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Practices in Colombia (14 departamentos, nacional)
PlaN A - National Agroecology Plan (AGROSAVIA)R&D&I initiative led by AGROSAVIA with the MADR to implement agroecological technologies and generate participatory knowledge in prioritized peasant territories and peasant reserve zones. In its first phase it worked on biofactories of biopreparations, composting, beekeeping, soil fertility, coffee post-harvest processing and crop-livestock integration in 14 departments. It is one of 14 projects under the MADR's Meta 25.Hogares Comunitarios de Bienestar and Madres Comunitarias (ICBF)Escuela Nueva Activa (Fundación Escuela Nueva)Pedagogical model born in rural Colombia in the 1970s for multigrade schools: active and cooperative learning, self-directed learning guides, flexible promotion and student government. Adopted as national policy in the 1980s and sustained since 1987 by Fundación Escuela Nueva Volvamos a la Gente, which took it to more than 16 countries. Quantitative evaluations (Psacharopoulos et al. 1993; McEwan 1998) find higher achievement in mathematics and language and lower dropout compared with conventional rural schools.Ser Pilo PagaNational program of the Ministry of Education (2014-2018) of forgivable loan-scholarships so that low-income high school graduates with high scores on Saber 11 could study at accredited high-quality universities. Four cohorts, ~40,000 beneficiaries. The regression discontinuity evaluation (Londoño-Vélez, Rodríguez and Sánchez, AEJ 2020) found increases of 56.5-86.5% in immediate enrollment and a closing of the socioeconomic gap. It ended in 2018 and was replaced by Generación E.Computadores para Educar / Tecnologías para AprenderNational program created by CONPES 3063 (1999) and operating since 2000: it collects and refurbishes donated equipment, delivers it to public school campuses and trains teachers in the pedagogical use of ICT. Subject of one of the most cited edtech RCTs in the world (Barrera-Osorio and Linden 2009): equipment provision alone had little effect on learning due to lack of pedagogical integration, a finding that redirected the emphasis toward teacher training. In 2025-2026 it was relaunched as Tecnologías para Aprender, with innovation labs and a focus on AI.Pilas con el VotoCitizen reporting (crowdsourcing) platform operated by the MOE that allows reporting electoral irregularities via pilasconelvoto.com and WhatsApp; reports are escalated to the authorities. In operation since 2011, it is activated in every electoral cycle. In the 2026 presidential elections the MOE used it with more than 2,600 observers (2,532 in the first round, 2,638 in the runoff).Ingreso Solidario: digital cash transfers via mobile walletsUnconditional cash transfer program created in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic for poor and vulnerable households not covered by other social programs. Its innovation was massive digital payment via mobile wallets (DaviPlata, Nequi, Movii) and simplified accounts, opening close to one million new accounts. It reached about 4 million households. It ended in December 2022, replaced by Renta Ciudadana.