Medellín, city filled with life reinventing itself every day

1M e d e l l i n c i t y i n h a b i t e d b y l i f e w h i c h r e i n v e n t s i t s e l f e v e r y d a y

Medellín,

T he 2012-2015 Development Plan “Medellin, a Home for Life” is based on clear and strong principles that give force, soul and essence to each

public program and project of its strategic route:Life is the supreme value, and all our efforts must be directed to honor, value and protect it. Fairness is an end of all societies, from the moral, political, social and business points of view. Education, culture and innovation are the basis of a city that projects itself to the future. Development must be sustainable and it must respect and potentiate our strengths and our identity. Transparency and good government are built under a culture of legality and the active construction of a participating society.These are the key elements for the construction of the Medellin of the XXI Century. This document contains the flag programs of the Development Plan that embody the emphasis inside the strategic lines and must mean an important articulation exercise of the different institutions and areas inside and outside the Municipal Administration.We have grouped the actions by theme related managing sectors, the way we organize the management of the Secretaries and decentralized entities in the process of the modernization of the Municipality of Medellin, like this:» Medellin City School, Culture, Education, Participation, Recreation and Sports.» Medellin Home, Health, Inclusion and Family.» Medellin safer and more life.» Sustainable Urban Management. Habitat, Mobility, Infrastructure and Sustainability. » Medellin Innovation City. Economic Development, internationalization and Private

and Public Alliances.» Medellin Territory for Life. Territorial Management, Good Government and Citizen

Participation.These sectors help us articulate, streamline and make more effective what we do every day in our administration, achieving increasing levels of covera-ge and impact to make Medellín a Home for Life.

ANIBAL GAVIRIA CORREAMayor

Lifea Home for

Anibal Gaviria Correa, Medellin’s Mayor

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San Antonio de Prado is one of the seven UVA that will be built in the first phase.

Strategic Purposes» To offer new spaces for integration, enjoy-

ment and community development. » Articulation of sports, recreation and culture.» Be creative meeting points in the

neighborhoods.» Bring the institutional offer closer.

Benefited Population2.417.325 people.

Quadrennium Investement$150.000 million pesos.

Quadrennium Milestones» Construction of 20 UVA in the areas of Campo

Valdes; Santa Cruz, Gerona, Sol de Oriente, Downtown (San Lorenzo and Holasa), Altavista, San Antonio, Santo Domingo, Cerro Nutibara, Castilla, La Tablaza, El Poblado, Moscu, 12 de Octubre, San Javier, Versalles, Porvenir, Nuevo Occidente and Santa Elena.

» To promote citizenship for life.

T he Articulated Life Units UVA are a new urban typology in the neighborhoods, for

citizen encounters, encouraging sports, recre-ation, culture, and community participation.

Citizens for Life

20 Units of Articulated Life

There are 20 UVA developed by the Mayor’s Office and EPM in the city’s neighborhoods, with an investment of $150.000 million pesos.

Deputy Mayor’s office of eDucation, culture, participation, recreation anD sports

We work towards making Medellin an inclusive city that enhances the abilities of all its citizens with equal opportunities. From this sector, we contribute to valuing life and diversity through cultural, educational, sports and participation processes. We seek inclusive access, permanence, relevance and equality for each of these systems.Training citizens for Life through innovative platforms.

UVA Nuevo Occidente


P rogram of early childhood attention is developed in an interdisciplinary perspective of the vital

cycle, protection of rights and inter-institutional articulation.

Comprehensive care for children from birth to 5 yearsGood Start

En 2012 toda la familia disfrutó con el Festival Buen Comienzo. Abajo el Despacho de la Primera Dama Claudia Márquez apoya el programa Buen Comienzo y los jardines infantiles de la ciudad.

Strategic Purposes» Ensure the development of boys and

girls starting with early education supported by the construction of identity and self-care; interaction with the natural, physical, and social world, and the construction of language.

» Promote training of the educators responsible for comprehensive early childhood development.

» Empower families as the main educational agent.

» Develop a network of kindergartens and places of comprehensive care for early childhood in the city.

Benefited Population89.200 children from gestation to five years of age.


Quadrennium Milestones » Delivery of 12 kindergarten Good Start

in Santo Domingo, Belen, Altavista, Moravia, El Pinal and Carpinelo, Calazania ( stage 1), Moscu, Versalles, Las Estancias, Loreto, La Frontera and La Colina.

» Implement 4 Good Start Festivals.

I t’s a revolutionary program for civic education and quality in the educational process of our boys, girls and youth in the public schools in the Municipality of Medellin It offers

extended extracurricular activities, extra classes in four formative areas: culture, science and technology, sports and recreation, and bilingual studies.

Extracurricular activities City School

JornadaComplementaria

Ciudad Escuela

Culture, sports and recreation, bilingual studies and science and technology are the four phases

of the Extracurricular Activities.

