Bogotá, in partnership with the City of Copenhagen, is undergoing a major transformation in waste management and urban planning. Danida Fellowship Centre, alongside the Danish Embassy in Colombia, supports this process. To highlight the impact of such collaborations, we began tracking Bogotá’s transformation in 2024, producing in-depth reports on key stages of the process.
Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, in partnership with the City of Copenhagen, has initiated a major transformation of its public services, particularly in waste management and urban planning. Among its ambitions, it aims to revolutionise its waste management system by shifting from a linear to a circular model, where waste is viewed as a resource rather than simply disposable and of no value, and by integrating the city’s thousands of informal recyclers into a formal system of waste recycling.
Together with the Danish Embassy in Colombia, Danida Fellowship Centre is playing a role in this transformation. We support the process by offering learning programmes through the Strategic Sector Cooperation Programme between Bogotá and Copenhagen, for example in Solid Waste Management and Technology. Additionally, we facilitate knowledge-sharing initiatives where experts from Copenhagen and Bogotá meet to exchange insights and skills, and mutually inspire one another to drive progress.
To show how partnerships and collaborations like this play out and the impact they create, in 2024 we decided to track the process and conduct a series of in-depth reports on some of the stages in Bogotá’s transformation and the role the Danida Fellowship Centre plays in it.
So far, this has resulted in two key progress updates in text and video on waste management and one ditto on urban planning and the use of geodata. Further updates on the progress and impacts will be produced and published in 2025–2026.
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#1. The first steps in a waste management revolution in Bogotá – dfcentre
#2. Next Stop Copenhagen in Bogotá’s Waste Management Revolution – dfcentre
The use of geodata for sustainable urban planning in Bogotá and Copenhagen – dfcentre
