Achieving strategic vertical and horizontal investment co-ordination in Colombia

Colombia has developed a sophisticated planning framework to guide investment priorities, at both the national and subnational levels. The challenges lie in the effective implementation of the plans and their links with budgeting. These limitations have been tackled seriously and several reforms to improve the implementation of these plans are currently being put in place. Supporting a more strategic approach to public investment requires moving away from a strict project-based approach. This implies greater horizontal co-operation across jurisdictions to invest at the relevant scale, and improved vertical co-ordination with the national government, to foster matching investment schemes and aligning priorities. This chapter will focus on ways to strengthen co-ordination across sectors, jurisdictions and levels of government, which corresponds to the first pillar of the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Effective Public Investment across Levels of Government.