Strategic Purposes» Transform the way students use their free time.» Extend the training time of students.» Improve the quality of education.» Know, learn, enjoy and celebrate our youth’s talents and qualities. » Make the city a school.

Benefited Population100.000 students.


Milestones» Coverage of 100.000 boys, girls and youth.» Get to 25% public enrollment.» Impact the 16 communes and 5 city townships in the city.

Citizens for Life

Citizens for Life


Teachers for Life and Knowledge Olympics are two strategies for recognizing the best teachers and students and contribute in the quality of education.

Benefited PopulationTeachers: 10.126 and students: 318.000 in 100% of the educational institutions.


Quadrennium Milestones » Training of over 5.000 teachers and principals for the didactic appropriation of stan-

dards and curricular guidelines.» 29 educational institutions built or upgraded, 115 school restaurant, 121 sanitary units,

112 different maintenances. » 200 schools for Life and Citizenship.» Fund “Teachers for Teachers”.» Training of educational research groups.» Model of educational management training.» Software nursery” to encourage research and quality technicians and technologists in

software development with international standards.» Delivery of 4.920 tablets and 27.000 computers.» Educational Web Page @aprender Creation of the School Library Network of Medellin.» 50 School Libraries refurbished in infrastructure and content.

Quality DecalogueComprehensive Plan for improving the qualityof basic and middle education

Strategic Purposes1. Teachers for Living, invest in teacher

training, in their dignity and quality of life.

2. Content development and study plans, guiding principals and teachers with materials and pedagogies.

3. Extracurricular activities – City School, with four areas of study, culture, sports, science and bilingual studies as a formative process in the creative use of free time for boys, girls and youth.

4. An assessment and quality improving system, from the Knowledge Olympics and the Testing Saber.

5. Reading and School Libraries, embedded within the Library system in the city for developing reading skills.

6. Continue improving learning areas in infrastructure, endowment and virtuality.

7. Ethical training in Care for Life as a platform for the development of human beings.

8. Schools for Life and Citizenship.9. Develop a system of Education

Management for the city.10. The Private Public Work in the

treatment of initiatives for improving education quality.

T he Municipality of Medellin, in its ongoing ex-ercise of rethinking itself along the lines of im-

proving the quality of education, and aware of the components that must be intervened in order to ad-vance on the way of improvement, without neglect-ing the advances made in coverage and sustainability issues in the educational institutions, assumes the responsibility of formulating - facing the educational community and the general public - a Decalogue with 10 structural axes that will allow the intervention of the variables to make significant changes in the qual-ity of education in the city.

Citizens for Life


Multilingual Medellin

A program that seeks to develop citizens’ communication skills in other languages - with emphasis in English – to help build an increasingly competitive region.

Quadrennium Milestones » Medellin’s Language Observatory» English studies structuring plan from

Preschool to High School.» International certification to the

population involved in the different formative processes.

» Creation of a new “Virtual Educational Platform Medellin” (Virtual resources).

» Professional Development Center for language teachers in the city.

» University Language Center in the Pedro Nel Gomez Campus.

» Opening of 3 specialized resource centers in each of the IES of Medellin (ITM, Pascual Bravo and Colegio Mayor de Antioquia).

» Creation of the first specialized English training program in the country for the Escuela Normal Superior de Medellin.

Live Reading T he objective of Medellin live Reading is to make

people discover how they can improve their own lives through the love of reading. It is a plan to encourage children, young people and adults about the value of reading; it is a program to woo readers with the words that are read and written daily.

With the delivery of Library Park Manuel Mejia Vallejo, Commune 15 Guayabal has new chances to encounter reading opportunities.

Strategic Purposes» Implement actions aimed to promote

reading for critical, participatory citizens who respect life as the supreme value.

Quadrennium Investement$65.000 million pesos. Quadrennium Milestones » Consolidation of the Medellin Editorial

Fund which is a family library for the city.» Presence of “Beyond Access”- one of the

most important meetings in the world around libraries - in the frame of the Book and Culture Fair.

» Education and Culture united by the development of reading skills.

» Constitution of the Reading Cities Alliance where Medellin and Bogota participate.

» Constitute the General Public and School Library Plan.

Citizens for Life Citizens for Life

Strategic Purposes» Structuring a public bilingualism policy.» Use of evaluation and follow up tools with

international standards.» Coordination with city clusters for English

programs for specific purposes.» Integration with English virtual learning

processes with permanent support.» Public communication processes and

English scenarios, cultural promotion for internationalization.

» Public and private alliances for strengthening internationalization strategies in the city; training for specific purposes.

Benefited Population Quadrennium27.632 English training places for (teachers, students, citizens).


