Multi-level governance in Colombia

This chapter highlights the importance of effective and efficient multi-level governance to enhance national development outcomes for citizens and businesses. The chapter highlights the history of Colombia’s approach to multi-level governance, noting the commitment of the central government to decentralisation through the political and fiscal empowerment of sub-national authorities since 1991. The chapter suggests that Colombia build on its successes in this area by focussing on ways to link national and regional strategy-setting and implementation more explicitly in the pursuit of development outcomes, and by building capacity sub-nationally to ensure vertical coherence so that all levels of government can contribute effectively and efficiently to addressing regional disparities and persistent poverty.