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Culture and the Creative Economy in Colombia

Leveraging the Orange Economy

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In 2017, Colombia launched a novel public policy to stimulate the creative economy, building on the success of previous policy initiatives to support the cultural and creative sectors. The Orange Economy policy is unique for its transversal approach to supporting the creative economy and mainstreaming culture across diverse policy portfolios, beyond cultural policy. The report provides a comparative overview of Colombia’s culture and creative sectors relative to OECD peers and reviews progress in policy implementation. It provides a specific focus on Colombia’s push to foster creative districts as tool for local development across the country, including policy examples based on nine districts across the globe. The report maps the financial ecosystem for the creative economy in Colombia. Recommendations draw on international good practice to suggest ways Colombia can best leverage creative economy opportunities.

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Creative district policy in Colombia

This chapter reviews Colombia’s creative districts policies. A pioneer in the OECD, Colombia’s national creative district strategy encourages subnational governments to develop cluster-based competitive advantage in the creative economy to support local development. The Ministry of Culture is helping build local government capacity to govern, finance and administer districts. In rural areas and less populated municipalities, heritage-based districts are growing, though governance challenges exist. Mainstreaming creative districts into local policy agendas is an opportunity to harness them for development. Municipal funding drives districts revenues, though financial diversification needs are growing.

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