---
title: Transparencia por Colombia
type: ngo
status: active
country: CO
website: https://transparenciacolombia.org.co
logo: /assets/org-logos/transparencia-por-colombia.png
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-09
  form: https://transparenciacolombia.org.co/contacto
  source: https://transparenciacolombia.org.co
summary: The Colombian chapter of Transparency International — running the Monitor
  Ciudadano de la Corrupción (open data and analytics platform), tracking electoral
  campaign financing in real time, and working across all 32 departments on corruption
  prevention and democratic integrity.
concepts:
- radical-transparency
- democracy
location:
  latitude: 4.711
  longitude: -74.0721
  name: Bogotá, Colombia
  precision: city
events:
- date: '1998-01-01'
  title: Founded as the Colombian chapter of Transparency International, working across
    all 32 departments
  url: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparencia_Internacional#Transparencia_por_Colombia:~:text=Transparencia%20por%20Colombia%2C%20la%20Delegaci%C3%B3n%20Nacional%20de%20Transparencia%20Internacional%20en%20Colombia%2C%20surge%20en%201998
  quote: Transparencia por Colombia, la Delegación Nacional de Transparencia Internacional
    en Colombia, surge en 1998
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: true
activity:
  dod:
    checked: 2026-08-09
    date: 2026-08-09
    note: Site live and actively publishing as of August 2026
last_checked: '2026-08-09'
---

Transparencia por Colombia, founded in 1998, is the Colombian chapter of Transparency International. It operates at a scale and depth that makes it more than a national branch of a global network: its Monitor Ciudadano de la Corrupción is an open data and analytics platform tracking public contracting, campaign finance, judicial processes, and institutional integrity indicators — making corruption legible as a structural pattern rather than a series of isolated scandals.

The organisation publishes real-time tracking of campaign financing during elections (issuing multiple reports during the 2026 presidential campaign), monitors government contracting for corruption risks, investigates specific corruption cases with detailed public analysis (the UNGRD disaster relief scandal being a prominent example), protects and supports whistleblowers (including a guide for whistleblower self-protection with gender, intersectional, and environmental lenses), and publishes analysis of democratic opening and closure across Colombian territories. It works in partnership with organisations across all 32 departments.

Transparencia por Colombia is an accountability institution — it monitors governance integrity rather than designing new participation mechanisms. But its work is directly relevant to the democracy landscape because it generates the information without which citizens cannot hold institutions to account, and because its territorial spread (all 32 departments) addresses a structural challenge in Colombian governance: the centre-periphery information gap that enables corruption and weakens democratic legitimacy in regions far from Bogotá.

## Links

- Website: [transparenciacolombia.org.co](https://transparenciacolombia.org.co)

## See also

- [Radical Transparency](../concepts/radical-transparency.md)
- [Democracy](../concepts/democracy.md)
- [Congreso Visible](congreso-visible.md)