Medellin


L uz, música, montañas, jardines, agua y el po-tencial de su gente proyectan la capacidad de

innovación, los relatos urbanos y la creatividad de Me-dellín ante Colombia y el mundo. Conocer a Medellín es como sumergirse en un viaje intenso de identida-des que se entremezclan y son la fuente de creación e innovación social que ha hecho de esta ciudad un espacio de gran creación en donde artistas de nivel nacional e internacional han sabido utilizar este crisol como fuente de comunicación, desarrollo y trabajo. La contemporaneidad hoy es cruce de este tipo de interacciones en el que como ciudad buscamos las razones de la búsqueda cultural que nos integra en el valor de la vida, el respeto y la tolerancia.

CityIdentity

(City I)

Strategic Purposes» Develop valuations on the new cultural

identities in the city. » Promote the identity of Medellin from the

territorial development.» Communicate the city’s projection from

its great cultural landmarks impact.


Quadrennium Investement20.000 million pesos.

2013 Milestones» Network of Territory Museums.» Park Projects for Culture and Life.» Book: Downtown Everybody’s Patrimony» Festi-camera.» International Tango Festival.» International Poetry Festival.» Flower Fair – Silleteros Parade.» Lights Festival – Carnival of Myths and

Legends.» Expo craftsmen.» Loud Speaker International Festival.

Thanks to great events in the city such as the Flower Fair and the International Tango Festival, City I, promotes Medellin’s identity from the territorial development.

T his programs aims to strengthen our higher education system and ensure a greater coverage under a criteria of equality, improving the

level of high quality accreditation in the programs offered by our three higher education institutions, Pascual Bravo, ITM and Colegio Mayor de Antioquia and maximize technological and research vocation in the city and the region.

Sapience

In Medellin to the U, we invested $94.000 million in programs and projects for higher education in 2012.

Medellin to the U

Strategic Purposes» Accompany student’s processes in Middle School in

public education institutions of the Municipality so they make a good transition to Higher Education.

» Increase coverage for access funding and continuity to higher education.

» Develop the Higher Education System of the Municipality- Synergy.

» Create the Pedro Nel Gomez technological Campus.

Benefited Population61.280 students.


2013 Milestones» Creation of the first “Agency for Higher Education –

Sapience”, that exists in the country to maximize technological and research vocation in the city and

the region.» Develop the master plan for the Pedro Nel Gomez

Technology Campus and develop its first stage.» New synergies operating between our three institutions.» 20 thousand new students in the EPM - Medellin Fund.» 600 new students abroad, with the Link Worlds Program.

Citizens for LifeCitizens for Life


D evelopment of sports spaces com-plimentary to sport units related to

roller-skating. The new Velodrome and the Mariana Pajón BMX Track - as central axles in the Wheels Park - an appropriate space for sport disciplines related to wheels (bicycles, roller-skates, and skateboards) is created.

Wheels Park

W e compete by channeling youth’s vital energy through opportunities

and conditions for the practice of new and extreme sport activities, decreasing their exposure to socially risky situations.

Adrenaline

With the programs that appeal to young people, healthy recreational opportunities are provided.

Strategic Purposes» Perform extreme sports through the adaptation

of urban scenarios that facilitate their practice.

Benefited Population2.530 people annually.


Quadrennium Milestones » Implement a formative line in alternative sports

such as: Climbing, Roller skating, Skateboarding and rappel, canine sports, Fist Ball, Arena sports, and Grass Hockey.

» Execute 4 great impact events in the quadrennium.

» Race track event.» Motor Sports Day.» Extreme sports competitions, “Medellin Extreme”.» Endurance Cross.

Citizens for Life

Citizens for Life

Strategic Purposes» To have a Velodrome that meets

with International Cycling Union Regulations (UCI), temperature and regulated ventilation to improve cyclists’ performance.

» To have a BMX track with all UCI’s technical specifications that is a global benchmark for BMX practice and competition.


Quadrennium Investement$40.000 million pesos in the Velodrome and $1.800 million pesos in the BMX track.

Quadrennium Milestones » Construction of a Velodrome.» A BMX track will be inaugurated in

2014.

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Medellin Home. Health, Inclusion and Family

75.000 Familiesin Health at Home

A program for reorganizing welfare practices, ensuring the traditional model for the cure of

diseases in hospital. Attention must be concentrat-ed at home, in the context of its physical and social environment, which enables the comprehensive understanding of the health – disease process and the need for more effective and efficient interven-tions than the healing practices.

Health at Home reaches the most vulnerable sectors of the city with basic services.

Deputy Mayor’s office of HealtH, inclusion anD faMily

We ensure the protection and attention of the family as nucleus of society, so we implement actions that contribute to its overall development and quality of life. We contribute to the improvement of health conditions as an universal right and generate opportunities for vulnerable population groups and citizens living in extreme poverty.

Strategic Purposes» Extend basic action coverture in promotion,

prevention and supervision of risk factors at home.

» Develop protection factors at the family and community levels.

» Contribute to achieving objectives for the millennium development.

Benefited Population75,000 families. Quadrennium Investement$ 59,400 million pesos.

