Executive Summary - GFDRR

(MVCT); Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR); Transportation (MT); Mines
and Energy (MME); Health and Social Protection (MSPS); Finance and Public Credit
(MHCP); and National Education (MEN), helped the team to carry out the present study.
In addition, entities such as the Colombian Geological Survey (SGC); the Colombian
Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental Studies (Ideam); the Colombian
Ocean Commission (CCO); the National Statistics Department (DANE), and the
Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute (IGAC), offered fundamental contributions in
preparing the study and actively participated in its review. It is important to mention
the contribution of some officials of these institutions and other entities: Hernando
José Gómez Restrepo (DNP), Mauricio Santa María Salamanca (DNP), Juan Mauricio
Ramírez Cortés (DNP), Carolina Urrutia Vásquez (DNP, from July 2011), Giampiero
Renzoni Rojas (DNP, up to July 2011), Alexander Martínez Montero (DNP), Nilson
Correa Bedoya (DNP), Claudia Patricia Satizabal Robayo (DNP), María Salomé Ruíz
Alvarado (DNP), Jean Philippe Penning (DNP), Pedro Luis Jiménez (DNP), José
Alejando Bayona (DNP), Augusto César Pinto (DNP), Nicolás Pérez Marulanda
(DNP), Samuel Zambrano (DNP), Camilo Jaramillo (DNP), Katty De Oro (DNP), Julio
César Jiménez (DNP), Carlos Iván Márquez Pérez (UNGRD), Richard Alberto Vargas
Hernández (UNGRD), Perla Haydee Rueda (UNGRD), Jairo Enrique Bárcenas Sandoval
(UNGRD), Marta Lucía Calvache Velasco (SGC), María Mónica Arcila Rivera (SGC),
María Luisa Monsalve Bustamante (SGC), Iván Darío Gómez (IGAC), Camila Romero
Chica (CCO), Ricardo Lozano (Ideam), Ernesto Rangel Mantilla (Ideam), Omar Franco
(Ideam), Claudia Milena Álvarez Londoño (Ideam), Dorotea Cardona Hernández
(Ideam), María Constanza García (MT), Gloria Sánchez (MT), Juan Camilo Granados
(MT), Carla Viviescas (MT), Magda Constanza Buitrago Ríos (MT), Lyda Milena
Esquivel Roa (Invías), Carlos Castaño (MADS), Luis Alfonso Sierra (MADS), Javier Pava
(MADS), Luis Roberto Chiape (MADS), Claudia Lucía Ramírez (MVCT), Carlos Ariel
Cortés (MVCT), Claudia Mora (ex-Water Viceminister), Augusto Ardila (MSPS), Luis
Eduardo Arango (MHCP), Sandra Rodríguez (MHCP), Lina Marcela Tami (MADR),
Samira Alkhatib (MADR), Elizabeth Arciniegas (MADR), Eudes de Jesús Velásquez
(MADR), Juan Carlos Ortega (Agrarian Bank), Mara Bigitthe Bravo (MEN), Dinora
Carolina Cortés (MEN), Juan Pablo Morales (MEN), and Andrés E. Taboada (MME).
Likewise, the study included the participation of many other representatives from the
entities mentioned above during the course of the interviews and the workshops.
Collaborators
Organizations such as the Colombian Federation of Municipalities (FCM), the Association
of Regional and Autonomous Sustainability Corporations, the Colombian Agrarian Society
(SAC), the Colombian Construction Chamber (Camacol), the Colombian Federation
of Insurers (Fasecolda), and the Colombian Infrastructure Chamber (CCI), aided in
the collection of data, offered important contributions in its preparation, and actively
participated in the study. The team is especially grateful to Fernando Enciso Herrera
(FCM), Ramón Leal Leal (Asocars), Maria I. Vanegas (Asocars), Rafael Mejía López (SAC),
Luis Fernando Forero Gómez (SAC), Camilo Congote Hernández (Camacol), Carlos Varela
(Fasecolda), Juan Martín Caicedo Ferrer (CCI), and Sandra Silva Serna (CCI).
The team would also like to extend its appreciation to those who provided valuable input
for the information they received from interviewing numerous public and private entities
in case studies in the following cities: Bogota, Cali, Medellin, Barranquilla, Manizales,
and Cucuta, and regions such as La Mojana and Canal del Dique, as well as the Sinu and
Bogota River basins.
Funding
Finally, special thanks to the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
(GFDRR) for funding the base studies of this report.
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