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508 OF 1999
(July 29)
Official Journal No. 43,651, July 30, 1999
For which the National Development Plan is issued for the years 1999-2002.
COLOMBIA CONGRESS
DECRETA:
TITLE I.
GENERAL PART
ARTICLE 1o. OBJECTIVES OF THE PLAN. The fundamental objective of the National Development Plan is the search and conservation of peace, in order to place the country on a path of sustainable growth with social cohesion. This goal is intended to:
-Promote wealth generation, significantly reduce unemployment rates, reduce poverty, and protect an adequate use of the environment.
-Offer incentives for the social and economic promotion of the population, on an equal footing for the expansion of social opportunities, particularly for the population that is in a position of special vulnerability, due to its socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic, territorial, religious or gender characteristics.
-To contribute to the creation of a culture of peace, which makes us fit for the daily exercise of coexistence in solidarity, tolerance and respect for human rights as a basis for national reconciliation.
-Improve efficiency and equity in the allocation of public resources, taking into account criteria for income and regional and gender redistribution.
The National Development Plan proposes to mobilize society as a whole in accordance with its economic capabilities to ensure that in this four-year period not a single child or child stops attending until the ninth grade of school, that the compulsory affiliation is met, and that the real value of the income is met, the General System of Social Security in Health; so that the members of the subsidized health care system are truly the most disabled; that domestic violence is not tolerated and that better family relationships are maintained; that girls and boys are more protected and better nourished. That better conditions are offered to the disabled.
In order to rebuild the social fabric, the National Development Plan aims to have a profound impact on the access opportunities that the poor and the segments of the low-income population have on essential assets. It is for this reason that in the context of the National Development Plan, the social policy of the State is the way in which the individual accumulation of human capital and the collective formation of the social capital are achieved in a balanced way with the physical, individual and collective accumulation to maximize national development and achieve sustainable economic growth with social cohesion.
It is a question of adopting a State policy on peace that transcends government periods, takes care of the population affected by violence, and incorporates these actions as part of the processes of territorial development management, in the framework of the deepening of decentralization.
The peace policy proposes sectoral investments aimed at improving conditions that strengthen peaceful coexistence and to discourage factors that promote violence in sectors such as agriculture, infrastructure, justice, environment, defense and security, which will be complemented by special measures to combat corruption.
A special plan for economic, social and environmental reconstruction in the conflict-affected areas will be put in place.
PARAGRAFO. The document "Change to Build Peace", prepared by the Presidency of the Republic and the National Planning Department, is incorporated as an annex to this law, with the additions and modifications referred to in the paragraphs of article 1or. of the presentation for the second debate and those adopted in the second debate.
ARTICLE 2o. COFFEE SHAFT RECONSTRUCTION PLAN. Also, as a general part of the Development Plan, relevant strategies will be included for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the community affected by the earthquake of the Coffee Axis, seeking sustainable development, promoting the recovery of the quality of life of its inhabitants and the reinsertion of the region into the national and international economy. These strategies are further developed through the Investment Plan and the implementation mechanisms.
TITLE II.
PUBLIC INVESTMENT PLAN
Projecting financial resources
ARTICLE 3o. SOURCES OF FINANCING FOR THE PUBLIC INVESTMENT PLAN. The 1999-2002 National Public Investment Plan will have a value of sixty-five billion five hundred and sixty billion pesos ($65.56 billion), at constant pesos in 1998, financed as follows:
Sources Income Resources Debt-Other /2 Total
own current uses /1 usage
Nation /3
Investment
Government
Central 0.76 8.29 2.99 12.04
Not Included
Coffee Axis 8.29 2.92 11.21
Coffee Shaft 0.76 0.07 0.83
Investment is-
blasies
public 9.47 9.47
Investment
sector
decentralized 7.03 2.87 0.08 9.99
Transfers
for investment
social 28.31 28.31
Total Sources 29.07 16.50 11.17 3.07 59.81
5.75 Investment Fund for Peace
TOTAL
INVESTMENT PLAN
1999-2002 65.56/4
DNP-UIFP-DEFED
/1 For public establishments, it corresponds to resources administered by the institutions (RAPE).
/2 Are resources from privatizations, portfolio management, etc. In the decentralized sector, it is also up to contributions from entities. It includes capitalization to Telecom's pension fund.
/3 Includes $1,008,712.6 million pesos in 1998 from 2 per thousand for the Coffee Axis and the effect on territorial transfers per fiscal position (24.5%).
/4 Does not include additions to housing and aqueduct and sewer programs.
Description of major investment programs
ARTICLE 4. DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN INVESTMENT PROGRAMMES. The description of the main programs and sub-programs that the National Government hopes to implement in the implementation of the 1999-2002 National Investment Plan is as follows:
1. Viable and participatory status
1.1 Deepening decentralization
The National Government will advance, in a concerted and participatory manner with the territorial entities, the private sector and civil society, a policy of deepening decentralization oriented by the principles of recognition of heterogeneity, flexibility, graduality, harmonious development of the regions, participation of civil society and consolidation of regional and local autonomy.
1.1.1 Territorial order in Colombia
With this program, it is proposed to promote a national and territorial debate, in order to identify the type of order the country requires, to project the economic, social and environmental future, with the participation of civil society. In this regard, it has been foreseen that the Ministry of Interior and the DNP, in coordination with the other ministries, territorial entities and the commissions of the Congress of the Republic, among others, will carry out the following actions:
i) Conforming the Territorial Ordering Commission;
ii) Establish principles and criteria with strategic vision of the country that guide the debate;
iii) Draft the Organic Law of Territorial Ordinance in a participatory manner, and
iv) Formulate a strategy to implement the Territorial Ordering process.
1.1.2 Strengthening the fiscal and institutional management of territorial entities
A fundamental aspect of deepening the process of decentralization and achieving sustainability in the medium and long term is the strengthening of the territorial finances, in order to make them viable entities that ensure their own income and promote regional development. The above requires actions to be carried out via the strengthening of income and the rationalization of expenditure within comprehensive fiscal adjustment strategies. The subprograms associated with this program are as follows:
1.1.2.1 Support and technical assistance at the territorial level in tax and tax matters.
1.1.2.2 Financial support to those territorial entities that commit themselves in the implementation of fiscal adjustment and institutional restructuring measures aimed at ensuring their financial viability and improving their administrative efficiency.
1.1.3 Strengthening the participation of civil society in public management
The objective of this program is to promote the active involvement of civil society in public management, strengthening the effective power of citizens to organize and participate in decision-making, sharing responsibility with private entities in social, economic and environmental development.
1.2 State Modernization
The National Government will induce and implement a unified, coordinated and evaluable process of modernization of the State, which goes beyond one-off programs or projects, legislative reforms, budget cuts, or isolated efforts.
This will be a state policy, a permanent adjustment and rapid adaptation activity that will allow the state to comply fully with its goals.
In this order of ideas, the modernization of the State will involve not only the adoption of policies, but also and simultaneously, the execution of plans and projects with visible and measurable results in the short, medium and long term, under the following criteria: redefinition of the state role; reduction of the duplicity of functions, programs and projects; rationalization of public expenditure; development of the process of decentralization; adequate and efficient provision of services and performance of functions.
In order to modernize tax management in the public service companies, the Comptroller General of the Republic will regulate the matter with a view to eliminating prior control practices and other controls that hinder the efficient management of public service companies. It will be sought for the National Comptroller's Office to have a prevalent control over other territorial comptroller's and to have the same information as the private shareholders according to the Commercial Code.
1.2.1 Anti-Corruption Strategy: Priority in the Consolidation of a Pacific Environment (Major Programs)
1.2.1.1 Decline of impunity in relation to corrupt behaviour
Through the installation of the National Commission for Moralization, created by article 67 of Law 190 of 1995, it seeks to increase the moral costs associated with corrupt practices and to promote the development of codes of ethics within all public sector entities. In addition, complaints and complaints offices and mailboxes will be established, as well as telephone lines for the complaint of crimes against the public administration. In addition, actions to raise awareness and education of the population regarding corruption will be carried out.
The National Government will regulate the form and conditions that will govern the operations between public entities and the entities that mediate in the securities market, in order to realize the value of transparency.
Without prejudice to the provisions of special rules regarding the lack of skills and incompatibilities, in order to ensure the correct application of public resources, the government will issue rules on transparency that will allow for a comprehensive regulation of conflicts of interest in the public sector and in those entities that provide public services.
1.2.1.2 Strengthening Public Management Information and Control Systems
Oriented to increase the probability of effectively discovering the corrupt official, and at the same time to discourage this type of behavior, said strengthening contemplates actions such as the design of indicators of citizen perception on the quality of services and the development of a special training program for State officials, so that they know, internalize and apply the mechanisms and procedures contemplated by Decree 2150 of 1995, Law 190 of 1995 and other tools for institutional modernization. Likewise, technical mechanisms will be established to know the costs of corruption.
1.2.1.3 Anti-Corruption Covenants in Public Procurement
In order to call on civil society in the fight against corruption, adherence to the global program of "Transparency International-Integrity Islands" will be promoted, so that proponents in international and national public tenders will be forced through anti-corruption agreements with personal and economic responsibilities. In addition, greater transparency will be sought when making public information on procurement processes so that the community can exercise real control. Ethical behavior agreements will also be established with the economic associations and the affiliates that contract with the State.
1.2.1.4 Public Investment Results and Management Control Citizens Tips
The presidential program to fight corruption, or who will do its own times, will make up for each department, the Citizens 'Councils for the Control of Management and the Results of Public Investment, IRGC, as the bodies responsible for promoting the effective control of the citizenry over public administration and its results, and for channeling the citizens' initiatives to prevent and control crimes against public administration. Requests from these Councils will have the right of petition. Any public official who does not heed the IRGC's requests will incur a cause of misconduct.
The composition and function of these Councils will be defined by the Government.
At the request of the Citizens ' Councils for Management Control and Results of Public Investment, the entities responsible for the investment projects will promote public pacts for the transparency and efficiency of the execution of the investment. These pacts will involve the public entities that promote them, the contractors and the citizens ' organizations. Its purpose is to establish by consensus the rules of the game that govern the management of programs and investment projects. To this end, they must establish the responsibilities of the social and institutional actors involved, on the technical, social, environmental, financial and administrative aspects required to ensure the efficiency, effectiveness and effectiveness of public investment.
1.2.2 Modernization of the State Financial Administration
It will be sought to modernize, facilitate and streamline the public financial administration; for this it is of particular importance to be able to guarantee the resources necessary for the implementation of the Plan, through the following mechanisms: to make public finances more flexible, to define that the income of an extraordinary character cannot bear permanent expenses because of the risk of causing serious imbalances in public finances; to allow the exchange of sources of financing to be subject to the authorizations of the Congress of the Republic; to point out the financial investments that will be able to to establish an agile procedure to reduce the budget due to the reserves and accounts payable; to define the budgetary scope of contracts with multilateral organizations; to specify the non-profit entities that under Article 355 of the Political Constitution can receive State resources; to determine new mechanisms for participation in infrastructure projects; to point out how to transfer the resources that under Law 226 of 1995 correspond to the territorial entities and specify some procedures for the privatization of the ownership of the State.
The systematized financial and accounting system of the entire state will be developed. The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit will coordinate its implementation.
2. Education
The Plan proposes a great social commitment to education, youth and sport. The government's efforts will focus on five fundamental aspects of the entire national education system: human development, coverage, efficiency, equity and quality.
In coverage, the priority is to increase the enrollment of preschool and middle education levels and to universalize basic education. For this purpose, equity among municipalities will be sought, favoring the poorest; conditions will be created to increase social control and actions of structural transformations in the sector will be brought forward.
Together with increasing coverage, improving the quality of education in the country is a priority objective of the government. The government will give priority attention, in order to improve the quality of education, to the following factors: the accuracy of the guidelines and curriculum standards; the supremacy of the students as a center of the educational process; the qualification and training of the teachers; the increase of the participation of the educational community; the compensation of educational inequalities; the innovation and educational research; the educational and professional orientation; the consolidation of the Education Assessment System and the strengthening of the school institution.
2.1 Basic Education Program
2.1.1 Caminant
The policy of extending coverage is guided by the principles of efficiency and equity. In this context, the Caminante program aims to extend coverage at preschool and middle levels, and universal coverage in basic education. For this purpose, a rationalization programme will be carried out gradually, adjusted to the specific conditions of each territorial entity.
In rural areas, high school programs will be strengthened to provide a link between education and production to children and young people in grades sixth to ninth.
Also, as part of this program, educational opportunities will be offered to populations with disabilities or with exceptional talents and abilities, to young people in extra age and to adult laggards, through alternative forms of care with quality and equity, reducing at one point the national rate of illiteracy of the population of 15 years or more. Educational establishments will be supported to develop pedagogical actions that allow the process of integration of people with physical, sensory, mental or emotional limitations.
2.1.2 The organization of formal education
This program aims to improve the organization of formal education. It will promote the construction of a system that articulates autonomy and cohesion, through the active participation of the educational community in the institutional educational projects and in the curricula, in the framework of the school government, the Board of Directors and the Academic Council.
In addition to the coverage extension goals, the system will be designed to ensure that the student stays from preschool to middle education.
This process of improving the education system-aimed at the school being an organization that learns and adapts to the environment in which it is inserted-will be carried out in order to guarantee the promotion and human development of all children and young people in Colombia. In cases where the best way to achieve these purposes consists of the articulation of different plants, this will be done only with the integration of state plants from preschool to the middle, under a single administration and under a single Board of Directors.
2.1.3 Education is quality
The plan aims to provide quality education to all Colombians in development of the education goals contained in article 5or. of the General Law of Education, namely: the full development of the personality; the formation of respect for life, human rights and peace; the learning of scientific, technical and artistic knowledge; the development of critical, reflexive and analytical capacity; the acquisition of an awareness for the improvement of the environment; training in the practice of work and the creation of an awareness of national sovereignty.
In the development of the Education Quality program, curriculum guidelines will be defined and standards will be established for areas of knowledge; the National Education Assessment System will be consolidated and institutionalized, which will cover the evaluation of the quality of education, the evaluation of teachers and teachers, the professional performance of educators, the achievements of the students, the efficiency of school methods and texts, the administrative and physical organization, and the efficiency in the delivery of the service. The results of the system will be disseminated periodically in order to nurture the formulation of policies for teacher training, guidance on the financial resources of the State for education, and to promote the social exigability of the quality of education.
Special attention will be given to the transformation and accreditation of teacher training institutions; the transformation, innovation and qualification of the educators ' permanent training processes. Strategies will continue to identify, disseminate and replicate experiences recognized for their impact on student achievement.
The school day will be extended with the aim of offering pedagogical support to students in the preparation of their school work, knowledge and use of study methods, to promote reading through the provision of school libraries or support to public libraries, and to provide children and young people with recreational, sports, artistic, cultural and citizen training. The Single Day Day will be gradually boosted, taking into account the criteria of infrastructure, endowment, staff plant and professional salary for teachers who assume this modality.
Conventions will be established with educational establishments to develop pedagogical and therapeutic actions that allow the process of integration of people with physical, sensory, psychological, sensitive or emotional limitations.
2.1.4 Urals
This program seeks to recognize that the integral formation of people starts from the mother's womb. We will not have an equitable system if all children have not developed, from conception, the foundations of learning.
To build the possibilities of such development, the National Government will design and implement this program that is geared towards the formation of parents, mothers and adults responsible for children, under the assumption that they are the primary task of generating the psychoactive conditions necessary for the children to build a suitable learning system.
This will only be possible if adults become aware and accept the educational role they play in the immediate and constant interaction they have with children and responsibility in creating affective, creative, stimulating and peaceful coexistence.
The government will facilitate adult action in the indicated perspective, through different strategies and projects that will take into account the foster practices favorable to the development of the population to which this program is directed.
Within the educational system, the content and purposes of the Ursules program are the main link with the mandatory level of Pre-School Education, whose coverage is proposed to be extended by the Government.
2.2 Average Education
Middle education requires a great national debate to give it an identity of its own, of which it lacks, to play a role between basic education and higher education or the world of work.
Without prejudice to the investment of the resources of the fiscal establishment and other official resources oriented to the Media Education, the contributions referred to in Article 11, number 4, of Law 21 of 1982, with destination for industrial schools and official technical institutes, may be invested in institutions with academic guidance for the strengthening of science and technology projects.
2.3 Colombia: knowledge society
This Plan aims to promote the construction of Colombia as a knowledge society, in a process that must be observed as a whole because it contemplates the development of the person from conception to the grave. In this perspective, there are two fundamental elements of the system that are: Pre-School Education, Basic and Media Education that generates the primary fundamentals for the performance in that society; and the Higher Education that articulates the orientation of the process, generating with the research, teaching and extension, a horizon for the formation of the higher, towards which the whole of the educational system in particular and of the Nation in general is directed.
With this, Colombia will be able to place itself on a level of equality in the development of the global context and not in the conditions of the periphery that subordinates its growth to others.
This plan drives the national mobilization that the National Government is bringing forward with the participation of all educational and other sectors of society, in order to jointly build a viable system characterized by the ability to learn and adapt to changes in the environment. This system must balance autonomy and cohesion and enable the responsible exercise of the first.
2.3.1 Credit system extension
The money destined for this subprogram is an additional and non-substitute resource for the direct contributions of the Nation to the public institutions of higher education.
This sub-program will be implemented through the Icetex and seeks two main objectives: to expand coverage and improve the equity of the credit system as an instrument for equitable access to higher education. This mechanism will give special emphasis to credit for support.
In this process, credit subsidy elements will be introduced to cover the credit demand for strata one, two and three (1, 2 and 3) in higher education institutions that meet the quality criteria established by the Minister of National Education, taking into account the concept of the National Accreditation Commission.
2.3.2 Quality improvement
The aim of this sub-programme is to improve the quality and level of higher education delivered in the country, protecting the rights of users of this level of education. Within this sub-programme, special emphasis will be given to training programmes for teachers and for the improvement of the academic capacity of higher education institutions.
To achieve this goal, effective regulatory institutions and instruments need to be established; in particular, the higher education information system will be strengthened to allow for the quality of the supply to be discriminated against and the inspection, surveillance and accreditation processes to be supported.
2.3.3 Impulse to technological education and scientific capacity
This sub-programme aims to boost the scientific and technological capacities of universities so that they contribute to the development and solution of the country's needs.
In order to achieve this goal, special emphasis will be given to the financing of master's and doctoral programs in public universities.
Likewise, the Nation will promote the improvement of the quality and relevance of technological education, as well as promoting the selection of these types of programs by young people with the intention of accelerating and facilitating scientific and technological modernization.
The National Government will also support its consultative bodies, especially the Colombian academies (Language, Medicine, Case-Law, History, Exact Sciences, Natural and Natural Sciences, Economic Sciences, Colombian Society of Engineers, Colombian Society of Architects, Colombian Geographic Society, Patronato de Artes y Ciencias) and Instituto Caro y Cuervo, and all those that are part of the Colegio Maximo de Academies Colombiana. To this end, the Ministry of Education or other state entities will be able to conclude contracts with these institutions, in order to promote the advancement of Colombian knowledge and culture in the area that is the responsibility of each one.
2.4 Youth
2.4.1 Builders of a New Country
with the purpose of implementing the National Youth Policy for the four-year term and to develop Law 375 of 1997, the Ministry of National Education, through the Vice-Ministry of Youth, will concentrate on the following objectives: to promote young people as builders of peace, generating new forms of service to society and enabling access to more and better goods and services; to promote education and comprehensive training, including the dimensions that allow the youth to build, express and develop their identity to participate in a way active in the social life of the country; and to promote technical assistance to the territorial entities and non-governmental organizations for the design of the Policy of Attention to the Youth Population through the promotion of participation and the institutionalization of programs for that population.
As basic lines of action to achieve this goal, we will implement with the leadership of the Viceministerium, the National Youth System as the set of institutions, organizations, entities and people who work with and for the youth, promoting the Youth Councils; the Integrated Services for Young People, through the Youth Solidarity Corps as alternatives so that the youth can project, and the Youth Houses as spaces of encounter, socialization and youth training.
2.5 Sport
The National Government will support the process of decentralization of the sector, moving forward in the transformation of the Colombian Institute of Sport, Coldesports, into a technical institution of research and advisory in sports matters, that will administer an Information System to carry out the monitoring and evaluation of results in the territorial entities.
