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Preparing for the resettlement During the process, the CVP performed various activities to help households resettle. These included preparing family life plans—in which the beneficiaries described their current living conditions, actions and commitments for resettlement, enrollment of children in schools, and preparations for buying their replacement houses. Further, since most replacement houses could be expanded or improved, the CVP provided training on different types of construction, along with information on procedures to obtain building permits. Using the services of the local hospital and under the umbrella of the basic sanitation and urban agriculture project, the Health Secretariat offered day courses on environmental sanitation, food security, household hygiene, safe water, urban agriculture and family vegetable gardens and orchards. Environmental education In coordination with DPAE, the District Environment Secretariat (Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente) carried out a pilot project for vulnerable segments of the population in Nueva Esperanza to instruct them to serve as environmental lookouts in the high-risk zone and surrounding areas. A total of 135 people, from both the population to be resettled and other neighbors, were selected, trained in risk prevention and mitigation, and environmental restoration, and certified. They included female heads of households, people displaced by armed conflict, the unemployed, and parents of families with numerous children, who were paid for attending the courses and for the activities they performed, and still work in the area. Also, workshops and activities were also held on other environmental topics and reforestation days were held for children. Peaceful co-existence The CVP organized one-day “peaceful co-existence” courses, which established rules of behavior for relating to neighbors and the community, and for managing public and private areas. The guidelines for harmonious living are regarded as essential for preparing families for resettlement and evolve into useful tools for helping households integrate with the city and new neighborhood. Restoring social services The CVP coordinated with the Education Secretariat (Secretaría de Educación) about the enrollment of resettled children in their new neighborhood schools. Disabled children were enrolled in special schools. Further, the population was cross-checked against the identification/classification System for Potential Beneficiaries of Social Programs (Sistema de Identificación y Clasificación de Potenciales Beneficiarios para Programas Sociales, SISBEN) when the resettlement activities were prepared, and children under four, along with the disabled and elderly, were included in the District’s social programs. 8. Rehabilitation and Restoration of High-risk Lots The goals of the rehabilitation plan were to restore environmentally friendly conditions on the at-risk land and generate effective controls over new attempts to occupy lots. The plan involved incorporating the lots into the Entre Nubes District Ecological Park (PEDEN), one of the city’s ecological structures. Once the resettled families turned over their original properties and signed documents to this effect, the CVP referred the records to DPAE, which handled the demarcation and rehabilitation, and to the local mayor’s office, to ensure that controls would be in place to prevent new settlements. According to the CVP’s report on the status of 1,197 properties, 1,170 were demolished and the land restored, as of March 2010. The environmental lookouts participated in the work. The process involved fencing off the areas, demolishing houses, collecting debris (1,014 tons of solid waste were collected during this time), preparing the soil for planting trees and shrubs (12,643 trees and 952 plants), restoring the surface soil on slopes, and recovering 5,583 meters of rainwater and sewage. 9. Post-resettlement Stage The post-resettlement stage, managed by the CVP, was aimed at monitoring and following up the resettled population, ensuring that good quality of life conditions 78 Preventive Resettlement of Populations at Risk of Disaster: Experiences from Latin America
were maintained. The teams of professionals coordinated with other entities to provide education and training programs and encourage beneficiaries to use utilities efficiently, pay the bills punctually, progressively develop their houses, improve their management skills, and assume responsibility for looking after their houses and public spaces. They also ensured the resettled families were effectively connected with the basic social services network (health care, education, welfare and incomegenerating projects). The CVP established a post-resettlement assistance period to be conducted for 12 months, with the following goals: ■■ ■■ Boosting self-management capacity for integration into urban life; Enrolling 100 percent of the school-age population in the educational system; ■■ ■■ ■■ ■■ Providing 100 percent of the population access to health care; Providing care for 100 percent of the disabled; Providing care for 100 percent of the elderly; Supporting income-generation projects. 10. Cost The total investment in the resettlement program and the activities related to restoring the reclaimed land from 2004-2009 was US$17 million. According to the CVP, the average cost of a house, including the social, technical and legal assistance per household, was US$15,121. No estimate was made of education and social integration costs (see Table 5.8). Table 5.8. Total Cost of Resettlement* Investment Program Institution Cost (US Dollars) in Millions Source Resettling households CVP 15.0 Resetlement Directorate, Sub Directorate of Finance and Planning Advisory Office CVP Improving habitats District Health Secretary Hospital Rafael Uribe Uribe 0.17 Sanitation Directorate Hospital Rafael Uribe Uribe Identifying at-risk households FOPAE 0.23 Ecosistems Directorate District Environment Secretariat Recovering degraded land environmentally Recovering degraded land environmentally Improving resettled households’ productive activities District Department of Environment Local Development Fund Rafael Uribe Uribe CVP Secretariat of Economic Development IPES Total cost 17.04 *Cut off date: December 31,2009 Source: CVP, 2010 0.59 FOPAE Ecosistems Directorate District Environment Secretariat 0.21 Ecosistems Directorate District Environment Secretariat 0.84 Ecosistems Directorate District Environment Secretariat 11. Main Challenges The implementation of a resettlement program is not free from problems and obstacles. Table 5.9 summarizes the main issues, such as the intervention of third parties interested in obtaining personal benefits, the fear of the head of household to provide some information, the lack of legal tools to solve some problems, and problems with host populations. Table 5.9 also shows how the inter-institutional and inter-sectoral actions, as well as the CVP management, were key to overcoming the problems. Chapter 5 Nueva Esperanza: A Resettlement Case with Risk Management and Land Use Planning Approach | Colombia | 79
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