DEVELOPMENT POLICY FINANCE
In Development Policy Finance, impacts of the policy reforms occur after the money is fully disbursed and impacts depend on how reforms are implemented.
World Bank operational policy (OP 8.60) fails to ensure mitigation of social and environmental impacts, especially those resulting “downstream,” i.e. as a consequence of the implementation of DPL mandated laws or policies.
COLOMBIAN TERRITORIAL DPF
The Territorial DPF did not establish mechanisms or provide information to ensure ethnic communities’ proper participation in the new institutional arrangements supported by the Territorial DPF.
Lack of inter-institutional organization and coordination in the Government of Colombia (GoC) is exacerbating transparency and accountability issues.
The CONPES 3859, which was a principal basis for the Territorial Governance DPF, does not include strong institutional mechanisms to address the predictable conflict between the protection of ethnic lands and the promotion of private land markets.
CONPES 3859 is a plan to guide the ‘Ley de Estatuto Catastral’ that would govern a ten-year implementation process. This is mismatched with the timing of the disbursement of the DPF.
The Territorial DPF document does not assess evidence regarding who was consulted, how and about what. • Ethnic communities haven’t experienced improvements or particular benefits regarding collective land titling process and securing land tenure.
There is a lack of consistent official data on land titling requests and the number of official resguardos and collective territories officially recognized.
While addressing collective territories is critical, it is actually one illustration of a broader problem, which also applies to land for peasants who have individual plots, particularly women. Another is that much of the expansion of the extractive economic model that this DPF facilitates is most likely to occur in the Altillanura, Colombia’s rich, biodiverse savannah, the gateway to the Amazon on which the Amazonian biome depends.
