Partnerships that multiply impact

Alone we go fast. With partners, we transform Colombia.

More than 50 national and international partners trust the PANACA model. They are not logos on a wall: they are ministries, agencies, companies and cooperation bodies that put up money, land and trust so that rural education really changes lives. Here is the impact of each partnership — with names, figures and results.

+10.000people trained

+50national and international partners

32 / 12departments and countries

97%average satisfaction

Every logo in the PANACA ecosystem stands for a partnership with concrete results. Explore them one by one: what we built together and how many lives we changed.

Delivery on the ground

National partners

FONTUR

NationalTourism

FONTUR — National Tourism Fund

FONTUR did something very few funders dare to do: it not only put up the money for the country's biggest bet on rural tourism training, it also demanded measure whether it really changed lives. It commissioned an independent impact evaluation from the joint venture Econometría–SEI, which tracked the 2019–2021 cohorts with 613 surveys across 72 municipalities in six regions of Colombia.

The verdict was emphatic: the training raises graduates' income by 57% (about COP 383,316 more a month), cuts the odds of being unemployed and turns participants into entrepreneurs in their own region. Very few educational initiatives in the country can show such solid evidence that they work.

It is not a pretty promise: it has been measured with scientific rigour.

+57%in graduates' income

503graduates in Rural Tourism (2023)

97,1%rated the information as new to them

MinCIT

NationalTourism

MinCIT — Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism

Behind every place there is a decision by the State: to bring quality education to the rural Colombia that tourism usually forgets. MinCIT leads the Agritourism Scholarship Programme with the methodology Learning by Doing, offering 1,000 places a year in small cohorts of around 125 people, for learning that is close, hands-on and real.

And the most powerful part is what happens after the diploma: the knowledge does not stay in the classroom. The 86% of graduates apply what they learned and 87% share it with their community, creating tourist routes, new ventures and a sense of pride in what is theirs that spreads from neighbour to neighbour.

A scholarship that does not train one person: it lights up whole communities.

1.000places offered each year

86%applies what they learned

87%shares and multiplies the knowledge

ICA

NationalAgricultural and animal health

ICA — Colombian Agricultural Institute

There is a way to multiply impact by thousands: not training one producer, but training the people who train the producers. With ICA we train its extension workers and rural instructors — the professionals who take farming know-how to every corner of the country — in the advanced diploma courses Rural Trainer of Trainers y Animal Health Extension.

In 2024 alone we trained 96 of them, with satisfaction ratings close to 100% in technical training, and in 2025 we launched version 2.0 of the programme. Every extension worker trained passes on what they learned across hundreds of farms: the effect spreads like ripples on water.

We train the people who train the whole Colombian countryside.

96ICA extension workers trained (2024)

100%satisfaction with technical training

2.0Trainer of Trainers in 2025

ADR

NationalRural development

ADR — Rural Development Agency

In the countryside, unity is not an abstract value: it is the difference between barely surviving and genuinely thriving. With the Rural Development Agency we train small and medium producers in cooperative association and organisational strengthening, teaching them to organise, set up cooperatives, negotiate better and compete without leaving anyone behind.

In 2023 we graduated 402 people who now weave productive networks where before there were only isolated efforts. That cooperative spirit turns into very concrete things: better prices, greater market power, access to new channels and roots deep enough to keep families from leaving their land.

402 producers who discovered that together they get much further.

402graduates in cooperative association (2023)

Coop.social fabric and cooperativism

Nationalsmall and medium producers

Ecopetrol

NationalBusiness · CSR

Ecopetrol (with Fundación GE)

Real corporate social responsibility does not stay in a report: it leaves a mark on the ground. With Ecopetrol and Fundación GE we took the Field Schools and Vocational Diploma in Agriculture and Livestock to producers in the company's areas of influence, handing out technical kits and giving real support.

And we add volunteering days that build the future quite literally: two greenhouses raised at rural schools in Ubalá and Medina, where children now learn to grow their own food. Corporate cooperation you can see and touch, still bearing fruit long after the project ended.

Two greenhouses that will keep feeding whole generations.

2greenhouses built (Ubalá and Medina)

TLAVocational Diploma in Agriculture and Livestock

ECAField Schools on the ground

SENA

NationalTraining

SENA — National Training Service

SENA and PANACA share one obsession: turning knowledge into jobs and businesses. We are partners in the SENA TecnoAcademies with the "Significant Experiences for Innovative and Shared Work" programme, bringing innovation and technology closer to young people in the countryside.

And as an institution of Work-Oriented Education (ETDH) certified, we open the door to Fondo Emprender, the seed capital that lets our graduates stop dreaming about their business and start building it. Because for us training does not end with the diploma: that is where it begins.

From the classroom to a business of your own, without letting go of anyone's hand.

ETDHcertified educational institution

TecnoAcademies · significant experiences

FundEntrepreneurship · seed capital

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ARN

NationalReincorporation · Peace

ARN — Agency for Reincorporation and Normalisation

Few things say more about a country than the way it reintegrates those who laid down their weapons. With ARN (formerly ACR) we train people in the reincorporation process as agricultural technicians, using the countryside as a setting for reconciliation: there, among animals and crops, trust, dignity and a plan for life are rebuilt.

