Nov
12
2020

Municipalities of Atlántico and Victims Unit define actions to attend and repair returned and relocated communities

Through bilateral working groups, the Victims Unit presented to seven mayors of prioritized municipalities in the Route of Returns and Relocations, the needs of the victim communities in their territory to promote actions that contribute to overcoming their vulnerability.

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Law 1448 of 2011 indicates that victims have the right to return to their place of origin or to relocate under conditions of voluntariness, security and dignity, guaranteeing the State the effective enjoyment of rights to the displaced population that voluntarily decides to return or relocate. This is why each year the Victims Unit in the department of Atlántico, carries out pertinent actions before the entities of the National System of Attention and Integral Reparation to Victims (SNARIV), among them the governors and municipal mayors, to guarantee the effective comprehensive care for the returned or relocated population.

This is how it developed this week with the mayors of Galapa, Malambo, Palmar de Varela, Puerto Colombia, Repelón, Sabanalarga and Soledad, bilateral working groups to present the needs of the victims derived from the community dialogues held with them, to implement in the entire accompaniment route to return, relocation and local integration, and make viable projects and special schemes that contribute to overcoming the situation of vulnerability of communities in accordance with Territorial Action Plans and Development Plans 2020-2023 of each municipality.

Said accompaniment addresses priority rights in basic health care, education, food, family reunification, occupational orientation, housing, psychosocial care; and the gradual or progressive rights of food security and income and work, as well as basic public services, roads and communications and strengthening of social organization.

“The implementation of the accompaniment of the return is a government task in front of which the leadership of the territorial entities must be promoted mainly. It is for this reason, that it is understood that the operational development of the accompaniment to the return, either from what is established in the route of individual accompaniment as for communities, can be implemented with the technical and financial support of the Victims Unit”, said the territorial director of the Atlantic Unit, Alfredo Palencia.

For his part, the Mayor of Soledad, Rodolfo Ucrós, thanked the Unit and the Government of Atlántico for the permanent support they provide to his Administration, stating that “Soledad has been the recipient of a large number of victims due to the phenomenon of violence that they have lived in their respective places of origin and that we have welcomed here with open arms. That is why we are requiring special support from the national government and I know that they will attend to each of our requests.

The virtual meeting also counted with the participation of secretaries of Government, Planning, Finance, victims' liaisons and representatives of each municipality.

Number of victim homes returned and / or relocated in Atlántico

  • To date, the municipality of Galapa has a return and relocation plan as of August 26, 2014 approved by the Territorial Committee for Transitional Justice and is made up of 110 victim households, equivalent to 307 people.
  • The municipality of Malambo has a return and relocation plan approved on November 5, 2014, in the Territorial Committee for Transitional Justice and is made up of 278 people.
  • The municipality of Palmar de Varela approved the R & R plan in the Territorial Committee for Transitional Justice on September 26, 2018. It is made up of 35 victim households, equivalent to 50 people.
  • The La Florida urbanization in the municipality of Sabanalarga, has an R&R plan approved by the Territorial Committee for Transitional Justice on October 11, 2017, made up of 381 people and 81 victim households.
  • The municipality of Repelón has a R&R plan approved by the Territorial Committee for Transitional Justice on September 30, 2014, made up of 39 victimized households, 74 people who make up the community of Pita hamlet.
  • The municipality of Soledad approved the R&R plan on August 26, 2014 in the Territorial Committee for Transitional Justice, and is made up of 158 households and 291 people.
  • The municipality of Puerto Colombia has an R & R plan approved in December 2018, and has 31 victim households, a total of 96 relocated people registered.

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