During a hearing held this week at the United Nations Council in New York, Colombia delivered the fourth version of the Voluntary National Report (RNV), which shows the country’s progress and challenges in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and On this occasion, it was highlighted that the country must give priority to advancing peace.
Alexander López, director of the National Planning Department, was the official in charge of this presentation, which began by highlighting Colombia’s commitment to fulfilling the SDG agenda, in which, according to his accounts, there has already been 58% progress. However, he was also emphatic in stating that until peace is achieved and gaps are closed throughout the national territory, it will be impossible to accelerate and sustain these advances.
Alexander López, Director of National Planning.
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This report also included a special reflection on the fight against hunger. and food security, where not only the progress of the Government of Change was shown, but the need to rethink traditional strategies and approaches adapted to the territorial and cultural realities of the country was raised.
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“One in four Colombian households suffers from moderate or severe food insecurity, especially affecting certain vulnerable groups. For this reason, one of our main objectives in the Government of Change is to ensure that no Colombian dies of hunger, a phenomenon that has a greater impact in areas where there are more conflicts and situations of poverty,” said the director of the DNP.
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Among the most relevant data provided by National Planning, It highlights that the country managed to get 338,000 people out of poverty and go from 28% to 26% in the percentage of the population that, due to lack of money, consumes less quantity or quality of food in 2023. Likewise, it was indicated that the transformation of the National Development Plan on the Human Right to Food advanced by 81.17% in the goals for the year 2023.
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During its presentation to the UN and the international community, Colombia made it clear that the country is committed to the sustainable development agenda that the world in general is promoting, but asked not to ignore the context in which its inhabitants live due to the armed conflict and warned that until If this is not overcome, it will not be possible to guarantee results that will last over time.
“Despite the progress, we still have significant challenges in areas such as poverty, inequality and hunger in the country and, therefore, until we achieve peace and close gaps throughout the national territory, it will be impossible to accelerate and sustain these advances,” said Alexander López during his speech.
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This character added that “in Colombia today a Government of Change leads, represented by all those who have been excluded from the public sphere for decades, for whom the main objectives are to achieve peace, overcome poverty and hunger, as well as conserve our biodiversity.”
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In this regard, he made it clear that the Voluntary National Report is the result of a collective construction through participatory workshops that allowed to identify the challenges that the country faces and to propose recommendations based on the perspective of indigenous populations, Afro-descendants, social organizations, farmers, NGOs, the private sector, academia and territorial authorities, as well as international organizations.
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According to the DNP, in the field of popular and community economy, 281,000 productive units were supported and 3,192 educational environments were improved in preschool, primary and secondary education for peace. In addition, 5,093 pension subsidies were granted to former community mothers and 2,523,085 families benefited from the Citizen Income Program.
In family agriculture, more than 700 plots of land were delivered and compensated by court order through the Land Restitution Unit, while in infrastructure and productive transformation, the intervention in regional roads and ancestral paths reached 80% of the 2023 goal, covering 59,382 km according to Invías.
Finally, the productive transformation and climate action of the National Development Plan advanced by 63.32% for the year 2023 and Finagro granted more than 448,000 credits to small low-income producers, and Innovative financing mechanisms were established that They distribute powers and sources between the Nation and territorial entities.
