Day 1 - Partner-led events
📅Tuesday, 8 July
🗣️ “Economic development agencies are a key pillar of the new place leadership for cities: one premised on common purpose, complementary skillsets, and coordinated narratives.”
-Dr Tim Moonen, Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Business of Cities, Visiting Lecturer, University College London (UCL)
💬 “Barranquilla requested the support of IDB to finance different transformations in the city to recover the mangrove ecosystems but also to connect the local communities of Barranquilla with those projects.”
-Juan Pablo Bonilla, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector Manager, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
✅Fact of the day
In Colombia, the right policies for rural areas – where the rate of informal work can reach 80% - will look very different from those in Bogotá, where it is below 35%.
- Can Colombia turn the corner on informal work?, Cogito
- Can Colombia turn the corner on informal work?, Cogito
🔍Today's partner-led highlights:
- 🔗 Connected Communities: Networks, collaborations and clusters as engines of local growth by @CEPAL & @OECD
- 🌿Subnational competitiveness expert group meeting by @OAS
- 🌎 Caribe Vivo Biodiverso: Advancing sustainable local economic development through institutional public-private alignment by Rap Caribe
- 📍 Building Development from the Ground Up: Balancing Local Autonomy and National Vision by United Nations Colombia
- 📈 Local economic development agencies: Driving economic growth in Latin American and beyond by @IDB
- 🌱 Nature-based Resilient Governments: Driving Inclusive Local Development Toward COP 30 by ICLEI
- 🏙️ BiodiverCities: Perspectives from local governments by @CAF & @HumboldtInstitute
- 🤝 Doing well by doing good: Why advancing labor market inclusion for refuges and migrants is a win-win for the private sector by @TentPartnership
- 📈 Driving regional development through foreign direct investment by @RedInvest
🔮 What’s Next?
Get ready for a high-impact Day 1 of the full Forum:
- Kicking off with La Boquilla Jazz Band, the La Flores Orchestra and the Mayor of Barranquilla
- Lessons from Colombian communities and peers around the world, including Cork, Genoa, Seattle, Santiago de Chile, and Tasmania
- Deep dives on the impact of AI on local jobs, the care economy and place branding
Let’s keep the momentum going.
#OECDinBarranquilla #Barranquilla2025
