Strengthening the Sistema de Iniciativas de Paz Colombia (SIP)

After almost 60-years of internal conflict, Colombia faces the complex task of rebuilding society and civic life and ongoing challenges related to narcotics production and trafficking, the assassination of civil society leaders, and threats from non-state armed groups.

The IAF?s strategy emphasizes opportunities for citizen participation in advancing the goals of the 2016 Peace Accord, which is gaining urgency with only a few years left for the government of Colombia to deliver on them.

The Sistema de Iniciativas de Paz (SIP)?a network of current and former IAF grantees promoting peace?is playing a role in sharing peacebuilding practices, positioning grassroots priorities for this last phase of implementation, and building social fabric among disparate actors.

The SIP is consolidating and strengthening its institutional framework in order to better serve its organizational members and influence national and local peacebuilding efforts in Colombia.