This Disaster Risk Governance Scan of Colombia was prepared under the auspices of the OECD High Level Risk Forum by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance, led by Marcos Bonturi, and with support from Colombia’s National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD), under the leadership of Eduardo José González Angulo and previously Carlos Iván Márquez Pérez.
The project was managed by Catherine Gamper, who co-authored the report with Teresa Maria Deubelli, under the supervision of Stéphane Jacobzone, Deputy Head, Reform of the Public Sector, and Jack Radisch, Senior Project Manager. The Secretariat is grateful for comments and suggestions received from OECD colleagues, including Charles Baubion (Directorate for Public Governance), Leigh Wolfrom (Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs) and Mamiko Yokoi-Arai (Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs). Andres Aponte provided valuable research assistance. The authors benefitted from expertise and insights from Nestor Alfonzo.
The Secretariat would like to thank the team within Colombia’s National Unit for Disaster Risk Management that helped engaged the stakeholders in the National System for Disaster Risk Management and facilitated the information-gathering and fact-checking process. We would like to thank in particular Lina Paola Martínez Fajardo, Maria Jimena Pantoja Castrillon and Antonio Lopez. The OECD Secretariat would like to thank all stakeholders in Colombia’s National System for Disaster Risk Management for their availability and engagement throughout the project (see Chapter 7. Annex A and Chapter 7. Annex B). Their participation in the launch event on 3 May 2018 in Bogota, their input through a series of interviews held in June 2018, as well as their responses to the questionnaire, were essential for this report.
Jennifer Allain edited and prepared the report for publication. Assistance was also provided by Liv Gaunt and Raquel Paramo. The team is very grateful for assistance provided by Elisabeth Huggard and Javier Gonzalez throughout the project.