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MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS August 2016 What was done this month? number of projects by intermediate result visp by the numbers INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION number of PROJECTS BY STATUS Victims Institutional Strengthening Program (VISP) Provides accompaniment and technical support for the Government of Colombia’s (GoC) policies, systems, and institutions at the national, departmental, and municipal levels, to strengthen capacities and build necessary competencies for the timely and effective execution and implementation of the Victims Law. Monthly Highlights This report provides monthly institutional and Victims Law achievements supported by VISP at the national and local levels. PRESIDENT JUAN MANUEL SANTOS ATTENDS “VICTUS,” HAILS THEATRE FOR RECONCILIATION peacebuilding through art Documenting women’s resistance transferring psychosocial rehabilitation tools to the local level On August 16, President Juan Manuel Santos attended a presentation of the theatrical piece Victus, which brings together 20 ex-guerrillas, ex-paramilitaries, victims, and soldiers on stage to promote peacebuilding and reconciliation through art, based on their own personal struggles and journeys. CNN called the initiative a symbol of “hope and reconciliation,” in a video available here [in Spanish]: http://cnn.it/2bdk4Oj, and following Santos’ participation the initiative was highlighted by numerous national and international media agencies. The innovative process is led by the Casa Ensamble theatre company with support from the Colombian Agency for Reintegration, the Victims Unit, the military, USAID, and IOM. For the last several weeks, VISP worked with two universities in Nariño (Mariana University and CESMAG University Institute) to transfer the Care Toolbox and the Training Toolbox to professors who will replicate the material as part of their future courses. The materials in these toolboxes are important to ensure those who work with victims can prevent victimization, burn-out and provide high quality psychosocial attention. This project is part of “training trainers” strategies by VISP to ensure that materials developed by the program are broadly disseminated across the country. The CNMH captured three historical memory initiatives developed with female leaders (Las madres de la Candelaria, Mujeres sobrevivientes de la UP, and Mujeres Indígenas del Resguardo de Jambaló) in a new documentary with VISP support. The documentary Mujeres en resistencia (Women in resistance, in English), which is made up of three short documentaries on each initiative, was screened on August 22 at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. To learn more about the documentary, please click on the link here, http://bit.ly/2bJ5qOa. “Victus’ is an example for all Colombians,” said President Juan Manuel Santos at a presentation of the theatrical production in Bogotá on August 16 historical memory documentaries alliance with local universities disseminates psychosocial and care tools Government partners Governor’s and Mayor’s Offices 1 1 2 4 199 205 218 65 58 46 0 50 100 150 200 250 Jun/2016 Jul/2016 Aug/2016 In formulation Finalized Ongoing 67 33 63 55 14 13 10 9 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 IR1 IR2 IR3 IR4 Finalized Ongoing
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MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS August 2016
What was done this month?
number of projects by intermediate result
visp by the numbers
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION
number of PROJECTS BY STATUS
Victims Institutional Strengthening Program (VISP) Provides accompaniment and technical support for the Government of Colombia’s (GoC) policies, systems, and institutions at the national, departmental, and municipal levels, to strengthen capacities and build necessary competencies for the timely and effective execution and implementation of the Victims Law.
Monthly HighlightsThis report provides monthly institutional and Victims Law achievements supported by VISP at the national and local levels.
PRESIDENT JUAN MANUEL SANTOS ATTENDS “VICTUS,” HAILS THEATRE FOR RECONCILIATIONpeacebuilding through art
Documenting women’s resistance
transferring psychosocial rehabilitation tools to the local level
On August 16, President Juan Manuel Santos attended a presentation of the theatrical piece Victus, which brings together 20 ex-guerrillas, ex-paramilitaries, victims, and soldiers on stage to promote peacebuilding and reconciliation through art, based on their own personal struggles and journeys. CNN called the initiative a symbol of “hope and reconciliation,” in a video available here [in Spanish]: http://cnn.it/2bdk4Oj, and following Santos’ participation the initiative was highlighted by numerous national and international media agencies. The innovative process is led by the Casa Ensamble theatre company with support from the Colombian Agency for Reintegration, the Victims Unit, the military, USAID, and IOM.
For the last several weeks, VISP worked with two universities in Nariño (Mariana University and CESMAG University Institute) to transfer the Care Toolbox and the Training Toolbox to professors who will replicate the material as part of their future courses. The materials in these toolboxes are important to ensure those who work with victims can prevent victimization, burn-out and provide high quality psychosocial attention. This project is part of “training trainers” strategies by VISP to ensure that materials developed by the program are broadly disseminated across the country.
The CNMH captured three historical memory initiatives developed with female leaders (Las madres de la Candelaria, Mujeres sobrevivientes de la UP, and Mujeres Indígenas del Resguardo de Jambaló) in a new documentary with VISP support.The documentary Mujeres en resistencia (Women in resistance, in English), which is made up of three short documentaries on each initiative, was screened on August 22 at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. To learn more about the documentary, please click on the link here, http://bit.ly/2bJ5qOa.
“Victus’ is an example for all Colombians,” said President Juan Manuel Santos at a presentation of the theatrical production in Bogotá on August 16
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HIGHLIGHTED REGIONAL ADVANCES
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Feedback: Camilo Leguízamo, Victims Institutional Strengthening Program Coordinator • email: [email protected]
VISP targeted municipality VISP targeted department
CNN Spanish video on VIctus: http://cnn.it/2bdk4Oj
Escenarios para la memoria en Samaniego: http://bit.ly/2dLSGbR
Pueblos indígenas: fotografías contra el racismohttp://bit.ly/2dMdNe3
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-”Garden of Memory, seeds of life for peace”: VISP supported the
commemoration of Day for Victims of Forced Disappearance with the Victims Unit, Pasto’s Mayor’s Office, Nariño’s Governor’s
Office, the local victims participation roundtable, and organizations of victims of forced disappearance
on August 30.
nariño
- Workshop held to tranfer the Gender Backpack to the institutions
that make up Quibdó’s Gender Equality Roundtable. 32 women from local victims’
organizations and 20 members of the roundtable participated and learned about the backpack’s tools to foster
gender equality in local policy-making.
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victims attention office in san onofre, sucre optimized
differentiated approaches for indigenous victims
dignifying attention and reparation to victims
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VISP with support from USAID and the Ministry of the Interior remodeled and provided equipment to the victims attention office located in the mayor’s office in San Onofre, Sucre to ensure that 21,000 victims have access to comfortable and confidential spaces where government institutions provide attention, assistance and comprehensive reparation services. The photo to the right shows one of the remodeled office spaces. VISP provided equipment, including computers to take victims’ declarations and follow-up to their reparation process, and furniture.
disseminating the toolkit on the rights of victims from ethnic communitiesOn August 9, in the framework of the commemoration of International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples VISP worked with the Victims Unit, Bolívar’s Governor’s Office, La Guajira’s Governor’s Office, Cartagena’s Mayor’s Office, Riohacha’s Mayor’s Office, and the Ministry of the Interior to hold workshops disseminating the Ethnic Victims Backpack with public servants responsible for working with victims. The dissemination of the backpack at the regional level guarantees that victims who belong to ethnic communities receive the special attention they are ensured under the Victims Law and its follow-up decrees.
Above: Relatives of victims of forced disappearance in Pasto, Nariño planted trees in the names of their loved ones on Day for Victims of Forced Disappearance. Relatives in Bogotá met at the lot of the National Museum of Memory to symbolically plant themselves as trees, an initiative also carried out previously in Medellín.
