"Assessment of the Colombian National Action Plan (NAP) on Business and Human Rights," Sep 2016

...Overall, the content of the NAP aligned itself with several established good practices in business and human rights...One positive aspect of the Colombian NAP is that it does a good job of identifying within the content of each action point which State agency, ministry, or office is responsible for the implementation of that commitment…One negative aspect of the Colombian NAP is that many of the government action points are overly vague, making it difficult to discern…concrete steps…This difficulty hampers the ability for stakeholders, including internal government actors, to hold responsible government entities accountable for their commitments… Another weakness of the NAP is that, while it establishes specific timelines for some action points, it does not do so for the majority of action points…Moreover, there is very little detail on the accountability measures that the NAP will support…An important expected change in Colombia’s situation for the duration of the NAP, and throughout the process of its continued revision, is the peace process…