Our Strategy
In 2025, we launched our 5 year strategy to create lasting change that will impact Colombia’s most at-risk children.
Children Change Colombia’s Strategic 2025 – 2030 Plan establishes the mission and institutional values that frame the behaviour of CCC’s team, its future vision, strategic guidelines and their respective objectives which will guide the organisation in the next five years.
We want to acknowledge the probono services of Comba International and International Institute of Business Analysis in the process of compiling and writing this strategy
Our areas of work in the next 5 years
- Preventing Forced Recruitment
- Combating Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
- Improving Access to Education for Excluded Children
- Protecting and Supporting Children in Emergency Situations
We tackle four main areas of work that pose a serious threat to children’s rights and wellbeing, but where insufficient work is being done to counter the harm they cause. We have more than ten years working on sexual and gender based violence and forced recruitment into armed groups or criminal exploitation and reintegration into society. Five years ago we introduced the area of exclusion from education. And after implementing four emergency projects in the last years, we see the need to include this area of work in the next five years.
In Colombia, children face multiple threats to their safety and well-being. Armed groups continue to recruit children, exposing them to violence and exploitation. Gender-based violence remains pervasive, disproportionately affecting girls and young women. Many children are denied access to education, limiting their future opportunities. Additionally, high levels of conflict and frequent natural disasters mean children are repeatedly caught in emergencies, further heightening their vulnerability.
To break these cycles, we work to protect, support and empower children alongside communities and key adults to strengthen their capacity to safeguard children, uphold their rights, and create pathways for a safer and more inclusive future. By addressing forced recruitment, gender-based violence, education exclusion, and emergencies, we address Colombia’s most urgent child protection challenges.
Strategic objectives
We have set 18 SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound) objectives grouped in our four departments: programmes, communications, finance and governance. The programmes objectives are aligned with our Theory of Change. Each objective has annual al 5 year targets and will be assessed annually by the board of trustees.