2013 Milestones» Perform 340.700 promotion and

prevention visits for the benefit of 340.700 families.

» 8.050 educational visits for primary care.» Promote the consolidation of active

social networks in territories where the strategy is implemented.

P ermanent interaction with the people of the city through scenarios of participation and citizen’s

deliberation; open to plurality and diversity; without exclusion; finding solutions to problems and needs felt in the community, neighborhoods and rural set-tlements.

The citizens and the Municipal Administration meet and have dialogues in scenarios like “Life and Equality Days”.

Citizens for Life:Formation, participation

and mobilization

Strategic Purposes» Connecting different sectors to build a

public agenda for life and coexistence.» Promote deliberation around a

citizenship for life.» Access to permanent training services

for children between 8 and 13 years of age, young people, counselors, public servants and organized citizens.

» Provide meeting and integration opportunities for citizens to decentralize public service, contribute to strengthen social fabric and construction of community networks.


Quadrennium Investement$ 104.984 million.

Quadrennium Milestones » Subscription to Partners for Life and

coexistence, social agreements with commitments for Life defense and coexistence.

» “Medellin Speaks”: mobilization and deliberation campaign about life in the city with public forums, open television, and virtual platform.

» Public Education System for participating under cognitive constructivist models, and critical pedagogy to strengthen and renew community and political leadership.

» Integration Centers for Life: 9 new CIB (centers for neighborhood integration) community participation articulators.

Citizens for Life

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Free from AddictionsMedellin Healthy and

W e aim to protect Young people with strategies for prevention of the first

use and the use of legal and illegal psycho-active substances, intervening risk factors of health problems such as depression, anx-iety and suicidal behavior, which can lead to the consumption of drugs and alcohol.


With education and healthy life choices Young people have more and better options.

Strategic Purposes» Prevention of addiction (gambling, alcohol and

psychoactive substances).» Sexual Health Education and construction of citizenship.

Benefited Population400.000 young people.


2013 Milestones» Opening and maximizing 50 friendly services for young

people with comprehensive care in the public network of Metrosalud.

» Characterization of young population in the political, social and cultural environment.

» Facilitate the creation of listening centers in the city.

O ur objective is contribute to enhance life quality in the most vulnerable homes in the city,

promote their autonomy and improve ways of family and social coexistence, through family support and outreach available around the nine dimensions of human development.

24.000 hogares reciben el mínimo vital de agua potable en la ciudad.

Medellin Home. Health,Inclusion and Family

Medellin Solidary: Family Medellin Strategic Purposes

» Personalized support to the participating households, through a family plan within the nine dimensions of comprehensive human development.

» Manage and bring opportunities around the nine dimensions of human development: health, nutrition, identification, family dynamics, income and work, access to justice, banking and savings, housing and education.

» Program articulation and strategies in the Municipality of Medellin led from programs like Potable Water Vital Minimum and the Social Prosperity Department Programs, like Families in Action, Youth in Action, Saver Women in Action and Social Income.

Benefited Population45,000 households.

Quadrennium Investement$ 79,200 million pesos.

2013 Milestones» Serve 50.000 households in extreme

poverty.» Coordination with various areas in

housing management for homes participating in the Program.

» Graduation of 4.000 homes that exceed the situation of extreme poverty.

» Apply an Auspice of the Potable Water Vital Minimum for 29.000 households.

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Comprehensive Plan of Safety and Coexistence (PISC) Medellin safer and more life

Over $70,000 million invested in safety programs and projects.

Deputy Mayor’s office for Governance, securityanD citizen services

We have a strong commitment to turn Medellin into a city that respects, values and protects life. In this aspect we have great challenges and we have invested many physical, technological, financial, and human resources to confront it, but it is a long process. We are convinced that comprehensive solutions and firm actions are needed to combat criminal organizations. Projects that increase social equality are needed.

A route sheet that connects Administration, se-curity and justice agencies and the different

institutions. Joining actions to improve security and coexistence in life’s favor, through a security strategy and a complete perspective aligned with national and regional policy.

2013 Milestones » Formulation and implementation of 22

local security plans.» Formulation of the first public security

policy for Medellin.» Strengthening technology for security:

Mobile CAI ‘s, intelligent patrols, security arcs, and security online.

» Delivery of a Criminalistics Laboratory.» Creation and strengthening of the

Alliance for security and Life with co- responsibility.

Strategic Purposes» Implementation of the Public Municipal

Policy of Security and Coexistence.» Adoption and strengthening of

Information Technologies and Security Communication.

» Strengthening the Integrated Emergency and Security System of Medellin. -SIES-M-

» Prevention of forced displacement and the use of children and youth by criminal structures.

Benefited PopulationThe 2,417,325 inhabitants of Medellin and visitors

Investment2012 - 2013: $ 125,067 million.Four years: $ 212.632 million.

