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USAID’s Regional Governance Consolidation Program inColombia, known as CIMIENTOS, helped build local capacityin public administration, health and education, working in 21municipalities that had been conict zones during the civil war.The MSI-implemented project ensured that women played a keyrole in local planning and rebuilding eorts and was based on alocal partnership model that cultivated community buy-in.

MSI experts helped mobilize and strengthen local grassrootssocial organizations and regional- and national-level organizationto instill best practices in isolated and underdeveloped territories

The projects funded 129 projects to improve infrastructure ineducation and health, bringing together government ocials andcommunity members. A total of 124,026 Colombians directlybeneted from these projects, of which 50% were women, 11%afro-Colombians, 6% internally displaced persons and 3%indigenous. 

Our approach to building local capacity was based uponworking with local partners and responding to emerging needs.It generated trust among participating communities and localauthorities, dispelling fears of reprisals for working with a foreignaid program. 

CIMIENTOS´s operational approach made it possible to workwhere no previous Government of Colombia agency hadestablished a presence in rural villages, such as El Tarra, LaVega de San Antonio, La Gabarra, San Juancito, San PabloSan José del Tarra, and Culebritas.

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 BUILDING CAPACITY IN THE

MOST ISOLATED COLOMBIAN

COMMUNITIES

KEY RESULTSKEY RESULTS

129 cimientos funded 

124,026colombians directly benefited

from cimientos funded projects

projects

to improve infrastructure in education  and health, bringing together government officials  and  community  members

50% of cimientos project

beneficiaries  are  women 

 as  a  result, on the 2010 national test, average  scores in montes de maria  in  almost   all subjects were  above the national  average .

cimientos trained 9,981 students  and  1,041 teachers 

to improve scores  and  teaching.

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OUR REACHOUR REACH

INCREASING MUNICIPAL

RANKINGS AND INCOME REVENUE

MSI experts’ training and technical

assistance resulted in 18 local

governments increasing their score on

the Municipal Performance Index and

Ranking, an annual evaluation by the

Government of Colombia. The indexmeasures progress made in health and

education, the quantity of resources

invested, the state of municipal nances

and other factors. Read about a

municipal’s index success to the left. 

When the project started, local

governments relied on national

resources or royalties for 80 percent

of their budget. The majority of

municipalities did not even collect local

revenues. The project helped update

municipal revenue codes and establish

tax and revenue collection procedures,

resulting in 21 municipalities increasing

their own sources of income. 

The average increase of sources of

income since CIMIENTOS was 20

percent in Bajo and Medio Atrato region,

55 percent in Catatumbo,16 percent

in Sierra Nevada, and 60 percent in

Montes de María. Municipal revenues

increased dramatically in Acandí (47%),

Hacarí (91%), La Playa (134%), Ocaña

(74%), San Onofre (100%) and San

Juan del Cesar (65%).

ENHANCING SECURITY OF

CITIZENS THROUGH TRAINING

 AND PLANNING

In 29 municipalities, municipal security

councils and national police, the Army,

the Navy, Family Commissions, and

other local institutions were trained

on the program´s planning method,

acquiring tools to plan, manage and

respond to citizen security needs. Mor

than 25 mayors were empowered as

the lead authorities delegated with

municipal policing functions working

in coordination with the police and the

armed forces.

CIMIENTOS and Corporación Infancia y

Desarrollo organization helped design amethodology for improving institutional

response and management of intra-

family violence in Catatumbo and

Montes de Maria. The Ministry of Interio

and Justice of Colombia adopted this

method for strengthening the Family

Commissions and the ministry´s

nationwide work to prevent and manag

domestic violence.

With our support, the National Registra

provided identity cards to 19,314 peop

in Catatumbo and Bajo and Medio

 Atrato, making them ocial citizens

with access to social services such as

health, education and housing.

IMPROVING HEALTH AND

EDUCATION

More than 4,500 people were trained

in the management and monitoring of

healthcare delivery, and 9,374 people

in isolated rural areas received medical

attention through USAID-funded health

brigades.

In the 21 municipalities, MSI sta traine

9,981 students and 1,041 teachers to

improve scores and teaching on nationa

standardized tests As a result, on the

2010 national test, average scores in

Montes de Maria in almost all subjects

were above the national average. In

Chocó, the two schools in Carmen de

 Atrato achieved the highest scores of

the whole department.

THE CASE OF SAN CALIXTO 

When CIMIENTOS started in 2007,

the municipality of San Calixto was

considered a “presence of illegal

armed groups” that had “banned

community meetings and threatened

the lives of local authorities.” 

San Calixto’s Municipal Performance

Index ranking went from 1,098,

making it the lowest-ranked

municipality in the whole country,

to 404th, the highest jump in this

period.

CIMIENTOS built local capacity in

San Calixto, providing social audits

to ambulance service and general

medical services, assisting family

commissions and establishing youth

municipal councils.