This Policy Brief argues that successful initiatives to tackle Cali’s exceptionally high homicide rates also have potential for local economic development, and suggests ways that the significant value-added by informal enterprises can be harnessed to achieve wider economic objectives. It examines innovations in supporting micro- enterprise and crime reduction in Cali and the lessons for local economic development (LED), local government policy and NGO agendas.
The brief draws on…

This publication shows how addressing land issues can mitigate conflict, facilitate solutions to it, improve the likelihood that people can return to their homes after the violence is over, and contribute to peace overall.

Systematization of the institutional capacities, governance, and planning strengthening processes.

The Colombian legal-urban framework is a robust and complex structure of tools that seek to meet land’s “social and ecological function”, defined by Colombia’s 1991 Constitution. It has become a renowned example in Latin America, as it introduces many different principles and tools that other countries in the region had not implemented or utilized.
The strengthening of urban development and territorial planning as key elements in the overall development of Colombia has led to the…

This report is a photograph of the socio-economic situation of young people in the cities of Colombia. It serves as an input for the discussion, analysis and reflection, about public policies focused on this population.

Tendencias de largo plazo sobre conurbación y desarrollo urbano muestran que en vez de dispersarse aleatoriamente sobre el territorio, la población y la actividad económica en el mundo están cambiando y concentrándose en grandes centros. Estos centros se encuentran muchas veces constituidos, además de las ciudades, por los municipios cercanos a las mismas, conformando de esta manera lo que conocemos actualmente como las áreas metropolitanas.

This is about the impact of climate change on urban residents in Colombia

El Libra Blanco de la Seguridad y la Convivencia de Medellín es una herramienta de gobernanza mediante la cual se pretende identificar las problemáticas sociales e institucionales que inciden en el aumento de los índices de violencia.

Excluded from the city's opportunities, physically, politically and economically marginalized, slum dwellers are particularly vulnerable to crime and violence.