From Responsibility to Response: Assessing National - Brookings

Benchmark 10 Establish the Conditions and Provide the Means for IDPs to Secure Durable Solutions
Yet, while the government favors return, the vast majority
of IDPs do not intend to return to their places
of origin. To date, the Follow-Up Commission on the
Public Policy of Forced Displacement—mandated by
the Constitutional Court to monitor the government’s
compliance with Decision T-025—has conducted three
statistically rigorous “national verification surveys,”
which include a host of sociodemographic and other
data pertaining to IDPs. 59 According to the Follow-
Up Commission’s third survey, conducted in 2010 (see
figure 1-4 below), the majority of registered and of
nonregistered IDPs indicated that they did not intend
to return. 60 Most IDPs on the outskirts of Cartagena
59 The civil society follow-up commission is a forum
composed of representatives of IDP organizations,
NGOs, indigenous peoples, Afro-Colombian groups and
academia.
60 See further, Comisión de Seguimiento a la Política Pública
sobre el Desplazamiento Forzado, III Encuesta Nacional
139
surveyed by a researcher in 2007 and 2008 said that they
would never return for fear of retribution by nonstate
armed actors, even if those actors were demobilized,
because the actors view fleeing as tantamount to IDPs’
“involvement” with the enemy and guilt. 61 By contrast
much of the national legal and policy framework in
place is geared toward or based on consideration of
return, not alternative solutions.
de Verificación de los Derechos de la Población Desplazada
[Third National Verification Survey on the Displaced
Population], July-August 2010, published December 2010,
p. 39. Available at Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos
y el Desplazamiento (CODHES) “III Informe VCS–09 Dic
10” (www.codhes.org/index.php?option=com_content&t
ask=view&id=39&Itemid=52).
61 Stine Finne Jakobsen, “How to Behave: Advice from
IDPs,” Forced Migration Review—Feature: Armed Non-
State Actors and Displacement, no. 37, March 2011, p. 24
(www.fmreview.org/non-state.pdf).
Figure 1-4. IDP families’ intention to return, stay or resettle, 2010 (percentage)
Intention Total Registered Unregistered
Return to municipality of origin
5.8
5.7
6.1
Coefficient of variation
Resettle in another municipality
Coefficient of variation
Resettle out of country
Coefficient of variation
Stay in this city
Coefficient of variation
Not specified
Coefficient of variation
Source: Adapted from Cuadro 4 [Table 4], p. 39, in Comisión de Seguimiento a la Política Pública sobre el Desplazamiento Forzado, III Encuesta Nacional de
Verificación de los Derechos de la Población Desplazada [Third National Verification Survey on the Displaced Population], July-August 2010, published
December 2010. Available at Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento (CODHES) “III Informe VCS–09 Dic 10” (www.codhes.org/
index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=52).
5.2
10.2
3.9
2.0
9.1
72.7
0.8
9.3
4.1
5.8
10.4
4.2
2.1
9.7
72.4
0.9
9.4
4.4
12.6
9.4
10.0
1.6
25.3
74.0
1.9
9.0
10.3