He National Development Plan, which the Government filed in Congress and which will have until May 7 to become law, seeks to create a social protection system that allows the most vulnerable people to be helped. To this end, priority will be given to job creation and, if necessary, monetary transfers will be granted to the poorest households. Additionally, the instruments that cover the risks of unemployment and old age protection will be strengthened. The goal is to lower the incidence of multidimensional poverty from 16 percent to a range between 9.5 and 11.5 percent in this four-year period.
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In this new system, which will be led by the Department of Social Prosperity, a single program (called Citizen Income) that would harmonize monetary transfers. The amount of these will have a conditional component and an unconditional one. Said money came from the number of members of the household and the socioeconomic classification according to the Sisbén or the targeting instrument that takes its place.
In addition, the delivery of in-kind resources for people in situations of poverty and extreme poverty is also contemplated. To do this, a transfer in kind will be created that will be called ‘zero hunger’.
Another important point of the next four years will be the popular economy. This is defined within the Plan as commercial trades and occupations (production, distribution and commercialization of goods and services) and non-commercial (domestic or community) developed by small-scale economic units (personal, family, micro-businesses or micro-enterprises) in any sector. economic.
The document indicates that workers in the popular economy will be sought to have access to protection for old age, occupational risks and the health system. There is even talk of creating a National Council of the Popular Economy, as an advisory and consultative body for the Government, made up of public entities of the national order, territorial entities and representatives of the popular economy.
“The boost to the popular economy starts from an understanding of its intrinsic dynamics. These activities generate significant social and economic value, and once its operation and logic of action are understood, mechanisms will be implemented that will contribute to its growth and productivity”, reads the bases of the Plan.
to report income
The Plan indicates that all households will be required to report their income. The Social Registry of Households (RSH) will be created and implemented gradually. For this, the National Planning Department, led by Jorge Iván González, will design and lead a one-stop window scheme that allows the integration of services and procedures for the citizen within the framework of targeting and access to social programs.
The Government of Gustavo Petro is presenting in the Congress of the Republic the bill of the National Development Plan 2022-2026.
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Limits on social interest housing
The Plan stipulates that the social interest housing It is one that is developed to guarantee the right to housing of lower-income households and whose value does not exceed 3,552 UVT (about 150.6 million pesos). In addition, it is indicated that the maximum value of the priority interest home is 2,368 UVT (about 100.4 million pesos).
It is also said that the Government may exceptionally establish, based on technical studies, maximum values of up to 3,947 UVT (167.4 million pesos) for this type of housing, when they incorporate additional sustainability criteria to the established minimums, or are located in consolidated areas of the city, or in urban agglomerations whose population exceeds 1,000,000 inhabitants and there are pressures on land values, or on land undergoing urban renewal treatment or in areas with difficult access, or that respond to characteristics cultural, geographic or climatic, taking into account the affordability of housing.
And it will also be able to establish, based on technical studies, a value greater than 3,552 UVT (about 150.6 million pesos) in the departments of Amazonas, Guainía, San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Putumayo, Chocó, Vaupés and Vichadarecognizing the cost of construction materials and their transportation, and labor.
Through the Ministry of Housing, within a period of less than one year from the entry into force of the Plan, the socioeconomic conditions that households must meet, the applicable mechanisms to be eligible for housing policy, the minimum habitability characteristics of housing and its environment, as well as the active and/or passive sustainability measures that social interest housing should include.
iNNpulse disappears
New things are also included in the Plan, such as that iNNpulsa Colombia and Colombia Productiva would merge and the former, which is the autonomous patrimony of the Government in charge of executing the country’s reindustrialization strategies, would disappear.
Likewise, it is indicated that the Emergency Mitigation Fund (Fome) would be liquidated or that the Chambers of Commerce will allocate a percentage of the resources that they will receive or administer for the provision of public services to cover part of the financing of the business development programs carried out by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism.
