GeoPark continues to support community well-being in 2024

In the first half of 2024, GeoPark worked closely with its neighbors, local authorities and institutional partners to promote progress in the regions where it operates through partnerships and socio-environmental investments with high social impact.

To make information easier to access for different groups of stakeholders, GeoPark detailed its dialogue management, local hiring and initiatives to deliver on its commitment to create and share prosperity in the communities where it operates in Colombia’s Meta, Casanare and Putumayo departments, and in Ecuador, in its ‘Good News, Good Neighbors’ newsletters.

The newsletters summarize the results of GeoPark’s development partnerships and investments in four areas:

1. Better living conditions

• Donating more than 5,500 study kits to children and young people in neighboring communities in Colombia
• Providing more than 3,900 free medical procedures in Meta, Casanare and Putumayo departments, in partnership with the Colombian Civil Air Patrol
• Supporting music teaching to more than 100 children and young people from Puerto Asis, through a partnership with the National Batuta Foundation
• Completing a second version of the ‘Putumayo Sonado’ public-private-community partnership, which aims to strengthen leadership and promote sustainable development in Putumayo
• Reaching 52% completion of the construction of a sewerage system and residential wastewater treatment plant in Caribayona, Casanare

2. Community Projects

• Announcing studies and designs to pave 52km of the Puerto Asis – La Alea – La Rosa road, in partnership with the Government of Putumayo and the Puerto Asis Mayor’s Office

• Donating equipment to the Barranca de Upia and Cabuyaro offices (Meta department) of the Justice Department, as well as to five Community Action Boards in both municipalities, to support institutional strengthening

• Starting a project to repair 17.5km of the Vara – Soceagro road in Casanare
• Announcing support for the creation of energy communities by installing 1,058 solar photovoltaic solutions for the same number of families in Monterrey and Paz de Ariporo, through the Works for Taxes mechanism
• Donating furniture and cultural elements to 39 schools through the Works for Taxes mechanism, benefiting more than 4,600 students from Hato Corozal and La Salina in Casanare

3. Economic autonomy

• Starting the second phase of the ‘Entrepreneurship and Growth’ program in partnership with the Putumayo Chamber of Commerce to help strengthen local business, start-ups and companies
• Continuing scholarships for 20 young people from Villanueva and Tauramena currently studying at UNAD University’s Yopal campus in Casanare

4. Sustainable environment

• Participating in the ‘Diverse Rivers’ program headed by ANDI and the Sinchi Institute that studies the Putumayo and Caqueta rivers to develop effective strategies to protect water resources
• Calculating the water footprint of all operations in Colombia and Ecuador

• Continuing the construction of the Eastern Plains Regional Hydrometeorological Monitoring Center in Villavicencio, in partnership with IDEAM

• Providing records of more than 69,000 species to the Colombian Biodiversity Information System and publishing the book ‘Biodiversity in the Llanos 34 Block’

• Conserving more than 22 hectares and supporting the implementation of 10 productive beekeeping systems as part of a conservation project in the Mata de La Urama Regional Integrated Management District (DRMI), in partnership with Corporinoquia and the Orinoquia Biodiversa Foundation (FOB)
• Being part of the Global Big Day in Putumayo and Casanare to encourage participation in the largest birdwatching event in the world. Over 1,100 species of birds were recorded in the two departments

GeoPark will continue to work closely with institutions and neighboring communities to create a legacy of prosperity and sustainable development in the areas where it operates.

For more information about the Company’s work in Meta, Casanare, Putumayo and Ecuador, click on each link.

For more information on our territorial management, see www.buenosvecinos.com