Post-Clearance Assessment: Nariño and La Unión, Antioquia Department, Colombia - A project funded by the US Department of State
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Executive summary
The following report summarizes the key findings of the post-clearance assessment of the municipalities of Nariño and La Unión in the department of Antioquia, Colombia conducted by The HALO Trust in partnership with Professors Raúl Castro Rodríguez and Jorge A. Rueda, of the Universidad de los Andes Economics Department, Bogotá between 2019 and 2020.
Thanks to $161,300 of funding provided by The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S.
State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (PM/WRA), HALO was able to return to the first municipalities declared as landmine free by a civilian organization in Colombia, to conduct an in-depth investigation into the causal link between HALO’s humanitarian mine clearance activities, supported by The Department of State (DOS) from 2013 to 2016, and socio-economic development in both municipalities.