Villavicencio was the meeting place for the victims of the Central region, who participated in the workshop for the construction of the National Development Plan ‘Pact for Colombia, pact for equity’, 2018-2022, which took place on November 30.
Delegates of committees promoting ethnic and non-ethnic collective reparation subjects, as well as members of the Departmental Tables of effective participation of victims from the departments of Cundinamarca, Boyacá, Tolima, Huila, Meta and Bogotá as the capital district, completed the meeting that It seeks that in a joint and participative way, what is required in the territories is projected to achieve equity through legality and entrepreneurship.
Gilberto Zambrano, member of the support group of the subject of ethnic collective repair of the Nasa in Mesetas (Meta), highlighted the day that “it was important to attend this event to manifest the needs that from the indigenous worldviews we have and that you are going to be taken into account in this tool and road map of the national government “.
For her part, Sandra Castañeda, a member of participation table of victims of Tolima, who is also delegated by her department to the National Board, said that “we have put together proposals to allocate budget and financing to guarantee the amplitude and materialization of Law 1448 , as well as the implementation of the chair for peace in educational institutions, so that children and young people know the history of the country so as not to repeat it. “
Santiago Rebolledo, of the inter-institutional management of Unit, explained the objective of this regional meeting: “the Victims Unit and the National Planning Department, with the support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and cooperation international, carry out these days with the objective of compiling the bases of the National Development Plan that will be presented to the National Planning Council, so that they are included in the final document “.
The territorial director for Meta and Eastern Plains of the Victims Unit, Carlos Pardo Alezones, stressed that the Development Plan for the next four-year period will be historic, not only because of the participation of the regions, but because it incorporates the concept of a tree as a policy social, whose roots are legality and security; the trunk, entrepreneurship and productivity, and the fruits, equity.
