Fourth Report: Impact and Sustainability of Collective Reparations (2007–2011)

The Collective Reparations Program (PRC) has been implemented since June 2007 as part of the Comprehensive Reparations Plan (PIR), contained within the Recommendations of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR). It was in that same year that our monitoring work on this policy of attention to victims began, focusing on communities affected by the internal armed conflict in the Andean and Amazonian areas of Peru. This report covers four years of implementation, a period whose close coincides with the change of the central government responsible for executing it. The change of authorities at the executive level may imply a change in approach and strategy, although it should not necessarily diminish the importance of attention to victims. In the first part, we will present the overall figures for projects executed during all the years in which this Program has been implemented (from June 2007 to May 2011), based on the population centers prioritized each year and the approved projects. This information gives us an overall picture of how much this program has cost, which departments it has covered, and how it has been implemented. In the second part, we will present information obtained from beneficiaries of 15 population centers prioritized over these 4 years. It documents how many people in the collected sample know about the project, what level of participation they had in defining it, and whether it is perceived by community members as a genuine reparation for the harm suffered due to the violence.