COMMUNITY‐ORIENTED REINTEGRATION OF EX‐COMBATANTS CORE

The program's objective is to pass tools and methodologies to government agencies to support the implementation of these laws. CORE has entered its final phase, with most projects now in the transfer phase, and the program is expected to conclude in June 2015. The quarter saw various contextual shifts that affected CORE, including the release of the texts of the three agreements reached in the peace process, the suspension of the peace talks due to the kidnapping of General Rubén Darío Alzate Mora, Captain Jorge Rodríguez Contreras, and law Gloria Urrego, and the participation of the last delegation of victims in the peace talks. The Superior Tribunal for Justice and Peace in Bogotá issued the first sentence based on the case prioritization model and macro-criminalization patterns, requiring Salavatore Mancuso to repair 9,500 victims. The Tracking, Monitoring, and Evaluation System (SAME) team provided technical support to assess psychosocial readiness for reintegration, conducting 631 surveys, and 51% of participants fulfilled the requisites required by the ACR to continue with the graduation process. The ACR reported 849 people graduating from the reintegration process in this quarter, bringing the total number of graduates to 8,068. The social reintegration team supported the ACR in reviewing, adjusting, and consolidating 927 ISUN reports on business units that received seed capital funding, with 78% of business units in operation and 19% having closed. The Integrated Employment Intervention Route was implemented, aiming to support demobilized individuals in exploring and finding opportunities in the job market through identification of job vacancies, vocational assessment, occupational orientation, job engagement, and monitoring and support for individuals in the process of reintegration who are professionally engaged with businesses. By the end of the quarter, 710 people in the process of reintegration had been employed by 155 businesses, providing them with formal employment, including benefits as stipulated by law. Projects continued to support the various sub-units of the Justice and Peace Unit in the Attorney General's office, focusing on finalizing activities related to the establishment of definitive legal status for ex-combatants. These activities included facilitating sentencing in high-priority cases, strengthening the ACR's capacity to identify and return human remains to victims' families, complementing the construction of patterns of macro-criminalization with similar investigations of macro-victimization, and strengthening regional work in the sub-units. The Exhumations sub-unit analyzed 96 DNA samples from victims' remains and family members, identifying 11 samples as compatible. Additionally, 1,500 kits were prepared to identify and take DNA samples, and 1,500 case files were registered in the system.