In order to give tools to the victim population of Cauca to strengthen their collaboration and intervention before the competent entities, the Victims Unit in Cauca continues training on technical assistance of the protocol and the process of election and installation of Villa Rica participation table.

Choosing representatives for citizen participation spaces in accountability exercises of  responsible entities and exercising citizen oversight on compliance with Law 1448 of 2011, among others, are some of the functions that were made known to the leaders of victims in the municipality of Villa Rica, Cauca, all this in order that the next members of the participation tables are clear about the duties they must fulfill in the framework of public policy for victims.

"It is very important that the members of victim organizations know the functions and commitments involved in being part of the participation tables, this allows us to advance in complying with the public policy of victims in Cauca", says Dan Harry Sánchez Cobo, territorial director of Victims Unit in Cauca.

The spaces for effective participation of victims become areas of work that allows stakeholders at the municipal, district, departmental and national levels, to get feedback that generates moments of discussion and positive dialogue, to strengthen the actions that are aimed at monitoring of the provisions contained in Law 1448 of 2011, its regulatory decrees, jurisprudence and other complementary regulations.

For Yuri Fernanda Ruiz Quiñónez, coordinator of Villa Rica municipal table, "this type of exercise that provides the Victims Unit seems fundamental because it gives us tools to be clear about what functions we as spokespersons have to perform, also allows us to have incidence and be more active in everything that has to do with the public policy of Victims".

Within the framework of  training, an information space was provided where the leaders of victims are also stressed, the importance of reporting any irregularities that arise, since the Unit has a group of professionals in charge of dealing with all complaints and Claims for issues that have to do with fraud. This team is called the Group of Inquiry and Protection against Frauds (GIPF).