An organizational and productive training process awarded the grant with the Spanish Agency for Spanish International Development Cooperation (AECID), which was terminated after four years of validity.

After having completed the training process in Organizational Strengthening, representatives of the Subjects of Collective Reparation: Narrar Para Vivir and Liga de mujeres desplazadas (in Bolívar), San Rafael (in Antioquia) and San Andrés de Pisimbalá (in Cauca) , presented before delegates of AECID and the Victims Unit, four projects of productive approach with which they intend to generate an impact of social and economic development in their communities.

The event, which was held in the city of Bogotá, brought together more than 20 social entrepreneurs from the four Subjects of Collective Reparation, who, in detail, showed the process of building the initiatives that, in addition to contributing to the productive development of the Collectively, they validated a problem and structured a potential viable and resilient solution.

Additionally, each exhibition allowed the delegates of the Unit and AECID to guide the enterprises to an adequate subsequent socialization in order to potentiate the initiatives and thus ensure that actors from official and unofficial sectors of the International and National Cooperation can review the option of Co-finance these projects.

The projects presented were the following:

• San Andrés de Pisimbalá: Laying hens and eggs project
• Women's League: Event and banquet house project
• Narrate to live: Strengthening crafts center project
• Municipality of San Rafael: Education center project in 2 components: psychosocial support and productivity

Under the same concept of exposure, the Grant signed in 2015 between the Victims Unit and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), an alliance that contributed to the strengthening of the offer identification, was also terminated institutional and the generation of new productive and social enterprises of victims.

“For the Unit, these International Cooperation alliances are fundamental, because thanks to them, the process of identifying and validating the offer aimed at comprehensive reparation for victims is facilitated”, said Aura Helena Acevedo Vargas, Director of Inter-Institutional Management of the Unit, who also highlighted the contribution of AECID in the redesign of the project map.

“The Project Map will be a fundamental tool to know and disseminate the offers aimed at victims by the public and private sectors”, concluded the official.

Finally, the Victims Unit expressed its full support to the participants in the area of ​​technical assistance for the success of projects presented.

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