What works in Colombia

Colombia has deployed multiple evidence-based programmes addressing care work, financial inclusion, digital access and citizen engagement. Bogotá's Care Blocks freed over 18,000 caregiving hours and reduced daily unpaid care work by over an hour for 233,000 women, while LISTA reached roughly 520,000 people with tablet-based financial education, though with limited impact on formal financial inclusion. Computadores para Educar has placed over 2 million devices in rural schools with documented gains in dropout rates and test scores, and Chatico logged 3.6 million conversations since 2023 to expand citizen access to services. The evidence is strongest for care and education outcomes; financial-inclusion and digital-participation data rely more on self-report or descriptive measures rather than controlled studies.