The decentralization of sport will be advanced. The Nation will promote the initiatives of the territorial and private sector entities for the training and high performance sports programs.
this sense, the National Government will guarantee the budget for the celebration of the national sports games scheduled under technical and equitable criteria with the regions, as an integral element of the Colombian youth, for which it will coordinate with National Colsports and the corresponding territorial entities, its effective implementation.
2.6 Recreation: Peace Building and Social Development Tool
The Plan will operationalize recreation as an integrative component of the various areas of well-being and adjustment of individuals and communities, ensuring that its character as a means for integral urban and social development, is concretized in its contribution to the general welfare of the children, youth and the elderly, taking into account gender, condition and ethnicity.
This will be made possible by the implementation of the National Recreation Plan, which will be supported by civil society organizations and associations committed to the sector and the Compensation Banks. Additionally, it will have support in the consolidation of the National Recreation System, the Mandatory Social Service and the voluntary sector in the sector and the information system for monitoring, monitoring and evaluating the results of the management in recreation of the territorial entities.
3. Culture
3.1 Industry organization
Through this program, the National System of Culture will be consolidated, through the creation of territorial councils and institutions of culture, the strengthening of non-governmental organizations and cultural agents and the consolidation of the processes that live and structure the System: training, information, planning, organization and financing. To this end, programs aimed at strengthening the sector financially, both at the national and territorial levels, will be implemented, channeling the resources generated by the culture to the same sector.
3.2 Cultural Heritage of the Nation
The action of the State will focus on the identification, investigation, analysis, conservation, restoration, dissemination and valuation of the material cultural heritage (documentary, sound, visual, film, furniture and building), and not material (memory, traditions, customs, among others), which are part of the whole of the artistic and cultural heritage of the Nation, a heritage that is a fundamental axis of development and essential source of memory and identity.
Museums, libraries, documentary centers and archives will be strengthened as the focus of attention, care and strengthening of the cultural heritage in the country. The National Museum, the National Library, the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and the General Archive of the Nation, entities that are the main elements of the government's direct patrimonial action, will be strengthened. The physical expansion of the National Museum will be consolidated as a project of social interest to strengthen educational and cultural tasks and support the other museums of the country, in their educational and cultural services for Colombians of the next century.
3.3 Artistic and cultural training
This program will foster knowledge of our reality, history, myths and roots. The promotion of anthropology and archaeology and the rescue of the teaching of humanities at school level will contribute to this task. It will promote the strengthening of national and territorial programs and institutions, which are responsible for developing educational and artistic and cultural processes and will promote the training and professionalization of creators and cultural managers.
3.4 Promoting artistic and cultural creation and research
It will stimulate artistic creation and research in order to recognize and promote the immense artistic potential that can guarantee the country the continuity of its cultural traditions; it is about reconciling concepts such as identity and globalization, and raising the level of national artists and their professionalization.
3.5 Culture and Media
It will seek to strengthen the communicative processes (radio, television, print and film) that reinforce the intercultural dialogues that occur in the national territory, with the purpose of contributing to democratize information and access to the activities, the goods and the artistic and cultural services. It will continue, through community radio, with the promotion of real and efficient mechanisms to protect, conserve, rehabilitate and disseminate our cultural heritage, in particular the sound (musical and oral).
In the same way, it will actively participate in the consolidation of the cultural television channel, and will be promoted by the expansion of cultural programming spaces in the radio and television media dealerships, seeking mechanisms to encourage private channels to produce and display high cultural programs. National film production will be encouraged through the generation of public and private funding from national, bilateral and international sources.
3.6 Cultural industries
In order to consolidate the cultural sector as a source of economic and social development, in cases where this is possible and convenient, it will be sought to incorporate cultural production in the dynamics of the market, through the cultural industries and services for which mechanisms will be provided that encourage investment in the sector, such as customs warehouses dedicated to cultural activity. The priority sectors for the development of these policies will be the publishing industry, the film industry, phonographic and cultural tourism, among others. For its strengthening, resources will be channeled to the Joint Motion Picture Promotion Fund and the National Joint Promotion Fund.
4. Health
4.1 Affiliate to the subsidized health care system, traffic accident care, victims of natural disasters and strengthening of the emergency network
The National Government and the territorial entities will guarantee the coverage of affiliation to the subsidized health insurance system and promote their expansion.
For this purpose, the resources of the solidarity sub-account of the Fosyga and the other sources of financing of the subsidized regime will be used.
The increase of quotas in subsidized coverage will be done taking into account mainly the levels of the NBI and the lower coverage of the different municipalities, and the imbalance between the different regions of the country will be corrected. The national level through the Fosyga will provide greater resources for municipalities with greater NBI and lower coverage and thus comply with the principle of equity and enforcement that the Law 100 of 1993 speaks of.
The resources of the ECAT sub-account will finance the health care of victims of traffic accidents, terrorist accidents, natural disasters, or other events expressly approved by the National Council of Social Security in Health, as well as the compensation for permanent and death incapacity, funeral expenses and transportation costs to the care center of this same population. These resources will finance, once the above benefits have been covered, programs to strengthen the national emergency and prevention network, and to prevent and care for traffic accidents, catastrophic events, and terrorists, as well as those destined for the treatment and rehabilitation of their victims, after approval of distribution and allocation by the National Council of Social Security in Health.
The National Government and the National Social Security Council will be able to review and adjust the coverage ceilings for the benefits of SOAT and Fosyga. The other risks shall be addressed to the ECAT sub-accounts in accordance with the regulations issued.
4.2 Basic Care Plan
Ministry of Health will agree with the ministries of the Environment and National Education and the territorial entities in the framework of the Basic Care Plan, PAB, the development of integrated strategies for the control of emerging and emerging diseases with an emphasis on health promotion, social participation and environmental management. The National Government, the territorial entities, the EPS and the ARS will give priority to the financing and the timely supply of the biological products required for the fulfillment of the goals determined in the expanded immunization plan in order to achieve universal coverage in the field of vaccinations.
The Ministry of Health will lead the implementation of a comprehensive strategy to promote responsible maternity and paternity and sexual health, with an emphasis on the adolescent population and gender perspective. To make this program effective, the Ministry of Health will use the resources mentioned in paragraph 2. Article 166 of Law 100 of 1993. In addition, the Ministry of Health will promote comprehensive health care for the population that is in a situation of forced displacement, will promote municipal spaces for the promotion of peaceful coexistence and will guide the sector in the integration of the National Plan for the Prevention and Attention of Violence. Actions will be taken to prevent the use of alcohol, cigarettes and other psychoactive substances in children and adolescents. Likewise, within the National Plan of Attention to Persons with Disabilities and Minusvalia, actions to promote a culture of social integration of the person with disabilities on equal opportunities will be launched.
The National Government will prioritize and promote the hiring of the PAB's activities, through the public network guaranteeing a minimum of fifty percent (50%) and define the minimum hiring conditions on both the public and private networks.
4.3 Other Programs
4.3.1 Financial Stability
To ensure the financial stability of the General System of Social Security in Health, SGSSS, and achieve access to health services with equity, the avoidance and avoidance of contributions will be monitored, and the possibility of creating a single central collection for the various contributions to the General System of Social Security in Health, SGSSS, will be studied, or other information systems will be used as the single registry of contributors. Likewise, multiple system affiliation and fraudulent affiliation will be avoided. Mechanisms will be established in order to protect the rights of members of the Social Security System in Health, SGSSS, in terms of insurance and therefore the provision of services, in the event that the Companies of Health Services, EPS, or the Administrators of the Subsidized Regime, ARS, to which they are affiliated, have problems of solvency or bankruptcy. On the other hand, the resources for the sustainability of the subsidized Health Regime will be guaranteed. The National Government will establish compensation mechanisms and procedures, designing the stages of the process and their dates of presentation.
Incur the cause of misconduct, without prejudice to the fiscal, criminal, civil, and administrative actions to which there is a place, the mayors or governors who divert or delay, or do not timely deliver the resources corresponding to the General System of Social Security in Health (SGSSS). It is also the duty of the ARS to cancel their obligations with the health care institutions in good time.
4.3.2 Increased coverage
In order to guarantee the access of all people to the services of promotion, prevention, recovery of health, without altering the principle of financial equilibrium, which guarantees the sustainability of the existing subsidized regime, and accepting the percentages of the validity of 1999 will be suspended the transition from the Law 344 of 1996 of transformation of subsidy of supply to demand, in order to guarantee the health care of the population linked to the system and for the care of the pathologies not included in the Mandatory Plan of Health (POS) of the subsidized regime.
The Health Social Security Council will review the transformation of supply-to-demand subsidies by taking into account the tax resources and the assessment of the related and affiliated population.
The Health Social Security Council will be able to define access to health services for certain population groups under special conditions, such as indigents, abandoned children, and displaced persons.
In the same way, partial subsidies will be created for the independent workers of levels three (3) and four (4) of the Sisben, in accordance with the regulations established by the National Council for Social Security in Health. The National Government will provide new resources for these partial subsidies. The National Government will finance the study to define the payment capacity of these population groups, in such a way that independent workers contribute to their affiliation according to their income. Alternatives will be considered to reduce the rate of contribution or to pay the value of the Pay per Capitation Unit, UPC, and avoid the affiliation of non-poor population to the subsidized regime. The population that can become affiliated does not become a sharpening, it must directly assume the costs of the health care that it requires. Family compensation boxes that are managing community households will be able to allocate the new resources of the subsidized regime for the affiliation of children under six (6) years of scarce resources and their families. In any case, the boxes must maintain the financing of their current affiliates to the subsidized regime.
4.3.3 Insurance entities and health service providers
The existing requirements for the conformation of health-promoting companies, the administration of the subsidized regime, and health service providers will be reviewed so that new entities of this type will be created to guarantee the existence of technical, administrative, and financial conditions that will enable them to respond in due form to their obligations.
Those that do not have financial viability will be settled. The Administrators of the Subsidiary Regime, ARS, and the Health Care Companies, ESS, will be able to group together to guarantee the compensation of the risk and to strengthen their financial capacity. The National Government will define the character of the ARS to optimize the use of the resources of the UPC of the subsidized regime for the provision of health services. If the resources to be used by the ARS for the provision of services are not required in full, they must be set aside in a fund for the provision of services. The National Health Security Council may create a special provision account in the Fosyga to ensure the provision of services. Consideration will be given to the possibility of restructuring the ARP to finance health expenses generated by professional risks. The National Government will evaluate the response given by the entities that handle the Mandatory Transit Accident Insurance, SOAT, regarding the fulfillment of their obligations, in order to ensure that the totality of the health expenses generated in traffic accidents are paid for by this insurance. Traffic accidents that come from a professional risk will be paid out of the resources of the Professional Risk System. Public EPS and adapted entities will have to comply fully with the provisions of Law 100 of 1993. Also, the EPS, the ARS and the adapted entities will not be able to grant different incentives to improve the quantity and quality of health services provided in the Regime, nor to subcontract the totality of the POS with other entities, nor to delegate the guarantee and quality of the service delivery.
The Institute of Social Insurance, ISS, will be institutionally strengthened and put into operation the information system, which will enable it to efficiently manage the different insurance and affiliation to the General System of Social Security in Health, SGSSS.
Facultate to the National Government until December 31, 1999, to adopt the measures required in order to restructure the health care services of the Social Welfare Fund of the Congress of the Republic on the basis of its functional and financial viability, in accordance with the technical and legal studies it will carry out in this respect.
During this term, the Fund will continue to provide health care services under the same conditions in which it is doing so. For the purpose of financing the additional services to the mandatory health plan with different resources of the compulsory contributions, the government will fix the additional contributions that are necessary, in charge of the affiliates and the Nation, applying to this last effect the resources provided in the Law of Budget and the Decree 2354 of November 19, 1998, section 1805 Social Welfare Fund of the Congress, A. Operation, Unit 1805-02 Health, headings 3-5-3-7-10 Other transfers-Current resources.
4.3.4 Strengthening Quality Assurance System
We will work on strengthening the quality assurance system in the Institutions of Health Services, IPS, and Companies Promoters of Health Services, EPS, through mechanisms that encourage the achievement of higher levels of quality. The Ministry will create a system of performance indicators that will allow the quality of services to be assessed and will be implemented in coordination with the EPS and the ARS. It will also regulate the accreditation of PSUR.
4.3.5 Public Hospitals
Public hospitals should be transformed into State Social Enterprises, ESE. To this end, they will have to restructure their staff plants, make their recruitment system more flexible, improve their management, guarantee the solvency of their systems of reference and counter-reference and adapt the services they provide to ensure sustainability. For this purpose, the National Government will implement institutional strengthening plans for the public health services network, co-financed with the territorial entities and/or the hospitals, in order to improve the provision of the services of promotion, prevention, protection and recovery of health in an integral way. In any event, the legal and conventional rights that have been agreed upon or recognized under the law will not be violated. The Ministry of Health and the territorial authorities will offer technical assistance, training and financial support necessary through credits, for the adequacy of the required personnel plants according to the level of complexity and the possibilities of each region.
The National Council for Health Social Security will have the power to define the minimum percentage and the conditions of the hiring between the ARS and the public IPS.
The National Government will regulate the composition, qualities and qualities of the components of the Boards of State Social Enterprises, ESE.
4.3.6 Information System
A comprehensive system of reliable and timely health information will be established to enable the actions of local governments and the flow of information to these levels to be monitored in such a way that their functions are facilitated. It will also promote the approval of information systems and the integration of the actions of all actors in order to achieve control and monitoring, both of the users of the system and of the aspects related to the delivery of the services and the management of the whole of the resources and infrastructure of the sector.
4.3.7 Surveillance and control system
In this, the different instances that make it up, namely the National Government and the territorial entities, will clearly define the competencies and functions that each instance will develop. Also, mechanisms for citizen participation in the comprehensive control of the General System of Social Security in Health, SGSSS, will be included, especially in the topics of affiliation and guarantee in the satisfaction of the rights of the users. The surveillance and control system and the Superintendence of Health as the head of the system will be structured and adapted. At the territorial level, the Health Superintendence may require the supervised entities to contract external audits and/or mechanisms will be generated in order to ensure that the monitored entities contribute to the financing of this function.
Similarly, the Superintendency will be able to contract audits when required.
The mechanisms for citizen participation in the comprehensive control of the General System of Social Security in Health, SGSSS, will be strengthened.
4.3.8 Scientific research on health
The Ministry of Health will advance actions to promote scientific research in basic and applied health in the areas of interest for the country, with a view to providing a continuous process of improving the scientific and ethical quality in the provision of health services. It will also promote technological planning processes, in order to strengthen its rationalization and its adequate delivery.
They will maintain the profitable monopoly of the lotteries, the totality of the games of luck and chance and the set of the revenues transferred for the health, with specific destination to finance the sector. The National Government will determine a percentage of the product of the games of luck and chance for research and science in health.
5. Family and children
5.1 Family and Childhood Program
The general guidelines of the Colombian family's policy are framed in the search for a social commitment that promotes better conditions for the individual and collective development of its members, particularly the rights of children, as well as the correction of the additional inequality generated via the lower human and social capital of poor families.
5.2 Family
During this government, the conditions for the strengthening and development of the Colombian family will be promoted, affecting the protective factors that favor the regeneration of the social fabric. To this end, we will study the current tax structure of natural persons, tax rates by type of family, as well as family allowance, in such a way that they operate in the direction of encouraging greater social capital for the family.
5.2.1 Promotion and prevention
One of the emphasis of this Plan is to invigorate the promotion and prevention, through different mechanisms in which civil society will have a leading role and whose axis is the educational establishment and the community's welfare home. Teachers, parents, community mothers and other community agents will be trained in the early detection of abuse and family problems and in actions to be taken as regards the approach to the child and the referral to other support entities in the cases that are required.
5.2.2 National Food and Nutrition Plan
Through the National Family Welfare System, the eight lines of action of the National Plan of Food and Nutrition will be articulated, which will act as a priority in the children of the official schools with an emphasis on the rural and urban marginal sectors that present higher nutritional deficits, pregnant women, nursing mothers, and children under six (6) years not covered by community households.
5.2.3 National Plan against Intra-Family Violence
The Plan will generate national guidelines that will serve as a baseline or a minimum standard of care for the articulation of different preventive, educational, support, care and protection actions that will provide new and adequate responses to the problem of domestic violence.
5.2.4 National Plan Against Drugs
This program aims to promote a cultural transformation and an improvement of the quality of life through the empowerment of the population, creating the necessary conditions for the communities to achieve a comprehensive understanding of their reality, develop novel community strategies, appropriate their problems and propose and implement alternative solutions.
5.2.5 Children's Comprehensive Care Programs
The policy is aimed at promoting the integral care of children and the solution of conflicts within the family and the community, under the principles of commitment, participation, gender equity and respect for cultural and regional differences, both in urban and rural areas.
5.2.5.1 New Community Homes
Comprehensive care will be promoted to poor children under six (6) years. For this, new models of care will be created with the concurrency of the ICBF, the family compensation boxes, the municipal governments and the families of the children, among other actors. A single care scheme will not be handled, but those designed to ensure comprehensive care. Each compensation box, according to its possibilities and the characteristics of its population, may structure the program.
5.2.5.2 Municipal initiatives for child care
This program seeks to qualify the attention and protection offered to the population that has traditionally been the beneficiary of the ICBF programs, through the support of initiatives originated by the community, local government, businesses and organizations present in the town. It is intended that the solution to nutritional deficiencies and the care and protection of children, be cared for as a priority within the family, society and the municipality.
5.2.6 Youth
Youth programs seek to contribute to the improvement of the well-being of young people by strengthening the qualities, abilities and abilities of the individual that lead to integral formation, allowing for their physical, psychological and social development and fostering a better and more active participation of young people in the development of the country.
In this sense, the National Government will promote the National Youth System and formulate a National Youth Solidarity Plan to promote social service and youth volunteering as a form of expression and potential for work. In the same way, it will lend special support to the process of resocialization of the juvenile prison population.
5.2.7 Policies on responsible playback
The National Plan for Sexual and Reproductive Health, led by the health sector in coordination with the education sector and the ICBF, will be developed and implemented, addressing sexual health and reproductive health care in a comprehensive way.
5.2.8 Social Communication
A fundamental component of the great change in the birth of a new culture in favor of the family is that of social communication, which accompanies on a permanent basis, at the national, departmental, municipal level and in all establishments (schools, health centers, hospitals, welfare homes), the implementation of the policies that are adopted.
5.3 Protection
5.3.1 Special protection for children under 18 years of age
Through the protection efficiency plan, the review and updating of the special protection rules and procedures; the promotion of mechanisms that streamline the legal and administrative processes; the increase of the measures of family location of minors, with preference to institutional measures and in accordance with regional and cultural characteristics; the development of quality standards in the provision of services.
5.3.2 Special attention to disabled and disabled
This policy aims to create a culture of tolerance, respect for the rights and freedoms to be different, based on the constitutional principles of recognition of the dignity of the person, fundamental rights, equity and solidarity.
The Sisben and tax rates will be reviewed in order to recognize the higher costs incurred by a family living with a disabled member and incentives for the employment of this population will be created. Likewise, the disabled population will be included in the employment information system of the SENA and this same entity will provide training courses for the work with disabled people in the areas in which the companies require them when they use this kind of workers.
5.3.3 Special protection for the population over 60 years of age
The protection of the population of over sixty (60) years will be carried out in coordination with the territorial entities, mainly through three different strategies: voluntary incorporation of this population to the program complementary school day, delivery of subsidies and affiliation to the subsidized health regime.
5.4 Institutional
5.4.1 National Family Welfare System, SNBF
The National Government will put into operation the National Family Welfare System, SNBF, creating the conditions for its actors to act interinstitutionally around family and child policy. It will also be used for its implementation at the territorial level.
5.4.2 Colombian Family Welfare Institute
Given the competencies and responsibilities currently in place for local governments on social programs, the need to redefine the functions and operation of the Institute and its relationship with the National Family Welfare System is highlighted.
5.4.3 Plan of Action in Favor of Children, PAFI
The National Government will promote the fulfillment of the goals set forth in the Plan of Action in Favor of Children, PAFI, by coordinating with the entities responsible at the national level, with the departmental intersectoral groups and with the territorial planning agencies, to manage the inclusion, implementation and monitoring of the family and childhood policies in the development plans of the territorial entities.
