Projects

Partners

Annual Spend

Anticipated Outcome

Results to Date

Start Date

End Date

1) Impunity

UN Office of Drugs and Crime, Legal Assistance Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean

Year 1 - £20,887

Year 2 - £25,477 (estimated)

Joint training team set up between UNODC, the Army and the Prosecution Service.

Diagnosis on main problems and needs in evidence conservation.

A training curriculum designed for the Army by training team.

Training in chain of custody and the new criminal accusatorial system in military units.

A full monitoring and evaluation report of training workshops with specific recommendations for each of the involved institutions.

Implementation handbook for institutions.

Each organisation nominated one person to represent them in the working group; Memorandum of Understanding signed by all parties.

A “participants' profile” drafted, ensuring focus on the right target group.

Training curriculums completed

Monitoring and evaluation reports completed

July 2008

March 2009

2) Military Justice Reform

See project 6

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3) Forced Disappearances

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) / Legal Assistance Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAPLAC)/

NGO EQUITAS

£57,992 (estimated)

Setting up of a working group between UNODC and the Prosecution Service.

Case management tool adjusted to forced disappearance cases.

Protocol implementation guide drafted for replication nation-wide.

Project on-going.

The National Commission for Missing Persons appointed officials to the already existing working group for each of the following institutions: Vice-presidency, Public Defence, Attorney Office and Ministry of Defence.

Working group is drafting the curriculum of the training based on the previous experience of the National Commission for Missing Persons.

1 July 2008

31 December 2009

4a) Investigative Journalism - Free Press

Medios para la Paz Corporation (Corporación Medios para la Paz), Peace Program - Cinep (Programa por la Paz - Cinep), and Javeriana University (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana).

£71,402 (estimate)

Capacity built for the “Colombian reporters” network in investigative journalism and a responsible journalistic coverage of the armed conflict and peace processes.

Publication of high quality materials produced by “Colombian reporters” network through mainstream mass media.

“Colombian reporters” network strengthened and sustainable organisational structure in place.

Project on-going

April 2009

March 2011 (estimated)

4b) FOI in Colombia

NGO Transparencia por Colombia

£144,506

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Output 1. One (1) measurement on the levels of access to information and transparency of 162 national public institutions, 22 main Colombian municipalities and 54 municipal and provincial Comptrollers offices conducted and analysed.

Output 2. Set of 5 reports on the current state-of-affairs in terms of the application of access to information standards by public entities, as follows: One for national executive branch, one for the Judicial Branch, one for the Legislative Branch, one for the Comptrollers' Service, and one for municipal and provincial authorities.

Output 3. One national report on recommendations for access to information policies, with specific chapters for the National executive level, Judicial Branch, Legislative Branch, Control Institutions, and sub-national governments, based on the results collected in output 1 and 2.

Output 4. Formation of an access to information alliance that increases the demand for public information and transparency to State institutions and that better positions the issue in the public agenda.

Output 5. Design and implementation of a self-evaluation application for public agencies in the national level that facilitates the knowledge of public servants on Access to Information legislation and institutionalises monitoring and evaluation of access to information levels, within the framework of an agreement with the Colombian government.

Project on-going

April 2009

March 2011 (estimated)

5) Ombudsman and IDP

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

£102,212 (estimate)

Output 1. The Ombudsman's Office (OO) has produced an inventory of agreements between the affected groups and the state regarding protection of the lands and properties in question.

Output 2. Ombudsman's reports and resolutions on the status of land rights in the selected areas, describing the strategy that will be implemented by the OO in housing, land and property (HLP) rights protection and restitution for the displaced population.

Output 3. Three pilot plans on land protection and restitution carried out by the Ombudsman's office, mainly through its public attorneys.

Output 4. Final report with recommendations that guide similar processes nation-wide.

Project on-going

August 2008

July 2010 (estimate)

6) Col MOD and HR

UK Security Sector Development Advisory Team

£30,000

Identify scale and causes of Extra Judicial Killings by Col Armed Forces

Assist Colombian MOD to reduce/ end Extra Judicial Killings

Assist Colombian Government to bring to justice those who commit Extra Judicial Killings and other HR abuses

Assist Colombian MOD to reduce HR / IHL abuses by incorporating HR and RoE into operational training and strengthening Leadership

Visits by SSDAT

Regular Dialogue with Colombian MOD leadership

A new `Comprehensive Human Rights and IHL Policy' published in late 2008

April 2008

March 2009

7) Prison Reform

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Colombia

£35,000

Document on the application of the Istanbul Protocol in the Colombian Criminal System, including policy recommendations and measures to secure sustainability of project's results for key institutions.

Output 1 - Module on investigation of torture elaborated in co-ordination with the United Nation High Commissionaire for Human Rights (UNHCHR) and the Criminal Training Academy of the Prosecution Service.

The module on investigation on torture was draft and revised by the international and national consultants

The Prosecutor's Training Academy already revised and comment on the moduleThe last draft will be ready for the end of March and approved in a joint meeting

Output 2 - Training capacity of the Academy's trainer network strengthened to implement the module. A national training network for the crime of torture was created and the network was trained in Bogotá. 51 officials participated and 47 were certified (27 prosecutors, 5 investigators of CTI, 3 doctors and 18 investigators of the National Police).A special agenda (2 days) was created for the network which included sessions on how to educate in human rights and practical exercises on international law, national law and physical consequences of torture.The trainers received materials for replicate the workshops and the module for give comments.

Output 3 - 200 key public servants from selected institutions trained at the central and regional levels in torture investigations.

Output 4 - 150 key public servants from the National Penitentiary Institute, the National Police, and the Armed Forces trained in special measures for torture prevention detection and disciplinary measure servants with focus on women, human rights defenders, and ethnic minorities.

Output 5 - 50 members and experts from specialised human rights NGOs (lawyers, psychologists, and doctors) trained on identification of torture as well as assistance to and assessment of victims and their families.

Output 6 - 1,000 copies of the Istanbul Protocol distributed to key entities in charge of the investigation of torture cases.

Output 7 - Document the application of the Istanbul Protocol in the Colombian criminal justice system, including policy recommendations and measures to secure sustainability of project's results for key institutions.

Additional Results:

The Ministry of International Relations of Colombia organized a symposium on the Prevention of Torture, where our experts were invited to present the project and the addiction Protocol of the UN Convention against Torture, which Colombia has not signed. Officers of the following institutions participated on the symposium: Attorney General, National Police, the Public Defence, National Army, the Prosecutor's Office, the National Penitentiary Institute, Institute of Medical Forensics, National Planning Department, Ministry of Interior and the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare.

The symposium counted with the presence of the UK Embassy in Colombia.

October 2008

March 2009