Batuta - symphonic music education schools of San José and La Fuente

Music, as an instrument used to transform realities, has been the challenge of the Batuta Foundation during these 25 years of work. Today, Batuta provides music education at 12 centers in Manizales, Samaná, Aguadas, and Arauca, reaching over 2000 teenagers and children each semester.

Highlights

• Raised more than $850 million for the technological equipping and acoustic suitability of the recording studio and the sound technology lab-workshop.

• The staging of two great concerts with the participation of over 350 musicians and nearly 3000 people in the audience (a tribute of gratitude to the city for the solidarity with the rainy season tragedy and commemoration of the 25th anniversary of Batuta)

• For 25 years, Batuta has educated children and adolescents through music. More than 15,000 children and adolescents have received symphonic music education

Opportunities:

• Turn the auditorium, which was completed in 2017, into a Sound Technology Laboratory and Workshop and a Recording Center for promising musical groups, to be used as a high quality creation and production setting where new musical projects and products can be developed.

• Expand and consolidate the offer of new programs for sound technical and technological education in the Moog line.

Estoy con Manizales

This is a participatory process of planning and transformation, which has contributed, through its collective construction, to defining a goal and long term vision for our city, around a development model based on knowledge.

Highlights

• The forum promoted by Estoy con Manizales, Inspire to build the region, allowed to raise the interest of the city’s business sector in the sustainable development of the territory through successful experiences shared by leaders committed to their regions, with nearly 300 attendants.

• The involvement of Corpocaldas and Efigas, who have joined other players, namely, ANDI, the Chamber of Commerce of Manizales for Caldas, CODYD, the Caldas Coffee Growers Committee, the Corporation for the Development of Caldas, Davivienda, La Patria, and the Universities of Caldas and Manizales.

• The involvement of the citizens through a discussion group strategy, where matters regarding the city and of the common people’s concern are discussed.

Opportunities

• Contribute to strengthening the recognition and value of our territory through a pedagogical exercise that promotes the participation of the citizens in the city development dynamics.

• Promote new conversation settings that are open and inclusive, to collectively pave the way for the city.

Manizales cómo vamos

This initiative organizes and moves players starting from the evaluation of the quality of life in the city in order to support more effective and transparent governments, promote the participation of the citizens, and encourage public debate.

The results of Manizales Cómo Vamos have enabled the design of political actions in matters such as the improvement of the information on child nutrition, the public bicycle system, the public policy on employment, and the inter-institutional worktable for the air quality.

Bringing the voice of citizens and experts to city discussions, opening spaces of participation and debate, making proposals in public politics settings, such as the Development Plan or the Territorial Ordering Plan, have allowed to incorporate the recommendations and indicators of Manizales Cómo Vamos.

Highlights

• This initiative has reached its fifth year and has been consolidated as a center for knowledge and a reference in matters concerning the city.

• The results of the measurements performed by the program have allowed the country to know that important things are happening in Manizales: today, Colombia recognizes us as a city with quality of life, a leader in higher education and social progress.

• MCV has also enabled generating alerts and designing political actions in the aspects in which the city faces challenges.

• The generation of discussion spaces for matters impacting the life quality in the city has allowed making proposals and recommendations in public politics settings such as the Territorial Ordering Plan.

• A Mobility Pact was signed with the main public transportation players, and the Mobility Master Plan for the city was presented.

• The second version of the Civic Award for a Better City allowed social initiatives to become visible, generating and strengthening connections between them. 262 organizations were postulated to the initiative in both versions.

Innovations:

Serving as a Social Progress Index, the ODS baseline or the open data platform – Ciudatos, has brought cutting-edge world discussions to our city, making us pioneers in global development agendas.