6. Equal opportunities plan for women and men
The Plan of Equality between Women and Men is the instrument through which the Colombian State intends to comply with the constitutional principles of equality and the international agreements signed by the country regarding the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. It is effective through the design and formulation, in different sectors, of strategies that allow overcoming the limitations and obstacles that prevent the participation of women on an equal footing as men in political, economic, family, social, cultural, decision-making and public power.
Under these precepts, the National Government will have the obligation to design programs and projects that give priority to the occupation of women, and to promote processes of training and integral development as recognition of their family axis condition and in turn, is at the core of society.
7. Agricultural sector
The actions in the agricultural sector will be aimed at integrating and modernizing the rural sector, through a policy that seeks to provide conditions for a competitive, equitable and sustainable development of the countryside, in its diversity and complexity.
order to achieve this objective, it is necessary to be efficient in the implementation of the advanced governmental programs in a participatory and decentralized manner based on an institutional adjustment that facilitates the integration and regionalization of the actions and the adequacy of the institutions to the dynamics of the market by reducing the procedures, improving efficiency, and seeking coordination among the entities.
Special emphasis will be given to incentives, to private investment such as: the Incentive to Rural Capitalization, ICR, and the Certificate of Forest Incentive, CIF. Likewise, the development policy will be preferred through strategic alliances using instruments such as incentives via credit and the Agricultural Guarantee and Agricultural Guarantee Fund for rural financing, for the operation of the capital market, the national agricultural exchange, and sectoral policy instruments in science and technology, foreign trade, agrarian reform, and marketing policies, among others. This is aimed at reactivating rural investment in new productive projects, especially in short-cycle or late-yield crops that adapt to their respective income streams, in order to achieve greater achievements in the competitiveness that will accompany the transition process. It is the National Government's intention to facilitate the participation of the private sector in productive and social alliances as a basis for development.
In compliance with the government program, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will design and implement a transitional policy to increase the productivity of the promising agricultural activities and to establish new activities to replace the one in which there is no evidence of the possibility of improving their competitiveness in an open market. These programs are aimed at overcoming the lack of preparation of the sector for the opening and to orient agricultural productive subsectors toward the export.
This policy will include specific support, human resource training, advisory, tax rebates and other incentives for investment, land ownership reforms, research, the adequacy of the institutional apparatus to meet the requirements of the transition and a proper commercial policy.
The Ministries of Agriculture and Foreign Trade in association with the production guilds will define the products and regions that are the object of each program.
The objective of integral policy expressed in the productive and social alliances is to attract resources and to promote investment in agroindustrial, agroforestry, silvopastorial and aquaculture projects, of a social character that will allow to promote development and achieve peace in rural areas, through a close association between large, medium and small producers, national and foreign investors, technology generators, rural community, civil society organizations, and national, regional and local governments, for the realization of rural productive and social projects that will help to promote the development of the sector and make possible the equitable redistribution of income, the overcoming of poverty and the achievement of peace.
To increase employment generation and income for field workers
-an essential requirement for achieving an atmosphere of harmony and peace-will facilitate access to productive factors with resources from the Plan Colombia, the Investment Fund for Peace, and through the agrarian reform program.
To achieve the reactivation of the countryside, the generation of rural employment, the decrease of peasant migration to cities, and to fulfill the goal of doubling the exports proposed by this Plan. The National Government should consider protection strategies with immediate actions that contribute to the policy of absorption of employment, recovering for the production of 120 thousand hectares in 1999 and a figure of no less in the years following the current law, and support for national food production, granting preferential treatment to the production and marketing credit, and proceeding to the implementation of the reclassification of the risk to access credits by the agricultural sector improving the infrastructure and establishing mechanisms of promotion of domestic food production and consumption.
The entry of agricultural, agroforestry and agro-industrial products to international markets will be supported; with the support of Proexport and Corporación Colombia Internacional, which is responsible for the incubator of productive projects with research and market intelligence work and promotion of projects with export potential.
7.1 Rural Capitalization Incentives
Through this program, private sector resources will continue to be drawn, in the interests of development and agricultural competitiveness. Action will be taken to achieve results in areas such as: land adequacy, marketing, mechanisation, modernisation and inputs, support services and promotion of clean production.
For the allocation of the KPI, it should be noted that its distribution reflects the possibilities offered by products with competitive capacity.
7.2 External trade policy
In the framework of the sectoral competitiveness agreements and international commitments, national production will be protected, taking into account the treatment that the competing countries give to their production, and the sensitivity of national production. It will be made by the dismantling of distortions and barriers to trade.
The protection regime currently in force at the level of the Andean community will be reviewed and adjusted within the framework of the existing agreements.
The international commitments acquired through treaties and integration agreements will be subject to the fulfillment of clear goals in the area of modernization and sectoral competitiveness.
A transition trade policy will be designed and implemented, which will allow the Colombian agricultural sector to adapt to the challenges imposed by the integration processes.
To support the research of international markets in the Corporation Colombia International (CCI) for agricultural, agroindustrial, agroforestry and silvo-pastoralist products, identifying, promoting and developing opportunities and projects for agricultural products with production potential at the national level.
7.3 Internal Marketing
In this field, agricultural marketing systems will be modernized to reduce producers ' uncertainty and improve their negotiating capacity, reduce transaction costs, and increase the sector's competitiveness. In addition, the policy of incentives, compensation and marketing subsidies for the private sector will be strengthened to implement the marketing policy, but they will be dismantled in time and its benefits will be mainly for those agents that promote modernization, competitiveness, and contract agriculture.
7.4 Agricultural credit policy
To encourage rural investment, the financing of activities for the production, processing, marketing and delivery of services associated with agricultural activities will be encouraged, with resources from Plan Colombia and the Investment Fund for Peace. The national financial system, with the support of Finagro, will be fundamental in the achievement of these purposes.
Credit lines will be promoted for productive projects with competitive potential in short-cycle or late-performance crops that adapt to their respective income streams. The Agrarian Fund will be fully restructured and a credit policy will be developed to improve rural financial services and expand the coverage and access especially of small producers and in general rural economic activities.
The National Government will design legal mechanisms to guarantee access to credit to agricultural producers through the reclassification of risk.
The credit policy will be accompanied by mechanisms to solve the delinquent debt of small and medium-sized producers, with a view to rehabilitating them as credit institutions and normalizing the sector's credit discipline, through the discounted purchase of the agricultural credit portfolio to financial intermediaries, while supporting strategies that make the recovery of the debts so acquired viable. To this end, the creation of departmental funds for reactivation and agricultural promotion will be promoted as joint-economy societies made up of departments, municipalities, the beneficiaries and the guilds.
In accordance with Article 66 of the Colombian Political Constitution, the Government will take the necessary measures to ensure an effective rate of preferential interest for the activities linked to the serctor.
7.5 Agricultural Healthcare
The technical and operational capacity of the ICA will be strengthened to fulfil the following functions: research and transfer in health control and prevention, register of breeders; preservation and proper use of plant and animal genetic resources and risk prevention in the introduction, production and marketing of genetically modified organisms.
Looking for better coverage of its activities, the ICA will be able to credit and delegate in natural and legal persons the following actions related to the National Agricultural Protection Subsystem, Simpagro, which has been directly executing: animal and plant health analysis; control and eradication of pests and diseases in animals and plants, residue analysis.
7.6 Agrarian Reform
The agrarian reform will be carried out through the National System of Agrarian Reform and Rural Peasant Development. To this end, the National Government will establish mechanisms to make the action of each of the subsystems that make it effective.
The agrarian reform will be promoted through the use of an integrated, efficient, transparent and innovative model. Voluntary negotiation and the purchase of land, individually or collectively, will be sponsored within concrete productive projects, carried out in a decentralized manner and with citizen oversight.
Progress towards the integral development of the peasant reserve zones, defined both in the areas of colonization and in the baldio areas in an appropriate framework of territorial planning, elaborated in coordination with the Ministry of the Environment.
The private capital will be linked to the agrarian reform programs, through financial or land contributions, through productive alliances programs for the sustainable reactivation of agriculture. The effective application of the extinction of the right of dominion will be fostered, for lands acquired with money obtained from illicit activities and those lands that are not exploited far below its potential.
The cost of land and its lease will be the subject of agrarian policy to seek its rationalization.
7.7 National Alternative Development Plan (Plante)
Within the Plante will be promoted in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development activities of profitable productive development that are options for illicit crops. Regional Alternative Development Plans will be developed, aimed at rural infrastructure projects, research, agricultural development, livestock, fish farming and forestry. They are also geared towards agroindustrial, agroforestry and silvopastorite projects, which will integrate credit, environmental protection, technical assistance and promotion of private investment.
7.8 Technology Development Policy
Programs will be designed and implemented to strengthen research and technology transfer and to consolidate its institutionality in order to increase productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness of the agricultural and livestock sector. The criteria that these programs will govern will be the adjustment of the products and services provided to the practical and effective requirements of the producers and the regional specificities, in a framework of cooperation and intersectoral and inter-institutional coordination articulated with the National System of Agricultural Protection and Health.
Corpoica will orient its resources towards the eminently investigative area and will concretize its action in the formulation of technological packages, making them available to producers and organizations that provide technical assistance services and rural extension.
To finance the technical assistance programs, the government will strengthen the mechanisms for the subsidy to the demand, in a progressive manner.
7.9 Agricultural input policy
Priority will be given to co-financed projects for integrated pest control and the consequent transfer of technology especially in short-cycle crops, to reduce costs and improve competitiveness.
The National Government will adapt the regulations to immediately allow the massive use of generic agrochemicals, allowing the health and environmental licenses issued to commercial products to be automatically extended to their generic components. The aim is to reduce production costs.
8. Environment
The general objective of environmental policy is to restore and conserve priority areas in strategic ecoregions and to design instruments and mechanisms that ensure a balance between the supply and demand of the nation's environmental resources, promoting sustainable regional development, in the context of peace building.
To achieve this, this policy is structured in an environmental collective project, which is developed through three objectives, which are implemented in seven programs. The specific objectives are:
Keep and restore priority areas in the strategic ecoregions (water, biodiversity and forests).
Energizing sustainable urban and regional development (quality of urban life and sustainability of endogenous production processes).
Contribute to the environmental sustainability of the sectors (cleaner production and green markets).
The environmental collective project is structured based on seven central programs. The interdependence between all these programs defines a general policy orientation, consisting of the systemic and concerted management of the environmental collective project's actions.
For the development of these programs, the following instruments will be established: participation, information, coordination and articulation of the national environmental system, municipal environmental management, territorial planning and planning, knowledge and education generation, international cooperation and negotiation, economic and financial regulations and instruments, and regulatory instruments.
Environmental policy regards water as its articulator axis; that is, it is at the point of confluence between the water crisis and the social and economic crisis. Therefore, it is conducive to the search for concerted solutions that will help to slow down the process of deterioration of water ecosystems, to explore alternatives of coexistence around collective interests on water, and to influence local, regional and national decision-making levels.
For the optimal implementation of environmental policy, the level of articulation and coordination of environmental management entities should be improved through actions such as: strengthening of financial instruments through the unification of environmental funds and, in general, promoting the adequacy of environmental institutions to existing resources and responsibilities.
8.1 Water Program
It is aimed at advancing the management, proper management and recovery of continental and marine ecosystems; in the first, increasing the water regulation capacity in the river basins and, in both, promoting efficiency in their use, and reducing pollution and risk levels.
The water, the articulator of this environmental policy, must also guide our border relations, through the development of binational agreements for the integral management of shared river basins.
8.2 Biodiversity Program
This programme aims to improve the conservation and restoration of priority areas of forest and non-forest ecosystems in strategic ecoregions and the protection of threatened and limited species. It also seeks to strengthen systems of knowledge and innovation on the components and uses of biodiversity and to optimize their social and economic benefits, strengthening technological capacity, management and negotiation by the State and society.
In order to ensure the long-term conservation of natural ecosystems, it is necessary to establish new protected areas in regions such as the Orinocia and the Andean region, as well as the strengthening of existing ones in the Amazon and the Pacific. Additionally, it is necessary to strengthen the capacity for the conservation of important components (due to its threat or potential use) in living collections such as genetic banks, botanical gardens, zoos and aquariums.
The conservation of the areas of the Natural National Park System will be carried out under criteria of unity in the integral management of the system and guidelines of national policy in the field of protected areas. The administration of these areas will follow schemes of coordination, inter-sectoral articulation and inter-institutional consultation at national, regional and local level in order to implement a comprehensive policy for the conservation of these ecosystems, taking into account their importance from the ecological and social point of view by their coincidence with nuclei of conflict, social marginality, the presence of illegal crops, illegal exploitation of natural resources, ethnic exclusion, conflicts of use and occupation, and phenomena of violence.
Additionally, it is essential to ensure the long-term conservation of natural ecosystems and the establishment of protected areas in the Caribbean region.
The "Plan Siembra" (Plan Siembra) of the Mayor of Medellin will be brought forward, the general objective of which is to develop reforestation programs, which contribute to the improvement of the environmental and environmental conditions of the city and generate new sources of employment, through the implementation of coordinated actions between public, private, social organizations and the community in general.
The research, use and distribution of the benefits derived from biodiversity, as well as the use of the country's genetic resources, should be supported by specific and applicable legislation regarding their knowledge, use and conservation. At the same time, it is essential to guarantee through these legislative development, the intellectual property that indigenous, black, and rural communities in general have on the use of biodiversity, with special emphasis on the healing and medicinal aspects of plants and animals.
To do this in support of the development of the country's environmental policy, a legislative package on the rights of ownership of native communities will be proposed to the Congress of the Republic, which will be articulated to the complementary developments proposed to Law 29 of 1990 with provisions on intellectual property.
8.3 Forest Program
Their efforts are aimed at advancing the conservation and restoration of priority areas in strategic ecoregions. In this context, it seeks to promote and encourage the joint action of the State and civil society in the conservation and sustainable use of forests, reforestation, ecological restoration and the establishment of production plantations that generate economic and social benefits for the population. It also seeks to strengthen its incorporation into the national economy and improve the quality of life of the population.
To develop the specific goal of dynamizing urban and regional development, the following two programs are structured:
8.4 Sustainability Program of Endogenous Production Processes
It aims to promote and promote the sustainable use of biological diversity and cultural heritage in conservation processes, with business management criteria for the economic and social benefit of the regions, as a strategy for strengthening regional endogenous development. It is also intended to support and promote in particular the projects of tourism services aimed at promoting the knowledge and sustainable use of biological diversity.
8.5 Urban Quality of Life Program
It is aimed at preventing and controlling environmental quality deterioration factors in urban areas with greater population and economic dynamics; adopting sustainable urban development models, in accordance with the particular conditions of human settlements, addressing collective environmental needs, and protecting and consolidating their natural capital.
8.6 Cleaner Production Program
It is aimed at promoting the cleanest production in the economic sectors of the economy and with greater environmental impact, among which the mining, and in the second place, sectors such as energy, industrial, tourism, agricultural and construction sectors. It also aims to incorporate the environmental dimension in the development of national infrastructure and the growth of the sectors of the economy, with a view to promoting its sustainability.
8.7 Green Markets Program
It is aimed at encouraging the production of environmentally sound goods and services and increasing the supply of competitive ecological services in national and international markets, guaranteeing the recognition of intellectual and country of origin rights.
9. Justice
The main objective of the policy will be directed towards the generation of actions that facilitate access to justice, strengthen the generation of coexistence patterns and establish mechanisms for the prevention, attention and control of the factors associated with the presentation of punishable facts and the development of violence. For this purpose, both formal justice and non-formal justice programs will be advanced. In the context of the economic recession, special importance must be given to the agreements recommended to allow the disputes between debtors and creditors to be resolved before a bankruptcy procedure is initiated.
9.1 Modernization and development of physical infrastructure
The main objective of the program is to modernize public management through investment in physical infrastructure. For this reason, investment resources will be directed to the construction of the offices of the judicial offices and the administration of justice in the circuit or district headings considered to be a priority.
9.2 Modernization and development of the technology infrastructure
The efforts of this program will be oriented to the modernization of public management through investment in technological means. To this end, the resources of infrastructure and technology will be adapted to the new proposals for the organization of judicial offices and the administration of justice.
Among other specific objectives of the program, is the establishment of organizational schemes of the management and the adequacy of the personnel plants through models designed for the effect.
9.3 Prison and Prison System
Through this program, we are looking for a comprehensive care of the inmate population in the process of administration of the penalty. The intention is to change the attitude towards the inmate, taking into account the person, his conditions, needs, abilities, rights and obligations, within a humanizing and dignified framework of treatment of the offender of the law, that allows him to value in the prison space its potentialities.
It will seek integral attention to the inmate population by stimulating the progressive development of their individual and social values, improving their self-esteem and allowing them to act autonomously, facilitating the construction of a personal and social life of true human coexistence that ensures their well-being and that of their family.
Actions aimed at social care and the structuring of a health care program; labor training; restructuring and strengthening of the enterprise of the mixed economy, Renaissance, will be designed and implemented to transform it into the central axis of the selection, training and occupation of the workforce in the seclusion centers, with a view to the progressive development of the values and skills of the inmate population, through training and education.
According to the Plan of Construction and Prison Refaction, which will be an integral part of the National Development Plan, progress will be made in the achievement of adequate spaces that guarantee the prisoners a dignified living conditions, for which consideration will be given to aspects such as: differentiation between condemned and accused persons; age, sex, dangerousness, etc. For this purpose, the prison infrastructure fund will be created.
It will be designed and coordinated with the ICBF and municipal governments, the implementation of protection programs and comprehensive care for children, children of the inmates who at the time of the loss of their freedom have been exercising as heads of their family nuclei.
10. Government
10.1 Strategies for Disaster Prevention and Care
10.1.1 Knowledge about threats of natural and anthropic origin
The different entities that make up the National System for Disaster Prevention and Care, SNPAD, and the technical and scientific entities belonging to the National System of Science and Technology will advance research and evaluations of natural threats, and will install and consolidate networks and systems of detection and alert, to inform the local and regional committees and to organize the community based on the information provided. This program includes the following subprograms: Network installation and consolidation; detection and warning procedures and systems for the timely surveillance and warning for the population; and risk assessment.
10.1.2 Incorporation of prevention and risk reduction in planning
The sub-programs provided for the development of this program are: incorporation of preventive and security criteria in the development and territorial planning plans; inventory and management of human settlements and infrastructure located in areas of risk, and coordination of environmental and disaster prevention policies.
10.1.3 Strengthening the Institutional Development of the Disaster Prevention and Care System
Measures will be studied and implemented to strengthen the National Directorate for Disaster Prevention and Care to improve its capacity to coordinate the SNPAD.
Institutional strengthening actions of regional and local entities and committees, which are involved in SNPAD, will be promoted. This program includes the following subprograms: strengthening the national and regional technical and operational entities of the SNPAD; strengthening regional and local disaster prevention and care committees; protection and contingency measures in infrastructure works; development and updating of emergency and contingency plans; designing efficient mechanisms and preferential treatment of reconstruction projects; Integrated Information System for the prevention and care of disasters.
10.1.4 Socialization of Risk Prevention and Mitigation
Public and private entities, non-governmental organizations, and civil society committed in the National Plan for Disaster Prevention and Care will actively participate in the implementation and development of the following sub-programs: public information for the prevention, mitigation and appropriate reaction of the community in case of risk and disaster; incorporation of the concepts of disaster prevention, risk mitigation and environmental protection in formal and non-formal education; development of a national system for training of officials and trainers Community and development of activities with civil society organisations.
10.2 Demobilization Programs
The demobilization Program seeks to generate spaces for reconciliation among Colombians by promoting methodologies and creating a new culture of peaceful resolution of conflicts. It includes the necessary support for the demobilized armed organizations that have signed Peace Accords since 1990, and who have individually made up arms and have been reinstated in civilian life.
11. Strategies for conflict-affected areas
Since the programs in this field are aimed at creating conditions that will make it viable for the achievement of peace and to guarantee its sustainability in the long term, in its objectives, simultaneous investments are contemplated in different sectors, both at rural and urban levels, and in particular, in those areas most affected by the dynamics of conflict and violence. In this sense, it is not appropriate to separate or fragment the programs according to their actions in different areas, since their effect, in terms of the generation of conditions for reducing violence, will depend to a great extent on their capacity to integrate aspects of social policy, such as emergency humanitarian attention or the construction and strengthening of human and social capital, with investments aimed at promoting the development of economic or productive activities such as infrastructure or strengthening of the business organization, among others.
