13 access to health services for the displaced through the hospitals of Turbo and Apartadó, that health brigades have been implemented and that medicines were made available to the community that returned to the area. 67. The State indicates that it provided technical and financial support for the implementation of the following phases in the return to the area: (i) exploration, on October 13, 1999; (ii) reconnoiter, in December 1999; (iii) first phase, on February 28, 2000; (iv) the second, on October 13, 2000; and (v) the third and last, between December 2000 and March 1, 2001. It indicates that the conditions for the following stages for return were prepared in the first phases, with regard to the clearing and planting of crops, identification of sites and the start of construction of provisional dwellings in the new settlements. It indicates that in the last phases, there was a continuation of the projects for housing, production and all other activities required for this community’s reestablishment after four years of displacement. 17 68. The State points out that it lent support for the return and prior to the second stage of the return, Social Action supported the family reintegration phase of the displaced community settled in Bahía Cupica with their family members and friends settled in Turbo in September 2000. On this 18 occasion, 201 people relocated. In addition, it indicates that the humanitarian aid provided by the Social Solidarity Network to enable the return and its consolidation amounted to approximately 19 $52,186,220,648.12. 69. It also points out that in 2004, it provided humanitarian aid to ten Colombian families who were living in Jaqué – Panama, and who were voluntarily repatriated to the land in Nueva Vida. It indicates that the State’s actions were not limited to the area and that Social Action provided assistance 20 to the entire community living in the Cacarica basin. However, it stresses that the CAVIDA community refrained from participating, considering it a risk factor for their integrity. 70. It indicates that in 1998, Social Action developed the project “Sanitation and housing improvement in the Cacarica river basin”, to provide 418 families with a $900,000,000 grant for which the Comision Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz would be responsible. It indicates that 147 families benefitted from the settlement project. 71. The State points out that in December 1999, the Colombian Institute for Agrarian Reform (INCORA) conveyed the collective title of an area of 103,024 hectares with 3,202 square meters, in the jurisdiction of the Riosucio Municipality, Chocó Department, to the Supreme Community Council of Black Communities of Cacarica. It indicates that this ownership was transferred to 23 Cacarica communities, consisting of 710 families and 3,840 persons, in a ceremonial act in the Turbo Stadium. The State also stresses that it lent agricultural aid to persons in a displaced state. …continuation including transport. It indicates that both at the Turbo Stadium and at Lodging No. 1, the State supported minimum works for basic sanitation (draining and conduction of sewage waters) for the amount of $5'250,048. It indicates that as from February 1999 (including late due payments) and until March 2001, payment for water and electricity services provides by CONHYDRA and EADE to the settlements at the Turbo Stadium was made for the amount of $68,233,062. Note of the Foreign Ministry, August 27, 2009, para. 103. 17 It indicates that the support consisted inter alia in the delivery of personal hygiene kits, implements for eating, habitat and kitchen for the amount of $172,676,618; gas and transport, including the hiring of boats for the amount of $81,510,369; repairs (in three occasions) of boats and motors for $27,442,161; and the supply of tools and materials for the household and farm work for the amount of $40,056,933. Note of the Foreign Ministry, August 27, 2009, para. 106. 18 The State clarifies that it amounted to $83,551,875. Note of the Foreign Ministry, August 27, 2009, para. 106. 19 It indicates that it is equivalent to more than USD$ 1,000,000. Note of the Foreign Ministry, August 27, 2009, para. 108. 20 It indicates that the Center for the Coordination of Comprehensive Action organized two days of comprehensive assistance in 2005 and one in 2006, in which medical-surgical attention, food, medicines and psycho-social attention were provided; in coordination with the Community-Habitat-Finances (CHF) organization schools were built in the corregimientos of Bogota (1), San Higinio (1) and El Limón (1), among others; 150 temporary lodgings were built in San Higinio, Bocas del Limón, La Tapa, Puente América, Santa Lucia, and Barranquilla. It indicates that one of the families residing in Nueva Vida was a beneficiary of these activities.

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