Since EUROsociAL's activities in the country began, the programme has supported a reorientation of the national strategy for fighting poverty aimed at opening up new opportunities for improving the incomes of the families served. This redesign also involved definition of a deconcentrated system for the services the SEDIS provides to the population, in particular the Bono Vida Mejor programme (conditional cash transfers).

In November 2015, this process reached its conclusion with the support of the European Union's EUROsociAL cooperation programme. With respect to better linkage to the labour market on the part of families receiving the Bono Vida Mejor benefit, the SEDIS has approved, on the one hand, a new Productivity and Labour Inclusion Strategy, which will promote short-, medium-, and long-term measures, with special emphasis on development and consolidation of the theme of family farming and agricultural micro-entrepreneurship. These measures will be implemented in coordination with initiatives already in progress, such as the School Gardens, the Programme of Local Suppliers for School Meals, among others. On the other hand, the SEDIS, the Secretariat of Labour and Social Security, the Secretariat of Education, and the National Vocational Training Institute have agreed on a School-Work Transition Programme. This programme will allow young people who have graduated from the Bono Vida Mejor to either enter programmes promoting employment (Con Chamba Vivís Mejor, Chambita) and employability (INFOP courses), or depending on the case, re-enter the education system to continue their education. The institutions are already working to transform the agreement into an executive decree at the highest level (the President in the Council of Ministers-PCM).

Another fundamental innovation is the upcoming launch of the Guidance and Social Services Centres (COAS), designed with the support of EUROsociAL. This will start in January 2016. To this end, the SEDIS and EUROsociAL also worked with the Inter-American Development Bank (BID), the institution financing the reform, the primary objective of which is to reduce the gaps between eligible families and families actually receiving the cash transfers under the Bono Vida Mejor programme.  The SEDIS defines the establishment of the COAS's within the framework of a deconcentration and support strategy for the families using the Bono Vida Mejor, a strategy initially being implemented under an agreement with four associations of municipalities. The COAS's will also be engaged in providing psycho-social support services to vulnerable families (using a new methodology created with EUROsociAL's support) and aim for closer coordination between all the social programmes of the Secretariat.

Another advance of the SEDIS—in particular of the Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence, and Family (DINAF), a deconcentrated entity under the SEDIS—is the incorporation of a statistical methodology for preparing and applying a Multidimensional Index on well-being in childhood. The DINAF benefited from the technical advising of EUROsociAL in defining the methodology. Likewise, the programme facilitated the collaboration of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF), with which the DINAF has established an agreement. The DINAF will publicly present this strategic tool for designing evidence-based public policies shortly.