Collaboration in Colombia. The case of the National Planning Council

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the National Planning Counsel (NPC), main institution in Colombia for the coordination between the government and non-state actors, such as civil and economic actors, for the planning processes in the country. The intention is to evaluate the autonomy of the Counsel and its institutional design and elaborate a critical analyzes taking into account two frame works: the purpose of its constitutional origin and the orientation given by the modern governance theory. According to the descriptive-analytic character of the investigation, document analysis was determined as the methodological instrument, as much as it facilitated the access to the information and it provided an intellectual model for its analysis and recovery.