Ministry of Social Protection (Colombia)

The Ministry of Social Protection (Spanish: Ministerio de la Protección Social) was a national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia responsible for coordinating and implementing the national policy and social services relating to employment, labour, health and social security; it operated from 2002 to 2012.^{[citation needed]}

Ministry of Social Protection

Ministerio de la Protección Social
Ministry overview
Formed	27 December 2002 (2002-12-27)[1]
Preceding agencies	Ministry of Labour and Social Security Ministry of Health
Dissolved	4 May 2011 (2011-05-04)[2]
Superseding agencies	Ministry of Labour Ministry of Health and Social Protection
Headquarters	Carrera 13 No. 32-76 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Annual budget	COP$21,543,445,972,055 (2009)[3] COP$24,347,028,621,394 (2010)[4] COP$24,557,839,917,998 (2011)[5]
Website	www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co

Created as part of a larger ministerial reform aimed at reducing the national operating budget, it consolidated the Ministry of Labour and Social Security and the Ministry of Health.^[1] It was eventually divided again into the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.^[2]