---
title: Foro Nacional por Colombia
type: ngo
status: active
country: CO
website: https://foro.org.co
logo: /assets/org-logos/foro-nacional-por-colombia.svg
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-09
  email: foro@foro.org.co
  source: https://foro.org.co
summary: A long-established Colombian civil society foundation working on citizen
  participation, peace accord implementation monitoring, and extractive industry governance
  — publishes Revista Foro (edition 118), runs anti-vote-wasting campaigns, and operates
  regional chapters in Bogotá and Cali.
concepts:
- democracy
- deliberative-democracy
- participatory-budgeting
location:
  latitude: 4.711
  longitude: -74.0721
  name: Bogotá, Colombia
  precision: city
events:
- date: '1982-01-01'
  title: Founded as one of Colombia's longest-established civil society organisations
    for democratic participation
  url: https://foro.org.co/quienes-somos/
  quote: creada en 1982
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: true
activity:
  rss:
    checked: 2026-08-17
    date: 2026-04-21
    note: 'Latest post: Informe Cuatro. Observatorio de la participación ciudadana
      en la implementación '
    url: https://foro.org.co/informe-cuatro-observatorio-de-la-participacion-ciudadana-en-la-implementacion-del-acuerdo-final/
last_checked: '2026-08-09'
---

Foro Nacional por Colombia is one of Colombia's longest-established civil society organisations, working on citizen participation, peace accord implementation (through the OPIAF observatory — Observatorio de la Participación Ciudadana en la Implementación del Acuerdo de Paz), extractive industry governance, and youth civic education. Its institutional longevity — decades rather than years — is itself significant in a country where many civil society organisations are project-funded and short-lived.

The organisation publishes Revista Foro, now at edition 118 — a quarterly journal of democratic analysis that has been a consistent intellectual reference point in Colombian political discourse. Campaigns include "No bote el voto" (Don't Waste Your Vote), an electoral participation campaign targeting voter apathy, framed as "more than a change of government, what's at stake is the opportunity to recover confidence in Colombian society's capacity to live in peace and democracy." Regional chapters operate in Bogotá (Foro Región Central) and Cali (Foro Suroccidente), extending the organisation's reach beyond the capital.

Foro Nacional occupies the institutional civil-society space in Colombia's democracy ecosystem — complementary to the accountability work of Transparencia por Colombia, the transparency infrastructure of Congreso Visible, and the social innovation approach of Movilizatorio, but distinct from all three in its combination of peace-process monitoring, intellectual production, and territorial presence.

## Links

- Website: [foro.org.co](https://foro.org.co)

## See also

- [Democracy](../concepts/democracy.md)
- [Deliberative Democracy](../concepts/deliberative-democracy.md)
- [Transparencia por Colombia](transparencia-por-colombia.md)
- [Congreso Visible](congreso-visible.md)