ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses four main strategies developed by the reintegration programmes in Colombia to fulfill the short- and long-term income-generation needs of the demobilised: the provision of basic education; the short-term aid (provision of cash handouts and monthly allowances); strategies for long-term economic income (vocational training, education, support for employment or creating businesses); and an appeal to the private sector. Despite enormous institutional efforts, the economic outlook of ex-combatants is for low-income and informal work; however, recidivism is not necessarily their preferred response, nor is it because of poor results in their economic reintegration.
