Headquartered in Seoul, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is an intergovernmental organization founded to support and promote the economic growth model known as "green growth," which focuses on economic performance, including downsizing. Poverty, job creation, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. GGGI works with countries worldwide, strengthening their capacity and working together on green growth policies to improve millions of people´s lives. The organization partners with countries, multilateral institutions, government agencies and the private sector to help build economies that grow consistently and are more efficient and sustainably using natural resources, with low-carbon development and more resilient to the changing weather.

GGGI has a diverse portfolio of programs in developing countries around the world. In association with global products and services, these country programs focus on developing results through in an integrated approach to planning and implementation based on evidence of green growth that is articulated with the development priorities of the countries. The organization also focuses on knowledge management and development activities that strengthen the conditions for a solid theoretical and empirical foundation for green growth while providing concrete options and guidance to policymakers and creating the right conditions to promote public and private green infrastructure investments.

GGGI has been working with the Government of Colombia (GoC) to advance green growth policies and green investments, through strategic partnerships such as with the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit and the National Planning Department, among others. In a new phase of collaboration with Government agencies at the national and sub-national level, GGGI with the support of the Kingdom of Norway will expand its Colombia Country Program by virtue the transition towards a greener growth pathway that is socially inclusive and contributive to Colombia´s medium term development agenda. Five years of support (2017-2022) will expect to see an impact of an increased capacity to mainstream green growth objectives into development planning and investments within the priority sectors and regions that are critical for Colombia´s future green growth, particularly in those areas that are highly susceptible to increased natural resource degradation and forest cover loss.

Within the underlying principles that underpin the foundations of Phase II of this program, GGGI will continue to build on existing efforts to promote green growth, such as implementing the Green Growth Policy with an emphasis on forestry economics with other objectives relevant and aligned with the PND, such as reducing deforestation and increasing areas under conservation and sustainable management systems. Second, there is a greater focus on delivering results at the sub-national level, to increase the results of reducing deforestation in the selected jurisdictions and to increase the number of hectares and investments under a sustainable and restorative production systems approach.

Recently, GGGI Colombia, with the support of the Kingdom of Norway, has been implementing a program to support the reduction of deforestation and the promotion of sustainable development at the subnational level. Initially supporting the Departments of Antioquia, Meta, and Nariño, Phase II has expanded said support to Guaviare and the jurisdiction of Corpoamazonía in the implementation of a green growth agenda. In these jurisdictions, GGGI will support its allies as of 2020 to strengthen their institutional effectiveness to reduce deforestation and promote sustainable, productive, and socially inclusive landscapes. Likewise, GGGI will facilitate the scaling-up and implementation of sustainable production systems and various restoration efforts of transformed ecosystems under a sustainable landscapes approach.

In addition, in the current development plan, Antioquia Departmental Government has established as a priority in its agenda of “Antioquia Unidos por la Vida 2020-2023”, the departmental green growth policy formulation. This policy is conceived as an articulating instrument to advance with the commitments of sustainable and inclusive economic development of the department, understanding the importance of forest preservation and their ecosystem services, the forest economy and the bioeconomy, among others.

The Green Growth Policy-CV for Antioquia is an initiative led by the Secretary of Productivity and Competitivity of the Antioquia’s Government, through which it seeks to define the inputs and guidelines of this public policy to guide the economic development of the department towards 2030 in a compatible way with the sustainable development goals and the mitigation and adaptation commitments of the Department.

Due to the importance of this policy and its relationship with the development vision of the department in the next years, it is expected to contribute to the planning and reactivation of the economy in the post-covid framework, through the promotion of the bioeconomy, the circular economy, the green businesses and the forest economy.

In that sense, considering the accompanying workplan defined with the subnational government of Antioquia, which includes numeral 1.2.1 “To advise on the structuring of the Green Growth Policy for Antioquia”, a consultant is required to define a roadmap that allows the implementation at the department level, of the strategic axes of the National Green Growth Policy (CONPES 3934). This roadmap should establish concrete lines of action and public investment, as well as identify the role of the private sector for the governance process and resource mobilization around Green Growth projects.

The roadmap to 2030 will provide step-by-step inputs and recommendations for the policy building, in order to achieve clear goals indicating that Antioquia´s economy is on a long-term green growth path.

The construction of the roadmap implies linking different institutional and private actors, the regional and national government, in order to lay the foundations for the policy promotion and the strategy definition to achieve the Ordinance. This implies the elaboration of the map of actors, the work with groups of experts and the participation of the private sector.

Objectives and Purpose of the Consulting

The consultant will support the Antioquia´s Government in the definition of the roadmap describing the guidelines to implement at departmental level, the strategic axes of the National Green Growth Policy (CONPES 3934). This roadmap should establish concrete lines of action and public investment, as well as identify the private sector role for the governance process and resource mobilization around the Green Growth projects. The roadmap elaboration should be defined and validated with the private sector, institutions and the government of the Department.  

Scope of Work

1. Diagnostic analysis of the state of Green Growth in Antioquia from the review and analysis of the different inputs that have been built for the department in relation to the green growth: Green Growth Potential Assessment-GGPA for Antioquia, the Green Growth Index for the department, the recommendations of the Green Growth Mission, the respective action plan and the National Green Growth Policy, the “PDD Antioquia Unidos por la Vida”, the Climate Emergency Plan, the Integral Plan for Climate Change of Antioquia-PICCA, besides other relevant diagnostics for the Department.

2. Identification of existing gaps between the baseline resulting from the diagnostic analysis, the goals of the National Green Growth Policy, the goals of the PDD “Antioquia Unidos por la Vida” and the PICCA. In addition, the identification of the opportunities and potentials for the green growth in Antioquia.

3. Definition of the roadmap to 2030 that will allow the generation of specific and transversal proposals aimed towards the green growth in Antioquia. Moreover, the governance scheme for the management of the policy. The roadmap will provide the inputs and strategies to close the gaps and boost the department’s green growth potentials.