Escudo de Colombia y texto de la Unidad para las Víctimas

Survivors from 70 municipalities will receive support for productive projects

Mayors and governors signed on Monday 13 inter-administrative agreements with the Victims Unit to provide resources, training and psychosocial support. Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, among those selected.

Mayors and governors signed on Monday 13 inter-administrative agreements with the Victims Unit for the promotion of productive projects in 70 territorial entities. The beneficiaries will receive resources, training and psychosocial assistance.

During the signing of the agreements, which took place in the National Directorate of Victims Unit, the director of the entity, Ramón Rodríguez, highlighted “the opportunity to articulate the national and territorial entities to reach the victims with generation projects. of income “, in a management that is carried out in a coordinated manner with the victim tables.

The projects allow the victims to work on their productive initiatives and promote a sense of self-sustainability, which comes hand in hand with the psychosocial training and accompaniment that the 16,000 people of 3,635 beneficiary families will receive.

“That is what they have left as potential for the generation of their individual capacities to get ahead in their life projects,” said the director.

In the same sense, Hilario Sánchez, mayor of Totoró (Cauca), where 400 families of three indigenous peoples and five shelters will benefit. “We are going to have a very important psychosocial work in empowerment, but also in accompaniment to overcome the damage that armed conflict has generated within our territories,” said the local president, who highlighted the national government’s interest in seeking solutions for victims.

In turn, the Governor of Huila, Carlos González, highlighted the work of Unit and noted that the joint efforts have allowed benefiting 830 productive units in 34 of the 37 municipalities of his department.

The co-financing agreements were signed between the Unit and territorial entities of Cauca, Norte de Santander, Nariño, Casanare, Córdoba, Guaviare, Vichada and Vaupés, and with two indigenous communities: Totoró and its three indigenous peoples, in Cauca, and the kankuamo shelter, in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

Ten other agreements will soon be concluded, among which those achieved with the Afro-descendant communities of Bahía Solano and Bojayá stand out.

“This is a solution and a path to true peace and peace with a territorial approach,” said the mayor of Totoró, Hilario Sánchez.

Compartir en redes:

La articulación institucional facilitó la expedición de documentos de identidad a ...

El Resguardo Ampuile o Ambaló, ubicado en el municipio de Silvia, Cauca, resguardo ha sido víctima de todos los tipos de violencia, donde actores armados han desarmonizado su territorio con incursiones y hostigamientos.

La campaña electoral de 1986 tuvo como hito la elección de 14 congresistas, 18 diputados, 20 consejeros en los territorios nacionales y 335 concejales por parte de la Unión Patriótica (UP), un partido de izquierdas que surgía del proceso de paz con las FARC-EP.

web specials

Contenidos multimedia sobre los temas que son noticia en Colombia.

Videos

Un espacio en video para nuestra audiencia: reportajes, entrevistas, documentales

podcast

Dos de cada Diez

Historial de noticias

Consulte las noticias del 2015 al 2022