This review was produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, within the series of OECD Urban Policy Reviews as part of the Programme of Work of the OECD Regional Development Policy Committee (RDPC). The project was made possible thanks to the financial and technical support from the Ministry of Housing, City and Territory of Colombia, in collaboration with the National Planning Department.
The OECD Secretariat is grateful to Jonathan Malagón González, Minister of Housing, Cities and Territory; Carlos Alberto Ruiz Martínez; Vice-Minister of Housing; and to the co-ordinating team led by Camilo Quiroz Hinojosa and his predecessor Nicolás Galarza Sánchez, with the excellent support from Giovanni Adolfo Arenas, María Angélica Bernal Pedraza, Elisa Isaza Bernhard, Jesús David García Quintero, Norma Janeth Gómez Cáceres, Juan Sebastian Herrera Zapata, Andrea Niño González, Lily Andrea Torres Hernández, and Juliana Elena Oyaga Pava, for their support and engagement in the project. The Secretariat would also like to acknowledge the numerous representatives from the national and municipal governments, civil society and academia who shared perspectives with the OECD team throughout an 18-month policy dialogue that included two fact-finding missions (8-18 March and 6-13 July 2021), an international peer learning workshop (27 October 2021) and two policy dialogue webinars on the main findings of the review (29-30 November 2021). Special thanks go to Carolina Van der Huck and José Antonio Pinzón from the National Planning Department for their insights. Warm thanks are due to the Colombian Association of Capital Cities (AsoCapitales) for its support in the dissemination of the OECD Survey on Urban Development in Colombia 2021. The Secretariat is also grateful to H.E. Adriana Mejía Hernández, Ambassador of Colombia to the OECD, and the team at the Permanent Delegation of Colombia to the OECD, for their support and assistance.
The review benefitted from the engagement of international peer reviewers, whose insights are gratefully acknowledged: Carlos Marambio and Enrique Matuschka Aycaguer, Ministry of Housing and Urbanisation, Chile; Wiktoria Saganowska, Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy, Poland; Richard Duckworth, Kurt Usowski, and B. Aaron Weaver, Department of Housing and Urban Development, United States; as well as Luis Miguel Triveno Chan Jan, Alexandra Ortíz, and Vanessa Velasco Bernal, World Bank; and Héctor Donado, Silvia Duque, Fernando Páez Mendieta, Natalia Senejoa, and Gorka Zubicaray, World Resources Institute.
This report was co-ordinated by Oscar Huerta Melchor and drafted by a team composed of Oscar Huerta Melchor, Catherine Paquette, and Camille Viros, under the supervision of Soo-Jin Kim, Deputy Head of the Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division, and Aziza Akhmouch, Head of the Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division in the CFE. Special thanks are due to Laura Nardelli, Lucie Amour and Claudia Paupe for their outstanding administrative and logistical support. The report was edited and formatted by Eleonore Morena and received editorial input from Pilar Philip who prepared the manuscript for publication.