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ECLAC Continues Interweaving Territorial Linkages in Colombia

31 Mar 2021 | News

In March 2021, ECLAC’s office in Colombia held a virtual workshop offering training and capacity building to leaders and organizations from the four municipalities of southern Tolima department, a region that is involved in the Territorial Approach Development Programs (PDET). The workshop consisted of five collective work modules that brought together women’s organizations, producer associations, mayor’s offices and municipal secretariats, universities, youth groups, NGOs and foundations that work in that territory, among others. The event is part of a journey that began in 2020 during the lo…

ECLAC Promotes Territorial and Sustainable Dialogue between Actors in Colombia

12 Mar 2020 | News

ECLAC’s Office in Bogotá, in the framework of the project Territorial linkages for inclusive development in Colombia, carried out three events among different actors to promote knowledge and dialogue. In these spaces, participants identified sustainable initiatives that connect rural-urban spaces, and they explored what kinds of ties, relations, interdependencies, alliances and networks exist in these territories, along with the reasons for their emergence and ways of further strengthening them. The National Seminar on Territorial Linkages – held in Bogotá on August 29-30, 2019 – drew the part…

ECLAC Promotes in Colombia the Strengthening of Policies for Inclusive Territorial Development

17 Jun 2019 | News

The isolation of territories and populations in Colombia has left them excluded from pathways to progress, given the entrenched urban bias of development. Contributing to this is the country’s complex geography, the weakness of the State (aggravated by the armed conflict), weak institutional capacities for managing local development, and the sectoral and functional fragmentation of policies. For these reasons, ECLAC’s Office in Bogotá has been implementing since 2018 the project “Rural-urban linkages for inclusive development in Colombia”, which is part of the United Nations Development Accou…

ECLAC Study Classifies Colombia’s Provinces According to their Rurality and Connections

15 Mar 2017 | News

A new study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) proposes a methodology for classifying Colombia’s provinces according to their degree of urbanization or rurality, and their integration with markets and main hubs, since grouping these territorial units into homogeneous categories can contribute to improving the efficiency of public policies aimed at rural development. The document Territorial Configuration of Colombia’s Provinces: Rurality and Networks, produced by ECLAC’s Office in Bogota, analyzes the characteristics of Colombian provinces along with the pro…

Science, Technology and Innovation Factor is Increasingly Important in Regional Competitiveness in Colombia

20 Jun 2016 | News

The latest edition of the report Competitiveness Ranking for the Departments of Colombia (Spanish only), a periodic publication of the Bogota Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), reveals the growing importance of factors related to human capital and science, technology and innovation in the configuration of regional competitiveness. Colombia’s 32 departments progress at different paces and, as a result, some have reached greater economic prosperity and social well-being while others lag behind, said the study, which for the first time incorporates the …

ECLAC Analyzes Social Protection and Access to Public Goods and Services in Colombia’s Rural Areas

1 Mar 2016 | News

Two new documents by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) identify the main gaps in social protection and access to public goods and services in Colombia’s rural areas and make recommendations to help close them. The studies were prepared by ECLAC’s Office in Colombia in the framework of a technical cooperation agreement with the National Department of Planning as a contribution to the Mission for the Transformation of the Countryside, a government initiative that seeks to overcome the limitations that persist in rural areas and to define public policies for that…

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