The Confederación Colombiana de ONG -CCONG, a national platform that works for the guarantee of the Enabling Environment for civil society organisations and the strengthening of the sector, focuses on the use of methodological tools based on social and political dialogue as an expression of capacity building for the contribution to Participatory Democracy. The CCONG provides spaces to enhance the participation of CSOs in processes that promote development and that are considered essential for the achievement of common goals.

The CCONG, in fulfilment of this objective, and in a process of knowledge exchange with global alliances and networks to achieve development, recognises that the Finance in Common (FIC) process is of particular interest to social organisations in Colombia, given that the financing of development by Public Development Banks (PBDs) implies a complex mechanism of correlations between actors and actions for the benefit of communities and people who are on the road to a better life.

The CCONG recognises and understands the role and scope of Public Development Banks - PBDs, which can optimise their relationship with other actors, based on access to data, the right to information, and mechanisms of transparency and accountability. Our commitment is to work with the CSO sector to establish new forms of relationships and social and political dialogue that allow, in the short term, to build joint actions to achieve development, peace and democracy in Colombia.

The CCONG as a national CSO platform proposes to the BPDs, and to the National Government, five actions of value, with which collaborative working ties and trust would be established. These actions are:

First: To recognise and implement the proposals presented by CSOs at the different Fic Summits, based on the construction of an Advocacy Agenda, with actions of value that bring the demands of CSOs and collectives closer to the investments and financing that the BPDs advance.

Second: Establish and strengthen political dialogue and social dialogue as permanent, systematic, reflective, peer-to-peer and self-critical spaces, with coordinated actions and the establishment of agreements (rules of the game). The agreements that are built will depend on the capacity to include people in the process.

Third: Promote the strengthening of the National System of Participatory Planning; where decisions on development (Development Plans and Land Use Plans, Public Policies, among others) are the binding result of processes of debate and public deliberation among the different development actors. Only with participatory planning and budgeting processes will investments be inclusive.

Fourth: Recognise the follow-up, monitoring, control and social oversight of public financial decisions, investments and protocols. The Development Agenda has established the need to recognise critical and reflective views on how goals are achieved, how processes, actors and resources are articulated, how principles are complied with, and how to "leave no one behind".

Fifth: Guarantee the right to access to public information and transparency related to public policies, public decisions, public resources invested, the actors that execute public resources, as well as the impacts and results of these investments to achieve and comply with the SDGs. To this end, it is necessary to have access to Information and Communication Technologies - ICTs, with updated, accessible, free, free, timely and citizen-language public information; and to promote digital literacy processes capable of recognising cultural and ethnic diversity.

The CCONG invites CSOs to actively participate in the construction of ways of interaction, relationships and exchange of experiences that lead to solidarity and equity in order to continue contributing to the development of our country.

Cartagena, D.T., Colombia, September 2023