Flor Naciente

About Us

About Us

Corporación Flor Naciente — FN is a Colombian nonprofit organization whose mission is to support vulnerable populations and to strengthen institutions and transformative leadership.

Flor Naciente partners with public and private organizations and with international cooperation agencies to design and implement programs and projects that create opportunities for development, participation and inclusion with the most vulnerable communities. We have worked in more than 800 municipalities and districts across Colombia, and in their rural settlements, particularly in remote areas where vulnerable populations most urgently need a public and private institutional presence.

Flor Naciente holds its own assets and maintains a core operating structure that expands flexibly to deliver projects by engaging qualified local teams with strong roots in the territory and a commitment to service.

Night view of Bogotá
800+
MUNICIPALITIES
including rural settlements and districts
200+
PROJECTS
delivered through the institutional legacy
154
PDET AREAS
among the municipalities reached
1993
SINCE
start of the institutional legacy

Our Mission

The corporate purpose of Corporación Flor Naciente is leadership, economic and social development, the delivery of education and training processes, research, the promotion of a culture of peace and lawfulness, the social, economic, cultural and political inclusion of Colombians, and support for institutional development and strengthening.

It will also promote, support, develop and strengthen programs and projects for the protection of children and adolescents and their families.

A record of family and institution

Flor Naciente accompanies vulnerable families and supports institutional development and strengthening in Colombia and across the Americas.

Our History

The institutional experience continued by Flor Naciente dates back to 1989, when Law 75 provided for the creation of the Luis Carlos Galán Institute for the Development of Democracy, a national public entity under Colombia’s Ministry of National Education.

Women meeting in a Flor Naciente community process.
1989
Congress passes Law 75 of 1989 in honor of Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, assassinated that same year in Soacha, creating the Luis Carlos Galán Institute for the Development of Democracy under the Ministry of National Education.
1993–2004
The Luis Carlos Galán Institute carries out democracy education projects with children, adolescents and teachers, and civic training models with young people in vulnerable settings — experience that leads to its involvement in DDR (disarmament, demobilization and reintegration) processes.
2004
The Institute is wound up and replaced by Corporación Escuela Galán para el Desarrollo de la Democracia, a mixed entity with the participation of the Ministry of National Education and Capitalcorp.
2024
Corporación Escuela Galán enters voluntary liquidation and Corporación Flor Naciente is created, carrying forward more than 200 projects across more than 800 municipalities and districts, 154 of them PDET areas.

Over the course of our work we have developed methodologies and models of community engagement that draw on the needs and aspirations of citizens in each territory, supporting shared meaning and the active, informed participation of beneficiaries in implementing plans and projects for peaceful coexistence and social, political and economic inclusion.

A mother and daughter, participants in a Flor Naciente project, in a community space.
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