In the municipality of Ataco in Tolima, actions are being consolidated to strengthen collective reparation and return of victims to their hamlets.

Community dialogue as a strategy for harmonization and integration among victims returned to their municipalities was part of the face-to-face meeting of the Collective Reparation Subject, Ataco, and seven hamlets with the professionals of the Central Territorial Directorate for the Victims Unit. The activity allows progress towards the materialization of initiatives of the return and relocation plan by village, and also to consolidate the actions and means of closing the subject.

Sergio Castro, president of Balsillas district and member of the promotion committee, expressed on behalf of the community his satisfaction at the return of the Unit's face-to-face activities “I think it is very important to resume these spaces with the community and with the institutions and I believe that now we must continue working to advance in collective reparation, we are very satisfied with the return of the Unit”, said the community leader.

Within the framework of the return of face-to-face activities in Ataco, a municipality that is part of the 170 territorial entities prioritized by the national government with Development Programs with a Territorial Approach PDET, the second Territorial Committee for Transitional Justice was developed in which progress was socialized of the updating of the Returns and Relocations plan and the action to improve the Comprehensive Collective Repair Plan for Ataco and seven villages.

“In this municipality, as in Chaparral, Rioblanco and Planadas, which have the special condition of being PDET, we are working to comply with the pillar that corresponds to us and to be able to carry out the proposal for the consolidation of Peace, as it has been proposed. Mr. President Iván Duque”, affirmed the director of the Central Territorial Directorate María José Dangond David.

This community, Subject to Collective Reparation due to the effects suffered in the context of the armed conflict, has made 70% progress in the comprehensive reparation plan, with the implementation of four measures pending to date.

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