Within the framework of the advanced surveillance of the School Feeding Program, the First Delegate Attorney General’s Office for the Preventive Surveillance of the Public Service sent letters alerting the risk of continuity in 35 territorial entities, due to the fact that to date they have expired or upcoming contracts. to expire, a situation that, in addition to affecting the continuity of the service in these, puts at risk the right to food of more than 652,964 children and adolescents.
The entities that are in this situation are Sabaneta, Sogamoso, Zipaquirá and Cartago since they ended their contract in March. A similar situation occurs with Amazonas, Bello, La Estrella, Soledad, Cartagena, Duitama, Florencia, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Fusagasugá, Villavicencio, Norte de Santander, San Andrés and Providencia, Barrancabermeja, Bucaramanga, Girón, Piedecuesta, Ibagué, Cali and Valle del Cauca where some contracts have already ended and others are about to end in this month of April.
Added to the critical situation of uncertainty in the continuity of the PAE are the municipalities and departments of Itagüí, Bolívar, Boyacá, Casanare, Funza, Girardot, Mosquera, Magdalena, Nariño, Putumayo and Vichada, where the contracts end in the month of May. .
These statistics originate from reports made by officials of the same Certified and non-certified Territorial Entities, the Special Administrative Unit for School Feeding – UAPA -, attorney offices and legal entities that provide data collected in visits and field work.
Given the worrying panorama, the office of the delegated attorney’s office requested information from the respective authorities about the status and/or progress of the new contractual processes, recommending that the contracts signed guarantee the provision of the service for the remainder of the school calendar to avoid continuity risks.
Likewise, the control entity required the entities to provide the operational, technical and legal reasons why, in the cases in which the contracts ended, the corresponding process has not yet begun.
