Development Program with a Territorial Focus

Development Program with a Territorial Focus (PDET)
Programas de Desarrollo con Enfoque Territorial
CountryColombia
Established2017
Population
 • Total
6.6 million
Websitewww.renovacionterritorio.gov.co/especiales/especial_PDET/

The Development Program with a Territorial Focus (Spanish: Programas de Desarrollo con Enfoque Territorial, PDET) are a management and planning instrument of the Colombian government whose objective is to promote economic, social and environmental development in the areas of the country most affected by the internal armed conflict. The program currently covers 36% of the country's territory and benefits almost 7 million people.

In addition, since the 2022 legislative elections, it has its own representation in the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia with 16 seats under the name "Circunscripciones Transitorias Especiales de Paz" (Special Transitory Peace Constituencies, CTREP).

The PDETs have driven political change in Colombia by encouraging the political and electoral participation of historically marginalized communities.

Characteristics

The PDET Territories were created in 2017 as part of the peace agreement between the Santos government and the FARC-EP. Their development was entrusted to the Territorial Renewal Agency (Agencia de Renovación del Territorio, ART) for a period of 15 years.

The program is carried out according to three levels of collective participation: the Community Assembly, the Municipal Commission and the Subregional Commission.

Objectives

The main objectives of the PDET are:

Criticism

Some social and community organizations have called for greater participation, recognition and an environmental component in the PDET Territories.

Territories

The program is implemented in 11,000 veredas in 170 municipalities within the 16 subregions defined by Decree-Law 893 of 2017.

PDET Territories
Subregion Municipalities
Alto Patía and Northern Cauca  Colombia: Argelia, Balboa, Buenos Aires, Cajibío, Caldono, Caloto, Corinto, El Tambo, Jambaló, Mercaderes, Miranda, Morales, Patía, Piendamó, Santander de Quilichao, Suárez, Toribío
 Colombia: Cumbitara, El Rosario, Leiva, Los Andes, Policarpa
 Colombia: Florida, Pradera
Arauca  Colombia: Arauquita, Fortul, Saravena, Tame
Bajo Cauca and Northeastern Antioquia  Colombia: Amalfi, Anorí, Briceño, Cáceres, Caucasia, El Bagre, Ituango, Nechí, Remedios, Segovia, Tarazá, Valdivia, Zaragoza
Catatumbo  Colombia: Convención, El Carmen, El Tarra, Hacarí, San Calixto, Sardinata, Teorama, Tibú
Chocó  Colombia: Murindó, Vigía del Fuerte
 Colombia: Acandí, Bojayá, Carmen del Darién, Condoto, Istmina, Litoral de San Juan, Medio Atrato, Medio San Juan, Nóvita, Nuevo Belén de Bajirá, Riosucio, Sipí, Unguía
Caguán River basin and Caquetá piedmont  Colombia: Albania, Belén de los Andaquíes, Cartagena del Chairá, Curillo, El Doncello, El Paujil, Florencia, La Montañita, Milán, Morelia, Puerto Rico, San José del Fragua, San Vicente del Caguán, Solano, Solita, Valparaíso
 Colombia: Algeciras
Macarena – Guaviare  Colombia: Mapiripán, Mesetas, La Macarena, La Uribe, Puerto Concordia, Puerto Lleras, Puerto Rico, Vista Hermosa
 Colombia: Calamar, El Retorno, Miraflores, San José del Guaviare
Montes de María  Colombia: Córdoba, El Carmen de Bolívar, El Guamo, María la Baja, San Jacinto, San Juan Nepomuceno, Zambrano
 Colombia: Colosó, Chalán, Los Palmitos, Morroa, Ovejas, Palmito, San Onofre, Toluviejo
Pacific and Nariño border  Colombia: Barbacoas, El Charco, La Tola, Magüí, Mosquera, Olaya Herrera, Francisco Pizarro, Ricaurte, Roberto Payán, Santa Bárbara, Tumaco
Middle Pacific  Colombia: Guapi, López de Micay, Timbiquí
 Colombia: Buenaventura
Putumayo  Colombia: Mocoa, Orito, Puerto Asís, Puerto Caicedo, Puerto Guzmán, Puerto Leguízamo, San Miguel, Valle del Guamuez, Villagarzón
San Jorge and Alto Sinú  Colombia: Montelíbano, Puerto Libertador, San José de Uré, Tierralta, Valencia
Sierra Nevada – Perijá  Colombia: Agustín Codazzi, Becerril, La Jagua de Ibirico, Manaure Balcón del Cesar, Pueblo Bello, La Paz, San Diego, Valledupar
 Colombia: Dibulla, Fonseca, San Juan del Cesar
 Colombia: Aracataca, Ciénaga, Fundación, Santa Marta
Southern Bolívar  Colombia: Yondó
 Colombia: Arenal, Cantagallo, Morales, San Pablo, Santa Rosa del Sur, Simití
Southern Tolima  Colombia: Ataco, Chaparral, Planadas, Rioblanco
Urabá  Colombia: Apartadó, Carepa, Chigorodó, Dabeiba, Mutatá, Necoclí, San Pedro de Urabá, Turbo

