Several years ago, Colombia took on the challenge of promoting respect for human rights, including principles such as gender equality.  While Colombia has achieved progress in its human rights policies, it now needs to specifically deepen the gender focus, so it is included in the plans, projects, and programs of the mining and energy sector. Therefore, this Programmatic policy-based loan will work with and provide support to the Government of Colombia to adopt policies that at a minimum:

• To promote coordination with sector entities on actions for which some impact on gender issues is anticipated.
• To formulate an action plan that includes specific actions and targets to ensure gender equality.
• To make it possible to collect, process, analyze, and disseminate indicators to carry out, monitor, and supervise these actions. This way, the MME could become a benchmark for the entire sector and other sectors of the economy, with the ability to change the vision on gender equality. 

Gender Analysis.