[{"bbox": [86, 153, 247, 177], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Key stakeholders"}, {"bbox": [86, 191, 1144, 270], "category": "Text", "text": "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has led the formulation of public policy for the integration of migrants and plays a leading role in its coordination. Migración Colombia, as the Colombian State's migration and foreigner's surveillance and control entity, will be a key actor."}, {"bbox": [86, 283, 1144, 441], "category": "Text", "text": "For the budget support component, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism and Social Prosperity are key stakeholders. The Ministry and its affiliated entity Innpulsa implement the national entrepreneurship policy, which, in the framework of the ongoing budget support \"Green Economy\" is making progress to promote entrepreneurship among the migrant population. Social Prosperity promotes social inclusion policies and develops innovative mechanisms for the labour inclusion of vulnerable populations, which is supported by Colombia's National Training Service (SENA) for labour training and certification."}, {"bbox": [86, 454, 1144, 535], "category": "Text", "text": "The Ministry of Labour, responsible for the Employment Agencies and the Technical Vocational Training Centres; the National Planning Department as responsible for the Colombian Observatory on Migration from Venezuela of the DNP (OMV) and for monitoring and evaluating the progress and impact of public policies"}, {"bbox": [86, 547, 1144, 600], "category": "Text", "text": "Finally local governments, the private sector and civil society organisations (including diaspora organisations), which play a key role in the implementation of policies, programmes and projects at the local level."}, {"bbox": [86, 614, 495, 640], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.3 Additional Areas of Assessment"}, {"bbox": [86, 656, 296, 684], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 2.3.1 Public Policy"}, {"bbox": [86, 698, 1144, 827], "category": "Text", "text": "Since 2010, Colombia has been facing migratory flows from Venezuela, which have intensified as a result of the political and economic crisis in the neighbouring country. The national government has taken great care to create and implement public policies aimed at the reception and integration of the migrant population. These policies have made migration more flexible and have helped the government to adapt its institutions and create coordination bodies for their due attention."}, {"bbox": [86, 842, 1144, 1054], "category": "Text", "text": "In November 2018, Policy CONPES 3950 \"Strategy for Attention to Migration from Venezuela\" was issued based on an initial assessment of the migratory phenomenon. It established the objectives of the reception and integration policies and the main government entities responsible for carrying them out. It also laid out the medium-term roadmap for the care of the Venezuelan migrant population. Since the adoption of this policy, the country has achieved significant progress in terms of the needs of the migrant population, medium-term integration and inter-institutional coordination. The implementation of the Temporary Protection Status (Decree 216/2021) allowed the regularisation of this population for a period of 10 years. The status facilitates the migrant population's access to basic health and education services, as well as being a fundamental milestone for their social, economic and cultural integration."}, {"bbox": [86, 1067, 1144, 1253], "category": "Text", "text": "Despite the positive results and achievements of CONPES 3950, there was a clear need to deepen the policy intervention with a focus on long-term sustainable integration as a factor of development for the country and to ensure that the institutional response favours both the migrant and host communities. As a result, CONPES Policy 4100 \"Strategy for the Integration of the Venezuelan Migrant Population as a Factor of Development for the Country\" was approved in July 2022, with an implementation period of 10 years and an estimated indicative investment of 2.9 billion euros. This policy aims to create a 10-year roadmap to ensure the sustainability of the integration of the migrant population. Its main purpose is for migration to become a driver of development and growth for Colombia."}, {"bbox": [86, 1265, 1144, 1397], "category": "Text", "text": "The monitoring of the material and financial implementation of the policy is done through the policy's Monitoring and Action Plan (MAP). This document indicates the institutions responsible for each action, their implementation periods, the resources needed and available to carry them out, and the importance of each action for the fulfilment of the overall policy objective. Its monitoring is planned on a semi-annual basis, starting its report in December 2022 and ending with the closing report with a cut-off date of December 31, 2032."}, {"bbox": [86, 1410, 1144, 1596], "category": "Text", "text": "In September 2021, the Office for the Attention and Socioeconomic Integration of the Migrant Population (OASIMP) was established with the role of coordinating and supporting the competent bodies at the national and local levels for the socioeconomic and productive integration of migrants. This office made significant progress in terms of coordinating state intervention, as well as in the implementation of funds from different sources. With the support of the EU, this office coordinated the efforts with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Social Prosperity, the Ministry of Labour and the National Learning Service (SENA) to promote socio-economic integration programmes for migrants through entrepreneurship and employment. The Office also promoted the creation of the so-called"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1144, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 32"}]