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The Victim’s Association for Peace and Development, ASVIPAD seeks to promote and contribute to the human, social, economic and cultural development of the victims of the violence that affects Colombia, in particular the political, social and armed conflict, with special emphasis in women and girls, enabling the improvement of their quality of life, the full satisfaction of their rights to truth, justice and reparation in the perspective of peace building and reconciliation.
Consolidate ourselves as a model of grassroot organization of civil society, committed to the integral victims’ rights, supported by the principles of cooperation and solidarity, through which comprehensive psycho-legal accompaniment and support to their life projects are provided to victims and thus contribute to the reconstruction of peace, the social fabric, memory and reconciliation in Colombia.
The Victim’s Association for Peace and Development, ASVIPAD was born in 2005 as a result of the organizational effort of women victims of the armed conflict of different victimizing events, mainly forced displacement with the support of several sister organizations present in the department of Nariño (Southwestern Colombia). Initially, ASVIPAD was a de facto, that is, non-formal organization that emerged within the framework of Law 387 of 1997 or Law to address forced displacement and Decree 250 of 2005, which regulated the formation of a National Table of Organizations of Displaced Population, with the purpose of monitoring and evaluating the policy of comprehensive care for the displaced population. After the enactment of Law 1448 in 2011 (Victims’ Law), other victimizing events than displacement become relevant, such as victims of forced disappearance, victims of sexual violence, etc., who become part of the organization, opting to formalize the ASVIPAD Association, a fact that occurred in August of 2014.
To carry out its mission and social purpose, the Victim’s Association for Peace and Development, ASVIPAD has set out to achieve the following objectives:
The values that guide the work and intervention of the Victim’s Association for Peace and Development, ASVIPAD are the following:
We recognize people and their rights. At ASVIPAD we work for respect as a way of coexistence and enrichment.
External and internal. External: as a projection and agent of social change. Internal: as an element of cohesion of the common project.
We work to help people in vulnerable situations by enhancing their personal capacities and trying to ensure that the benefits reach as many people as possible.
We promote mutual aid and social responsibility in our actions as an element that helps us advance as specie towards the common welfare.
We work with honesty, transparency and responsibility, ensuring that our interventions do not cause harm (Do-no-harm approach).
We integrate equal opportunities between women and men in the organization and in our actions through affirmative actions as a basic and transversal principle.