T he Youth for Life program seeks the comprehensive development of the

population between 14 and 28 years of age. It has six strategies led by the Youth Secretary’s Office in co-responsibility with other five Secretary Offices that together guarantee the rights and will provide opportunities to young people in the city

YouthLife

for

Strategic Purposes» Transfering information,

resources and approaches for the consolidation of coexistence strategies, culture, opportunities for rehabilitation and employment, sports and recreation.

» Connect the Municipal Development Plan with the Youth Development Plan.

» Design the evaluation and monitoring system for the Youth for Life program.

Benefited Population577,102 young people.

Quadrennium Investement$ 133,403 million pesos.


2013 Milestones » To Form young people for work and human

development, expanding coverage beyond the 1.450 young people and 1.200 adults estimated in the Development Plan.

» Advancement in the contact with the productive sector to form young people and promote their employability.

» Strengthening the Youth Observatory.» Redesign the Youth Public Policy.» Youth Card Design.» Training in food production in eco orchards;

promoting solidary economy; construction (making of paving stones, ground leveling, installation, maintenance and painting) and gardeners.

» Implement community plant nurseries.» Start the construction of the circumambulating

garden in the areas of ecology restoration, mobility and housing.

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Metropolitan Green Belt and Medellin’s Circumambulating Garden

Sustainable Urban Management.Habitat, Mobility, Infrastructure and Sustainability.

T he Circumambulating Garden of Medellin is the heart of the Metro-

politan Green Belt, a project that seeks to bring life, equity, economic develop-ment, environmental sustainability and institutionalization to the hills of the city, promoting integral human develop-ment. It is an encounter between the ur-ban and rural, a recovery of the natural landscape elements and improvement in habitat, mobility and accessibility.

Strategic Purposes» Pedagogical Civic Urbanism, with

community participation.» Mobility Corridors (pedestrian

pathways, bikeways and monorails).» Ecological restoration,

environmental preservation and construction of urban facilities.

» Implementation of forest systems, agroforestry and silvopastoril systems.

» Comprehensive improvement of neighborhoods.

» Risk mitigation and development control.

Benefited Population1.217.000 inhabitants.


2013 Milestones » “Start construction of mobility components with

the pedestrian path (Path of Life) and ecological restoration in the Circumambulating Garden.

» “Social management, promotion and disclosure of the project in the territories intervened.

» Implementation of community plant nurseries.

Medellín River Park

I t is an intervention and urban renewal project around the

Medellin River to connect the city efficiently; mobility, public space, additional equipment and environ-mental intervention.Engineering and town planning work hand in hand to make the Me-dellin River a main meeting point for citizens.

With the River Park, Medellin recovers public space for citizen encounters and contact with nature.


Strategic Purposes» Environmental: harmonize the connection between the ri-

ver and its effluents, fauna and flora.» Urban-architecture: integrate town planning with public

space, park landscaping and its connectivity, as a process of urban renewal of the city.

» Social: strengthen the cultural relation that is woven bet-ween the population and the Medellín River Park.

» Mobility: promote longitudinal and transverse mobility of vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles in the River Park.


Total Project Investement $ 1 billion, 200 thousand million pesos.

2013 Milestones Study and project design.Technical, legal and financial structuring.

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Strategic Purposes» Municipal subsidy in housing alloca-

tion for the displaced population.» Comprehensive habitat

improvement.» New housing developments through

public - private and Popular Housing Organizations (OPV).

» Temporary rental subsidies for families who require temporary housing solutions for people living in risky, disaster or public work areas.

» Subsidies for used housing as needed by the assisted population.

» Strengthening the Housing system in Medellin.

» Attention to a target housing population that need solutions in the framework of the Metropolitan circumambulating Garden.

Quadrennium Milestones » Achieving Headquarters VII World Urban Forum by

ONU-HABITAT.» First Ibero-American Housing Ministers meeting.» Housing System Consolidation.» Partnerships with the private sector for the

creation of OPV.» Housing Census.» Cooperation Agreement ISVIMED - ONU HABITAT for

Global pilot project for inclusion and community participation in pilot urban renewal processes (PILAR, by its English initials “Piloting and Inclusive and Participatory Land Readjustment”). The Mayor’s Office of Medellin, through ISVIMED, contributes U.S. $1’000.000 and HABITAT ONU, U.S. $1’065.000.

» Comprehensive Habitat Improvement Program in the Circumambulating Garden (new houses, improvements, legalizations and certifications).

» Definition of the temporary rental program as transient public policy.


Habitat and housing:100,400 housing solutions

In 2012, there was a 372% increase in new home construction over 2011.

Deputy Mayor’s office of Habitat, Mobility,infrastructure anD sustainability

We strengthen the urban development of the city by improving its infrastructure, physical connectivity and mobility to improve the quality of life, create conditions for competitiveness and ensure access to decent hous-ing and a sustainable habitat.

