviews (KIIs) with humanitarian workers in Chocó.

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of local dynamics, humanitarian needs and the factors likely to aggravate them, and an outlook for the coming months in the departments of Meta and Guaviare. The analysis is based on secondary data and key informant interviews.

The department of La Guajira is located in the extreme north of Colombia. It has two rainy seasons during the year – one between April–May and the other between September–November. With a landscape of majorly clay loam soil, La Guajira is a department where increased rainfall frequently leads to flooding. 

This risk report seeks to inform humanitarian decision makers and facilitate response planning through an analysis of the following:

the possible evolution of the crisis dynamics in Colombia over the next six months; factors that may lead to changes in the humanitarian situation; and humanitarian needs that may arise if risks materialise.

This report is based on a review of secondary sources and key informant interviews. Although the focus of the analysis is on the humanitarian situation in the Telembí triangle, it is contextualised in the general dynamics of the Nariño department. 

On 27 August 2021, the Cauca River in the north of Colombia flooded, causing serious damage to five municipalities in La Mojana subregion. The flooding was a result of atypical rains during August and a rupture in a dam that functioned as a retaining wall for the river, affecting all municipalities of the subregion.

This report aims to provide elements for understanding violence in the Cauca department after the demobilisation of the FARC-EP and the humanitarian consequences of the new dynamics of the conflict.

This report is based on a secondary data review, supplemented by interviews with members of civil society, INGOs, and UN agencies. Although the issue of caminantes is understood to be a regional phenomenon that affects multiple countries, because of the availability of information the focus of this report is on Colombia and Venezuela. 

Reports of violence against civilians in Colombia have increased in 2020. As projected by ACAPS, armed groups and criminal organisations have taken advantage of COVID-19 containment measures to expand their territorial and social control, often by exploiting and inflicting violence on local communities.