The members of the Executive Committee of the National Table for the Effective Participation of Victims, raised ideas to consolidate the strengthening work in spaces with Development Plans with a Territorial Approach.

Capturing and developing the ideas and projects of the communities is the priority to consolidate the PDET territories, according to some members of the Executive Committee of the National Board for the Effective Participation of Victims, who participate in the strengthening meetings that take place virtually in different regions of the country.

According to Nini Cardozo, member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee of Victims, in the days of consolidation of the participatory management of victims in the PDET, "it must be clear and express the ideas and projects of the communities about their needs".

"That the needs are not created from an office, but that the real needs of the population are considered and all that with the generation of trust and the work between victims and authorities in the territory, so that there is really an impact on each one of those areas of the country”, he stressed.

Cardozo insisted that the community must become essential in these spaces with its empowerment in knowledge. “To know why these PDET territories were built, what is the objective of the zones, in what way the PDETs benefit us as a community and as people, because when we have full knowledge of what all this means, we will know the role we must play in those spaces”, he explained.

In his opinion, each space that is created within the framework of Law 1448 is important and “the people, the communities and the victims of armed conflict are who have to empower themselves and be the owners of those spaces and make them transcendental in the implementation of public policy and comprehensive reparation, in order to recover their rights as victims of violence”.

"These spaces for strengthening are important, but it is the community of each one of them that makes them important for their future and development," she stressed.

According to Laura Borrero, also a member of the Executive Committee of the National Board, the PDET strengthening workshops have been useful because the victims have been able to make clear "how they want these Plans with a Territorial Approach to be implemented in these prioritized municipalities"

“What was done is positive because there was training for the members of the victims' roundtables to empower them on the whole issue of PDETs in a very participatory environment in which the victims are allowed to be the main actors in the workshops, that they take the voice and say how they want to participate and how they want the PDET to be improved”, he reaffirmed.

In her opinion, "we must continue taking advantage of this own and intimate space for the victims, because based on this exercise better scenarios can come and everyone has worked to satisfy all their doubts".

(End/AMA/LMY)