During 2025, Action Against Hunger reached 110,599 people in the departments of Norte de Santander (Catatumbo region), Guajira, Chocó, Nariño, and Bogotá, in partnership with institutional actors and local grassroots organisations. Our response included WASH, nutrition, maternal and child health, FSL, and productivity activities.

In the face of humanitarian emergencies related to Colombia’s armed conflict, we responded to one of the country’s biggest emergencies where at least 65,000 people were displaced and confined in the department of Norte de Santander, during the first two months of the year. We supported approximately 55,000 people across most of the affected municipalities in Catatumbo, and maintained our response in this region throughout the year, ensuring the availability of basic services for populations with the greatest protection needs.

We used our InterSectoral Mechanism for Emergency Response and Early Recovery (MIRE+) to help with around 34 emergencies caused by confinement or forced displacement. Our rapid response teams worked in 46 municipalities nationwide, helping restore dignity and basic services for people most affected by the worsening humanitarian crisis. In 2025 we strengthened our work in Chocó by opening an office in Quibdó, moving towards a local operational model to support communities and increase stability.

We also worked with community councils and Indigenous and Afrodescendant groups in Chocó to improve water access and boost farming. Through the ADN Dignidad programme (with the Danish Refugee Council and the Norwegian Refugee Council, and others), we helped 2,170 migrants, returnees, and members of host communities to find jobs and start businesses by providing training and seed capital. Since 2022, more than $4 million has been allocated to these efforts, with around $220,704 of this invested this year alone.