11.1 Plan Colombia
11.1.1 Participatory (rural) productive projects
To facilitate the development of economic activities that provide the population with alternatives to improve the income level and quality of life, the aim is to strengthen the community's business organization and increase productivity and competitiveness in order to compete in the national and international markets. The above includes productive, agricultural, agrotourism, agroindustrial and administrative training, according to the particular needs of each region and product.
11.1.2 Humanitarian care and promotion and protection of human capital
It seeks to recognize and care for the population that is the victim of violence and to foster the development of the potential of citizens, as individuals and as a community, that will enable them to be economically and socially productive. It involves, on the one hand, actions of humanitarian attention to victims of violence to mitigate the losses caused by this, food assistance, shelter, health and basic sanitation; and from another, the attention to the displaced population on topics such as: quantification and qualification of the population, emergency care, prevention, return and relocation.
11.1.3 Institutional development and strengthening of social capital
It seeks to alter the patterns of behavior through which violence develops and reproduces, strengthening the action of local organizations on issues of peace, conflict resolution, and intra-family violence, among others. Support the strengthening of local, national or international NGOs that directly involve the community in the treatment of the effects of violence in children, young people and the disabled, and in the behaviors learned in relation to the violent resolution of conflicts.
11.1.4 Infrastructure for Peace
It will promote the development of infrastructure projects that enable the economic and social communication and viability of productive activities, the improvement of the quality of life of the population, and the dismantling of socioeconomic factors that reinforce violence. It will identify the needs of construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of projects of secondary and tertiary networks, waterways, rural electrification, and social infrastructure in critical areas of violence, which are also indispensable to ensure the success of participatory productive projects.
For the development of this sub-program, the "Investment Fund for Peace" was created by Law 487 of December 1998 as the main financing instrument, through public resources, private contributions, external credits and donations from organizations and friendly governments, for programs and structured projects that promote aspects such as the development of the agricultural sector and the preservation of the environment, productive agrarian reform projects, development plans for the rural reserve zones, the strengthening of civil society in the areas most affected by the armed conflict and violence, the development of infrastructure in these areas, the re-institutionalisation of justice and the recovery of security, as well as a political agenda for negotiation with armed groups.
11.1.5 Promotion of environmental sustainability
It seeks to generate social benefits in the communities of areas affected by the conflict, so that through the provision of environmental goods and services, regional development can be dynamited, with emphasis on the generation of jobs and higher income levels. In this sense, actions of the program of sustainability of endogenous production processes of the environmental policy of the Plan, the development of projects of sustainable use of the forests, reforestation through production-protective plantations, forestry projects and the promotion of ecotourism, especially in the protected areas of the national, regional or municipal level, are contemplated. The purpose is for all these projects to involve the population of the environmentally strategic areas, protected areas and buffer zones. It is also intended to generate profits in other areas, which, due to its natural and cultural tourism potential, allow for this type of goods and services.
11.2 Policies of peace and citizen coexistence
11.2.1 Citizen coexistence and security program
Develops strategies to combat violence in urban areas, under a dual orientation: on the one hand, policies to control crime and violent expressions, and on the other hand, policies with greater emphasis on the prevention of violence and on the development of coexisting codes and alternative mechanisms for conflict resolution in cities, among others.
12. Defense and security
The central objective of the country's defense and security sector is to contribute to the consolidation of a security and citizen trust environment as a basis for a just and lasting peace, which is the foundation of social and economic development.
this is intended to strengthen the military and police forces, in order to reaffirm the full exercise of the authority and the rule of law and to strengthen the legitimacy of the state. The aim is to consolidate a system of citizen coexistence and public security, so that crime can be effectively acted upon.
To achieve this central goal, the following specific objectives will be worked out:
Increase the effectiveness levels of public force operations.
Neutralize and destabilize the ability of groups and individuals outside the law.
Maintaining a real and credible deterrent against external threats.
Decrease crime rates.
These goals are intended to be achieved with a highly skilled organization to drive operations effectively and efficiently. In this sense, mobility and tactical support are considered to be of vital importance, in the measure that increases the combat capacity of the forces, providing them with the necessary equipment and means, as is the case with the acquisition of helicopter gunships.
In order to increase the levels of enlistment, logistic and technical support support will be guaranteed to the materials and equipment currently available to the sector.
Additionally, intelligence and telematics capabilities will be strengthened, expanding coverage, integration and opportunity of information. All of this must be complemented by a Public Force that is able and efficiently employed, since the quality of the human resource constitutes a fundamental point for any operation aimed at protecting the interests of the State, especially in terms of protection and respect for human rights and international humanitarian law.
Finally, the aim is to improve public safety, through the use of the profession and the technification of police interventions, crime prevention and crime reduction.
As a fundamental objective for the strengthening of national security, investment resources are planned for the development and consolidation of the intelligence work carried out by the Administrative Department of Security (DAS).
These tasks will be oriented to the production of information that facilitates the decision-making in the field of state security and the carrying out of specialized investigations of those phenomena that affect national interests.
The objectives will be developed through the modernization of the technological infrastructure, specifically in terms of data processing and communications, as well as the strengthening of the mechanisms of international and national inter-institutional cooperation.
the resources allocated to the defense sector will be allocated 16.5 percent for the National Police, which will give priority to the operational programs, particularly the construction of barracks and police stations and the acquisition of operational equipment.
13. Ethnic groups
13.1 Indigenous groups-indigenous peoples
The policy for indigenous peoples will be oriented towards the defense, support, strengthening and consolidation of ethnic and cultural rights, enshrined in constitutional and legal norms. This policy will develop the following objectives:
13.1.1 Agricultural Matter
The land allocation process will be promoted through the constitution of reserves, as well as its consolidation and expansion, in cases where it is deemed necessary, for the development of indigenous peoples.
The participation of indigenous people must be ensured in the agrarian reform programs. A clear and precise inventory of the lands belonging to the indigenous peoples must be established in advance by the National Government, assuring them the ownership and possession of the lands.
13.1.2 Health
The indigenous insurers of the subsidized health system will be strengthened and consolidated, seeking a substantial increase in the affiliation of indigenous people and the adequacy of the services to the worldview and cultural practices of the communities. Likewise, mechanisms will be established to jointly design among indigenous communities and organizations, and between these and the National Government, a regime that will guarantee the effectiveness of the services in this field.
13.1.3 Education
Ethnoeducation programs will be developed, with special emphasis on bilingual and multicultural education, primary education and the extension of secondary education coverage through innovative methodologies of relevance for dispersed population groups. Mechanisms to amend Decree 804 of 1995 on ethnoeducation will also be considered. Higher education institutions will be sought to provide financial facilities for indigenous students, under the coordination of the Ministries of Education and the Interior.
13.1.4 Institutional Development
Actions will be developed to allocate resources to give priority to support for the formation of indigenous territories as territorial entities, a process of training in the political-administrative management of guards and new territorial entities; formulation of development plans or life plans and training processes for the generation of legislative proposals in the field of health and mines, in the head of the Ministry of the Interior. In the same way, it will advise and support programs in public management, with an emphasis on the administration of transfer resources.
13.1.5 Vulnerable population groups
In the same way, we will seek to develop and update the cartographic and statistical information of the indigenous territories, using a database that facilitates the process of self-management and legal advice. It will seek to consolidate mechanisms for the defense of the human rights of indigenous peoples, attention to the displaced population, and the development of strategies for rapid reinsertion in their territories and will effectively address the situation of vulnerability in those cases where indigenous peoples exist with precarious living conditions, cultural disintegration, lack of territories for their physical and cultural subsistence.
13.1.6 Human Rights
The Human Rights Commission will be strengthened and strengthened by seeking agreements on legislative and administrative measures that could affect indigenous peoples.
13.1.7 State Relations-Indigenous Peoples
The coordination channels will be adapted and improved in the implementation of the indigenous policy between the different levels of government, as well as among the sectoral institutions. In any case, it will be an attempt to close attention to the La Maria-Piendamo agreement, signed between the government and the indigenous authorities, for which 16 billion pesos ($16,000,000,000) will be allocated.
13.1.8 Indigenous Special Jurisdiction
It will be sought to expand coverage in the instruments of justice in indigenous territories, by promoting the traditional forms of conflict resolution and the development of the indigenous special jurisdiction. It will design and implement the necessary mechanisms for intermediation in the resolution of conflicts generated in the indigenous territories, in coordination with the Ministry of Justice and Law and the Superior Council of the Judiciary.
13.1.9 Disaster Prevention and Care
The development of an inter-institutional framework will be promoted that will allow the necessary coordination with the Ministry of the Environment in the definition and use of environmental impact verification mechanisms that could affect indigenous communities, guaranteeing their participation in these processes.
13.1.10 International and Border Policies
International and border policies related to indigenous peoples will be established, through the development of forums, meetings and meetings that will enable international agreements to be developed for development, cooperation, conflict improvement, biodiversity conservation, and the defense and promotion of the rights of indigenous peoples.
13.2 Ethnic Groups-Rom Peoples
The National Government in the head of the Ministry of the Interior will ensure the integration of these communities to their purposes of fighting poverty and improving their quality of life, respecting their cultural particularities and concerning with this group the actions for the attention of their main problems.
13.3 Ethnic Groups-Afro-Colombian and Ethnic Groups-
It will focus its efforts on the following subprograms: basic sanitation, health, education, productive activities and institutional development, title and land acquisition.
Include the Afro-Colombian and the local groups on an equal footing with the access of the different economic, social and cultural sectors.
13.3.1 Basic Sanitation
Infrastructure works will be supported by including concrete actions for institutional development, promotion of community participation, and the technical and financial sustainability of the systems. The specific actions will be aimed at promoting, through the Ministry of Development, the water culture program; promoting the application of appropriate technologies for the development of water supply systems, final disposal of wastewater and solid waste; strengthening local authorities authorized by law.
13.3.2 Health
In addition to what is stated in the Plan's sectoral strategy, the decentralization of service in the municipalities, as well as the provision of technical assistance, will be supported; mechanisms that guarantee access to basic care and actions to promote and prevent rural and urban-marginal population will be strengthened, considering the ethnocultural, social, environmental and economic particularities. In particular, the implementation of the territorial health plans of the collective territories will be boosted.
13.3.3 Education
It will technically support the formulation and implementation of the Afro-Colombian ethnoeducation project in the national education system, promoting projects of curricular design, qualification and/or professionalization of teachers and community educational agents, of production of educational material, as well as of sociocultural, linguistic, ethno-historical research, among others.
13.3.4 Production Activities
A comprehensive approach will be adopted, covering the knowledge of promising species, as well as the production, processing and marketing of products. The actions of this strategy will be aimed at the following purposes: to develop productive maps, to support projects for self-subsistence, to generate management plans for the sustainable use of the forest, to develop sustainable productive projects, to promote the creation, organization and strengthening of the organizations of producers, microentrepreneurs and Afro-Colombian entrepreneurs.
13.3.5 Institutional Development
The objective is to increase the capacity of the communities, civil society organizations and municipal and Afro-Colombian authorities to increase their capacity.
To carry out these purposes, the following actions will be carried out: strengthening of the organizational processes and participation of the Afro-Colombian population; regulation and implementation of Law 70 of 1993; design and implementation of a system of statistical and socio-demographic information for the Afro-Colombian population; promotion of successful local management models and consolidation of the associations of municipalities.
13.3.6 Titling of collective territories and acquisition and endowment of land
The process of collective titling for indigenous and black communities will be continued, and the implementation of development programs in the titled territories will be supported. It will also adopt and implement a special program for the acquisition and allocation of land to support Afro-Colombian communities that do not own land, or possess them in an insufficient way, in those areas of the country where collective titling is not possible.
13.3.7 Raizals
Protection programs will be promoted to the San Andrés and Providencia archipelago as a strategic area for tourism development in the country. Likewise, the population of the archipelago, given its geographical, social, cultural and economic characteristics and the current problems (insularity, overpopulation, marginality and growing poverty), will receive support for the purpose of seeking alternative solutions. To this end, the administrative political regime of the island will be reviewed and the implementation of the mechanisms for the participation of all the social actors in the processes of planning and management of development will be promoted.
14. Infrastructure
14.1 Transport
14.1.1 Roads
14.1.1.1 Primary network (trunk and cross)
The investments in the Primary Network will be oriented towards the completion of projects that are currently under way. They will also be guided to guarantee their good status through adequate maintenance programs in the 16 thousand kilometers that make up the state. These programmes will be complemented by rehabilitation activities in 457 km of the programme.
The expansion of the network will be achieved through the Concessions Program, through private investment. With this investment 791 Km will be built and 750 Km will be rehabilitated. In addition, the routes delivered in concession will be maintained, which for the year 2002 will be estimated to correspond to about 3,815 Km. The main projects will be financed through national resources and from contributions of valorization, tolls, surcharges to fuels and resources of credits.
To facilitate the road expansions, the necessary premises must be affected and reserved to advance their construction.
The National Government will allocate in the areas corresponding to the transportation in this law resources destined for the Fund for the replacement of the fleet to attend to the social part of the transport, the emergency situation that the small transporters are faced with the obligation of the Law 105 of 1993 and its decrees regulations to physically destroy their vehicles.
14.1.1.2 Secondary and tertiary network
The two main objectives are to rehabilitate and maintain the secondary and tertiary network that is still in charge of the Nation.
The financing of investments in these two programs will be complemented by resources from the National Royalty Fund and eventually with resources from regional road concessions. For the identification of opportunities in the latter, a study financed from the national budget will be carried out.
These programs will be complemented by the resources of the ACPM's National Royalties and Overcharge Fund.
The National Government will support the project of roads that will promote the development of the municipalities and departments of the coast in particular the project of improvement and construction of the road Santa Rosa de Lima-blow (includes construction of the bridge over the Canal del Dique, between the municipalities of San Estanislao of Koska-Soplaviento).
This work benefits and develops the following municipalities:
1. Santa Rosa de Lima.
2. Villanueva.
3. San Estanislao de Koska.
4. Blowtorch.
5. St. Kitts.
6. Squid.
7. Arroyo Hondo.
14.1.2 Aeronautical and airport sector
The Nation's resources will be aimed at increasing the security of airspace and maintaining the existing infrastructure. These amounts will be complemented by a programme to support the process of decentralisation and airport privatisation. This programme will be brought forward by the delivery of the main airports in the country.
14.1.3 Railway Program
In the iron sector, resources from the Nation's contributions will be invested to cover the development of the national rail network's rehabilitation program through the concession system. These contributions will complement the resources from the private sector, which will be invested in both the Pacific and the Atlantic network.
The program includes the maintenance of 240 Km through the public sector. The private resources will support the rehabilitation program of 1,237 Km and will maintain the network delivered in concession, which in 2002 will be 1,890 Km.
14.1.4 River Program
Through the Investment Plan of the river sector, it is intended for the basins of Magdalena, Orinoco, Amazonas, Atrato and the Pacific Basin with its network of transport by rivers and steels.
Improve and maintain the infrastructure of services in the river network, monitoring of rivers, rehabilitation of navigation channels, cleaning and dethronque, defense works against erosion, signaling and beacon. It is intended to carry out the rehabilitation of the Cienaga de la Virgen and to design policies to grant the Meta River, which will include the construction of a port in the Banqueta and works of channeling to guarantee its navigability, establishing the system of tolls later. Likewise, the initiation of the program to grant the navigation system of the Magdalena River and its river ports will be initiated.
The National Government will attach particular importance to river transport within the road expansion program. To do this, it will appropriate the necessary resources within the National Budget and the Investment Fund for Peace (Plan Colombia).
The participation of Colombia in the project of the Inland Integration of South America (IFSA) is considered fundamental both because of the implications of this project in terms of the transport infrastructure indispensable for the trade integration of the Andean Group with Mercosur, as well as for the enormous potential of agricultural, livestock and forest development of the Amazon and Colombian Orinoquia, which in turn opens up enormous prospects for progress and peace for these regions, having detected offers of foreign investment in support of the limited resources of the Government. National.
14.1.5 Maritime Program
The program of granting of the access channels will be developed in the marine ports. It is intended to grant the deepening, maintenance, operation and construction of complementary works to the access channels, initially in the ports of Barranquilla and Buenaventura. In addition, with the resources of the National Government, the channels of access to the non-concessionary ports will be maintained.
14.2 Mines and Energy
14.2.1 Electricity
The actions of the National Government in the electricity sector are aimed at consolidating the existing regulatory framework, encouraging the participation of new players in the market, increasing energy coverage in rural areas-with emphasis on the new departments-and solving the problems of management of state-owned enterprises that threaten the physical integrity of the system.
14.2.1.1 Electrical Generation
In order to increase the reliability and robustness of the system, it is expected to increase installed capacity, through water and thermal resources to a total of 14,389 MW in the year 2000.
In addition to the projects planned to enter into operation in 2002, other projects will be considered that will strengthen the future generation of the country, giving preference to the development of those hydroelectric, thermal and geothermal projects that are of minimal environmental impact, financially viable, economically competitive and that, by their location, become the development pole of the most depressed regions. In particular, preference will be given to those projects that permit the development of regional and national development goals provided for in the Forest Program of the National Development Plan.
14.2.1.2 Electrical Transmission
With the objective that the transmission sector operates under conditions of competition, and ensure the transmission works in such a way as to guarantee quality, continuity and safety, minimizing the operational cost of the restrictions and losses by the system, public calls will be initiated for the design, operation and construction of the same. For the year 2002, there will be 1,931 Km of additional transmission lines.
14.2.1.3 Rational and efficient use of energy
The objective of government policies in the field of rational and efficient use of energy is aimed at achieving efficiency in energy consumption in the country, replacing the sources of electrical energy not suitable for the final use and optimizing the conversion of energy, for which the program of replacement of gasoline by fuel gas in vehicle transport will be strengthened, the financial, technological and regulatory facilities will be created to take advantage of the potential of cogeneration and will develop methodologies of saving in the subsectors most representative of the industry.
14.2.1.4 Non-interconnected Zones, ZNI
Correspond to those areas of the country that do not receive electric power through the National Interconnected System (SIN). An Energy Plan will be established in the ZNI, in line with the needs and energy potential of the regions and coverage will be increased in rural and isolated areas. Finally, an appropriate scheme will be implemented and consolidated that will provide comprehensive and sustainable energy solutions for the ZNI.
14.2.1.5 Subsidies
The period of dismantling of the subsidies higher than those authorized by Law 142 of 1994 (extralegals), for the public energy service, and the funds of solidarity and redistribution of income for energy and gas will be used, which will increase the coverage of the services and improve the quality of life of the inhabitants.
14.2.2 Oil
14.2.2.1 Hydrocarbon Exploration
The number of wells will be increased directly or in association with third parties; the increase in reserves will be sought, in order to maintain current production, and to avoid a possible shortage of crude in the future.
mechanisms will be promoted to improve the competitiveness of the sector, such as the easing of the royalty regime.
14.2.2.2 Oil production
To maintain current production of crude oil at 800 KBPDC, much of Ecopetrol's investments in the drilling of development wells will have to be spent.
14.2.2.3 Crude transport
Ecopetrol's investment will mainly focus on increasing the capacity of the current polyducts. The construction of pipelines for new findings, as well as the adequacy of stations and lines that so require, remain in importance. Additionally, loss control, storage and security projects will be developed.
14.2.2.4 Gas
14.2.2.4.1 Gas transport
It will focus on the expansion of the transportation capacity of the gas network, mainly in the Ballena-Barrancabermeja pipeline, which meets the needs of the market. In addition, programs to adapt and maintain existing pipelines will be implemented.
14.2.2.4.2 Underground Storage
In order to reduce the vulnerability of the troncal gas transportation system, this project will be developed, which will increase the reliability of supply to all operators in the sector.
14.2.2.4.3 Refining
Investments will be made in the Ecopetrol refineries in order to mitigate their environmental impact and increase their productivity.
14.2.3 Mining
14.2.3.1 Basic mining scan
The activities of exploration and basic exploration developed by Ingeominas will increase the level of coverage of geoscientific knowledge of the national territory. This is intended to measure geological risks, so that private investment in mining exploration and exploitation activities is encouraged.
The government will seek to channel the royalty resources for the promotion of mining, through Ingeominas and the National Company Minera Ltda.
14.2.3.2 Mineral exploitation
The exploitation of minerals will be increased; in particular, the Cerrejon North Zone Complex will advance investments in the adaptation of new mining areas, as well as investments aimed at developing the transportation infrastructure that will allow adequate access to new mining areas, energy infrastructure and the program of replacement of equipment. From the year 2000, the investments are expected to be entirely assumed by the private sector, with the sale of the interests of the Nation in the Cerrejon North Zone Complex.
