The Minister of the Interior and of Justice and SENA's Director sign an Agreement for the Reinserted

* The programem for the Reincorporation to the Civil Life from the Ministry of the Interior and of Justice and SENA make official their compromises through a framework agreement that guarantees the cover of the educative benefit for the individual and collective demobilized individuals.

The two institutions jointly take care of the population in process of reincorporation, in an articulated way and with common objectives. This commitment arises from the objective to offer adjusted attention to the necessities of the Program for the Reincorporation, through 114 SENA's centers of formation distributed in the national territory.

It is of vital importance to positionate the institutional will power to leave a legacy to the country that concretes the educative service and guarantees an optimal management.

The agreement will allow:

1. To Strength the formation actions for the reincorporated population.
2. To offer clear policies about the process of attention to the population in process of reincorporation.
3. To combine efforts for the accompaniment and monitoring that guarantees the formation for the pursuit of life, employment and productivity.
4. To contribute to the elaboration of productive projects as an alternative to improve the opportunities of the population and to facilitate its labor insertion.
5. To guarantee the cover of the Initial Module.

The Compromises of the Programme for the Reincorporation and of SENA will be framed in:

1. To jointly organize the coordinator committee: to manage, define and to approve projects and operative plans.
2. To jointly organize the Regional Operative Committee: elaboration of operative plans.
3. To coordinate actions of planification, programation, execution and necessary monitoring at national level.

Since the year 2003, SENA comes working in the attention of this population and is like this that, as to this date, have been formed more than 8 thousand reinserted persons, out of which 4 thousand correspond to this year.

Among the courses imparted are automotive mechanics, electricity, electronic, confections, Pisciculture, cattle ranching, construction of rural housing, administration of cattle ranch farms, minor species and transformation of cattle ranch related products, among others.

The courses have a length of 500 to 600 hours, and are imparted by SENA's instructors at national level, but they are specially focus in the departments of Antioquia, Córdoba, and Bogotá, where the greatest number of demobilized persons are registered.

 

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