Red Unidos (Unidos Network)
Basic Information
Country
Geographic area
Institutions and agencies involved
Programme type
Programme Details
Programme objectives
This programme is an intervention strategy that provides comprehensive and coordinated family and community support to families subject to its intervention and facilitates access of beneficiaries to the offer of State social services, in order to achieve 45 basic goals.
Programme components
i) Acompañamiento Familiar y Comunitario (Family and Community Support); ii) Oferta y Acceso Preferente (Offer and Preferential Access); iii) Fortalecimiento Institucional (Institutional Strengthening); Ingreso para la Prosperidad Social;
Previous programme name (if any)
Juntos Network
Conditionalities (if any)
Ingreso para la Prosperidad Social:
As corresponsabilities, the beneficiary must fulfill the following commitments:
1) Study until reaching a grade in technical/technological formation;
2) Take an active part in social services activities;
3) Fulfill their achievements in the Unidos Network;
4) Save money.
Coverage
Programme expenditure
Budget: Col$ 223,609,411,206;US$ 83,396,144 (2015);
Source of funding: National Government (PGN), Departments and Municipalities;
Targeting and eligiblity
Targeting methods
Target groups
1.5 million families living in extreme poverty and / or in displacement condition.
Eligibility criteria
1) Acompañamiento Familiar y Comunitario (Family and Community Support): All beneficiary households of the programme;
2) Oferta y Acceso Preferente (Offer and Preferential Access): All beneficiary households of the programme;
3) Fortalecimiento Institucional (Institutional Strengthening): All municipalities involved
4) Ingreso para la Prosperidad Social: Heads of household or their spouses, aged between 18 to 35 years old, with schooling between 5th and 11th grade, who do not have formal employment.
Coverage and other information
Type of benefits
Cash; Family and Community Support; Preferential access to social services and programmes provided by the State; Institutional Strengthening;
Amount of benefits
Ingreso para la Prosperidad Social: Minimum amount of Col$ 250,000 bimonthly and maximum of Col$ 300,000;
Payment/delivery frequency
Benefit recipients
Minimum and maximum duration of benefits (if any)
Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms and frequency
Registry of recipients: Information system SIUNIDOS
Legal Framework
Social Conpes Document 102 (2006); National Development Plan (2006-2010) Community State: Development for All. Law 1785 of the 21st of June, 2016 through which a network to abolish extreme poverty is established - Unidos Network and other provisions.
MIS
Registry of recipients: Information system SIUNIDOS
