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Colombia: confinement and mobility restrictions in Caquetá, Cauca, and Chocó

10 July 2025

Colombia: confinement and mobility restrictions in Caquetá, Cauca, and Chocó

DOCUMENT / PDF / 2 MB

This report analyses the humanitarian impact of confinement and mobility restrictions through an intersectional and multicausal lens, with a particular focus on ethnicity, gender, and age among affected communities.

Conflict and violenceProtection
Colombia: anticipated implications of US stop-work orders and cuts

16 April 2025

Colombia: anticipated implications of US stop-work orders and cuts

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This report analyses the current and potential implications of the US funding freeze and stop-work orders on humanitarian operations and needs in Colombia. It aims to provide key stakeholders with an accessible overview of emerging operational and strategic challenges.
 

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Colombia: Dengue and yellow fever in Putumayo - key drivers and anticipated impacts for 2025

26 March 2025

Colombia: Dengue and yellow fever in Putumayo - key drivers and anticipated impacts for 2025

DOCUMENT / PDF / 2 MB

This report analyses the anticipated humanitarian impacts of a potential increase in dengue and yellow fever cases in Putumayo during 2025. It analyses how key drivers, structural vulnerabilities, and aggravating factors could shape the spread of these vector-borne diseases (VBDs) and their humanitarian impacts in this scenario. 

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Colombia: Yellow fever outbreak in Tolima

05 February 2025

Colombia: Yellow fever outbreak in Tolima

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Yellow fever is endemic throughout most of Colombia, except for high-altitude areas in the Andean region. This makes the emergence of the disease in the region remarkable. 

Health
Colombia: Individual displacement in Bogotá, Buenaventura, Florencia and Ocaña

02 December 2024

Colombia: Individual displacement in Bogotá, Buenaventura, Florencia and Ocaña

DOCUMENT / PDF / 7 MB

This report aims to assess the needs of IDPs experiencing individual displacement because of conflict in Colombia, with a specific focus on the municipalities of Bogotá, Buenaventura, Florencia, and Ocaña.

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Colombia: drought and flooding in the Orinoquia region

06 August 2024

Colombia: drought and flooding in the Orinoquia region

DOCUMENT / PDF / 635 KB

The onset of El Niño in Colombia in November 2023 led to dry conditions in the Orinoquia region. These conditions resulted in food insecurity, water shortages and rationing, and wildfires, affecting an estimated 195,000 people, predominantly in Arauca department.

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Colombia: Flooding in La Mojana

02 August 2024

Colombia: Flooding in La Mojana

DOCUMENT / PDF / 1 MB

Since 2021, La Mojana has experienced recurrent flooding; the Cara de Gato dam in San Jacinto del Cauca municipality, Bolívar department, has broken down on several occasions under heavy rains and high river discharge in the subregion.

Natural hazards
Colombia: increased forced displacement in Neiva

24 June 2024

Colombia: increased forced displacement in Neiva

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Since the beginning of 2024, as a result of escalating conflict and violence, the Neiva municipality has seen an influx of IDPs from surrounding municipalities, 95% of whom have been forcibly displaced. 

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Colombia: economic hardships and climate hazards in San Andrés

13 May 2024

Colombia: economic hardships and climate hazards in San Andrés

DOCUMENT / PDF / 874 KB

This report aims to inform humanitarian programming in Colombia, including ACAPS’s donors, to anticipate the potential developments derived from the compounding of climate hazards and economic vulnerability. 

EconomyNatural hazards
Colombia: confinements and mobility restrictions in Chocó, Nariño and Arauca

02 May 2024

Colombia: confinements and mobility restrictions in Chocó, Nariño and Arauca

DOCUMENT / PDF / 8 MB

This report aims to decipher the humanitarian impacts of confinements and mobility restrictions in Colombia, incorporating an intersectional approach that considers the gender and ethnic backgrounds of the affected people. 

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Colombia: Child recruitment and use

15 April 2024

Colombia: Child recruitment and use

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This report analyses the current situation of child recruitment and use by NSAGs and organised crime groups in the Colombian departments of Antioquia, Chocó, and Norte de Santander.

Protection
Colombia: food security crisis in Vichada department

07 March 2024

Colombia: food security crisis in Vichada department

DOCUMENT / PDF / 1 MB

Vichada department is facing a critical food security crisis, with climate change and the El Niño phenomenon affecting local food production and availability. Poor infrastructure, hindering access to public services, and the reliance on traditional farming methods, hampering farmers’ ability to sell their produce and generate income, have deepened the crisis. 

Food security & livelihoods
Colombia: anticipated impact of wildfires

20 February 2024

Colombia: anticipated impact of wildfires

DOCUMENT / PDF / 645 KB

Since the start of January 2024, multiple wildfires have raged in a number of Colombia’s departments. As at 26 January, the fires had ravaged approximately 17,000 hectares, with no information available on the number of people injured.

Anticipatory analysisNatural hazards
Colombia: humanitarian impacts in Amazonas department

12 February 2024

Colombia: humanitarian impacts in Amazonas department

DOCUMENT / PDF / 4 MB

This report aims to explain elements necessary to understanding the humanitarian crisis in Colombia’s Amazonas department, with a specific focus on the impacts on the indigenous population. 

Colombia: impact of El Niño on Magdalena Medio region

24 January 2024

Colombia: impact of El Niño on Magdalena Medio region

DOCUMENT / PDF / 424 KB

Since August 2023, below-average precipitation resulting from El Niño has affected Colombia’s Caribbean and Andean regions, as well as some departments in the Pacific and eastern areas. Temperature and precipitation anomalies are expected to continue during the first quarter of 2024.

Natural hazards
Colombia-Ecuador: Crisis to watch at the border

22 December 2023

Colombia-Ecuador: Crisis to watch at the border

DOCUMENT / PDF / 2 MB

This report provides an overview of two key humanitarian crises in the Colombia-Ecuador border area that are expected to persist in the next 6–12 months. Specifically, the report presents an overview and an outlook of the humanitarian impact of armed violence and migration flows on the civilian population in the region.

Colombia: escalation of armed violence in Cauca

07 December 2023

Colombia: escalation of armed violence in Cauca

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This report aims to provide elements for understanding the violence escalation afflicting Cauca department in 2023 and to highlight the associated protection risks.

Conflict and violenceProtection
Colombia: food insecurity in Alta Guajira region

27 October 2023

Colombia: food insecurity in Alta Guajira region

DOCUMENT / PDF / 770 KB

La Guajira is the Colombian department with the highest food insecurity prevalence based on 2022 estimates. In 2022, a lack of economic resources resulted in 59.7% (623,000 people) of the department’s households reducing the quantity and quality of their meals, while 17.5% (183,000 people) had at least one person going without food for at least a day.

Food security & livelihoods
Colombia: increased armed violence in Argelia, Cauca

24 October 2023

Colombia: increased armed violence in Argelia, Cauca

DOCUMENT / PDF / 389 KB

The situation in Argelia municipality, in southwestern Cauca department of Colombia, has been critical since August 2023 because of clashes between the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) and the Colombian army. The EMC is an alliance of various dissident armed groups from the demobilised Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP). 

Conflict and violence
Colombia: increase in refugee and migrant numbers in Necoclí

22 September 2023

Colombia: increase in refugee and migrant numbers in Necoclí

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Necoclí is one of the main transit points for those heading to the Darien jungle through Acandí and Capurgana, generating problems such as overcrowding, a lack of resources, and violence in the municipality. The presence of the Gaitanist Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AGC) aggravates this situation.

DisplacementMixed migration