14.2.3.3 Promotion and administration
In order to technically strengthen mining agents, a matrix of technical training will be structured in the activities of exploration and exploitation of informal mining, through environmental, operational and business programs. This matrix will be in the head of the National Mining Company Ltda., and will contribute to solving the limitations in the commercialization and transformation of the minerals, critical factors to achieve the competitiveness of the sector and to allow the economic and social development of the most depressed regions.
14.2.3.4 Promotion of coquizzable coal projects
order to take advantage of the country's cozable coal potential, the National Government will promote the development of private initiative projects, preferably in port areas, for the production of metallurgical coke, aimed at the export of the material or for steel use.
15. Communications
15.1 Telecommunications
The government actions contemplated in the National Development Plan for the telecommunications sector to contribute to the increase in productivity and competitiveness and to improve the quality of life of Colombians are as follows:
1. Achieve national coverage of telecommunications services.
2. Strengthen the regulatory and institutional framework of the sector.
3. Consolidate the liberalisation of the market.
4. Encourage the participation of new actors in the provision of services and
5. Promote the development of the Colombian Information Infrastructure.
15.2 Local Telephony
In local telephony, the actions of the Plan will be aimed at increasing the coverage and quality of the telephone service. Public, private and mixed telephone operators will make investments in expansion and replacement of their switching and transmission networks, as well as their external plant.
15.3 Long Distance Telephony
New operators of the long-distance telephone service will make investments aimed at financing the construction and expansion of new long-distance networks. This, through the laying of modern optical fiber systems, microwave and radio links, to offer its services in a good part of the national territory. The National Telecommunications Company, Telecom, will make investments to modernize its trunk and alternate networks and to participate in the submarine cable system Maya I.
15.4 Cell Mobile Telephony and PCS
With the award of the concessions of the Personal Communications Systems, PCS, it is intended to attract significant investments in new mobile wireless services and cellular mobile phone networks. These investments will be aimed at the installation and operation of networks for the provision of telecommunications services in the band from 1.8 to 2.0 Ghz. Competition in the provision of mobile and fixed wireless telecommunications services will be encouraged in this way.
15.5 Social Telephony
Through the implementation of the Social Telephony Plan and the National Plan of Universal Service, the Communications Fund will finance investments to ensure that all municipalities in the country and that localities with more pressing development needs have access to community and rural telecommunications services. Additionally, it is expected that during the four-year period incentives will be generated for the participation of new agents in the provision of universal service in the country.
15.6 Value Added
In the provision of value-added services, a dynamic growth is expected in the supply of telematic services and value-added services offered today to the productive sectors, which will allow the national economy to increase its competitiveness levels in the international markets.
15.7 Television
The public sector actions on television include the Technical Strengthening Plan for Inravision and regional channels. The priorities of this plan will focus on the improvement and expansion of the coverage of public television channels, through the use of satellite television segments and the replacement of emission, production, transmission and broadcasting systems. The strengthening of public educational and cultural television will also be sought. The private investment will be directed to the improvement of the coverage and technical capabilities of the private television channels of national and local coverage and to the assembly of the networks of the new zonal and local subscription television.
15.8 Other Services
For the mail service, the public sector will make investments in the period 1999-2002, to expand its offer and improve its operational efficiency. Additionally, it will be supported by the allocation of investment resources for Telecom's research and development program. The National Government will also promote the massive use of the Internet through the development of a telecommunications and IT infrastructure that will allow adequate coverage of the Internet in the country. It will also promote the strengthening of university and research networks, seeking to improve the existing connections with other academic and research centers in the world.
16. External trade
The design of foreign trade policy will favor the adaptation of the Colombian business sector to the challenges and opportunities arising from the new industrial organization schemes and the higher degree of competitiveness that must be achieved in the international context.
Under the development of article 337 of the National Constitution, empower the National Government to create special economic export zones in four border municipalities located each in a different region of the country, whose economic activities will have as their sole purpose to attract investments and strengthen the national export process by creating special conditions that favor the participation of private capital. The government will have six months to regulate these areas.
16.1 Industry and Commerce
In order to successfully compete both in the international market and in the local market, we will seek to strengthen the productive supply exportable, which will allow to consolidate sustainable patterns of internationalization in the medium and long term.
16.1.1 Business Development Support
16.1.1.1 National Productivity and Competitiveness Fund
The foundation of industrial policy will be the strengthening of the productive apparatus to diversify and consolidate the Colombian export offer in the international markets, through the implementation of a single coordinating, financial and management entity, made up of the entities that support and leverage business development, through the creation of the National Productivity and Competitiveness Fund.
Thus, coherence in the complementarity between the actions of the National System of Innovation, the System of Services to Exports, the National System of Credit to small and medium enterprises-SMEs, and the actions contemplated in the policy of export, industrial and technological development.
Under this intervention scheme aimed at enhancing business competitiveness, a new model of care and technical assistance will be put in place for companies that ensure greater inter-agency fluidity and promote modalities and rhythms of intervention, integral and transversal. For the purpose of strengthening the competitiveness of exportable products, the Fund will promote projects that generate fundamental changes in the organization of production, through the growing introduction of processes of innovation, elevation of the quality of the product and the improvement of the modern techniques of production and marketing management. Support for industrial production will be directed through the promotion of activities that stimulate the quality, innovation, renewal and diversification of products, the incorporation of design technologies to the industry and, in general, the consolidation of the offer of technical assistance and financing services. The projects that promote and consolidate the export activity in the border areas of the country will be of special interest, for which a line of attention will be designed, taking into account the characteristics of the respective zones.
The Fund will also include investment and risk resources in viable companies that have demonstrated in the last five (5) years capacity to generate employment and to be productive and competitive in domestic or export markets.
In the development of this strategy, the National Government will be able to assign to Bancoldex or Fiducoldex, directly and without prior invitation to tender, the administration of the autonomous assets that are created in the development of the National Productivity and Competitiveness Fund.
16.1.1.2 Promoting innovation
Scientific development and technological innovation will be supported, through the consolidation of the programs, projects and activities of the institutions and strategies created from the formation of the national system of science and technology.
The purpose will be to direct the resources available to the financing of scientific activities in strategic sectors. This, taking into account the needs of the society's competitiveness, the requirements of the export sector that need support for innovation and competitive management along with the training of the human resource in technical and technological aspects.
Developing a state of science and technology policy will regulate and develop Law 29 of 1990 with the following main aspects:
1. In order to establish the instruments and mechanisms so that, within a period of no more than two years, a medium-and long-term science and technology plan, arranged with the scientific community and the productive sector, will be formulated.
2. A budgetary coordination mechanism for science and technology will be designed. Items 4or. and 7or. shall be regulated in order to ensure that within one year, that mechanism is in operation.
3. Scientific and technological diplomacy shall be put into operation on the basis of the provisions of Article 9o. of Law 29 of 1990.
4. A complementary law of Law 29 of 1990 will be presented to Congress, which establishes incentives, exceptions, tax rebates, and other tax advantages to promote science and technology.
5. Articles 5o shall be regulated. and 10 of Law 29 of 1990, in order to execute the established.
16.1.1.3 Support for the promotion of competition, industrial property and quality improvement.
This program will look for the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce and the other entities with responsibilities in the field, to have the physical and human infrastructure necessary to efficiently manage the National Quality System, with an emphasis on compliance with international standards as a mechanism to win external markets and protect our consumers.
It will be achieved in this entity and others, institutional schemes suitable and adequately resourced to ensure the effectiveness of consumer rights and the enforcement of rules on unfair competition and restrictive business practices.
The Plan proposes to advance the allocation of resources for the administration of the Industrial Property System, putting an end to the historical backwardness and cashing in on the country of the opportunities that open with the entry of Colombia into multilateral treaties, such as the agreement on the aspects of intellectual property related to trade, TRIPS, Annex of the WTO and the Treaty of Cooperation in the field of patents, PCT.
16.1.1.4 Modernization of state activities towards the export sector.
Jointly with the modernization of the State entities that must coordinate, support and control the operational aspects of foreign trade, the import and export of goods, services, and technology will be reviewed, and all of the existing provisions on Colombian commercial policy will be compiled.
16.1.1.5 Programs for Microenterprise.
The Ministry of Development, in coordination with the Corporation for the Development of Microenterprises, will seek to strengthen and operate the existing coordination bodies of the National Plan for Microenterprise, in particular the policy advisory board for the micro-enterprise, to develop the appropriate mechanisms for the expansion of regional and user coverage and to promote the continued appropriation of resources to ensure the continuation and growth of the Plan's programs. Likewise, the institutional and technical strengthening of the implementing entities of the Plan will be sought, co-financing in the same way as in the past, the programs implemented by them and to maintain, by easing them, the existing mechanisms of credit to the microenterprises, seeking to increase the resources available to meet the demand, creating as much as possible, a permanent fund.
Micro-enterprise programs will also be aimed at modernizing and stimulating small businesses and neighborhood stores.
16.2 Tourism
For this purpose, resources will be directed to the Tourism Promotion Fund, as provided for in Law 300 of 1996. In the same way, funds will be channeled into activities such as training of tourism police and the development of a culture of tourism promotion. A joint strategy will be established with the environmental authorities for the promotion of Ecotourism.
17. Science and technology
In order to achieve the objectives of the Development Plan, a policy of science and technology is needed to advance in all areas of knowledge and in its applications, giving priority to technologies aimed at the satisfaction of the basic needs of the citizens and the achievement of the international competitiveness of the Colombian productive apparatus. By its nature, scientific and technological activities are multisectoral and involve the different territorial levels of the country.
17.1 Strengthening of the National System of Science and Technology (SNCYT)
Considering that the National Council of Science and Technology is the first instance of SNCYT, the Plan commits itself to undertake the institutional improvements required by the National System of Science and Technology to improve the articulation of the various components and public and private institutional actors of the different regional orders committed in scientific and technological development. The levels of the system involve the design of policies, financing strategies, promotion, sustainability and the implementation of coordinated scientific and technological activities. The National Programmes Councils will be strengthened and the Regional Commissions will be adapted.
17.2 Educational, Scientific and Cultural Subsystem
17.2.1 Science education
Science education programs will be promoted that include the training of teachers and researchers not only for the university and industry but for basic education, as well as the provision of teaching laboratories at all levels.
17.2.2 Training of researchers
It is necessary to achieve the formation of a critical mass of researchers and specialized professionals in strategic areas for the country. The doctoral training programs will be strengthened, national research programs aimed at the development of knowledge in basic sciences, social sciences, engineering and other disciplines or areas considered as strategic. Special interest will have the use of the research infrastructure of the public and private higher education institutions and independent research centers.
17.2.3 National Information System
The National System of Information on Science and Technology Activities will be strengthened and implemented by Colciencias to facilitate decision-making by the bodies responsible for planning and decisions in the field.
17.2.4 SENA Link to SNCYT
It will be sought to link the SENA to the policy of science and technology, avoiding the dispersion of efforts and duplicity of activities with other entities such as Colciencias and other private centers of technological development, and overcoming the disarticulation of the training given by the SENA, the National System of Science and Technology and the global educational system. The allocation of 20% of the resources of SENA (Law 344 of 1996) will be guaranteed to the programs of competitiveness, technological development and innovation, through the development of Law 29 of 1990.
17.3 Natural Subsystem. Rational use of resources
The country's scientific and technological capacity will be improved to study, know, conserve and rationally use its natural resources and biodiversity and develop productive projects in priority areas such as agro-industries, the sciences and technologies of the sea, environmental sciences, energy and mining. New production projects will be promoted using state-of-the-art technologies such as modern biotechnology, genetic engineering, information sciences, telematics, biomedical technologies, new materials, microelectronics and the pharmaceutical industry.
17.4 Social Subsystem
17.4.1 Health
The SNCYT will support the increase of coverage and the improvement of the quality of the programs of prevention and promotion of health, as well as the improvement of the levels of nutrition of children.
17.5 Social Sciences
Given the priority nature of the peace process, social science research is part of public policies aimed at improving the socioeconomic and quality of life conditions. Consequently, research in social sciences will be supported in universities and independent research centres.
17.6 International technical cooperation
The use of international technical cooperation resources to support scientific and technological development will be attracted and rationalized, in accordance with the objectives of the Plan. The Agency for Technology Cooperation will work in coordination with SNCYT for this purpose.
17.7 Science and Technology Commission in the Congress of the Republic
The creation of a Science and Technology Commission whose central concern will be the legislative development and political control related to the development of science and technology in the country will be promoted in the Congress.
18. Social infrastructure
18.1 Housing
18.1.1 Urban Housing Program
The urban housing program aims to build 500 thousand new housing solutions, 420 thousand will be of social interest (value less than 200 SMMLM) being supported with a subsidy of 242 thousand homes. The resources of the subsidy will be mainly from the national budget, the parafiscal income from the Family Compensation Funds and the Military Housing Fund, being supplemented by municipal contributions. In addition to the subsidies, resources will be provided for the savings of the families and credit of the National Savings Fund and the Finaciero System.
Housing policy of social interest will continue to be based on the orientation of demand subsidies, aimed at the purchase of new housing and for lots with a minimum unit of development. In order to concentrate the resources available for the family housing allowance, preference will be given to minimum cost solutions with a progressive subsidy scheme, reviving the planned savings system. Transparency will also be given to the system through the unification of the procedures for eligibility and promotion of the offer, as well as the application, allocation and payment of the subsidy to the families. The target population of the subsidy policy for the VIS is that with income less than 4 SMMLM with an emphasis on the population whose income is less than 2 SMMLM. The programs that will be developed in the policy of subsidized housing are program of the double subsidy and program of the subsidy for the equity.
18.1.1.1 Double Subprogram Subprogram
This program is directed to the population with income of less than 2 SMMLM that requires the concurrency between the municipalities and the Nation to deliver a double subsidy (national subsidy and municipal subsidy). The municipal subsidy can be provided by private or community entities. It seeks to strengthen the decentralization process, recognizing that the solution of the housing problem is a function of the municipality, as well as creating the real possibility of the families of lower income to access a housing solution. In order to benefit the poorest population, the order of eligibility of the offer will give priority to the lowest-cost housing. The value of the national subsidy is 25 SMMLM for this program. The municipal or private allowance must correspond to the final price of the housing solution.
The double subsidy sub-programme for women head of household will have a quota of 10% of the total resources allocated to this programme.
18.1.1.2 Subprogram for Social Equity
It is a program destined for households with income between 2 and 4 SMLM, which seeks to increase the offer of VIS, particularly in the range of income between 2 and 3 SMMLM, since it is there where the largest housing deficit of the country is concentrated. The aim is to promote private sector action through the demand subsidy, generating transparency processes and improving credit conditions through the planned savings. The allocation of resources to this program will be based on the existing national and local housing deficit in each income range. A1 as in the previous program, the order of eligibility of the offer will give priority to the lower cost housing.
The national housing allowance in this program will be 20 SMMLM. For the beneficiaries with income between 2 and 3 SMMLM an additional score will be obtained in order to focus on this range the housing solutions, seeking greater equity in the distribution of resources. Two sub-programmes will be promoted; strategic alliances, with public and private entities that have land to develop VIS projects and urban macro projects, in order to stimulate the development of massive social housing programs.
18.1.1.3 Coordination with family compensation boxes
This sub-program aims to link the Family Compensation Funds into three important social policy activities: housing of social interest, attention to children under six (6) years and complementary day. This linkage will be made in the understanding that there is a need to modify some of the percentages that the law today imposes on them.
To achieve the objective described, it is important to clarify that the boxes will retain the independent financial management and separate accounts of the resources destined for marketing, IPS and EPS. Similarly, for the optimization of resources, the Family Compensation Funds will continue to offer non-formal education programs that do not present duplicity with those offered by the SENA.
18.1.2 Rural Housing Program
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, together with the Ministry of Economic Development, will coordinate the implementation of rural development policies in the areas of land management, housing and land titling processes, and in coordination with departments and municipalities.
The agrarian reform programs will incorporate the corresponding housing plan that will be coordinated by the Incora and the Agrarian Fund based on projects carried out by the Incora.
18.2 Drinking water and sanitation
The sectoral policy will be aimed at creating a comprehensive policy that will mandate the action of national entities and allow the modernization of the lending institutions in a way that will achieve high levels of efficiency in their management. Under these conditions, providers will be supported to increase the coverage and quality of aqueduct and sanitation services. Likewise, in coordination with environmental policy, we seek to advance a plan for the treatment of waste water and integral waste management when it is economically, socially and environmentally viable.
In the new sector policy, the financing must come primarily from the charging of fees to users, contributions from municipalities under Law 60 of 1993 and local taxes (for subsidies to the rate of subsidized users or investments in expansion of services), credit resources from Findeter to the lending institutions or to municipalities and contributions from the private sector. In addition, the Nation will be able to allocate support resources to solve structural problems in the sector, promoting business modernization to ensure sustainability and efficiency in services. The projects will be based on the support resources of the Nation, after the following conditions are met:
1. Compliance with the legislation and sectoral policy. In other words, the adoption of the standards defined by the Commission on the Water and Management of Water Regulations, with studies and designs under the criteria of economic minimum cost, there is technical and economic rationality in the priority of the works and the technical standards of the Ministry of Economic Development, among others, are met. The disbursements shall be made in accordance with local commitments.
2. Maximize the use of fees, credit resources and local contributions in the financing of projects.
3. Priority of care for eligible users.
4. In cases where the private sector is linked, account will be taken of the percentage of the subsidized users cared for by the private sector; the deadlines defined for obtaining efficiency levels; the lower requirements for public sector guarantees and their coverage by the municipalities; and that the linkage has been achieved through competitive processes (number of bidders, tender deadline, conditions required of the proposers).
18.2.1 Transformation and Institutional Adjustment
It seeks to create institutional, regulatory and control conditions at the national level to generate clear, stable, flexible and consistent signals in accordance with local conditions. In the framework of decentralization and municipal responsibility, the subprogram of Business Modernization will support the creation of entities, autonomous, technical and financially viable, the agglomeration of markets in regional companies, the creation of community enterprises and small operators and the linking of the private sector.
18.2.2 Improvement of the provision of home public services
Municipalities and services providers will advance projects to expand the coverage of aqueduct and basic sanitation and improve their quality. This programme also provides for the modification of the transition regime for the removal of extra-legal subsidies and the clarification of the contribution factors in the fees charged for this service.
They form part of the policy of drinking water and basic sanitation the contributions of the Nation made through the Ministry of Economic Development, the Escaribe program, the resources of the Pacific Plan and the contributions of the National Royalty Fund for this sector. To complement the financing of investments in the Caribbean Coast, it will be possible to use external credits, according to the fiscal goals of the nation.
the area of drinking water and basic sanitation in rural areas, the Ministry of Economic Development will coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture the implementation of policies, plans and programs in the area of investments and technical assistance.
19. Computer Emergency Year 2000
The arrival of the year 2000 has generated an emergency in the world because of the technological failures that can arise in the face of the inability of the electronic equipment to assimilate the turn of the millennium. Colombia is no stranger to the problem, because the aeronautical systems, communications systems and in general all the activities that depend on computers and other electronic systems with microchips can be affected. It is therefore essential to take all necessary measures to avoid computer chaos, which is why provisions are included to provide the tools needed to deal with the IT crisis.
20. Urban development
20.1 Urban macro project implementation support program
The National Government will support territorial entities in the formulation and management of macro-projects and urban renewal plans and will promote the evaluation and monitoring of them.
20.2 National Urban Transport Policy Momentum Programme
The National Government will implement a program of technical assistance to the territorial entities to advance the management and modernization of urban transportation systems.
20.3 Program to support the formation of urban land information centers
The National Government will work on a national technical assistance program for cities with a population of over 100,000 for the assembly, implementation and monitoring of soil and real estate observatories.
20.4 Program of mass regulation of ownership and modernization of land registry and registration systems
The optimization, promotion and monitoring of the mass titration of prediums and institutional management will be implemented for the improvement of the information and processing of cadastral and registration matters.
20.5 Program to promote the economic development of urban centers
The National Government will design the technical and financial tools necessary to promote strategic alliances between public and private entities, the qualification of the workforce and attract investment to urban centers.
