During the 2024–2025 biennium, PAHO played a key role in strengthening the structure and quality of the Colombian health system through its close technical cooperation with the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.

This support enabled the design, validation, and launch of the National Ecosystem for Quality in Health, which integrates the national health quality policy 2025–2035, the national health humanization policy 2025–2035, and the national quality health improvement plan 2025–2035, establishing a coherent, long-term regulatory and institutional framework. In addition, PAHO played a fundamental role in piloting the new accreditation process for territorial health entities responsible for the leadership and management of public health at the departmental, district, and municipal levels. This process explicitly incorporated the strengthening of essential public health functions as an evaluation criterion, contributing to improved governance, planning, and territorial management capacities.

Together, these advances create conditions for safe, people-centered service delivery for all, and lay a solid foundation for consolidating territorial health service networks and the sustained improvement of health outcomes, particularly in territories with the greatest health gaps. 

Photo caption: Nurse providing health care in the department of La Guajira

Credit: Karen Gonzalez – PAHO