In the Quindío department, 42,000 people are registered as victims, according to data from the National Information Network.

For two days, the Victims Unit developed technical assistance for municipal and district mayors, planning and government secretaries, victim liaisons and the department's development plan formulation team, regarding the implementation of Law 1448.

In this activity, whose main objective is to guarantee the continuity and sustainability of the processes of assistance, care and comprehensive reparation that have been implemented at the territorial level, in addition to the Victims Unit, the National Planning Department, the Ministry of Interior, the Land Restitution Unit and the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation.

"The Victims Unit has as its premise that the programs and projects that benefit the victim population are immersed in the development plans that are about to be formulated in the new administrations. Likewise, we want all institutional offerings to always have taking into account the victim population contributing to their social inclusion and well-being”, said Laura Moreno, territorial director of the Unit in the Coffee Region.

Induction to the Victims Law, powers of the territorial entities, prevention, protection and guarantees of non-repetition, assistance and care, differential approach, comprehensive reparation and collective reparation, returns and relocations and participation of victims, were some of the topics covered in the event.

"It is very enriching to work with the Unit because it knows some important aspects of Law 1448 to work with victims, it is essential that these lines are reflected in development plans, it is as a guarantee that the work must be done, Our mayor Beatriz Díaz Salazar from the formulation of the government plan included the victims, today we have 808 victims in Salento and the majority are businessmen and artisans, we must work with them for the presentation of projects”, said Claudia Hernández, victim liaison for Salento.

In the Quindío department, 42,000 people are registered as victims, according to data from the National Information Network, of which the Victims Unit has compensated a total of 5,300 with an investment of nearly $ 38,750 million.

Regarding the exercise, Diego Tobón, director of Planning of the Mayor's Office of Armenia, pointed out that “it is a very good day because they are priority lines that must be included in the development plans, in the city of Armenia we have registered victims of 18,600 people , which amount to approximately 7% of the population, we want to work on issues of social inclusion with a differential approach, applying Law 1448, in the next few days we will have a working table with the secretariat of social development to strengthen the line of victims and achieve projects that can generate good socioeconomic stability".

(End/EHB/CMC/LMY)