The director of the Unit for Comprehensive Attention and Reparation to Victims, Ramón Alberto Rodríguez Andrade, assured that, thanks to joint work with international aid workers, the entity achieved during 2020 the achievement of 10 million dollars in direct resources “to complement comprehensive care and reparation for victims”.
“It is important to highlight the support of each and every one of our cooperating partners to assist and repair the victims of the conflict as provided for by the Victims Law,” he noted.
According to the official, these resources allow “to strengthen prevention issues, guaranteeing accommodation and food components with the support of cooperators.”
“Also, the care issues, improving the points of care, regional centers, and advancing both individual and collective reparation processes. We strengthened the collective reparation plans, achieving the closure of more than 16 subjects and, in the same way, advancing in all the logistics for the payment of the compensation letters”.
The entity’s director said that, “thanks to letters of understanding and international cooperation agreements signed with the 23 agencies present in the country, actions have been deployed in territories that receive care for victims abroad, returns and relocations, comprehensive plans collective reparation, prevention, emergency care, humanitarian assistance, as well as follow-up actions for the special family and community support schemes”.
Regarding the care of victims abroad, Rodriguez stated that it is “strategic to have cooperators with those who work in processes to identify the characteristics and needs of victims abroad, as well as care, assistance and reparation actions that include victims’ returnees, ethnic and non-ethnic collective subjects; in addition to the accompaniment in training and strengthening processes to improve the conditions of the victim population seeking their reincorporation to social life”.
“For this reason, in the Unit we focus, during 2020, on strengthening the capacity to formulate projects and work in exchanges within regional strategic spaces, with other peer entities in the international order, in order to lower resources, replicate good practices and exchange experiences that they help us to achieve the purpose of working for the victims”, stated the general director.
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