I mprove the conditions for a decent life by promoting housing access, coverage

and quality of public services; a sustainable habitat to ensure the effective enjoyment of these rights of the inhabitants of Medellín. Enhance their human and social skills, especially to households, urban and rural human settlements in poverty, social vulnerability and precarious habitats.

Benefited Population100,400 families

Quadrennium Investement$ 578,877 million pesos


S.I.T. IntegratedTransport System

for the City of Medellin

Transportation integration will bring more convenience and better service to citizens.


M etro, tram, metrocables, metroplus, buses, bicycles and public integrat-

ed services are the multimodal Integrated Transport System. It will improve mobility supported by physical and logistic interven-tion and restructure of public transportation. An efficient, comfortable, safe, affordable, inclusive and sustainable system that inte-grates fares and operations.

Strategic Purposes» Improve mobility conditions of

public transportation users.» Use of clean fuels.» Electronic monitoring of public

transportation.» Efficiency in service operation with

accessible fares and elimination of the ‘penny war’.

» Improve road safety.

Benefited PopulationThe 2,417,325 inhabitants of Medellín.

Quadrennium Investement$163,418 million.

2013 Milestones» Start operations in basins 3 and 6.

I t is possible to have a more equitable and competitive city and territorial enjoyment. Accessibility and connectivity projects in terms of road infrastructure are aimed at improving vehicular and

pedestrian mobility and connectivity within the city.

Sustainable Urban Management.Habitat, Mobility, Infrastructure and Sustainability..Road infrastructure with comprehensive development for mobility

Strategic Purposes» Build new roads with their complementary

works.» Venture into new alternatives for the

development of infrastructure through public- private alliances and valuation tax contributions.

» Medellin a Garden for Life: Maintenance for the conservation, protection, propagation and research of gardens, vegetable covering and trees in the city.

» Construction, maintenance and parks and public space upgrading.

» Sidewalk Plans: Teaching Civic Urbanism for Pedestrian Mobility.

» Building bike paths.

Benefited Population2,417,325 inhabitants of the Aburrá Valley.

Quadrennium Investement$1.8 billion pesos

2013 Milestones » Start the construction of the Mother Laura

Montoya Upegui intra-urban bridge. » Start the construction of the extension

of 65th road, between 103E-104, second stage.

» Start the construction of the second phase of road improvements of 80th – 81st Avenues.

» Start valuation tax works.

Medellin faces the river again with an intervention that includes the construction of the Mother Laura Bridge,to join Castilla with Aranjuez.


Ayacucho tramwayand two additional cables (Green Corridor)

Sustainable Urban Management.Habitat, Mobility, Infrastructure and Sustainability..

I t is a transportation solution for the Central-Eastern area of the city which connects the Ayacucho Tramway with

two aerial cable systems. In this way, transportation alterna-tives will be integrated for sustainable mobility, contributing to reducing traffic congestion and maximizing travel thru pedestrian pathways.

An investment of $607,000 million for the construction of the Tram and two additional cables.

Strategic Purposes» Less C0

2 emissions

» Reduction in commuting times. Its route will be a 12 minute trip with 6 stops and 3 stations.

» Safer transportation and reducing accident rates. The project is to save 38 lives and 1,386 less injured people.

Benefited Population360 000 inhabitants in the Central Eastern area of Medellin.

Quadrennium Investement $607,000 million pesos 2013 Milestones » Generate 2,043 jobs during the implementation

stage.» Purchase land required for the execution of the

works.» Start the construction of the tram.» Start the construction of the two additional cables.

T he program Antioquia Central Park (Cen-tral Parks System) is developed by

projects, agreements and synergies. It con-tributes to scientific knowledge, protection and management of strategic ecosystems in order to move towards sustainability in Medellin. It will be done by means of the res-toration, protection, scientific and strategic ecosystem management of environmentally important areas.

Sustainable Urban Management.Habitat, Mobility, Infrastructure and Sustainability..Central Park of Antioquia. Central Parks System

Subregional planning allows a harmonious and balanced development of the territory.

Strategic Purposes» Keep natural supply of environmental goods and

services in the territory.» Maintain ecological connectivity and generation of

recreational areas.

Benefited PopulationThe 2,417,325 inhabitants of Medellín

Quadrennium Investement$29,708 million.

2013 Milestones » Declaration of San Miguel Hill as a

regional protected area.» Pilot Program of payment for

Environmental Services in Medellin.

» Action Plan for the Integrated Management of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Medellin.

» 81 375 trees planted for water basins protection.

» Marketing and promoting natural tourism for the strategic ecosystems of the city.

» Recovery and maintenance of environmentally and recreationally important urban areas.

» Delimitation and baseline for declaring Quitasol and Pan de Azucar Hills protected areas.

