Impact: Economic on family income, alternative to cultivation of illicit crops.

Goal: Support fishing activities and fisheries by promoting the planning and strengthening of fishing associations, through technical and organizational training with the aim of making it into a sustainable and profitable activity in the Putumayo.

Impact: Exploitation of the existing 250 hectares of water in the Central and Lower Putumayo.

Goal: Consolidate agricultural-production systems that generate income and tie the agricultural industry to marketing systems by strengthening the planning and organizational processes of micro-businesses. This would take into account already established systems that can market starch, pepper, palm heart, animal concentrates, rubber, Amazon fruit, medicinal and aromatic plants, African palm; and industrialize meat and milk products.

Impact: Positive mid and long -term impact by generating an agricultural-industry alternative for the development of the Department of the Putumayo.

Goal: Develop agricultural means for guaranteeing stable income for farmers and their communitie as well as food sources for the immediate future, consolidating legal production processes with temporary biannual, annual and minor species crops. 

Impact: Economic, immediate and important as it is part of the project tied to the voluntary eradication process.

The Department of the Putumayo doesn't have any potable water sources in any of its 13 municipalities. This project seeks to build a regional system of aqueducts to meet this need.

The project includes the design and construction of plans and programs of urban endowment in Puerto Asís, Mocoa, and Colón in the Department of the Putumayo. Said project will assist some 1,000 displaced families in the coca zones, and includes the acquisition of urban land, the design and construction of urban roads, the supply of potable water, sewer lines, electrical lines and construction of 60 meter square dwellings in the above mentioned cities.

The project includes the design of sub transmission lines, substations, environmental impact studies, and construction, expansion, and remodeling of networks ,lines and substations to interconnect the rural areas of the Central and Lower Putumayo, and to upgrade the energy service to the Upper Putumayo, Puerto Guzman, and Puerto Leguízamo.

This project, of worldwide impact, demands immediate execution. The improvement and paving of the road between Pasto, Mocoa and Puerto Asis, —200 kilometers long (including the construction of the Encano- Santiago branch and the San Francisco- Mocoa branch,) will allow the 4,500 Kilometer (2,813 miles) INTERMODAL ROAD TUMACO- PUTUMAYO- MANAOS to become a new international trade route with the support of the International Community. The institutional framework, which will operate the Via Intermodal, will be negotiated between the countries of the region (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil) and the Project Investors.

This project funds the departmental roads of the Putumayo with the goal of enabling the farmers to sell their agricultural products in the marketing centers, minimizing the transport costs and facilitating regional commerce.

Goal: To offer quality, capable health services to the population in a timely manner. The project seeks to strengthen the infrastructure and endowment of State Health Institutions, such as the construction and endowment of the Hospitals of Orito, Pto Leguízamo, La Hormiga (Valle del Guamuéz), La Dorada (San Miguel), Pto. Caicedo, Pto Guzman, and Colón; the Health Centers and Posts; and the Departmental Laboratory.

Goal: To make use of public utility environmental and cartographic information. This is on a scale of 1:25,000. In order to make decisions in the region, it is important to identify the agro-ecological zones on a scale of 1:10,000 and adjust the plans of territorial arrangement.

Impact: Organization and application methods for geo-referenced information systems in the districts. The systems contain information on the state of renewable natural resources, and the knowledge of how to establish sustainable productive systems. Application time: 1 year.

Goal: Increase the capacity of the UMATAS (Municipal Units of Technical Assistance) to offer technical advice to small and medium sized producers, in order to diminish the pressure of deforestation on the natural forest due to the expansion of illegal crops.

Impact: Economic on family incomes, an alternative to cultivation of illicit crops and the consolidation of a development model in harmony with bio physical and cultural conditions in the region within the framework of clean production policies.

Goal: Recover 15,000 hectares in debased areas, by strengthening secondary forests and high stubble through economic incentives that motivate the families of the jungle to participate in the recovery and sustainable use of the land. Provide training in environmental methods and reduction of carbon emissions.

Impact: Economically important and positive, considering that the proposal of the project not only recovers the forests and stubble, but provides the wood cutters of the region with an alternative for making sustainable use of the forest resources in the long temr. Another contribution of the project is related to stabilization of the colonized areas. 

Time covered: 6 years.

Goal: for Amazon products to be competitive in the national and international market.

Impact: Economic and social; providing work for families situated in areas of illicit crops.

The damages caused to the jungle by the coca trade are great. To recover and conserve the Amazon jungle as a safeguard for our survival is one of the fundamental tasks my adminstration. To this end, the Putumayo requests research programs and plans from the International Community, in order to stop the destruction of the jungle while allowing the peaceful survival of the inhabitants of the Putumayo, through the sustainable use of the forest itself.

This project contemplates the recovery of the district canals and drainage systems and includes recovery actions that address micro basis through reforestation.

Goal: Train all of the educators of the Department in experiential teaching of peaceful coexistence. Include the educational establishments in the PEI and support the departmental NGOs and citizen initiatives in peace and coexistence processes, and in the formation of values.

Goal: Achieve wide-spread participation of the departmental and local government, and of the departmental community in public audiences addressing national and international issues that involve the Putumayo; and organize forums that teach about the natural riches of the Putumayo and its geo strategic importance.

Goal: Coordinate a program of permanent assistance for the victims of child abuse and family violence, at the request of the government, with national and international NGOs.

Goal: Develop educational programs on the rights of ethnic groups and analyze the effects of the armed conflict.

Goal: Obtain institutional support to design and execute a program of psychological recovery and form a network of social workers properly trained in the overall war-shock treatments.

Goal: Strengthen and develop educational programs in Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the Department of the Putumayo, with the support of the government, the international community, and civil society.

Goal: Implement an investigative unit and an early warning system to promote and defend Human Rights and IHL, and to anticipate and prevent the risks that affect the community. Promote the creation of an investigation commission and follow up the cases of Human Rights and IHL abuses.

Goal: Implement and attain inter-institutional coordination of effective mechanisms for protecting those who denounce Human Rights abuses, and their families.

Goal: Obtain counseling and resources to implement an information system on Human Rights and IHL violations.

Goal: Obtain national and international resources in order to organize a bank of projects on Human Rights and IHL with the aim of building sound basis for reconciliation, coexistence and peace in the department.

Goal: Obtain the resources required to develop global plans for the peoples displaced and/or uprooted by the effects of the fumigations.

Goal: Participate directly and indirectly in the decisions that the national government makes regarding the people displaced, uprooted and affected by armed confrontations and fumigation.

Goal: Design and implement an agreement between the state, the civilian population of the Putumayo, armed actors, and the community of nations in order to define a policy of manual and voluntary eradication of coca cultivations.

Goal: Develop the coordination and necessary resources to implement contingency plans and the functioning of work groups for prevention and for maintenance of systems to give "early warning" signals.

Goal: Form a group to investigate customs, traditions and cultural values, and to implement a program and stimulate human values in the Department of the Putumayo.

Goal: Design and implement training programs on methodology and goals of participation and communal organization and towards strengthening collective leadership.