Recent and ongoing projects

Mission:

With the support of the Ford Foundation, set up an Observatory of Territorial Transformations (OTT) in Buriticá to identify, analyze and socialize the changes taking place in the territory within the framework of the “Buriticá Project” of the mining company Zijin Continental Gold, with the aim that this OTT becomes, on the one hand, a decision-making support tool for social management and, on the other hand, for it to allow the facilitation of spaces for collective action with various territorial and extraterritorial actors.

The project aims to achieve the following specific objectives:

• Articulate the OTT-Buriticá with the Vision 2040, the Buriticá Plan, the Development Plan 2020-2023 and other initiatives of strategic municipalities in need of quality information and technical support linked to information management;
• Innovate in terms of themes and approaches, in order identify new challenges and opportunities both for the territory (through, for instance the elaboration of indicators linked to the health emergency or gender equality issues), and for the OTT-Buriticá (after the realization of a survey on perceptions);
• Develop a roadmap based on the Identified Territorial Transformations that respond to the interests and priorities of different groups of key social actors of the territory;
• Design an internal M&E system for the OTT-Buriticá and an external one on the existing Multi-Actor Dialogue Spaces at a territorial level, which allows the continuous improvement of the ongoing processes (for example, Plan Buriticá);
• Maintain the position and communication strategy of the OTT-Buriticá through the implementation of strategic activities, such as the publication of an academic article or the use of Boréalis as an information management system.

Results:

The following deliverables were submitted to the client:

PHASE 1:

Deliverable 1:

• Detailed work plan of the Territorial Observatory
• Mapping of information sources and actors
• Matrix of components and indicators, detailed presentation sheets for each of them

Deliverable 2:

• Reference databases for each of the components and corresponding indicators
• Strategic plan for the implementation of dissemination strategies
• Spaces for discussion, information and collective action
• Final activity report

PHASE 2:

• Methodological plan of the OTT-Buriticá (Phase 2)
• Updated indicator matrix
• Presentation of objectives, activities and goals of the OTT-Buriticá
• Results of the Perceptions Survey together with the analysis of information
• Final report of results of social appropriation of information
• M&E system of the Vision 2040 and of the OTT Buriticá
• Local Economic Development (LED) case study
• Final Report and Final Report of results of positioning and communication activities