between the response to the displaced and refugee population's basic needs, which meant emphasising humanitarian actions, and the consolidation of strategies of lobbying, protection, organisation and strengthening of the civilian population affected by the war in the zones of conflict as a path for
reconstructing the social fabric and projects of collective life.

• Challenges.-

PCS Colombia is opting for a perspective of action from the side of the victims understood as individual and collective social subjects. It proposes to promote the strengthening of their organisations, capacities and leaderships so they can assume protagonist roles.

PCS Colombia proposes to develop a model of humanitarian attention and social reconstruction that will have an impact on surmounting the limitations of the current state model of attention. It will promote effective, coordinated and sustainable strategies of prevention, protection, transition, return and reestablishment of the communities under conditions of security, dignity and free will. The Project Counselling Service is clear that developing these activities will not supplant the Colombian state's primary responsibility and that it must also promote the capacity of Colombian society itself to move beyond the effects of the armed conflict.

In response to a systematic violation of human rights and international humanitarian law by the state and the armed groups and to the high rates of impunity, PCS Colombia believes it necessary to support proposals aimed at reducing impunity and making progress in requiring respect for human rights understood holistically. We support the actions of counterparts and sectors of civil society to raise the political costs to the diverse state agents and insurgents of their repeated attacks on the civilian population, human rights workers, social movements and political expressions. We encourage the international community and Colombian society to exercise vigilance and develop social and citizen control mechanisms for the enjoyment of rights.

Given that women are the most affected by the social and armed conflict and the internal and cross-border displacement, PCS Colombia must back social struggles for equality and gender equity. It must put greater emphasis on making this situation visible and support initiatives to strengthen the capacities, leadership and political positioning of the proposals by women's groups in building relations of equity and respect for their rights.

an rights. The dynamic of the conflict and the behaviour of the actors generate scepticism in the international community that could lead to a distancing of the support for the still incipient negotiation processes. PCS believes that the international community's commitment to a presence and accompaniment could be stimulated with qualified programs that are coherent with the characteristics and magnitude of the humanitarian and human rights crisis with human, technical and financial resources, dialogue and ongoing advocacy with the state and other actors in the conflict, criteria of co-ordinated efforts and complementary actions.

• Sub Programs.-

Uraba-Atrato-Cordoba.- The Program is made up of four geographic sub-regions (Urabá Chocoano, Urabá Antioqueño, Medio Atrato and Córdoba) in which three differentiated population groups (Black communities, Indigenous Peoples and mestizo population) live and have formed five civil resistance processes (the Peace Community of San José de Apartado, the Community of Life, Self-Determination and Dignity of Cacarica - Cavida; the Peace Communities of Riosucio and Carmen del Darién, Indigenous Autonomy processes of OIA and OREWA and black community processes of Medio Atrato, ACIA). The sub-regions have major commercial and political nexuses, great natural wealth and a privileged geopolitical position, but also have major cultural and demographic differences as well as differences in administrative structures, services, economies, influence of diverse actors and migration and repopulation histories.

Northeast.- For the PCS program, the Northeast includes three sub-regions: 1) Catatumbo-Border with Venezuela in Norte de Santander, which includes Cúcuta, Ocaña and some provinces of Santander; 2) Magdalena Medio, which extends from Sur de Cesar and Sur de Bolívar to the municipality of Puerto Nare Antioquia, including Barrancabermeja; 3) Bucaramanga and the municipalities of its metropolitan area, regional epicentre in the economic and political dynamic, main receiving centre of the displaced population of the northeast.

Bogota.- The PCS Bogotá Subprogram and the municipality of Soacha are seeking to facilitate processes of temporary resettlement of the displaced population, while not losing sight of the possibility of RETURN. In doing so, we support and advise those projects which focus in a holistic manner on humanitarian aid as well as the strengthening of organizational processes and interactions between displaced communities. This is done by way of supporting those who emphasize on promoting urban social processes in the framework of economic, social and cultural rights and civil society initiatives supporting peace and human rights.

We are also emphasizing on political advocacy with local authorities, which seeks to pressurize local government to comply with norms and standards concerning internal displacement as well as design and implement Holistic Plans of Attention.

National Arena and South of the Country.- In the national arena, PCS Colombia has promoted a series of actions aimed at strengthening arenas of co-ordination, networks and the construction of agendas on displaced and refugee issues, human rights, gender and peace. It has also developed strategies for advocacy and lobbying at the level of the Colombian State, civil society organisations and international agencies for the construction of holistic policies to deal with displacement and refugee issues, human rights and peace.

Borders.- PCS sees the situation and dynamic of the borders in the Amazon Andean sub-region worsening because that is where the traditional spaces of national military security are found, with the theme of the new threats for the states as a product of the new vision/mission being designed from outside the region (the United States) and the effects of phenomena such as Plan Colombia, the Andean Regional Initiative, the in country armed conflict in Colombia, drug trafficking, migrations, etc.