New PDETs

  • After Barrancominas in Guainía was elevated to the category of municipality, it was proposed that it be included in a PDET Subregion.
  • The country's first Development Program with a Territorial Focus would bring together the Bogotá localities of Bosa, Ciudad Bolívar and Sumapaz and the municipality of Soacha.

Peace Regions

Article 8B of Law 418 states: "The President of the Republic may establish peace regions, in which peace talks are carried out with his authorization. In their formation, priority will be given, in addition to the PDET territories of the Peace Agreement, to the municipalities categorized as ZOMAC, communities of influence or vulnerable areas where there are serious effects on the civilian population and the territory, and where the State is absent or weakly present."

This also aims at the urgent presence of the State in situations of public order. The High Commissioner for Peace will be tasked with designating local delegates to carry out certain specific actions under his direction.

References

  1. ↑ "Todo sobre el PDET". www.renovacionterritorio.gov.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  2. ↑ Maritano, Ana Paula (14 January 2020). "Colombia – Programas de Desarrollo con Enfoque Territorial". Diario Jurídico (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  3. ↑ Gelvez, Juan David; Johnson, Marcus (August 2024). "Los nadies y las nadies: The Effect of Peacebuilding on Political Behavior in Colombia". Latin American Politics and Society. 66 (3): 24–51. doi:10.1017/lap.2023.34. ISSN 1531-426X. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  4. ↑ Henao, Diana Carolina Montoya (30 March 2020). Programas de Desarrollo con Enfoque Territorial (PDET) en el marco de la Reforma Rural Integral (RRI). Análisis desde una perspectiva ambiental (Thesis) (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "Así va la implementación del acuerdo de paz en su componente agrario". Radio Nacional de Colombia (in Spanish). 26 September 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  6. ↑ Semana (2 November 2019). "A cerrar la brecha de la Colombia rural con la urbana". Semana.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  7. ↑ Casa Editorial El Tiempo (23 November 2020). "Programas de Desarrollo con Enfoque Territorial, la mejor inversión". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  8. ↑ Alta Consejería para el Posconflicto. "¿Qué es un PDET?". Alta Consejería para el Posconflicto (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  9. ↑ Semana Rural. "DANE entrega nueva herramienta sobre municipios PDET". Semana Rural (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  10. ↑ ""Los PDET han sido una frustración": El reclamo de las organizaciones a cuatro años del Acuerdo de Paz". www.cinep.org.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  11. ↑ Verdad Abierta (9 January 2020). "En Chocó dudan de efectividad de programas de desarrollo con enfoque territorial". VerdadAbierta.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  12. ↑ "Así perciben la paz los habitantes de los PDET: seis de cada diez no están satisfechos con la implementación". Infobae (in Spanish). 20 December 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  13. ↑ "Los PDET se armonizarán con los planes de acción regionales y municipales". www.portalparalapaz.gov.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  14. ↑ Londoño, Rocío (3 July 2017). "Los programas de desarrollo territorial: ¿qué son y cómo van funcionar?". Razón Pública (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  15. ↑ "Así serán los PDET en Bogotá". www.sumapaz.gov.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  16. ↑ "¿En qué consisten las nueve zonas de paz que propone Gustavo Petro para dialogar con los grupos armados?". Infobae (in Spanish). 30 August 2022.