Eficiencia y eficacia en la asignación y ejecución del presupuesto cultural: un desafío para las entidades territoriales en Colombia

Abstract

In Colombia, the discussions on the budget of culture bring with them the stigma of a sector considered as 'the Cinderella' of national public spending, however the empirical evidence of this study shows that, in the territorial sphere, the great challenge that exists in the allocation and execution of resources, is to achieve efficiency and effectiveness. The results obtained highlight the importance of increasing the percentage of execution, reducing budget lags and analyzing the demographic, geographic, socioeconomic, development characteristics or municipal quality of life, in order to distribute and equitably execute the resources that guarantee the cultural rights contemplated in the Political Charter; In this sense, it proposes to design instruments of territorial public cultural policies, through the creation of master and development plans, a cultural public agenda, and evaluation and monitoring mechanisms that allow evaluating the impact of the invested resources; Likewise, there is the need to configure a theoretical-practical platform in the cultural institutionality that supports decision-makers in the identification and attention of the problems of the sector.