The recommendations to the High Commissioner for Peace, Danilo Rueda; to Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva, to the Director of the Peace Agreement Implementation Unit Gloria Cuartas, and others are the outcome of the First International Conference on Resettlement Experiences.
The meeting took place in this capital with the participation of 180 people – including peace signatories, former members of the M-19, Quintín Lame, former members of armed groups from Guatemala and El Salvador, who shared experiences of this process.
The aim of the conference was to position reintegration on the political agenda and in other key political instruments as a strategic issue in the process of implementing the peace agreement reached in 2016 between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Colombian People’s Army (FARC). EP) and the new engagement of Paz Total.
One of the recommendations presented aims to “strengthen the organizational capacity of the group of signatories and communities to advance shared agendas related to community reintegration and strategic issues of common interest”.
The Comprehensive Rehabilitation Program, in its community rehabilitation and participation components, must support these actions with adequate resources, he adds.
Another of the recommendations raised points to the need to “prompt the formulation and implementation of a specific program for access and provision of land for reintegration from the needs of productive projects”.
Following the same logic, 56 additional recommendations were made on safety and prevention of stigma, health, disability, education, gender and sustainable income generation, among others.
The importance of addressing the integrity of the reintegration process, its connection to other items of the peace agreement, and thus also the multi-entity ownership of achieving its success for the signatories of the peace agreement was stressed.
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