What works in Colombia

Colombia's evidence base shows innovations in digital inclusion, financial capability, and care infrastructure. Computadores para Educar has delivered over 2 million devices to rural schools with observed gains in dropout rates and test scores, while LISTA reached roughly 520,000 people through tablet-based financial education, though a randomised trial found knowledge gains did not durably increase formal financial inclusion. Bogotá's Care Blocks freed over 18,000 caregiving hours and reduced daily unpaid care work by over an hour, while supporting 233,000 women by 2023—though the practices do not quantify outcomes for rural or Indigenous communities at the national level.