With a cut at July 31, 2025, the cadastral update advances with a lag within the National Development Plan (PND) 202-2026; If one takes into account that less than a year after the close of the four -year, the country has managed to update 38.6% of its geographical area, compared to a 70% goal.
The portfolio review to this part of the Petro government shows that the technical advance, led by the Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute (IGAC), It shows a gap between the processes in execution and the results actually consolidated.
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According to the report of the National Planning Department (DNP), cadastral statistics as of January 1, 2025 reported only 27.02% of the updated territory, and of that percentage, 25.08% are under direct management of the IGAC.
The rest corresponds to other cadastral managers and although it is estimated that for 2025 147 municipalities will be intervened in different stages of the process, only 21.91%are in advanced technical phases, that is, operational or posoperative, while the bulk of the effort is still concentrated in planning (3.23%) and the preoperative stage (9.19%).
Several indicators of the development plan do not even have a file to measure their progress.
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A second indicator confirms structural slowness since only 33.61% of the municipalities of the country have been subject to training or cadastral update, totally or partially. This figure contrasts with the ambitious government goal of achieving comprehensive and updated coverage as a basis for the ordering of the territory and the consolidation of a more efficient soil administration system.
Municipalities with territorial approach
The lag is even more worrying in the PDET municipalities, prioritized in the framework of the Peace and Rural Development commitments, since there, the progress reaches only 27.5% of the geographical area, well below the goal of 91.36% and although in June intervention is reported in 44 PDET municipalities as part of the projects scheduled for 2025, only 24% From the technical process in these territories, the operational stages (23.14%) or Posoperative (0.92%) have reached.
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The only indicator that is close to compliance is the number of properties with updated multipurpose cadastre, which in January 9.1 million properties were recorded, which represents 85.8% of the total goal (10.6 million). However, this figure also depends on the technical maturation of the processes, which have not yet ended.
This panorama reveals that, despite the planned work volume, Cadastral statistics is trapped in early stages, without sufficient consolidation to influence territorial public policy and the consequence can be double, since on the one hand, territorial planning based on reliable information is difficult and on the other hand, the implementation of instruments such as the fair collection of the property, the legalization of the property and the equitable distribution of loads and benefits of development is delayed.
Several indicators of the development plan do not even have a file to measure their progress.
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It should be remembered that the multipurpose cadastre is one of the technical bases of the axis “ordering of the territory around water and environmental justice” of the PND, so its lag is not a minor issue and compromises the structural transformation that the Government has raised as a founding for a new relationship with the territory.
A fragmented advance against poverty
Reviewing other indicators, it must be said that the component of equality and inclusion shows an unequal execution in which while some indicators exceed their goals, others remain at zero or lack traceability, especially in rural areas, PDET territories and historically excluded populations.
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For example, the incidence of national multidimensional poverty shows a progress of 60%, but when the specific data for the peasantry is observed, the figure falls drastically to 27.42%; Leaving on the table a structural gap between general progress and the real impact on rurality, which is precisely where the government had promised to prioritize efforts.
Fragmentation is also evidenced in the indicators related to childhoodsince while 98.5% of children at risk of malnutrition have been identified, treated and improved their nutritional status, and 86.6% of children in early childhood have received prioritized attention, the indicator of prioritized municipalities with comprehensive childhood care remains at 0%, without progress or reported cut date.
Several indicators of the development plan do not even have a file to measure their progress.
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The most noticeable contrast is in the youth component, where on the one hand, there are outstanding advances such as 165% compliance in youth houses, and more than 120% of young people trained in leadership and popular power; But strategic programs such as young people in peace barely reach 30.47%, and other key strategies remain blank, such as forced recruitment prevention or gender -based violence.
It is striking that several of these indicators do not have a cutting date or even approved technical file, PThat to which three years are yet since Gustavo Petro came to power.
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These results must be analyzed in the light of the institutional architecture of the Plan, which in its article 71 created the National System of Equality and Equity, with a view to coordinating policies to eliminate social, territorial and economic inequalities; hand in hand with the Fund for Overcoming Gaps, aimed at financing care programs, employment, education, access to land, public services and rights of discriminated populations.
However, despite this scaffolding, the most sensitive indicators still do not advance Visible and there is no clarity about how the fund resources are being distributed between the programs, and the indicators do not report financial traceability or direct impact attributable to these instruments. This suggests that the system is working more as a normative structure than as an effective operational mechanism.
Several indicators of the development plan do not even have a file to measure their progress.
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When reviewing these indicators, it is worth talking about the state of poverty, which according to Anif has a mixed reading, since although 1.27 million people left monetary poverty between 2023 and 2024, and 420,000 exceeded extreme poverty; The inequalities marked by gender and territory persist, which limit the sustainability of this national advance.
“The case of women heads of household illustrates this disparity. In urban areas, they face 40% more monetary poverty and 80% more extreme poverty than homes led by men. In the field, the situation is aggravated: women head of household have 20% more monetary poverty and up to 120% more risk of falling into extreme poverty In front of their urban peers, which shows a deep and structural inequality, ”they explained.
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These differences, according to Anif, are not conjunctural, but the result of an exclusive labor market, since the lack of access to formal employment, the disproportionate burden of unpaid care and female suboccupation perpetuate this vulnerability; and reaffirm the need to overcome as soon as possible the pending points of the PND in this matter.
Daniel Hernández Naranjo
Portfolio journalist
