Slide 2: It is important to stablish Colombia’s location in the world map, as you can see in the following map. This location allows it to have a strategic position in Latin America and in the world.

Slide 3: Regarding the macroeconomic indicators, it is important to highlight the improvement that the country has achieved in the last 4 years, where it is important to mention GDP: US$ billion dollars (which increased 5.1% for 2013) GDP per capita: US$ 7,948 INFLATION RATE: 1,9% (last year’s rate was the lowest of the last 42 years) Foreign investment in the country has increased 6% in 2013, resulting in a total of US$ billion dollars. Regarding poverty reduction, the strategies have been of wide range, resulting in a reduction of 2.1% in 2013 compared to 2012 (32.2%). This percentage represents people, according to the national statistics bureau. In 2012 the country had 46 million people. By the end of this year there will be around 47.5 million. 75% of the population lives in cities, which classifies us as an urban country.

Slide 4: The Territorial Development Financial Entity – Findeter, has the mission of being the bank that supports the sustainable development of the country. Findeter stands for 4 strategic values: commitment, respect, integrity and service orientation.

Slide 5: The Institution provides services of two sorts: financial products and integrated territorial development products. The first ones includes: rediscount credit, public resources management and guarantor services. The second ones regards the techical support we offer to local administrations and project structuring.

Slide 7: During the Santos administration, US$ 5,22 billion were inverted in 29 departments of 310 municipalities and projects, amongst which we would like to highlight US$ 1.57 billion for infrastructure and transportation, US$ 1.51 billion for housing, water and draining and US$ 900 million for the energy sector.

Slide 8: Currently we have a expenditure of US$ 3.43 billion.

Slide 9: Infrastructure had an 85% increase in its expenditure in the last 4 years. The programs we would like to highlight are: National plan for roads with US$ 280 million Mass transportation systems with US$ 162 million Ports system with US$ 96 million

Slide 10: Urban development, housing and water has had a 41% increase in expenditure in the last 4 years. The projects to highlight are: US$ 127 million for the construction of the regulation reservoir for the River Tona, in Bucaramanga. US$ 16 million for the design and construction of rainwater canals in different neighborhoods of Barranquilla. US$ millions for the improvement of the aqueduct and sewer of Manizales.

Slide 11: Health has had a 14% increase in expenditure, with special focus on: US$ 118 million for Hospital Pablo Tobon in Medellin US$ 38 million for Clinic Hispanoamerica in Pasto, Nariño US$ 7 million for health centers in Barranquilla.

Slide 12: Education has received 51% more investment and 62 schools and 50 higher education institutes benefitted from it. US$ 31 million for UNAD (National Open University) US$ 12 million for Francisco Javier School in Pasto US$ 5 million for the new building of Universidad de la Sabana in Bogotá

Slide 14: Technical support considering essential criteria such as quality, transparency and productivity has allowed Findeter to become an effective tool for the government programs, executing its most important social inclusion programs. As part of the program One Hundred Thousand Houses which covered 218 municipalities, Findeter has brought technical support to structure the projects, which benefitted 100,000 houses and people with low income. The cost of this action was US$ 2.22 billion.

Slide 15: It is important to highlight these projects, which have had a great impact in the benefitted population.

Slide 16: Being part of the national program Priority Attention Housing for Savers, Findeter is in charge of delivering 86,000 houses, located in 78 cities with a total cost of US$ 1.76 billion.

Slide 17: In order to transform the Colombian cities and regions through planning, prioritizing and execution of high impact projects that aim to improve the well- being of the population, Findeter has implemented a set of programs in partnership with important international institutes, allowing its long term sustainability. The program Sustainable and Competitive Cities, developed in partnership with IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) has consolidated as a reference in urban planning at both national and international level. A successful example of partnership.

Slide 18: This program aims to stablish a 30-year action plan for the cities, through its 4-dimension systemic vision: environment & climate change, urban, social-economic, fiscal & administration, which articulate and prioritize national planning projects.

Slide : The initiative of Sustainable and Competitive Cities has now 8 cities participating: Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Manizales, Pereira, Pasto, Montería, Cartagena y Valledupar.

Slide 21: Amongst the first 4 cities, the value of the action plan was US$2.7 billion, US$800 million of which were inverted in environmental and climate change related subjects, US$ 1.35 billion in urban projects, US$ 30 million in fiscal and administrative subjects and US$ 108 million in economic and social projects.

Slide 22: Findeter has been supporting a program called Emblematic Cities, which pursues to close the inequity gaps in the cities and promote its planning and development processes in order to achieve a whole planning prioritizing and execution of strategic projects. Today this program comprises 9 cities: Aracataca, Barrancabermeja, Buenaventura, Galapa, La Dorada, Quibdó, San Andrés, San Tumaco, Yumbo.

Slide 23: Findeter, alongside the national government and together with Fundación Metropoli (from Spain) and Microsoft has been supporting this initiative that seeks to transform positively the regions.