We execute transformative, purposeful, responsible and ethical initiatives with a positive impact on society. By strengthening the capacities of social actors in communities and empowering people, we contribute to territorial development and promote responsible interventions.
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19% of social investment in ethnic communities
18% of social investment in municipalities with Development Programs with Territorial Approach (PDET, for the Spanish original)
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500 millions in social investment in environmental matters
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Biodiversity and Development
We are committed to protecting the tropical dry forest, a strategic ecosystem that is the most representative of the Colombian Caribbean which is why we work on forming new protected areas, strengthening existing protected areas and developing sustainable productive projects that relieve pressure due to the resources obtained from this significant ecosystem.
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In light of this, we have consolidated the following results:
- Creating corridors for the conservation of biodiversity between protected areas in the arrangement of Civil Society Reserves, close and connected to the Los Colorados Flora and Fauna Sanctuary: 108.91 ha.
- Supporting the implementation and strengthening of productive projects and creating capacities to transform the current production systems into more sustainable systems and with less of an environmental impact. Promoting alternative, innovative and sustainable production systems, such as beekeeping, forest farming, agroforestry systems, home gardens, laying hens, producing creole eggs and ecotourism.
- Improving water solutions and rain water collection and storage systems for the water supply that impact the sustenance and recovery of fauna and flora.
- Implementing water supply systems, adapting 35 earthen dams, to directly benefit 39 families and indirectly benefit 15 more families.
- Delivering supplies and materials to collect rain water and store water in houses, mainly through water tanks or by building or adapting pools.
- Purchasing private properties for property disencumbrance within the Los Colorados Flora and Fauna Sanctuary protected area: 117.63 ha.
- Restoring areas with native species: 11.8 ha.
- In 2020, we planted 9,197 trees as compensation for the trees intervened in various maintenance activities and oil pipeline construction projects.
- Contributions to generating knowledge on the biodiversity of the tropical dry forest.
- We included the biological registration of 58,116 fauna and flora individuals in the national network of open biodiversity data (SIB-Colombia), which represent 964 species, identified in the departments of Bolívar, Sucre, Córdoba and Atlántico.
- We identified about 40 vascular and non-vascular epiphyte species and implemented specific environmental management measures to conserve genetic variability. We have planted 13,799 trees in 10 ha. between 2019 and 2020.
- We contributed to the content of the book “Conectividades socio ecosistémicas del Santuario de Flora y Fauna Los Colorados (Social and Ecosystem Connectivity of Los Colorados Flora and Fauna Sanctuary)," prepared by national parks, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Herencia Ambiental Foundation..
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Contribution to Social Progress
We contributed to the sustainable development of communities, especially working with youth, with innovative initiatives to favor social and productive inclusion, adding value, improving their quality of life and developing favorable bonds and environments with different actors that contribute to good relationships between companies, foundations and the community.
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We are present in 100 % of the communities located in direct areas of influence of our operations with social participation and management programs.
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Social investment in 2020
$ 31.803 million
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134 social programs
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405 communities impacted |
+ 400.000 people impacted |
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In 2020, our efforts were aimed at delivering significant contributions to improve our institutional capacity to respond to the health emergency, equipping hospitals with intensive care units and personal health care protection instruments and delivering humanitarian aid to communities, prioritizing the most vulnerable ones.
Social investment projects are aligned with the needs and social reality of the country during the pandemic:
- Fundación Promigas worked on appropriating ICTs in education, with close to 80 teachers, which indirectly impacts approximately 2,800 students at different academic levels in the Colombian Caribbean.
- Five-hundred SIM cards with data plans were delivered to favor connectivity and access to virtual classes to 500 vulnerable students in Riohacha, benefitting 17 neighborhoods and 3 rural schools.
Over 12 scenarios were implemented to promote the participation and communication of different actors, and a bank of tools was built for virtual territorial management with over 30 virtual learning objects.
We contributed to improving the quality of life and access to water to 15 rural communities of Riohacha, contributing water storage tanks and benefiting over 1,300 families.
We also provided support to micro-enterprises in Santa Marta, which contributed to reactivating, adapting and improving the economic and emotional well-being of the participants. Two hundred and eighty jobs were created derived from the active business units. In Surtigas, jobs were created through Jóvenes con Valores Productivos (Youth with Productive Values), a project in the framework of inclusive Territorial Development, in which Surtigas is the anchor company. A tourist route was designed, which will start in Mompox and head towards the communities of Barranco de Loba, Hatillo de Loba and San Martín de Loba, in order to integrate tourism as a mechanism of economic activation in the 2020-2023 local development plans of the mentioned communities.
Furthermore, based on the recognition of productive initiatives in the territories, interest and new dynamics were generated for the populations to develop differential productive systems with a positive impact on improving the productivity and efficiency of the rural projects and initiatives.
A strategy of our affiliate Compañía Energética de Occidente (CEO), which is part of our macro-project Energía que Ilumina Vidas (Energy that Lights Up Lives), is strengthening community transmitters, which, since 2018, has the objective of cementing the capacities of communities.
Transmetano continued providing support to four enterprises of small producers and five productive units for kidney beans, panela (unrefined whole cane sugar), chocolate and potatoes, which benefits 50 families and 180 people.
The Jóvenes más Emprendedores (More Entrepreneurial Youth) project, through Fundación Promigas, arrived in Antioquia in 2015 in order to socially transform and enrich the educational management of entrepreneurship programs of the educational institutions of the area of influence. Today, there are 14 and they correspond to 100 % of the institutions in the area. The above occurred by implementing Law 1014 on entrepreneurship of the Ministry of National Education. A total of 168 teachers, 799 students from 9th and 10th grade, 9,809 indirectly benefited students and 35 supported and active enterprises participated in this project, which generated development alternatives for the territories.