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DUQUE-CANTE, Naidú. Proposal for the Classification of Territorial Entities and Redefinition of Intergovernmental Relations in Colombia: The Case of the Departments. Gest. polít. pública [online]. 2024, vol.33, n.2, pp.67-97.  Epub 18-Mar-2025. ISSN 1405-1079.  https://doi.org/10.60583/gypp.v33i2.8270.

This article presents an analysis of the role that the department should assume in Colombia in terms of provision of goods and services given the weaknesses that characterize municipalities today. For this, the territorial categorization tool established in the Political Constitution of 1991 was used, which proposes the grouping of territorial entities and the definition of different regulatory regimes in order to distinguish, among other aspects, the functions that correspond to each group. Through the use of ACP, three sets of 9, 14 and 9 departments were obtained, for which municipal groups were first made and then the composition of these municipal groups within each of the departments was established. Finally, the functional emphases of each group of municipalities were identified to later determine the roles of the departmental groups in terms of direct provision, municipal assistance and regional planning.

Palavras-chave : government decentralization; municipal government; assistance and social services.

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