On the first day, the Entity team, headed by the General Director Ramón Rodríguez, spoke with the delegates of the Participation tables of Valle del Cauca, Huila, Boyacá, Antioquia, Tolima, Chocó, Magdalena, Guainía, Vaupés, Amazonas, Cundinamarca, Atlántico, Guajira, Vichada and Guaviare.

The management team, and the missionary and territorial directors of the Unit for the Comprehensive Care and Reparation of Victims, installed this Thursday the virtual sessions of the "Great social dialogue with the victims of conflict in times of COVID-19", in which they listened to the needs and concerns of each of the members of the departmental tables of Effective Participation of Victims.

On the first day with the tables of Valle del Cauca, Huila, Boyacá, Antioquia, Tolima, Chocó, Magdalena, Guainía, Vaupés, Amazonas, Cundinamarca, Atlántico, Guajira, Vichada and Guaviare, the entity announced the actions that have been implemented from each of its areas to attend to victims in the framework of the health emergency decreed by the national government.

The director of the Victims Unit, Ramón Alberto Rodríguez Andrade, said that these types of spaces help strengthen channels of dialogue with victims to adopt the necessary measures to effectively accompany this population: “This type of spaces they are very important since there we managed to listen to all the needs of the victims of conflict and how the entity can streamline all the processes of care, assistance and reparation”.

During his intervention with each of the Participation tables, the director of the entity announced that "30,000 million pesos will enter as part of the peace agreements between the Government and the Farc to repair the victims of conflict. These resources are mainly aimed at Collective Reparation, that helps us to add to implement actions in the 738 subjects who already have a defined plan".

Another of the announcements has to do with the payment of compensation. "One of the needs raised in the meeting with the departmental tables is to advance in the general route and before the end of this term, resources will be allocated not only for those three criteria that are in resolution 1049, but also to be able to advance on the general route. There we are going to compensate victims who meet the requirements who are not disabled, who do not have a catastrophic or terminal illness, nor are they adults over 74 years of age”, explained the director.

Rodríguez Andrade also announced that the entity managed the banking transfer of approximately 18,000 victims of conflict "so that the resources for the payment of compensation reach directly an account that was created with favorable conditions".

And he added that the “day that the victims do not want to have any more accounts, they cancel it, but this was the only way we could safely reach with these resources and with more strategy, the anti-fraud campaign that we have in the Unit, we prevent people be victims of the processors”.

On the other hand, the director revealed that the "International Red Cross will provide the entity with biosafety equipment so that officials can equip themselves and open the service points and regional centers in areas that do not register cases of COVID-19 The most important thing is not to put officials and victims at risk”.

The official announced that under the concurrence mechanism "the Victims Unit is going to support one more day, so that the tables of Effective Participation of the departmental Victims approve the Territorial Action Plan". "We need the Board to make the request to us, justifying why the Board meeting is being held and we would be ready to support under this mechanism a holding of a maximum table of two days so that we can advance in everything related to the issue of public policy for victim care”, he explained.

During these virtual meetings, the deputy director of the Victims Unit, Lorena Mesa Mayorga, told the survivors of conflict how progress has been made in relation to the PDET municipalities in matters of collective, psychosocial, return and relocation in these 170 municipalities with Development Programs with a Territorial Approach.

As for the administrative compensation resources, the deputy director general explained that these will be available until August 31 for collection, taking into account the difficulties caused by preventive isolation: “To victims who cannot collect in the next days, their money order will not be returned and it will be available until August 31 for them to approach the Agrarian Bank”.

Finally, to each of the departmental tables, the entity's deputy director told them that despite the fact that the “Court has already extended Law 1448 (Law on Victims and Restitution of Land), the Victims Unit is supporting the project that It is pending in the Congress of the Republic and together with the proposals of the victims through the legislators, it is sought that this new regulation benefits all victims in the best way”.

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