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10 July 2025
Colombia: confinement and mobility restrictions in Caquetá, Cauca, and Chocó
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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.
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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26 March 2025
Colombia: Dengue and yellow fever in Putumayo - key drivers and anticipated impacts for 2025
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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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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.
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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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06 August 2024
Colombia: drought and flooding in the Orinoquia region
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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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02 August 2024
Colombia: Flooding in La Mojana
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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.
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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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13 May 2024
Colombia: economic hardships and climate hazards in San Andrés
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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20 February 2024
Colombia: anticipated impact of wildfires
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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.
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12 February 2024
Colombia: humanitarian impacts in Amazonas department
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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.
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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.
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22 December 2023
Colombia-Ecuador: Crisis to watch at the border
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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.
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07 December 2023
Colombia: escalation of armed violence in Cauca
DOCUMENT / PDF / 911 KB
This report aims to provide elements for understanding the violence escalation afflicting Cauca department in 2023 and to highlight the associated protection risks.
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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.
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24 October 2023
Colombia: increased armed violence in Argelia, Cauca
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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).
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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.