The Mercy Corps DRI Algo Nuevo programme in phases I and II is a seven-year initiative (2018-2025), funded by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, which seeks to promote licit livelihoods, expand rural property rights and energise the economy in rural areas of the department of Cauca. The programme complements two of the key components of the 2016 Peace Accords, especially on issues of access to and use of land in the comprehensive rural reform and the substitution of illicit crops in the framework of the comprehensive solution to the drug problem. In this context, Rimisp developed and implemented a methodology aimed at facilitating an exercise to identify and systematize lessons learned and good practices from the implementation of the first two phases of the Algo Nuevo program in the department of Cauca.

As part of the closing of the two initial phases of the Algo Nuevo programme implemented by Mercy Corps in the department of Cauca, Rimisp is developing a strategic planning exercise to guide its implementation over the next six years. This is expected to include the construction of a strategic framework for the programme, which should contain a cross-cutting gender and intersectional approach, as well as the revision of indicators, the construction of indicator sheets and the elaboration of a planning document that takes into account all of the organization’s guidelines, in accordance with the specifications and technical and commercial viability outlined in the call for proposals.