21. Solidarity economy
As has been stated, the production of social capital is impossible as long as the conflict prevails and there is a perception that economic decisions are made by a few and for the economic benefit of a few. It is impossible to achieve social cohesion as long as the high rates of poverty and unemployment and the great social inequalities exist, such as the prevailing ones in Colombia.
this sense, the solidarity economy plays a preponderant role in achieving the increase of social capital, in so far as the culture of solidarity production enables, through participatory processes of dialogue, the concertation between the State and civil society, the construction of identities broken by the war, the formation of a solidarity citizen who participates in decisions of common interest and in the construction of an ethics of the economy, of coexistence and provides aptitudes for a life in common, solidarity, participative and tolerant.
Consequently, the policy of the national government and civil society will be aimed primarily at promoting the economic participation of the solidarity sector in the rural and urban areas so that the unemployed poor and marginalized self-manage their own work with technical, technological and financial assistance that the State and the solidarity sector can provide.
The government is committed to strengthening participatory business development projects that aim to create and consolidate sustainable partnerships that help communities multiply productive work and income.
22. Political control of the economic emergency
order to guarantee that both the national private sector and the public sector have the necessary resources to be able to finance the development projects included in the present investment plan, the Congress of the Republic, in exercise of the political control that the Constitution grants it, will introduce some provisions to allow the tax of 2 per thousand to financial transactions to meet the objectives for which it was created. In the same way, some rules are introduced regarding the Economic Emergency related to the earthquake of the Coffee Axis.
23. Economic and social reconstruction of the Coffee Axis
In the recovery of the Cafetera-Ciudad Region Zone, affected by the earthquake of January 25, 1999, three fundamental stages will be taken into account: the first, or emergency, to address the vital needs, the second, the transition and planning, and the third recovery and development of the Zone. The first stage will remain under the coordination and execution of the national emergency entity made up of the National Government. Their actions and investments will be concerted with the respective territorial authorities and the instances of citizen participation provided for in the Constitution and in the laws; the second and third stages will be implemented in the framework of an Integral Plan, the axis of which will be the territorial order and the development plans adjusted to the new conditions. This Plan will be prepared in consultation with the authorities and planning authorities in the region, in particular those that agree with Laws 152 of 1994 and 388 of 1997.
23.1 RE Rebuilding or Repair Program
The National Government will participate technically, financially and institutionally in the reconstruction or repair of more than 90,000 affected buildings, of which more than half of which are to be rebuilt, mainly concentrated in the lower strata. This reconstruction includes, on the one hand, the housing, and on the other, all the urban infrastructure that they require, and that goes from the connection to the public services, to the construction and provision of public service centers such as hospitals, schools, nurseries and community centers.
23.2 Support for local planning, regulation and delivery of public services
The National Government will support the municipal and departmental governments involved in the earthquake-affected area so that they can continue to fulfill their basic functions, such as the provision of public services (through their decentralized enterprises), whose infrastructure was seriously affected in some municipalities, as well as the planning and participation in the integral reconstruction of their municipalities, the functions of urban control and regulation, the representation of their fellow citizens, etc.
The total value of the program of economic and social reconstruction of the coffee-growing axis exceeds two billion pesos, of which it is possible to defer in time approximately 800 billion pesos, thanks to the mechanism of interest rate subsidy (instead of an initial and direct subsidy), created for the program of reconstruction of buildings in Decree 196 of 1999.
Additionally, the main works to be done in the area are: care in temporary shelters for those affected who do not have room; seismic and microzoning studies to determine areas of risk; repair, reconstruction of the housing and public buildings (hospitals, schools, prisons, local administration, etc.), directly affected by the earthquake, reconstruction of the control tower and the platform of the airport of Armenia; repair of the infrastructure of public services affected; generation of temporary income to the people who lost their source of employment; the restoration and modernization of the network of prevention and emergency care, removal and determination of centers of final disposal of the rubble; restoration of the productive infrastructure and housing in the rural area; and creation of new sources of long-term employment generation.
24. Caribbean Plan (Escaribe)
The Caribbean Region will have a special program that will have as objectives the improvement of the coverage and quality of the aqueduct and sewer systems, the improvement of the transportation system and the improvement of human capital. This program will be financed through external credit and national counterparts, according to the approval of the Inter-Parliamentary Public Credit Commission.
Multi-annual budgets
ARTICLE 5o. PROGRAM AND SUBPROGRAM SETTINGS. The values assigned in the 1999-2002 National Public Investment Plan for the main programs and sub-programs described in the previous article are expressed in figures in millions of pesos in 1998 and are as follows:
can be included in the database. For your study consult the Law
in your official print publication
ARTICLE 6o. MAJOR INVESTMENT PROJECTS. The main investment projects of the 1999-2002 National Public Investment Plan are as follows:
ELECTRICAL SECTOR
Power Generation Projects
-Carboeletrica del San Jorge (Córdoba)
-Miel I
-Leticia Power Plant
-Porce II
-Termocenter
-Termosaw
-Urra I
Expansion of the transmission system
-Betania-Juanchito Line
-Cartagena-Chinu Line
-Cartagena-Sabanalarga Line
-Guatape-Ancon Sur Line
-Jamundino-Santa Rosa Line
-Beach-Spring Line
-Spring-Facatative Line
-Spring Line-Guatiguara
-Sabana-New Barranquilla Line
-San Felipe-La Hermosa Line
-San Felipe-Purnio Line
-Tasajero-Guatiguara Line
-Urra-Cerromatous Line
Electrical Distribution
-Interconnected Zones
-Non-interconnected zones
Rural energy
-Construction Substation Municipality of Saldana and Guamo.
-Achi Interconnect-Three Crosses-Guacamayo-Buenavista-The Golosin,
municipality of Achi department of Bolivar
-Interconnection Under Putumayo
-Interconnection Bellavista-Providencia-Palmarito, municipality of Morales department of Bolivar.
-Interconnection Campo Alegre (municipality of Morales)-San Luis (municipality of Rio Viejo) department of Bolivar.
-Interconnection corregimientos Pueblo Nuevo, Las Palmas, Las Brisas and Pozon, Hatillo municipality of Loba department of Bolivar.
-Interconnection Humareda-Japan-El Totumo-Batalle-Last Case, municipality the Penon department of Bolivar.
-Moral Interconnection-Walls of Ororia, municipality of Morales, department of Bolivar.
-Bocas del Pauto line (Casanare-Santa Rosalía (Vichada)
-Ibague-Rovira transmission line and substation
-Granada San Jose del Guaviare line
-Puerto Lopez-Puerto Gaitan Line
-Pinillos interconnection terminal-Puerto Lopez, Pinillos department of Bolivar.
-Some of the identified projects that will be brought forward by public and/or private initiative, according to the provisions of article 85 of Law 143 of 1994, will be:
Electrical Generation Projects identified
-Azufral Geothermal
-Geothermal Las Nereidas (El Ruiz)
-Amoya Hydropower
-Cuocuana Hydroelectric.
-Guamuez Hydropower
-Honey II
-Pescadero-Ituango
-Amaga Thermal
Some projects identified by Territorial Entities in Non-Interconnected Zones, ZNI, that will be evaluated by the National Government as set out in article 4or. of Law 143 of 1994:
Generation project
-Small Hydroelectric Power (PCH) Inirida
-Small Hydroelectric Power (PCH) Spring
-Small Hydroelectric Power (PCH) Mitu
Distribution projects
-Low-and High-Baudo Interconnection
-Caicedo-Orito Port Line
-Port Carreno Line-Paez Port-New Port
MINING AND ENERGY SECTOR
-Construction of Yumbo-Popayan-Pasto.
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
Land adequacy
-Design and build drainage irrigation district analysis at:
-Ranchery District
-Santo Tomás del Uvito District
-Tamarindo Hatico District
-District P1 and P2 Guamo
-The left margin equation of the Sinu River (drainage works)
-Worland adequation in the Western Antioquene.
-Agroproject Ingenuity Vegachi (Plan Colombia).
-Extension of the Irrigation District (Cordoba).
-Support for the production of cocoa and rubber crops, department of
Guainia.
-Ariari irrigation district
-San Jorge irrigation district (Cordoba).
-Eradication and substitution of illegal crops in the area of the high river Vaupes and the implementation of crops of promising Amazonian species.
-Establishment of land titling programs (productive baldiums) and sources of financing for agricultural development in the department of Guainia.
-Generation of infrastructure for the collection and marketing of perishable products in the department of Guainia.
-Guatapuri (concession).
Reforestation with native species, especially in the watershed and incentive of production and marketing of native fruit trees in the municipality of Inirida, department of Guainia.
-Transfer of science and technology for the agricultural sector in the department of Guainia.
-Southern Triangle of Tolima
TRANSPORT SECTOR
Top Investment Plan Projects
Major investment projects in the transportation sector that are
are found within the investment plan:
West Troncal
-Concession Mesh Vial Atlántico-Bolivar-Sucre and Córdoba. Variants and Accessories
-Concession Mesh Vial del Valle del Cauca and Cauca
-Concession Rumichaca-Pasto-Chachagui-Popayan. Variants and Accessories
-La Pintada-Bolombolo-Santa Fe de Antioquia
-Palmyra-Medellín-Carreto
Access
-Access to the municipality of Lorica-Córdoba
-Alto de Dolores-Maceo.
-Asia-Apia-Pueblo Rico-Santa Cecilia-Tado-Las Animas-Quibdo and La Virginia-Apia.
-Caracoli-San Jose.
-Cebadal-Consaca-Sandona-Grass (Bypass to the Galeras)
-Circunvalar metropolitan area of Barranquilla (concession)
-Chinchina-Santa Rosa-La Romelia-El Pollo
-The Union-the Border-Sonson
-Malla vial of Choco
-Mamonal-Gambote and Variant de Cartagena (Cartagena perimeter)
-Medellin-Rio Negro Valley
-Molinoviejo-Santo Domingo.
-Panoya-Taminango-The Union.
-Pasto-Buesaco-The Union-Mojars
-Popayan-Inza-La Plata
-Spring-Amaga-Albania-Bolombolo-Wholinos. Access to Quibdo
-San Jorge-San Roque.
-Sofia-Yolombo
-Ipial Variant
-Via Santo Tomas-Polonuevo-Juan de Acosta
Coffee Axis Troncal
-Cerritos-Pereira
-Club Campestre-La Felisa
-Concession Armenia-Pereira-Manizales
-Toro-Anserma Nuevo-La Virginia-Pereira-Beltran Station-La Margarita-La India-San Mateo-Opirami-Irra.
Uraba Troncal
-Concession Tunnel Medellin-Santa Fe de Antioquia
-Medellin-Turbo
Magdalena Troncal
-Access of Bucaramanga to the Middle Magdalena Troncal (Supervia) Variants and Accessories.
-Concession Bucaramanga-San Alberto-Santa Marta.
-Concession via Alternates to the Port of Santa Marta
-Ibague-Honda-San Alberto-Ye de Cienaga
-San Miguel-Neiva Bridge
-San Miguel-Pitalito
Access
-Altamira-Florence
-Cucuta and Puente Tienditas (concession)
Ring-Cucuta-Sardinata-Ocaña-Aguachica and Bucaramásica, La Playa y Convento
-Mariquita-Mesones-Manizales and Manizales variant
-Neiva-Platanillal-Balsillas-San Vicente
-Cocolo Tunnel (studies)
Llano Troncal
-Arauca-Tame
-Villagarzon-Villavicencio-Yopal-Saravena.
Access
-Bethlehem-Socha-Sacama-La Cabuya
-Granada-San Jose del Guaviare-Calamar
-San Fe de Bogota-Choachi-Puente Real-Ubaque-Potrerogrande-La Calera.
-Sigga-Guateque-The Secret-San Luis de Gaceno-Las Juntas
-Sogamoso-Aguazul
Central Troncal
-Bogota-Chiquinquira-Barbosa
-Concession Development North of Bogota
Access
-Barbosa-Vélez-Landazuri-Cimitarra-Puerto Araújo
-Concession Barbosa-Bucaramanga-Lebrija
-The Curos-Malaga
-San Gil-Barichara-Guane
-San Gil-Mogotes-Santa Rosita
North Central Troncal
-Concession The Caro-Tunja-Sogamoso
-Duitama-Soata-Malaga-Pamplona
Troncal The Tambo-Pacific (department of Cauca)
-Troncal de Rionegro-Pacho-La Palma-Yacopi-Guaduales-Puerto Rojo.
-Carbon Troncal-Tausa-Sutatausa-Cucunuba-Language-Guacheta
Tumaco Cross-Mocoa
-Tumaco-Mocoa
Access
-Chiles-Cumbal-Guachucal-El Espino.
-Tuquerres-Samaniego
transversal Buenaventura-Villavicencio-Puerto Carreno
-Circunvalar Ibague (by concession)
-Av Concession. Boyaca-Chusaca-Girardot, accesses and variants
-Concession Bogotá-Villavicencio
-Concession Buga-Buenaventura. Variants and accesses
-Girardot-Ibague-Honda
-Step through the Central Range (Line Tunnel)
-Pereira-La Paila-Armenia-Calarca
-Puerto López-Puerto Gaitán-Puente Arimena
Access
-Suarez-Variant Girardot.
Transversal Medellin-Bogota
-Concession Bogotá-Facatativa-The Alps
-Concession Tobiagrande-Puerto Salgar-San Alberto
-Medellin-Bogota
transversal Medellin-Cucuta-Puerto Santander
-Barrancabermeja-Bucaramanga-Cucuta-Puerto Santander
Transverse to the Mojana
-El Travano-San Marcos-Majagual. Access to La Mojana
-The Majugos-Warsaw Sucre
-Samthen-San Benito
-San Marcos Samthen
Transverse Momposine Depression
-Magangue-The Bodega-Yati-Mompox-Banco-Arjona-Quadrivientos-Codazzi
Access
-Codazzi Variant
Container traversal
-Bosconia-Plato-Zambrano-Carreto
-Carmen-Valledupar-Maicao
-Valledupar-Badillo-San Juan del Cesar
Access
-Santa Ana-La Gloria
-Valledupar Variant as Shared Project-Nation-Nation
Caribbean Cross-Cross
-Cartagena-Barranquilla-Paraguachon
-Puerto Rey-Puerto Escondido-Monitos-San Bernardo del Viento-Covenas (Tourist Corridor)-Tolu-Sincelejo-Covenas-Sabaneta-Lorica-Momil-San Antonio de Palmito-Tolu Viejo.
-Puerto Rey-Puerto Escondido-Monitos-San Bernardo del Viento-Lorica-Momil-San Antonio de Palmito-Tolu Viejo-Covenas (Tourist Corridor)-Tolu-Sincelejo-Covenas.
-Turbo Necocli-Arboletes-Cartagena
Western-Troncal Middle Magdalena Troncal Connection
-Salamina-Pivijay-Foundation
Magdalena-Troncal of the Llano's Troncal Connection
-Tunja-Chiquinquira-Otanche-Puerto Boyaca
-Tunja-Ramiriqui-Miraflores-Monterrey
Circumvalares San Andrés y Providencia
-Circunvalares San Andrés y Providencia
Access to Santa Fe de Bogota, D. C.
-West Longitudinal Avenue
Peace Projects
-West Ring via Peace: Bucaramasica-Sardinata-Lourdes-Gramalote-Salazar-Arboledas-Cucutilla-Pamplona
-Cantagallo-Loba Barring
-Codazzi-The Border
-Junin-Barbacoas
-Rovira-Roncesvalles.
-San Francisco-Autopista-Cocorna.
-Transversal Roses-Condagua-Santiago-Morro-Bolívar-La Lupa (Ring Road of the Colombian Massif).
-Troncal de la Paz (Puerto Berrio-Cauca).
Mass transport systems
-Bogota's Mass-Metro Transport Systems
-Cali Mass Transportation Systems
Air sector
-Alfonso Bonilla Aragón Airport-Palmyra, Valle by Concession
-Airport corregimiento el Encanto
-La Pedrera Corregimiento Airport
-Arauca Airport
-Chaparral Airport
-Flanders Airport
-Guapi Airport
-Mitu Airport
-Nuqui Airport
-Palestine Airport by Concession
-Puerto Carreño Airport
-Quibdo Airport
-Tarapaca Airport
-Villavicencio Airport
-Villavicencio Airport (Villavicencio alternate or international airport)
-Yopal Airport
-José María Córdoba Airport-Rionegro, Antioquia by Concession
-Cartago Regional Airport
Amazon border airports
-Regional airports at national level
-Ibague Peral airport runway extension
-Extension and improvement of the runway in the municipality of Taraira.
-Construction of the regional airport of the Mojana in the municipality of San Marcos, department of Sucre
-Year 2000 Systems
-Passenger Terminal of Eldorado-Santa Fe de Bogota by concession.
Ferro sector
-Concession Atlantic Network-Variant of Santa Marta
-Red Pacific Concession.
-Studies new network Orinochia (Villavicencio Meta-Puerto Carreño Vichada).
River Sector
-River adequacy projects at:
-Construction of the Multimodal Port in Quibdio-Choco.
-Port Turbo.
-Port Multimodal Port Salgar.
-Rio Amazonas, Rio Caqueta and Rio Putumayo
-Rio Atrato
-Rio Guainia.
-Rio Guaviare.
-Rio Inirida
-Magdalena River
-Meta River
-Sinu River
Tarapaca-Chorrera river terminal. Pedrera. Santa Sofia-Puerto Narino-Leticia.
Maritime Sector
-Port of Barranquilla access channel
-Port of Buenaventura access channel
-Port of Cartagena access channel
-Tumaco Port Access Channel
Housing Sector
-The National Government will support housing projects of social interest in municipalities, districts and metropolitan areas, especially in the municipalities of Plato (Magdalena), Galapa (Atlantico), Santa Marta district, and the Barranquilla metropolitan area.
Additional projects to the investment plan
-The main projects in charge of the Nation that can be financed in case of presenting additional resources to those initially included in the investment plan, will be the following:
-Balsillas-Tolu Airport (Sucre)
-Armenia Airport
-Corozal Airport
-Mompox Airport
-Paipa Airport
-Paipa Airport
-Puerto Carreño Airport
-Santa Marta Airport
-Avenida el Rio-Barranquilla.
-Carretera the Cotton of Barranquilla-Piojo.
The Cut-Yolombo-Yali-vegachi-Remedios Road
-Carretera Llanos de Cuiva-San José de la Montaña-San Andrés de Cuerquia-Ituango.
-San Pedro de los Milagros a Monterredondo (Antioquia) Highway.
-West Tunnel-San Jerónimo-Sopetran.
-Road Development Concession of the North Aburra (dual carriageway Niquia-Hatillo).
-Main road connection from San Jerónimo to tourist area. (Antioquia).
-Construction of breakwater in Puerto Rey and Arboletes Bay.
-Construction of the San Jorge River Bridge (Montelibano and Puerto Libertador).
-Chivolo-Apure.
-Beltran irrigation district.
-Tocaima-Girardot irrigation district.
-Double carriageway Bello-Barbosa (Antioquia).
-The Espino-Guachucal-Ipiales
-Study design and construction of the submarine emissary of the Rodadero (Santa Marta DTCH).
-River River Hydropower
-Intervention sector of Veracruz (Fernando Botero Museum).
-Ipiales-The Lajas
-Chigorodo-Rio Sucio Line
-Lorica-San Bernardo
-Magangue-Zambrano
-Maintenance and Pavement Road Sucre (Olaya)-Sabanalarga.
-Marginal del Cauca. Santa Fe de Antioquia-Valdivia
-Monitos-Saint Lucia
-Morales-Puerto Bolivar (Department of Bolivar).
-Mule Step-The Tower
-Pavimentation road Tocaima-Jerusalem-Guataqui-Puli-San Juan de Rioseco.
-Pavement of the Leticia-Tarapaca road.
-Pavement of the Road Bridge of the West (National Monument)-Liborina.
-Pavement of the road Sofia-San Roque (Antioquia).
-Pavement via San Bernardo-Monitos (Via José Manuel de Altamira).
-Pavement and road improvement The Alps-Quipile-Viani-Chaguani-Cambao.
-Pitalito-Isnos-Paletara-Popayan
-Popayan-Patico-Purace-Santa Leticia-La Plata
-Cinera-Concession Multiple Use Project (Norte de Santander).
-Girardot-Flanders alternate bridge over the Magdalena River.
-Puente Arimena-Puerto Carreño-Cazuarito.
-San Pelayo Bridge.
-Bridge over the River Guaras Avenida Misael Pastrana Borrero. (Pitalito-Huila).
