The World Bank's specialist mission also benefited 8,000 survivors directly and another 80,000 indirectly, with the execution of $ 4.7 million.

The work and support of an experts mission from the World Bank guaranteed the start-up and execution of the project “Collective Reparation to Victims for Social Reconstruction”, which allowed to benefit 55 subjects of Collective Reparation, 8,000 survivors of conflict directly and of another 80,000 indirectly.

Thanks to the agreement signed in 2015 between the World Bank and the Victims Unit, the model of the collective reparation program was strengthened and applied to 55 subjects, which contributed to the restoration of collective damage and the improvement of their capacities impact on decision-making at the local, regional and national levels.

According to Mariana Felicio, senior specialist in social development for Latin America at the World Bank, "the project was implemented between 2015 and 2019 with the aim of strengthening the institutional and operational capacity of the Victims Unit." She also assured that Colombia is the first and only country that the Bank has supported with a process of collective reparation and that it establishes a global standard by recognizing the damages caused by the conflict.

On the other hand, the general director of the Victims Unit, Ramón Rodríguez Andrade specified that the agreement “allowed to attend to 55 subjects of collective reparation, with 121 actions of reparation, strengthening the capacities of the reparation subjects and of the committees of impulse". He added that with the agreement it was possible to advance in the plans for reparation, "generating reconciliation and scenarios of peace".

The aforementioned project included a donation of 4.7 million dollars and included the implementation of 121 actions that consolidated restitution, satisfaction, rehabilitation measures and guarantees of non-repetition.

The initiative was entirely financed by “the donation of the Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Post-conflict and Peace in Colombia, managed by the World Bank and included contributions from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Bank Fund World Cup for the Consolidation of Peace and the State”, among the beneficiaries stand out non-ethnic subjects to whom 61 actions were implemented and ethnic subjects, who favored 60 actions.

Other benefits related to the project confirm that the Victims Unit was able to favor the communities with studies and designs for the implementation of energy solutions; installation of administrative and management capacities for productive projects; generation of spaces to enhance institutional learning; promotion and visibility of the Collective Reparation program at the local, regional and national levels, as well as constant reflection on this issue, among others.

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