In Cali, Tuluá and Cartago there will be conferences with mayors and municipal links to deepen issues of comprehensive care and reparation for victims.

For three days, until Thursday, February 20, the Victims Unit will meet with spokespersons of the 42 mayors of the department and Valle Government to deepen with them what has to do with the incorporation of public policy of victims in territorial development plans.

This approach will be carried out through three working days to which mayors and municipal liaisons have been convened, in addition to delving into the commitments that territorial entities have for the implementation of the Victims Law and ethnic decrees on this matter.

“Our first advisory was in Cali, where mayors from the south of the department attended. We want that message of the importance of compliance with the public policy of victims to be very clear and that we can provide all the assistance so that we carry out this task very well”, said Luz Adriana Toro, territorial director of the Unit in Valle del Cauca

On Wednesday the appointment will be in Tuluá, with the mayors of the center of the department; while on Thursday the meeting point will be in Cartago, with the territorial entities of the north of Valle del Cauca.

Astrid Cataño, liaison of victims of Yumbo, said that these meetings “are a formal space in which the entire territorial unit becomes a presence and support. Little by little, the new administrations must be sensitized to the importance of developing actions to implement the public policy of attention to victims as a national issue, as a commitment of the whole country”.

Other issues addressed in these days are: prevention, assistance and care; returns and relocations, collective reparation and ethnic decrees.

(End/LJA/CMC/LMY)