The landmark 2016 peace deal was expected to reduce Colombia’s humanitarian needs. And yet 5.1 million Colombians – more than 10 percent of the population – required assistance in February, up from 4.2 million in 2018, not to mention more than one million Venezuelans.
Most Colombians in need are among the country’s 8.1 million internally displaced persons, the largest IDP population in the world. That number has risen significantly since the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC, reached a deal to end the western hemisphere’s longest-running armed conflict.