-River Royota Bridge
-Yondo-Barrancabermeja Bridge
-Port of Tribute in the Pacific
-Uraba Maritime Port
-Port Berrio and Golden Port Multimodal Ports
-Recovering river Medellin (Metropolitan area).
-Palmira-Pradera road rehabilitation (Valle del Cauca).
-Relocation of homes in high-risk areas (Marmato, Caldas)
-Santa Rosa del Sur-Airport (Department of Bolivar).
-Second carriageway of the Railway Avenue (municipality of Dosquebradas Risaralda).
-Tramo Ferreo La Felisa-Bolombolo-Medellin
-Carare transverse
-Cross of the river-Construction programme road network Magangue-Barranca-Boca de San Antonio-Municipality of Sucre (department of Sucre).
-transverse port Venice-Regidor (department of Bolivar).
-Comprehensive treatment of the Cerro Piedmont ecological reserve in the municipality of Bello
-Nearby Trains.
-Northeast Troncal. Cisneros-Yolombo-Yali-Vegachi-Segovia-Zaragoza
-Ariguani Variant
-Bolivar Variant
-Pamplona Variant
-Pitalito Variant
-Plato Variant
-Barrancabermeja Railway Variant
-Duitama Railway Variant.
-Variant by Cisneros, via alternate Cisneros-Barbosa (Antioquia).
-Variant linking the eastern road with the road of cordiality (Atlantic).
-Via El Penon-Castanal, department of Bolivar.
-Via Girardot-Cambao-Puerto Bogota.
-Via la Victoria-Hatillo de Loba (Department of Bolivar).
-Via Ricaurte-Water of God-Tocaima.
-Via Rio de Oro (Cesar)-El Carmen-Guamalito (Norte de Santander)-La Mata (Cesar).
-Via San Cayetano-Regidor-Papayal, municipality of Regidor (Department of Bolivar).
-Via Sudan-Barranco de Loba-Puerto Rico, Municipalities of Tisquicio and Barranco de Loba (Department of Bolivar).
-Paas achi-Gallego-Port Petty, Achi Municipality (Department of Bolivar).
-Vigia del Fuerte.
Tourism Sector
-Ecotourism on Gorgona Island.
-Ecotourism littoral Cordoves.
Environmental Sector
-Cienaga Grande de Bajo Sinu (Córdoba).
-Development of a culture of recycling and marketing of derived by-products in the municipality of Caruru (Department of Vaupes).
-Development of a business culture for the sustainable use of the Colombian Amazon region.
-Farallones de Cali
-Gorgona Island
-I Love The Beautiful
-Protection and sustainable use of biodiversity in the Upper Black River basin.
-Sanquianga.
-Serranía de los Paraguas.
-Utria.
Health Sector
-Hospital Primer Level Pedrera.
-First-level Hospital Puerto Santander.
-Hospital Second Level Leticia.
-Sanatorios de Agua de Dios y Recruitment.
Other projects
The main regional projects that will be able to access, among others, the resources of the National Royalty Fund are as follows:
-Access to the West trunk of the corregimientos of Villa Paz, Quinamayo, Ro-bles, La Variante Guachinte-Villapaz, and the Robles-Jamundi road network.
-Adequation and maintenance via Coyaima-Chaparral (via tunnel).
-Alto Baudo Airport
-Inirida Airport
-Plato Airport
-Sogamoso Airport
-Timbiqui Airport
-Tunja Airport
-El Espino Airport
-Micay Lopez Airport
-San Jose del Guaviare Airport
-Upper Chuscal-Armenia
-Extension of Saldana irrigation district.
-Extension irrigation district of the Zulia River (Cucuta Municipality).
-Expansion of the old Cali-Yumbo highway.
-Extension of the Pedrera school.
-Extension of the Peral airport in Ibague.
-Southern Tourist Ring of Huila (Pitalito-Isnos-San Agustín)
-Chinacota Ring Road-The Ye-The Diamond.
-Old Cali-Yumbo Road.
-Opening via Chorro Bravo-Cáceres-Taticito (Municipality of Puerto Salgar-Cundinamarca).
-Opening via Roncesvalles (Tolima) to Genoa (Quindio).
-Opening via Roncesvalles-La Yerbabuena-to Pijao (Quindio).
-Apure-San Roque-Cespedes-New Granada
-Aracataca-The Reten
-Armenia-Caicedonia-Seville-La Uribe
-Ataco-Planned
-Baraya-Colombia
-Cabrera-Three Steps-Stage I.
-Camilo C.-The Five-Fredonia.
-Caramanta-Valparaiso
-Carreteable Leticia-Tarapaca.
-Aracataca-El Reten (Magdalena) road.
-Carretera Barranca de Upia-Cabuyaro.
-Carretera La Aldea-El Carmen-Las Azules-Santa Fe de Antioquia.
-Black Road-La Isla-Aguas Vivas-Pinto
-San Jose-Capucho-Cachicano-Carp Guaviare.
-Carretera San Juan de Arama-Mesetas-Uribe.
-Cartagena-Santa Rosa-Villanueva-Arenal.
-Colombia-La Uribe.
-Construction cultural and sports center municipality of Campoalegre (Huila).
-Construction of road valleys of Aburra and Oriente (Tunel of Oriente) department of Antioquia.
-Construction of the free zone "port" (municipality of Flanders department of Tolima).
-Construction of a gas storage plant in the municipality of Puerto Inirida department of Guainia.
-Construction of a dam on the Saldana River.
-Construction of the Carreteable stretch Inirida-Huesito-Puerto Caribe, in the municipality of Inirida-Guainia.
-Construction bridge over the Opia River (from Chicala in the municipality of Piedras).
-Construction Variant Rivera-Juncal.
-Continuing construction of the Cultural and Convention Center José Eustasio Rivera (Neiva)
-Continued sanitizing of the Gold River and Quebrada La Toma (Neiva).
-Continuation Palermo-Santa Maria.
-Construction via San Vicente-Corazón de Peralonso (Ortega)
-Palmaseca tourist corridor.
-Creation of the eco-tourism free zone of the Pacific area. (Department of Choco).
-Cucuta-Tibu
-Social custody of border sovereignty with the Republic of Brazil in the department of Vaupes.
-Chaparral-Ataco.
-Chaparral-White River
-Chiles-Mayasquer.
-Chinacota-Ragonvalia-Herran-Toledo.
-Chinchina-Palestine-Arauca-Las Margaritas-El Crucero-Balcazar-Cairo-La Virginia.
-Chiquinquira-San Miguel de Sema-Guacheta-Capellania.
-Design and Construction of Irrigation Districts in the department of Magdalena.
-Rözo's agricultural district.
-"Golondrinas" irrigation district Natagaima.
-Ariari irrigation district No. 1 (municipality of Granada department of Meta).
-Campoalegre-Hobo irrigation district.
-Cup irrigation district (Oicata-Chivata-Combita).
-Ariari irrigation district (studies).
-San Estanislao irrigation district.
-Santa Barbara irrigation district.
-Tesalia-Paicol irrigation district (Huila).
-Valparaiso-Antioquia irrigation district.
-Duitama-Charala.
-The Bank-Guamal-San Sebastian-San Zenón-Santa Ana.
-The Empate-St. Bernard-St. Paul.
-The Gulf-Ebejico.
-El Palomar-La Mojana-Sucre.
-The Return-The Unilla-Thermal.
-El Tigre-Marandua.
-The Vizo-Malagana-San Cayetano-Guamo.
-Rural Electrification (municipalities of Cucuta).
-Rural electrification in the municipalities affected by the violence in the departments of Antioquia and Cauca.
-Entamboramiento del cano de aguas servias barrio Zamorano (municipality of Palmira, Valle).
-Arara indigenous community school.
-Schools Indigenous Communities, corrected headers.
-Exploration and exploitation of the gold deposits in the Serranía de Taraira, department of the Vaupes.
-Farallones-Ciudad Bolivar.
-Carare railway.
-Garagoa-La Frontera-Pachavita-Chinavita.
-Girardot-Cambao-Puerto Bogota.
-Granada-San Carlos.
-Guarne-Bolombolo-San Vicente.
-Guasca-Gacheta-Palomas (Gachala)-Alto del Quemao-Mambita (Ubala).
-Guican-El Espino-Capitanejo.
-Wetlands (Huila)-Guantiva and Onzaga.
-Inirida-Guainia-Caribbean Port.
-Irra (Risaralda) Riosucio (Caldas)-El Jardin (Antioquia).
-La Ceja-Colmenas-Abejorral.
-Spring-Aguaverde
-The Ye-Milan
-The Margaritas-Anserma
-Altamira high voltage electrical interconnection line (Florence)
-Lopez Awithin paeces-Corinth (land adequacy)
-Manizales-The Cabana-Three Doors
-Manizales-Salamina-Aguadas-The Painted
-Manizales-Termal del Ruiz-Nevado del Ruiz-La Esperanza
-Maintenance via Guamo-Chaparral Road
-Maintenance and works of arts from the road Los Andes to Santa Rosa in the Cerrito (Valle)
-Flanders Airport Improvement
-Herveo road improvement
-Icononzo-Warsaw-San Luis highway improvement
-Improvement of the traditional indigenous road network and implementation of alternative means for transport of loads at the raudal crossing in the river network of the department of Vaupes
-Improvement of the road La Paz Guadualito-Pando Prado of the municipality of Rovira
-Fresno-Palocabildo and Fresco-Casabianca enhancement
-Improvement via Lebanon-Saint Teresa
-Improvement via Purification-Prado-Dolores-Alpujarra
-Improvement via Santa Elena-Orisol-El Oso-La Línea-Canon del Chili (municipality of Ronsesfence)
-Improvement routes Topacio-Tarqui-Comola-Alfonso Lopez municipality of Flanders
-Improving and paving Chicoral (Espinal-Guamo)
-Improvement and paving of tracks Morelia-Valparaiso-Solita (department of Caqueta in agreement with the Government)
-Improvement and paving of roads San José-Albania-Curillo (Caqueta department in agreement with the Government)
-Guamo-San Luis enhancement and paving
-Icononzo improvement and paving-Villa Rica-Cunday
-Improving and paving Lebanon-Villa Hermosa-Casabianca-Palocabildo
-Improvement and paving Mariquita-Medina Falls-Guarino River-La Victoria
-Purification and Purification Enhancement-Suarez
-Rovira-San Juan Valley Improvement and Pavement
-San Antonio-Chaparral improvement and paving
-Tigre enhancement and paving-San Cayetano-Losania (Cunday)
-Improvement and paving Via Dolores-El Carmen-Alpujarra
-Improvement and paving via El Bosque-Canaan-La Esperanza (Santa Isabel Murillo)
-Improvement and paving of the Caqueta road network for tertiary road network through the National Fund of Central and Central European Roads-La Ye-San Antonio de Getucha
-Improving and paving pathways Fresno-Palocabildo and Fresno-Casabianca
-Improvement and rehabilitation via Margaritas-El Rodeo-La Aurora municipality of Cunday
-Minca-Campano (Santa Marta DTCH)
-San Antero and Lorica municipal risk districts
-Vargas ' Pantano Monument
-Nechi-Caucasia
-Neiva-Vegallenga
-Works of adequacy of cargo and passenger ports in the Guainia, Guaviare, Inirida and Atabapo rivers (Department of Guainia)
-Orito-Monopamba
-Sheep-Chalan-Colossus-Toluviejo
-Paipa-Palermo-Gambita-Real Vado
-Los Colorados National Park
-National Park of Nevados (Ruiz, Santa Isabel and Tolima)
-Cocuy Nevado Natural Park
-Parroya-Taminango-The Union
-Pavimentation road Belmira-Horizons-Soppetan
-Pavement Molino Viejo-Santo Domingo
-Espinal-Coello Pavement
-Guamo-San Luis Pavement
-Palermo Pavement-New-Remolino Site (Magdalena)
-Salado-Ibague-San Bernardo-Ibague Pavement
-Pavement via the Santa Elena agrotourism sector-El Castillo (Cerrito, Valle)
-Pavement via Armero-San Pedro
-Pavement via Castilla-Coyaima
-Pavement via Lebanon-Villahermosa
-Pavement via Murillo-The Forest
-Pavement via Murillo-Manizales
-Pavement via Palermo-New-Remolinos Site (Magdalena)
-Pavement via Tuamo River Bridge Manso municipality of Rovira
-Pavement via Baranoa of the Atlantic department
-Pavement via Muellamuez municipality of Guachucal
-Ariporo's Peace-The Totumo-The Beautiful
-Pereira-New World-La Bella-La Florida-Pereira
-Petaqueros-Manzanares-Pennsylvania-Marquetalia-Samana-Victoria
-Painted-Montebello-The Retreat
-Pital-La Plata
-Program to improve neighborhood roads and secondary roads in the municipalities of Pasto, San Bernardo, San Jose, Belén, La Cruz, Cartago, Ospina, El tambo, Consaca and Linares (Narino department)
-Program for the improvement of the physical infrastructure of hospitals and health centers in the municipalities of Pasto, Tumaco, Ricaurte, Imues, Buesaco, Anwhose, La Union, Córdoba, Guachucal and Taminango (department of Narino)
-Program for the improvement and optimization of aqueducts and sewers in the municipalities of Grasto, Yacuanquer, Ipiales, Córdoba, Carlosama, Iles, Tangua, Samaniego and Sandona (department of Narino)
-Agricultural reform program in rural reserve areas
-Rural Housing Program Pasto, Aldana, La Florida, Sandona, Guaitarilla, San Pablo, Ospina, La Victoria, Ipiales, El Penol and Colón (department of Narino)
-Puente Alianza (municipality Ragonvalia)
-Puente El Tabor (municipality of Herran)
-Puente La China (municipality of Cucuta)
-Puente Union (municipality Puerto Santander)
-Yondo-Barrancabermeja Bridge
-Ramiriqui-Cienaga-Viracacha-Soraca
-Recovery and decontamination of Fucene and Chusaca lagoons-The Muna
-Anserma-Algeria road rehabilitation-Cairo (Valle del Cauca)
-Rehabilitation of the carreteable Cucuana bridge in the municipality of San Luis
-Repair of the road between the municipality of Roldanillo and El Dovio (Valle)
-Cortaderal dam (municipalities of Samana, Ventaquemada, Sora and Cucaita)
-Rio Frio-Thessaloniki-andinapolis-Venezia-Trujillo-Cerro Azul
-Riodirty-Bonafon-Irra
-Riodirty (Caldas)-Garden (Antioch)
-Salamine-Pacora-Aguadas-La Pintada
-San Francisco-Autopista-Cocorna
-San José de la Montaña-Llano de Ovejas
-San Jose del Guaviare-Charras
-San Juan-Gualmatan
-San Juan de Arama-Vistahermosa (department of Meta)
-Santa Rosa de Cabal-Termal-La Perla del Otun
-Sinérin-El Vizo-Malagana-Mahates
-Soata-Boavita-San Mateo-Guacamayas-Cocuy
-Sonson-The Painted
-Suaza-Acevedo-Pitalito
-Tarso-Pueblo Rico
-Tenerife-Plato
-Termination construction bridge over the Río Negro Sitio Chorro Bravo (municipality Puerto Salgar-Cundinamarca)
-Termination of irrigation district San Francisco Pitalito (Huila)
-Termination via La Colonia (Villarrica-Tolima)-Altamizal (Cabrera-Cundinamarca)
-Stone thermoelectric
-Tibu-Convention
-Toro-La Florida-Algeria
-Caldas transversal-La Felisa-Manzanares-Guarino
-Transverse of Caldas, La Felisa-La Merced-Salamina-Marulanda-Manzanares-Marquetalia-Victoria-Perico and El Paramo (Marulanda)-Neira route
-Transverse of the Esmeralda. Curubitos-Muzo-Quipama-Pacho
-Transports toll municipality Amaga to Camiloe (Fredonia)
-Tres Matas-San José de Ocune-Guerima-Puerto Oriente-Chupavé-Port-au-Prince
-Trocha and Bridge the Chorrera
-Sibundoy Valley (land adequacy)
-Caldas Variant-The Painted
-Variant Rivera-El Juncal
-Via Chima-Gold Cienaga
-Via Riomar-Santa Veronica-Polonuevo-Santo Tomas
-Via Samwell-La Villa de Sambenito (Sucre)
-Via Santa Rosa-Santa Clara
-Wind-Three Matas-Cumaribo-Santa Rita-Puerto Narino
-Villarrica-Cunday
-Free zone of Tolima.
The National Government will support the private and/or public initiative projects that exist on the Atlantic and Pacific Coast to promote exports, especially the Coking Plant-Atlantic, Siderurgica Colombo-Brasilera, Free Zone of Telecommunications, and the Center of Fairs and River Park in Barranquilla.
National Government will support the construction and maintenance of the access roads to the ports of Cartagena and Barranquilla. Likewise, the National Government will support the maintenance, dredging and conservation of the navigable access channel from Bocas de Ash to the Port of Barranquilla.
ARTICLE 7o. MASS TRANSIT SYSTEMS. In compliance with Conpes document number 2932 of June 25, 1997, and 2999 of April 28, 1998, and having as a ceiling the future vigencies contemplated for the Santa Fe Metro of Bogota and the Cali Light Train, the National Government will make the corresponding contributions according to the progress of the projects. The resources mentioned can be applied in massive transport projects in these cities.
ARTICLE 8o. REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION. The following regional indicative allocation of resources is expressed in millions of constant weights in 1998:
can be included in the database. For your study consult the
law in your printed official publication
Mechanisms for Plan Execution
ARTICLE 9o. LEGAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE PUBLIC INVESTMENT PLAN. In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 341 of the Constitution, the principles and provisions contained in this law, in Title II, Public Investment Plan, shall be applied with precedence to other laws, shall not require subsequent laws for their execution, and shall be used to resolve any difficulties of interpretation in applying the provisions related to the execution of the programs contained in this law and to fill in the gaps that they present.
ARTICLE 10. SCOPE OF THE PLAN ' S LAW IN TIME. The provisions contained in this law will continue to apply once new development plans are issued, unless they are amended or repealed by the legislator.
ARTICLE 11. EASING OF PUBLIC FINANCES. The appropriations financed with specific destination rents authorized in article 359 of the Constitution, and the expenses decreed by pre-existing laws, will be included in the budget after guaranteeing the availability of resources necessary to comply with the present development plan, addressing the functioning of the branches of public power and control bodies, paying the judicially recognized credits and servicing the debt service, provided that the goals are not affected. macroeconomic, without prejudice to the prioritization of public investment enshrined in Articles 366 and 350 of the Political Constitution, for the purpose of maintaining the investment in force in percentage terms according to that ranking.
PARAGRAFO. This article does not apply to resources from parafiscal rents which will continue under the regime provided for in Article 2or. of the Law 225 of 1995. Similarly, it does not apply to the provisions of Law 30 of 1992 for Public Universities.
ARTICLE 12. CREDIT TO TERRITORIAL ENTITIES. In order to promote the fiscal consolidation of territorial entities, they will be able to contract loans in soft conditions either with the financial system institutions through the Rediscount system of Findeter, or with Fonade as a direct lender. For this purpose, the respective operation shall require the prior subscription of a performance agreement under the conditions laid down in the regulation.
ARTICLE 13. PERFORMANCE CONVENTIONS. The Nation will be able to give credits, in soft conditions, to finance teachers belonging to the plant in charge of the fiscal position and the departments in cases where the fiscal position assigned to a department to finance the educational service does not cover the costs of the obligations acquired at 31 December 1998 or the own resources of the departments are not sufficient to meet the obligations to the teachers of the departmental plants. The appropriations for this purpose shall set out rationalisation commitments and may be partially waived in accordance with these commitments.
Prior to the subscription of the credit agreements, the respective department will have to sign a performance agreement, through which the financial goals of efficiency, equity, coverage and quality, with the Ministry of Education, with the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit-Directorate of Fiscal Support and with the National Department of Planning, will be agreed; the failure of the performance agreement will immediately result in the suspension of the disbursements of the credit agreement to which this article refers and will give the right to the immediate recovery of all the Resources delivered.
ARTICLE 14. PROTECTION OF PUBLIC HERITAGE. The disposal of the shareholding or state societaria will be done in conditions that safeguard the public patrimony. When such disposal is carried out by the territorial entities and the respective process is authorized by the respective assembly or council, after the enactment of this law, the capital resource of this disposal shall be incorporated in the budget of the entity that owns the shareholding or societaria that is employed, to finance programs for fiscal consolidation, amortization of public debt, or to constitute or finance the public pension funds of the territorial order.
