Committee for Risk Assessment and Recommendation of Measures, the purpose of which
is “the comprehensive assessment of the risk [and] the recommendation of measures of
protection and complementary measures.”
2) Ministry of Defense: through the National Police and the 17th Brigade of the National
Army, which have permanent jurisdiction in the area that includes the communities of the
Jiguamiandó and of the Curvaradó, and which provide them with perimeter security.
3) Presidential Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Program: is
responsible for the official communication channel with the civil, military and police
authorities in the area, responding to the situations of risk that are reported to it through
the liaison mechanism established with the members of the communities of Jiguamiandó
and Curvaradó, the Comisión lntereclesial de Justicia and Paz, as representative of the
beneficiaries of these provisional measures, and the Ombudsman’s Office, among others,
“in order to request verification of the incidents denounced and the adoption of the
pertinent measures by the competent authorities, providing an immediate response, in
real time, to the situation reported […].”
4) Other agencies: in the context of compliance with the decisions of the Constitutional
Court, particularly in relation to the “elaboration of the Comprehensive Prevention,
Protection and Attention Plan,” other State authorities and entities have also been
involved; they include the Governor’s Office of the department of Chocó and the
respective municipal authorities, the Administrative Department for Social Prosperity,
through the Unit for Attention to and Integral Reparation of Victims, and the Ministry of
Agriculture-INCODER.
E.1.3. Mechanism for coordinating the different Government authorities and
agencies
34.
The State indicated that the Ministry of the Interior was in charge of coordinating the
respective entities responsible for complying with the decisions handed down by the
Constitutional Court with regard to the communities of the Jiguamiandó and of the
Curvaradó. The State underlined that this Ministry heads the Inter-institutional Support
Group for the Land Restitution Process in the Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó River Basins,
established on June 6, 2012, which is composed of different State entities “involved in the
process and in the opportune and adequate institutional response to the communities.” This
mechanism has the international support of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR), among others, which conducts an ongoing evaluation of compliance
with the orders of the Constitutional Court, monitors the implementation of the proposed
work plan, and adjusts and evaluates compliance with the Prevention and Protection Plan,
as well as with the strategies for the institutional response to the decisions of the
Constitutional Court. The State also indicated that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its
Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Directorate, carries out the institutional
coordination of the monitoring and concertation of the provisional measures ordered by the
Inter-American Court.
E.1.4. Individual and collective measures of protection adopted
35.
Colombia indicated that, the collective measures implemented include the provision
of: (1) seven outboard motor boats; (2) 70 mobile communication networks; (3) 33 satellite
communication antennas, and (4) three satellite telephones. It also mentioned that it had
implemented individual measures in favor of 73 “beneficiaries from the Jiguamiandó and
Curvaradó river basins,” and listed their names. These measures included: (1) support for
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