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W e will consolidate a sustainable regional habitat according to law requirements and the dynamics of occupation and territory capacity,

thanks to coordinated urban and rural planning. We will apply urban planning and formulate rules and management planning instruments, making emphasis in the revision and adjustment of the POT and taking into account the consolidation of conservation and environmental protection of systems (Main Ecological Network); mobility and transportation; public spaces, equipment and public services; the definition and consolidation of the rural and urban borders and the River as the articulating axle of the City; the immovable cultural patrimony system of Medellín and comprehensive risk assistance will also play an important role. Emphasis will be placed on land management through the various planning instruments established by law like the partial plans, property regulation and legalization, comprehensive housing improvement, urban renewal, housing integration and macro projects, among others.

Planning and Managementfor Land ManagementPOT

Sustainable Urban Management. Habitat, Mobility, Infrastructure and Sustainability

The Wishes Park, where the remodeled Municipal Planetarium is located, is one of the new referents of the city.

Strategic Purposes» Revision and adjustment of POT.» Formulation and management of planning

instruments.» Comprehensive planning of the

Transportation and Mobility System.» Establish the Public Spaces and equipment

System» Urban regularization.» Rural urban regularization.» Invigoration strategies for Urban Renewal

Plan.» Design and implement of Partial Plans.» Comprehensive Risk Management.» Urban obligations investment.» Public Policy of Home Public Utilities.

Benefited PopulationThe 2,417,325 inhabitants of Medellín.


2013 Milestones » Land Management Plan reviewed and

adjusted.» Feasibility study of potential lots for

locating Collective Public Transportation Logistics Centers in Medellin and its districts.

» Geological, geotechnical and slope stability study, in 7 districts of commune 6.

» Project for the legalization and regulation of Iguana’s middle water basin.

» Completion, reviewing and adjustment process for Moravia’s overall improvement partial plan.

» Revision and adjustment of partial urban renovation plan in “Plaza de Ferias” (Fair’s Plaza) and Bayadera.

» Comprehensive Management of Construction & Demolition Waste.

» Public Utilities Information system services that includes intelligent networks.

» Strategies aimed at increasing coverage and connectivity services associated to the TIC’s in the Municipality of Medellín.

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E ntrepreneurship with high growth po-tential and differentiation, and creation

of the CTI Fund.Promoting and Developing entrepreneur-ship and new business of knowledge with high potential for growth and differentiation, strengthening the Regional System of In-novation and Entrepreneurship to increase productivity and city competitiveness.

Medellin Innovation City.Economic development, internationalization

and public-private Alliances

Science, Technologyand innovation

Deputy Mayor’s office of science, tecHnoloGy, innovation, econoMic DevelopMent, internationalization anD public-private alliances

We maximize economic development in our region through the strengthening of its capabilities and its productive structure. We generate progress, innovation, competitiveness and decent work. Similarly, we include Medellin in the regional, national and international scenarios to benefit from the dynamics of social cooperation and lure global investment.

Route-N Building consolidates the North as an innovation sector in the city.

Strategic Purposes» Investigation support policy for scientific,

technological and business research for our new knowledge businesses.

» Operation of the Science, Technology and Innovation Fund, associated to the city’s strategic clusters and emerging sectors.

» Consolidation of Route N, CTi Plan and Science, Technology and Innovation Fund.

» Implement the Science Technology and Innovation Plan of Medellin, 2011-2021.

» Tax incentives (Article 182 of Tax Code of Medellin) for innovative activities in priority economic sectors.

» New North of the city. Technology and Innovation District for the settlement and development of high added value businesses.

Benefited Population » 10,000 citizens with cultural and innovation

programs» Universities and institutions of the Regional

Innovation system, technology development institutions, companies and entrepreneurs in Medellin.

» 200 entrepreneurs

Investment» 2012-2013: $60,999 million.» Four years: $159.081 million.

Quadrennium Milestones » Medellín as the most innovative city in the

world according to the Urban Land Institute and the Wall Street Journal.

» Holding the EmTech in Medellin, the world’s most important conference on emerging technologies, organized by Technology Review from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

» Establishing the Hewlett Packard Global Services Center in Medellin.

» Hold the Illuminated Cities Assembly (Luci) in Medellin.

» Approval of the CTi Plan: It will receive an annual 7% of EPM’s surplus stocks until 2021.

» Support policies for research, scientific development, technology and innovation in Medellin.

» Financing projects, programs and activities with high science and technology content.

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APPUrban development and

Medellin Innovation City. Economic development,internationalization and public-private Alliances

Arrabal and Naranjal Partial Plan. New commercial and residential areas.

A ctivate and energize mechanisms developed by Law 1508 of 2012, which establishes the legal

framework for Public Private Associations.Strategic Projects» Alliance for life.» Naranjal’s Partial Plan.» Sevilla’s Partial Plan.» River Road Park.

Target Territory16 communes and 5 districts of the city.

Achievements » Naranjal and Arrabal urban renewal

partial plan has advanced in the phases of project profile and viability on agreements executed during 2010 and 2011.