When the entity does not require to advance financial consolidation processes, write down public debt or have constituted and transferred the necessary resources to its public pension fund under the conditions laid down in Law 100 and other rules on the matter, the resources may be used to finance the programs included in the respective territorial development plan.
If the resources with which the ownership was acquired are part of the parafiscal funds administered by public entities, they will be used for the purpose of the parafisquality, and should be invested in the formation or financing of the pension fund of the entity that administers the parafiscal resource, until it guarantees the payment of its pension liability.
ARTICLE 15. FACILITIES FOR TERRITORIAL ENTITIES. When the territorial entities advance fiscal and financial consolidation programs, the specific destination income of the territorial entities shall be applied to those programs, the allocation of the resources, established in law, ordinances or agreements, with the exception of those determined in the Political Constitution, Law 60 of 1993 and the other rules that modify or add them, until they are healed their finances.
In the development of fiscal and financial consolidation programs, territorial entities will be able to deliver goods for payment in market conditions.
Education sector
ARTICLE 16. MIDDLE EDUCATION. Without prejudice to the investment of the resources of the fiscal position and other official resources oriented to the Media Education, the contributions referred to in Article 11, numeral 4, of Law 21 of 1982, with destination to the industrial schools and official technical institutes, may be invested in institutions with academic orientation for the strengthening of science and technology projects.
ARTICLE 17. RATIONALIZATION OF TEACHING, DEPARTMENTAL, DISTRICT AND MUNICIPAL PLANTS. As of the current law, the extension of coverage, quality, efficiency and equity, will be considered as criteria of general interest and need of the service, in order to determine and rationalize the plants of teaching staff, teachers and administrative officers at departmental, county and municipal level, in accordance with a plan for the establishment of plants by municipality, which each department and district will have with the Ministry of National Education and the National Department of Planning. The purpose of the plan will be to meet the rate of assignment of teacher staff per student, defined periodically by the Ministry of National Education and the National Planning Department, according to the density of the student population, and with the needs of each territorial entity, to achieve the equitable distribution of the teachers, teachers and administrative managers of the fiscal position among the municipalities. The plan shall be gradual and shall be in accordance with the particular conditions of each territorial entity.
The formulation of the plan and the subscription of the respective performance agreement shall be made within six (6) months of the issuance of this law. Due to this term the territorial entity that does not comply with this provision or with the deadline indicated here, will not be able to receive from the Nation resources different from the constitutional transfers. The expiration of the term constitutes a cause of misconduct for the responsible official, punishable by the loss of employment.
Only with the formulation of the plan and the subscription of the respective performance agreement, the appointing authority will be able to make new appointments or links, in the terms of Law 60 of 1993 and Law 115 of 1994. Any appointment made without the full of these requirements will be illegal and will be constituted in the cause of misconduct for the nominator, punishable by the loss of employment.
ARTICLE 18. INSTRUMENTS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN. To execute the plan referred to in the previous article, district governors and mayors will have the following options in their order:
First, they will have the places that are normally released every year.
In the second place, the appointing authority may provide, when necessary for the rationalization of plant, the transfer of the teacher and teacher, in the first instance within the same municipality and as a second option between municipalities of the same department, prior to the concept of the JUME or the JUDE, as the case may be.
Third, the appointing authority will be able to make voluntary compensated withdrawals, in accordance with the Departmental, District and Municipal Plan of Plant Rationalization set out in 1o. The teacher will be able to benefit from the compensated retirement only once.
The voluntary compensated withdrawals will be made in accordance with the departmental, district and municipal plan of plant rationalization, with strict adherence to the provisions of paragraph 1. of this article, according to budget availability and the regulations issued by the National Government, which will include the compensation table for compensated voluntary withdrawals.
PARAGRAFO. In the terms of the Rationalization Plan, the district governors and mayors will be able to move vacant teaching places from the fiscal position required in the respective territorial entity, educators who are being paid with own resources, provided they are affiliated with the National Fund of Social Teachers of the Magisterium, without a solution of continuity.
In this way, vacant posts of the tax-court-appointed educators with municipal resources without the need for a new contest can be appointed, using the figure of transfer-appointment, but must resign from the municipal office to assume the position of the situated.
ARTICLE 19. PROGRESSIVE EDUCATIONAL QUALITY PLAN. The resources that, according to the rate of staff allocation, are not necessary to finance teachers will be invested in a progressive plan of educational quality per student, designed by each territorial entity, according to the parameters set by the Ministry of National Education in terms of the set of inputs associated with quality, in which municipalities and institutions must make the investment with the resources gradually released according to the departmental, district and municipal plans for the rationalization of plants.
ARTICLE 20. ABOLITION AND REDISTRIBUTION OF TEACHING PLACES AND JOBS OF DEPARTMENTAL, DISTRICT AND MUNICIPAL PERSONNEL PLANTS. The mayors and governors will have the power to restructure the distribution and number of teachers, teachers and administrative jobs, in charge of their own resources, according to the departmental, county and municipal plan for the rationalization of the plant. The National Government will regulate the procedures for the abolition and redistribution of places and jobs of the personnel plants of the territorial entities and will point out the compensation tables that will be applied in these cases.
ARTICLE 21. EVALUATION OF TEACHERS AND TEACHERS AT THE SERVICE OF THE STATE. In order to improve the quality of education, teachers and teachers in the official sector of the country will be evaluated every two years by applying a comprehensive test, which will have two components:
1. The academic-pedagogical through tests designed by the Ministry of National Education and the National Testing Service, and
2. The performance on the job site practiced by the immediate superior.
The result of this may be challenged in accordance with the regulations issued by the National Government.
From the results of the evaluation, the territorial entities and the training institutions of teachers will guide the programs of training in service for the improvement of teachers and teachers.
The evaluation in the academic-pedagogical and the evaluation in the performance will have effects on the permanence in the service, according to the following rules:
(a) Those teachers and teachers who are retired from the service shall be removed from the service, which, for the scores they obtain, should be located at two standard deviations below the average, in the appropriate group;
b) Of the total of the teachers in the country, the maximum number that can be withdrawn from the service well, based on the results of the test will be 1.5%;
c) Dealing with teachers, the outcome of the evaluation of their performance will determine their return to the teaching base;
d) Teachers and teachers who are not properly proven to have no evidence for academic-pedagogical evaluation will be removed from the service;
e) The retirement of the teaching staff or teacher, for some of the causes mentioned in this article, will be available by decree proffered by the nominator and no rights of teaching career can be alleged for his impeachment. In any case due process will be guaranteed.
The assessment provided here may not be applied for the purposes of the plant rationalization process. As a result, the seats remaining vacant for the purpose of the evaluation will be provided with selected teachers by contest.
ARTICLE 22. EDUCATIONAL BONDS OF CONSTANT VALUE. Authorize the National Government to review and adjust the court of auditors, carried out in compliance with Law 91 of 1989, as well as the issuance of educational bonds of constant value for the total value of the debt. His administration, redemption, amounts and time limits will be set by the National Government.
ARTICLE 23. The National Government in developing its social commitment to education, and in order to efficiently and efficiently address its programs to expand coverage and promote equity to the poorest, will encourage all the official efforts and policies to be brought forward in the sector and provide comprehensive attention to the country's entire population with physical, mental and sensory limitations. In order to carry out this task, the Government will ensure that this population is taken care of.
Culture Sector
ARTICLE 24. RESOURCES FOR CULTURE IN MUNICIPAL UNITS. The percentage of the resources that according to the article 25 of Law 397 of 1997 is destined for culture, will be 40% of the municipal units assigned to the physical education, recreation, sport, culture and use of the free time.
ARTICLE 25. STRENGTHENING OF THE CULTURE SECTOR. The National Government will promote a policy of strengthening the cultural sector by trying to channel resources generated by culture to the same sector. In addition to this, the culture sector will have to generate resources that tend to make it viable financially.
ARTICLE 26. PUBLIC SHOWS AND CULTURE. For the financing of the priority cultural programs defined in this law, the resources collected for the payment of the tax of public spectacles, with the exclusion of those that are of a sporting character, will be destined to the financing of artistic and cultural activities, in coordination with the Ministry of Culture.
Health and social security sector
ARTICLE 27. FINANCIAL STABILITY AND EFFICIENCY OF THE STATE ' S SOCIAL ENTERPRISES. Each of the social enterprises of the State will have to adjust its organizational structure and personnel plant, to improve its management capacity and to design a service portfolio adjusted to the needs of the population as well as to the supply and demand, public and private of services of the region, and to its physical, human and financial resources, in such a way as to guarantee its long-term sustainability.
The Social Conpes, based on the proposal developed by the Ministry of Health, will establish the hospital typology for levels of complexity and establish the management indicators in the areas of production, quality, administrative, technical and financial efficiency and the graduality with which the State Social Enterprises will have to reach these indicators.
In order to establish the conditions for complying with the adjustment process, the Social Enterprises of the State will have to sign performance agreements with the Ministry of Health and the territorial entities, in which the term is indicated and the way in which it will be carried out.
Exceptionally in order to guarantee the public health service and as a result of market failures, the Ministry of Health will present to the Conpes, the review of the general management indicators, in order to adapt them to the principles of equity and distributive efficiency.
State Social Enterprises that do not conform to the typology established or do not comply with the performance agreements, will only be able to receive resources or goods from the State for the payment of service billing.
The indemnities arising from the removal of charges due to the adjustment to the typology may be paid with the resources of the tax located except those destined for the subsidy of the demand and the participation of the municipalities in the current income of the Nation except those destined for the subsidized health regime the revenues transferred, the sale of services, the other own resources and other resources that the National Government transfers.
ARTICLE 28. BUDGET RESOURCES FOR THE HEALTH SOLIDARITY SUB-ACCOUNT. The Nation will make contributions to the financing of the subsidized health system. In any case, the financing of the coverage of the subsidized health system will be guaranteed in each tax term. These resources are complementary to those which the family compensation funds must make compulsory for the subsidized system and for the resources of the local authorities.
Mayors or Governors who do not submit the resources corresponding to the General System of Social Security in Health (SGSSS) to the Administrators of the Subsidized Regime (ARS) will incur misconduct.
For the purposes of the process in the flow of resources, it will be possible to turn the money without a situation of funds to those entities that would have delayed the payment to the ARS in an unjustified way and the direct turn to the service providers when the responsibility is for the ARS. For this purpose, fiduciary instruments may be used where necessary. The government will regulate the matter.
ARTICLE 29. RISK PROVISION IN THE SOLIDARITY SUB-ACCOUNT. The National Government will be able to create in the Solidarity and Guarantee Fund, Fosyga, Sub-account of Solidarity, a provision to guarantee the provision of services to the insured, in the cases of bankruptcy and problems of solvency of the ARS. This provision will be funded:
-With the percentage set by the National Social Security Council in Health, CNSSS, on the value of the subsidized capitation payment unit;
-The resources arising from the liquidation of the contracts entered into between the territorial entities and the administration of the subsidized regime for the insurance of the affiliated population, and
-The resources from the provision established by the CNSSS that will have to constitute the ARS in favor of the subsidized regime.
The government may also establish other systems, including mergers and/or integrations to ensure the provision of services in the event of the bankruptcy or insolvency of institutions. The National Government shall regulate the operation and operation of such systems. In addition, it may regulate the aspects related to the provision.
The government will establish the conditions for the entry and exit of the ARS market.
ARTICLE 30. PROVISION FOR RISKS IN THE CONTRIBUTORY SCHEME. The Government will be able to create in the Solidarity and Guarantee Fund, Fosyga, Sub-Account of Compensation, a provision to guarantee the provision of services to the affiliates in the cases of bankruptcy and problems of solvency of the EPS.
This provision will be financed with a percentage of the income of the EPS for the administrative expenses in the amount established by the National Council of Social Security in Health, CNSSS, and will be regulated by the National Government.
The National Government may also establish other mechanisms to ensure the provision of services, including mergers and/or integrations in the event of the bankruptcy or insolvency of entities. The National Government shall regulate the operation and operation of such mechanisms.
ARTICLE 31. SURPLUS FROM THE SUB-ACCOUNT OF CATASTROPHIC EVENTS AND TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. The surplus resources of the rates established to finance the sub-account of the catastrophic risks and traffic accidents of the Solidarity and Health Guarantee Fund, will be used for the purposes indicated by Law 100 of 1993 and additionally to finance the subsidized regime for institutional strengthening and the emergency network. These resources will be distributed according to the criteria that the National Council of Social Security in Health will point out, seeking in any case to stimulate the subsidy to the demand.
For the purposes of the execution of the resources of the ECAT sub-account, it will be understood as terrorist events that are caused in the framework of the internal armed conflict that affect the civilian population, and those that are related to terrorist attacks, fighting, attacks and massacres.
ARTICLE 32. CONTROLS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM IN HEALTH. The entities monitored by the National Health Superintendence, with the exception of the exceptions provided for in Law 488 of 1998, will participate in the financing of that entity by the payment of a contribution to be determined and calculated in accordance with the provisions of that law.
order to ensure the proper functioning of the Social Security System in Health and the proper use of its resources, the National Government or the National Social Security Council in Health, as the case may be, will organize auditing systems. To this end, it will specify how such systems will be developed and the mechanisms for organisation and operation.
ARTICLE 33. COLLECTIVE INSURANCE PROCUREMENT. The National Government will be able to establish systems that allow the collective hiring of the insurance of high cost diseases in the health social security system or other mechanisms that will allow the greatest economy to be achieved in the hiring of such insurance.
ARTICLE 34. USE OF THE PARTICIPATION OF THE MUNICIPALITIES IN THE CURRENT INCOME OF THE NATION. The use of the municipal units referred to vulnerable population groups referred to in Article (7) of 60 of 1993 also includes special protection, understood as a legal measure defined by the competent authority, in order to protect minors from eighteen (18) years of age exposed to domestic violence, physical and/or emotional abuse, sexual abuse, state of abandonment, pornography, prostitution, as well as street and street children who are offenders or contravents of criminal law.
ARTICLE 35. RECOGNITION AND PAYMENT OF PENSIONS. The National Government will establish systems to ensure the correct and efficient recognition and settlement of pensions in charge of the public sector. Such systems may include, inter alia, mechanisms for the determination of mandatory general parameters, audit systems, information crossings and even the transfer of powers for the purpose to other public entities or the hiring of private individuals.
ARTICLE 36. EFFICIENCY IN THE USE OF RESOURCES. The Social Security System will function harmoniously and complementary in the various elements that are common to you, seeking to cover all the risks that are your own, within the limits of the available resources, and seeking the most efficient use for them.
The EPS and ARS will not be able to call or affect anything other than the resources of the UPC that are intended for the provision of health services. For the purposes of this legal provision, the non-taxable percentage is set at 85% of the per capita unit income, without prejudice to the lower expenditure at the end of the year as a result of the entity's operation.
The institutions, whatever their nature, that have between their functions the processing and recognition of economic rights in the field of social security, must respect the order in which they have been presented with the application for the effects of the glosas, processing and other elements related to the recognition of the right. The government will regulate the conditions for the transfer of loans to public entities and the exercise of the right of duty.
Professionals linked to health service providers who manage public resources must refrain from making referrals from patients outside the establishment to be cared for by third parties or directly, when the care can be directly resolved in the institution in which they provide their services, unless they mediate with the entity in which the consideration is given to the sending institution.
When a referral is made to a hospital, laboratory or establishment or in which the professional is a partner or associate or has interests directly or by person, he/she must express it to the institution of the place where the referral is made.
ARTICLE 37. GROSS INCOME CONCEPT. The resources of social security, according to their specific destination, cannot be used for other purposes. The National Government will determine, for all legal purposes, the concept of gross income of the entities that make up the social security system in health.
In order to avoid the diversion of social security resources and fraud behaviors, for the purpose of the processing of claims for the benefits of the Obligatory Plan of Health of the affiliates, it is established that they will be provided in the national territory "according to the appropriate technology available in the country" as provided for in Article 162 of Law 100 of 1993, and taking into account the principle foreseen by virtue of which the essence of a loan right limits its action in the reasonable capacity of the public authorities and occasionally from private individuals. The EPS must provide the Mandatory Health Plan within the parameters that the same State has set.
In exceptional situations, when this is the right to life, it will be authorized by special procedure that will define the National Council of Social Security, according to its competence, the provision of health service outside the POS defined by that body and mandatory for all health-promoting entities, whatever their nature, in Colombia or exceptionally abroad, due to limitations of national technology, provided that the care in the country is not possible, is not for experimental treatments, which in no case will be obtained, and adjust to the situations and procedures that the National Council of Social Security has for its effect on Health.
To this effect, the benefits abroad must be granted by accredited entities and duly attached to the Social Security System of the country concerned. The Ministry of Health or, if necessary, the EPS as defined by the National Social Security Council, will have the responsibility to choose the entity outside the procedure.
PARAGRAFO. The affiliate that requires or forwards processing for treatments, procedures or medications outside of the POS must demonstrate that it has fulfilled its obligations in full and in a timely manner, as laid down in the laws and regulations. It is the duty of the judicial and administrative authorities to ensure that this provision is met as a requirement for the exercise of the rights, providing for the measures that guarantee the payment of the sums to be cancelled by the user.
Agricultural Sector
ARTICLE 38. LAND ADEQUACY. Land adequacy programmes may be implemented through concession contracts, COTs (construction, operation and transfer) or the like. The National Government through the National Institute of Land Adequation, INAT, will continue with the construction of irrigation districts and drainage projects in the national territory.
The programs thus developed will incorporate the corresponding productive project; and its users and partners, in order to benefit from the state support, will have to adapt to what is stipulated in these productive projects. These should be preferred for products of high competitiveness.
ARTICLE 39. NEW FINAGRO FINANCIAL OPERATIONS. The Fund for Agricultural Sector Financing will also finance services directly linked to the agricultural and livestock sector.
Finagro will be able to negotiate securities securities on agricultural underlying assets and support, endorse, guarantee the issuance of these securities, in accordance with the rules governing the stock market. It will also be able to grant agricultural credit through agreements with financial institutions.
ARTICLE 40. FINAGRO OPERATIONS IN VENTURE CAPITAL. Finagro will be able to stimulate the creation and strengthening of companies producing, marketing and primary processing of agricultural and fishery products, by creating an investment fund for venture capital, managed by such an entity, which will be constituted with surplus of Finagro's liquidity, different from those coming from the agricultural development titles, with the previous concept of the National Agricultural Credit Commission, CNCA.
For this purpose, Finagro will be able to receive other resources, as input from donations or transfers from other public or private entities. The participation of the Fund will cease once the respective companies achieve, in the case of Finagro, acceptable levels of competitiveness and patrimonial solidity.
ARTICLE 41. AGRICULTURAL GUARANTEE FUND. The Agricultural Guarantee Fund, FAG, will be able to provide guarantees to the agricultural projects that will allow the regulation to be issued by the National Government for this purpose and will be strengthened in order to facilitate access to the bank credit to the farmer.
ARTICLE 42. COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM. The subsidy to the land reform beneficiary will cover not only part of the value of the land, but also the complementary investments, such as improvements and promotion of production.
Beneficiaries will be able to access collective subsidy modalities. The granting of the land allowance for agrarian reform beneficiaries enables them to be granted as credit.
The lease with option to buy or lease will be a mechanism that helps to activate the land offer.
The granting of land acquired by the Incora through direct negotiation will be made preferably by prior identification of productive projects, organization and training of beneficiaries, and comprehensive plans for the implementation of investments complementary to the acquisition of land.
For the purpose of recovering the productive capacity of the current awards to be awarded to the beneficiaries of the agrarian reform, and which, due to various factors, are not currently financially and commercially viable, the Incora, in a preferential manner and with its own resources, will grant new subsidies that will have the objective of restructuring the productive projects in conditions of competitiveness, profitability, which will guarantee their subsequent viability. In this sense, the National Government will regulate the amounts, procedures and other aspects that will make this profit operational. In addition, the National Government will have to implement the support for the agrarian reform cooperatives provided for in Law 160 of 1994.
For the implementation of the Agrarian Reform aimed at indigenous peoples, the existing procedures and rules will apply.
The granting of land acquired by the Incora through direct negotiation will be made preferably by prior identification of productive projects and comprehensive plans for the implementation of investments complementary to the acquisition of land.