340 people found a second chance in the land, through a rurally focused model we have run since 2015 and which is today a benchmark for peacebuilding in Colombia and worldwide.

The countryside as a place of reconciliation and second chances.

340people in reincorporation trained

Focusrural and reconciliation

Since 2015ACR · PANACA agreement

APC Colombia

NationalCooperation

APC Colombia — Presidential Cooperation Agency

For Colombia's Presidential Cooperation Agency to pick your model as a Good Practice is not a formality: it is a national seal. It means what PANACA does is measurable, repeatable and worth exporting to other regions and other countries as an example of cooperation that works.

That recognition opened doors: today the model Learning by Doing is expanding to more than 12 countries, taking Colombian rural education to the world and establishing Quindío as a global benchmark for transforming the countryside.

A Colombian model the world wants to replicate.

GoodCooperation Practice (APC)

Modelrepeatable and exportable

+12countries where it is expanding

From Quindío to the world

International cooperation

OIM

InternationalMigration · Peace

IOM — International Organization for Migration

When a United Nations organisation holds up your work as a benchmark, it is because you are doing something others should copy. IOM gave international recognition to the rurally focused reintegration model of PANACA: a different — and deeply human — way of rebuilding lives after the conflict.

340 former combatants trained as agricultural technicians and found in the countryside not just a trade, but a place in society and a reason to believe again. A model that now inspires peace processes beyond our borders.

Rebuilding lives, with a model the world recognises.

340former combatants trained as technicians

Modelreintegration model recognised

Peacerural and territorial focus

USAID

InternationalCooperation

USAID

With USAID we went a step beyond sustainable tourism: we developed the Advanced Diploma in Regenerative Tourism, which trains communities not merely to avoid harming ecosystems, but to actively restore them.

It is a new way of understanding the relationship between people and their surroundings: tourism that heals the land, energises the local economy and gives back more than it takes. International cooperation at the service of a countryside that regenerates itself.

Tourism that does not just look after the land: it regenerates it.

TourismRegenerative (2024)

Coop.international

European Union

InternationalPeace · Development

European Union

The European Union supports the peacebuilding and rural development with a territorial focus on the regions hit hardest by the conflict, betting on education as the most powerful tool of social change.

It is a partnership that grasps something essential: peace is not signed at a table alone, it is sown in every person who recovers hope and opportunity. Where rural training arrives, the future blossoms.

Education as the engine of peace in the regions.

Peacebuilding with a territorial focus

Ruraldevelopment and training

FAO

InternationalFood security

FAO — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The food security and sovereignty are at the heart of the PANACA model, and there we walk hand in hand with FAO: a countryside that produces healthy, sustainable and sufficient food is the basis of any development at all.

Training producers who can feed their region is not a symbolic gesture: it is literally sowing the future food of Colombia and of the planet.

Sowing tomorrow's food security today.

Securityfood

Ruralsustainable development

PNUD

InternationalDevelopment · SDGs

UNDP — United Nations Development Programme

UNDP aligns human development with global targets, and that is where PANACA fits as a key piece: every person trained in the countryside is concrete progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and towards a peace built from the ground up, not from a desk.

Reducing poverty, closing gender gaps, caring for life on land: these are not distant goals when every graduate makes them real in their own village.

The Colombian countryside, meeting global development targets.

SDGssustainable development

Peaceand human development

The figures come from Fundación PANACA's 2023–2025 management reports and from the impact evaluation carried out by the Econometría–SEI joint venture for FONTUR. Some international cooperation partnerships are described by their shared field of work.

More than 50 active partnerships

An ecosystem that multiplies impact

We believe in the power of joining forces and working together as engines of lasting change. We work hand in hand with public bodies, international cooperation agencies, companies, educational institutions and social organisations.

International bodies and cooperation

FAOOIM

USAIDUN Migration

European UnionAPC ColombiaCATIEUN Multi-Donor Fund for Peace PNUD

PNUD

National government bodies

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentOffice of the PresidentMinCIT SENA

SENA

EcopetrolUN Tourism

Rural Development Agency (ADR) ARN

ARN

FONTUR

Departmental and territorial government

Government of CundinamarcaGovernment of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa CatalinaGovernment of QuindíoCity of MedellínCity of ArmeniaArmenia Social Development OfficeCity halls and local government

International cooperation and governments

PanamaMexicoPeruGuatemalaDominican Rep.Costa RicaEl SalvadorBoliviaEcuadorHondurasCCI

Academic and educational sector

Rural schools and educational institutionsUniversities and training centresWork-Oriented Education institutions (ETDH)

Business and trade sector

Chambers of CommerceComfandiAngloGold Ashanti ColombiaContinental GoldPrivate rural development companies

Peacebuilding and social development

ARNOrganisations of victims and peace-accord signatoriesIndigenous and Afro-descendant communitiesFarmer and community associations

Let's join forces

Does your organisation want to transform the countryside with us?

Companies, public bodies and cooperation agencies find in PANACA a partner with measured impact and a registered model of its own.

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