Lorena Mesa, deputy director of the Victims Unit, made the announcement, after indicating that the initiative will be financed with a million dollars, thanks to the Multidonor Fund.

After the start-up committee of the “Repairs and Returns PDET” project, Lorena Mesa, deputy director of the Victims Unit, confirmed that this initiative will have a million dollars donated by the Multidonor Fund, which will be used for reparation measures collective and accompaniment schemes within the framework of returns.

Mesa explained that the aforementioned project will be developed in 11 municipalities of the country and will cover five PDET sub regions. "A little more than 50 thousand people will benefit from this project", he said.

"We look forward to implementation during this year and will continue to inform how communities are receiving these deliveries”, said the Deputy Director of the Unit, after specifying that the committee made also had delegates from UNDP and the High Council for Stabilization.

For his part, Jairo Matallana, of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), said his organization is very pleased, because he can add to implement the project. "The initiative, on the one hand, will help to implement collective reparation measures and, on the other hand, to implement actions that are part of the return and relocation schemes," he reiterated.

Matallana said that the initiative “will have about 17 actions and a total budget of one million dollars that is provided by the United Nations Multidonor Fund for Peacekeeping”.

"This is a group of donors from friendly countries in Colombia who have contributed this resource and hope that we can impact a good number of communities," he said.

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