HUMANITARIAN NEEDS & KEY FIGURES
Colombia faces persistent humanitarian and protection needs as a result of the impact of armed conflict and violence.
Ongoing peace talks between the Government and the FARCEP and exploratory dialogues with the ELN represent a major opportunity to put an end to 50 years of conflict. Nonetheless, negotiations are being held in the midst of hostilities and other sources of violence such as the post-demobilization armed groups (PDAGs) pose increasing humanitarian and protection challenges. Land distribution inequality, drug trafficking, illegal mining and other illegal economies, limited State presence in remote areas, poor socioeconomic opportunities in rural isolated areas and new dynamics of violence in urban centres are among the main drivers of the conflict in Colombia. Despite increased national prevention and response efforts, there are still unmet humanitarian needs for women, men, adolescents, girls and boys, and new victims of violence and natural disasters in need of assistance.
Response gaps are particularly severe in the hardest hit municipalities which are often in hard to access rural areas and urban areas controlled by non-state armed groups