In August 2018, the Basel Institute on Governance and OECD signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Colombian President and Mayor of Bogotá to promote collaboration in designing a High Level Report Mechanism (HLRM) for the construction of Bogotá’s first metro line.

Co-financed by central and local governments, the 25 km elevated metro line will transport around 650,000 passengers a day. The total cost of this major five-year infrastructure project is estimated at USD 4.1 billion.

The Transparency Secretariat has been working with the Metro Enterprise, a company set up for this project, and senior Bogotá officials to define and implement the HLRM. The selection process for the Panel of Experts took place in January 2019.

View full information about the application of the HLRM in Colombia and the High Level Reporting Mechanism as a tool for preventing corruption in public tenders.