| Agency Name: | Ministry of Social Protection |
| Type: | Ministry |
| Nativename: | Spanish; Castilian: Ministerio de la Protección Social |
| Preceding2: | Ministry of Health |
| Superseding1: | Ministry of Labour |
| Headquarters: | Carrera 13 No. 32-76 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Budget: | COP$21,543,445,972,055 (2009)[1] COP$24,347,028,621,394 (2010)[2] COP$24,557,839,917,998 (2011)[3] |
The Ministry of Social Protection (Spanish; Castilian: 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.
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.[4] It was eventually divided again into the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.[5]