# **<u>Bogotá</u>**

|**Initiatives from the city hall**|**Initiatives from the private**<br>**sector**|**University based initiatives**|**Other initiatives**|
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|**Secretaría de Hacienda del Distrito**<br>(equivalent to the finance ministry at local<br>level) has undertaken an interesting<br>exercise of collecting economic data since<br>1996 on three major economic issues:<br>social development, economic actuality<br>and city development, all three in terms of<br>financial structure. The approach taken by<br>SHD when designing and developing city<br>indicators is based on a “_goal oriented_<br>_budget methodology_” which analyzes not<br>only tax entries and program allocation,<br>but also concrete results in each sector<br>according to established public policies.<br>http://www.shd.gov.co|**Bogotá como vamos?**<br>It is a partnership between four private<br>Bogotá based companies aware of their<br>city, namely El Tiempo (Colombia's<br>largest newspaper), Bogotá’s Chamber of<br>Commerce, Corona’s Foundation<br>The project carries out periodic survey on<br>how the local government is performing<br>and produces a report presented publicly<br>analyzing the performance of local. This<br>exercise has become an important tool for<br>citizens as well as for public servants in<br>working together on improving specific<br>areas of public administration. Annual<br>management cost of Bogotá Como Vamos<br>is US$ 100,000, including US$ 30,000 for<br>the survey itself.|**Red Bogotá**<br>**I**t is a program from the Arts Faculty of<br>the National University in Bogotá that<br>focuses on research, public presentations<br>and analysis of the city and its dynamics.<br>In order to produce its analysis and<br>research it has indicators in the following<br>topics: Education, health, housing, public<br>services,<br>environment,<br>transportation,<br>public space, vulnerability groups, and<br>citizens’ safety.<br>www.redBogotá.com<br>|Bogotá’s District and the Department of<br>Cundinamarca (Bogotá is also its capital)<br>created**the regional planning table.**To<br>achieve competitiveness for the city,<br>economic data was analyze according to<br>the<br>following<br>indicators:<br>distribution<br>between population and economic activity,<br>productivity<br>and<br>competitive<br>region,<br>Environmental sustainability, Coverage<br>and quality of physical infrastructures and<br>social<br>services,<br>Social<br>cohesion:<br>governance,<br>conflicts<br>and<br>poverty,<br>Institutional<br>development<br>and<br>local<br>governments financing<br>http://www.regionBogotácundinamarca.org|
||www.Bogotácomovamos.org|||
|**Bogotá’s**<br>**Planning**<br>**Department**<br>**–**<br>**DAPD:**has been in charged of collecting<br>information<br>and<br>producing<br>reports<br>according to 2002 city Accord on sixteen<br>(16) city indicators: Life expectancy at<br>birth, Mortality rate per 1,000 inhabitants,<br>Deficit of appropriate housing, Deficit of<br>housing, Housing coverage of waste<br>management system, Electricity housing<br>coverage , Gas housing coverage ,<br>Percentage of informal work, rate of<br>unemployment, Index of basic unsatisfied<br>needs,<br>Human<br>development<br>index,<br>Human<br>development<br>index,<br>Living<br>conditions index, Poverty index, BIP<br>index, Number of telephone lines per<br>1,000 inhabitants.<br>www.dapd.gov.co<br>||**Los Andes University:**The faculty of<br>Management<br>has<br>carried<br>out<br>some<br>consultancies for the District's Health<br>Secretary for about US$ 10,000, with a<br>focus on measuring citizens' perceptions<br>about the public health system. The<br>Health Secretary has manifested his<br>intention to repeat this exercise annually.<br>An interesting aspect of the survey is that<br>it goes well beyond the Health Sector and<br>asks questions on quality of life and even<br>spirituality, which can provide interesting<br>material for new research on urban<br>matters.||

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