In 2013, the Colombian National Natural Parks System (PNNC) structured 8 pilot cases to integrate protected areas into land use planning, as an input for the national Land Use Planning Policy. In 2014, it signed an agreement with IUCN for the project “Integrated Land Use Planning for Biodiversity”, an initiative that promotes the implementation of the CBD Strategic Plan 2011-2020 with participatory methodologies on land use and climate change integration in 4 countries.

In Colombia, two pilot cases were supported in San Juan Nepomuceno, Bolivar, and Santa Rosa, Cauca. The experience is based on the inter-institutional and multilevel work of national public entities, environmental authorities, territorial entities and local communities; capacity building and knowledge exchange for land management; and complementarity between environmental planning and land-use planning instruments.