Of the 30 territorial entities of Meta, 25 attended the training to advance the updating of this tool for the attention of humanitarian emergencies in the framework of armed conflict.

The Victims Unit provided technical assistance to 25 mayors and the Meta department government, for the formulation of actions aimed at immediate attention to humanitarian emergencies that may arise, through the Contingency Plan.

During the training carried out in a virtual way, topics such as diagnosis of risk of victimization, humanitarian aid delivered in the immediacy stage in the last two years, response routes by component of immediate attention were addressed; victimizing and institutionally responsible; needs and readiness measures for the implementation of the immediate humanitarian aid response; communications tree and social, physical, economic and co-responsibility support resources.

The municipalities that could not attend this meeting were Guamal, Puerto Rico, San Carlos de Guaroa, San Juanito and Vista Hermosa, given that some of these already had technical assistance from the Unit, and in the case of Villavicencio, it has approved this Contingency Plan.

Likewise, during the training the technical concepts on immediate humanitarian aid or assistance and subsidiarity were clarified, framed in Law 1448 of 2011 (Victims Law), to guarantee adequate aid and immediate attention to victims of humanitarian emergencies and complying with this responsibility in a timely, effective and differential approach.

For her part, Vanessa Lema Almario, director (e) of the Unit in Meta and Llanos Orientales, stressed that contingency plans are a technical tool of municipal and departmental order, which defines procedures, actions and strategies, with financial resources, human and physical, destined by the territorial entities in front of risk scenarios, which allows to prevent and attend to processes of re-victimization derived from humanitarian emergencies presented in the framework of armed conflict.

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