According to this agreement with the United Nations Food Organization, during 2019, the attention, assistance and reparation of Afro-Colombian and indigenous groups affected by the conflict will be emphasized.

An agreement launched by the Victims Unit and FAO, whose value amounts to $ 2,000 million, will allow vulnerable ethnic groups affected by armed conflict to guarantee humanitarian assistance and the collective reparations they need.

This was confirmed by Javier Betancourt, risk management policy consultant at the FAO Food Organization, after reiterating that "one of the interventions we are going to carry out is on the humanitarian issue, in the ethnic contexts, in a particular, but also in collective reparations. Specifically, to vulnerable communities that have been affected in this case by armed conflict", he said.

When referring to the beginning of the agreement, Betancourt explained that "the idea is to start in this first semester of the year. We have been in the technical construction exercise, basically the scope, objectives and times that these agreements are going to have and the idea is that in the second half of the year we can reach the territory with intervention", he said.

On the beneficiaries and the favored territories with the agreement, he specified: "We are in the process of micro focalization to have a greater precision in relation to the number of families and the number of people that make up these families to attend. Some territories are also to be defined".

From the FAO, it was established that the agreed agreement will benefit Afro-Colombian groups residing in La Tola, Nariño, and the Yukpa indigenous reserve of Cesar during 2019.

It was also indicated that in terms of Collective Repair, 14 possible subjects of reparation are in evaluation and projection.

(FIN/AMA/LMY)