» Agreement made with the National Savings Fund as strategic partner for projects promoted by EDU.

2013 Milestones » International architectural

competition.» Guidelines and parameters in the POT

revision, to ensure the viability of the project, articulated with the Master Plan for the Metropolitan Services Corridor.

» Development and advancement of technical, legal and financial structures to achieve a concrete road concession and funding plan for the works to be done.

I mplement strategies conducive to improving life quality for citizens through the deployment and provision of

services in an Intelligent City. Development and use of ICT’s as way of contributing to problem solution and/or exploitation and maximization of opportunities in education, security, mobility, environment, economic development, habitat, citizen participation and equality.

Thanks to the digitization strategy of Medellin,it received the Ibero-American Digital Cities Award Digital in the “Big City” category.

Strategic Purposes» Connectivity and innovation for

citizens’ digital inclusion.» Contents, tools and services for

citizens’ information, participation and interaction.

» Use and appropriation of ICT: technology for quality of life and citizen security.

Quadrennium Investement$26,602 million pesos.

Medellin Innovation City. Economicdevelopment, internationalization and public-private Alliances

Medellin,Intelligent city

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Comprehensive intervention of the

city center

T o strongly feel Medellin’s heartbeat, we wager to regain its meaning and convening power, from

the recognition of its historical and cultural patrimony and a comprehensive intervention process with so-cial, safety, mobility actions and coexistence to sum-mon all sectors of the city.

Medellin, Territory of Life. Territorial management, good governance and citizen participation.

Permanent cultural, sports and safety activities are part of the Comprehensive Intervention of the City Center.

Strategic Purposes» Rebuilding citizens’ trust in institutions

and governance in the territory.» Achieve Inter-institutional articulation

for a comprehensive Intervention of the center.

Benefited Population1,000,000 residents, workers and visitors to the Center.

Quadrennium Investement$12.203 millions

2013 Milestones » Articulation of diverse institutions, for

the development of a comprehensive intervention strategy of the City Center.

Strategic Purposes» Local planning and participative budget with a global start of

$ 584,973 million pesos.» $60,731million pesos for implementing Life Events and

exercises of participatory budgeting.» Agreement Events, as participation scenarios with

representative actors concerting agreements around offer and institutional services.

» Life and Equity Event, as participation scenarios to arrange solutions to problems and community needs.

Benefited PopulationInhabitants of the 16 communes and 5 districts of the city.

2013 Milestones » Execution of the participative budget 2013 -2014.» Life and Equity campaigns for districts and communes.


Participation for territorial management, mobilization and organization for life and equity

C itizen mobilization of more than 250,000 residents of the

city facing the planning and man-agement of local development, sum-moned to participate in democratic exercises with more than $376,000 million destined so citizens can par-ticipate in decisions about priority projects in their territories in need of investment.

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E nsure absolute transparency in man-aging public affairs. Securing cred-

ibility and public trust, as a result of an institution that works for comprehensive human, equitable, inclusive and sustain-able development.

By the hand with the Government of Antioquia (as part of the AMA Alliance), the Hiring Transparency Fair was held, which had more than 3,400 visitants.


Transparencyas guarantee for good governance

Strategic Purposes» Strengthen the internal control

system.» Administrative transparency and

probity.

Quadrennium Investement$ 4,700 million pesos

2013 Milestones » Implement the Hiring

Transparency Fair.


ModernizationA chieving a modern, effective, efficient

and transparent institution, with a cul-ture of quality social services, maximizing public servants capacities and optimizing the physical, technical and technological media of the administration, in order to pro-vide a better service to the citizens.

Citizen Service. The Mayor of Medellin’s Office has the longest service time for citizens in Colombia, 14 continuous hours a day.

Strategic Purposes» Working in sectorial articulation.» Organizational engineering and

quality.» Information and Communication

Technologies.» Strengthening of logistic services.» Comprehensive management of

human talent.

Benefited Population17,000 public workers and state teachers

Quadrennium Investement$94,031 million

2013 Milestones » Articulating the work of the 6

Deputy Mayor’s Offices and creating job vacancies for the new Municipal structure which optimizes management.

» Expanding attention to citizens to 14 hours.

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The development Plan 2012-2015 “Me-dellin, a Home for Life” implements a series of strategic programs that im-prove the quality of life, environmen-tal conditions of the city based on the principle of sustainability.

Strategic Projects 2012-2015

Medellin city inhabited by life,

reinventing itself every day.

Anibal Gaviria Correa

Medellin’s Mayor

Document with general aspects of the strategic route of the

Development Plan 2012-2015 Medellin, a home for life.

It can be fully downloaded in

Editing

Communications Secretary

Design

Laura Durango O.

Photography

Medellin’s Mayor’s Office Archives

Adrian Franco

Medellin Town Hall

May 2013

Documents

Medellín, city filled with life reinventing itself every day