Gobernación de Sucre

What Gobernación de Sucre does

Gobernación de Sucre is the departmental government of Sucre, Colombia, a territorial entity created in 1966 under Ley 47 de 1966 and headquartered in Sincelejo. It exercises constitutional administrative autonomy (Article 298 of the Colombian Constitution) to govern the department, coordinate 26 municipalities, and deliver public services to approximately 900,000 inhabitants across health, education, transit, water, culture, sports, and economic development verticals. The entity is led by Governor Lucy García Montes under the development plan "Sucre Tierra de Oportunidades 2024-2027" and operates through 11 documented secretariats and decentralized entities including the Secretarías de Salud, Educación, Tránsito, and Desarrollo Económico, plus Aguas de Sucre (water utility), Inder Sucre (sports), Fondo Mixto de Cultura, and the Laboratorio de Salud Pública.

The department's service delivery infrastructure is built on the Mi Colombia Digital territorial portal (managed by the national Ministerio TIC), which powers www.sucre.gov.co and provides digital tránsmites, PQRDS petition management with tracking codes, a transparency portal compliant with Ley 1712 de 2014, participatory budgeting tools, and citizen engagement channels. Twelve physical office locations span the department, supplemented by a #584 toll-free hotline, gov.co national platform integration, and the "Sucre Escucha" community listening strategy that deploys mobile service brigades across municipalities. Its revenue model is purely public-sector: the department administers budgets sourced from national SGP transfers, SGR mining/hydrocarbon royalties disbursed through OCAD, and own-source taxes (ICA, vehicle, estampillas). Most citizen tránsmites are free; only passport processing, drug dispenser credentials, and vehicle tax declarations carry statutory fees set by national law.

Name

Gobernación de Sucre

Legal name

Gobernación de Sucre - Departamento de Sucre

Website

https://sucre.gov.co

Company type

Public

Founded year

1966

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Gobernación de Sucre is the Colombian departmental government of Sucre, serving approximately 900,000 inhabitants across 26 municipalities with public services (health, education, transit, water, culture) delivered via the Mi Colombia Digital portal and 12 physical offices under Governor Lucy García Montes.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Administration Services

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (9211), Other General Government Support (921190), Other General Government Support (92119)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Governor/Executive Office & Cabinet Administration (BPAIABAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Works Departments (Streets, Bridges, Stormwater, Fleet, Maintenance) (BPAIALAD), District Administration & Central Office (EDAJAAAA)

Keywords

• Public administration services
• Departmental governance portal
• Citizen participation platforms
• Government transparency services
• Administrative trámites processing

Headquarters

HQ city

Sincelejo

HQ country

Colombia

HQ region

Latin America

Offices12 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Sistema General de Participaciones (SGP) transfers: National government transfers from the General Participation System allocated to the department for health, education, drinking water, and other sectors. These are constitutionally mandated transfers distributed per capita and sectoral formulas.
2. Sistema General de Regalías (SGR) - Royalties: Resources from the General Royalties System derived from mining and hydrocarbon exploitation in the department, allocated to investment projects through the Órgano Colegiado de Administración yDecisión (OCAD).
3. Tributary revenues (Impuesto de Industria y Comercio, vehículos, estampillas): Own-source revenues including the Industry and Commerce Tax (ICA), vehicle taxes, and departmental stamp taxes (estampillas). These fund operational and investment expenditures.
4. SGP Participatory Budgeting: Participatory budgeting mechanisms where citizens influence the allocation of public resources through the planeación y presupuesto participativo process under Ordinance frameworks.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

The Gobernación de Sucre is the departmental government of the Sucre department in Colombia, responsible for delivering public administration services across 26 municipalities and approximately 900,000 inhabitants. It operates the unified citizen services portal www.sucre.gov.co, providing administrative trámites (passports, vehicle tax, organizational registrations), PQRDS petition management, transparency reporting aligned with Law 1712 of 2014, participatory budgeting, public accountability (Rendición de Cuentas), and coordination of secretariats covering health, education, transit, economic development, culture, and water utility services.

Product overview

Gobernación de Sucre operates a unified citizen services portal providing digital access to government administrative procedures, transparency mechanisms, and citizen participation channels. The platform is built on the Mi Colombia Digital (Mi Colombia) territorial portal framework managed by Colombia's Ministry of TIC. The core offering consists of a citizen-facing services catalog (Trámites y Servicios), a digital petition and complaint management system (PQRDS), a public accountability and transparency portal (Rendición de Cuentas and the Ley 1712 transparency portal), and a citizen participation platform (Participación Ciudadana). Supporting services include public contracting registries, budget and financial statement repositories, legal norm databases, and electronic judicial notification channels. The portfolio is structured around the Colombian government's mandated transparency and citizen engagement framework, with services delivered through the unified Mi Colombia Digital platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PQRDS - Peticiones, Quejas, Reclamos, Denuncias y Sugerencias Digital citizen request management system enabling submissions of petitions, complaints, claims, suggestions, and denunciations through the government portal with code-based tracking capability.
• Trámites y Servicios Online catalog of administrative procedures including passport services, vehicle tax declarations, sports organization registrations, statute reforms for non-profits, drug dispensary credentialing, and other citizen-facing government trámites with both free and fee-based options.
• Rendición de Cuentas (Public Accountability Reporting) Public accountability reporting platform publishing annual account reports, SIRCAP peace agreement reports, and public hearing resolutions for citizen oversight, with 16 reports published on the transparency portal.
• Participación Ciudadana (Citizen Participation Platform) Citizen participation platform covering diagnostic processes, participatory planning and budgeting, citizen consultations, open innovation, social control mechanisms, and deliberative interaction channels including the Sucre Escucha community listening strategy.
• Portal de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Government transparency portal fulfilling Colombia's Ley 1712 de 2014 requirements, providing public access to contracting, budgets, action plans, institutional information, normative instruments, plans, and reports on departmental government activities.
• Contrataciones (Public Contracting Registry) Public contracting registry providing access to annual acquisition plans, contract publications, and contract execution reports aligned with Colombian procurement law for transparency in government procurement.
• Presupuesto y Estados Financieros (Public Budget and Financial Statements) Public budget and financial statement repository offering historical budget documents, budget execution reports, and periodic financial statements (Estados Financieros) for fiscal years 2016–2026, with quarterly reporting cadence.
• Normatividad (Legal Norm Repository) Legal norm repository containing departmental ordinances (287 Ordenanzas), decrees (153 Decretos), resolutions (115 Resoluciones), departmental gazette publications, and national laws applicable to the department, with project-norm consultation mechanisms via SUCOP.
• Notificaciones Judiciales Electrónicas Electronic judicial notification system for delivering legal notices to [email protected] as mandated by Colombian procedural law, enabling citizens and legal entities to formally notify the departmental government of legal actions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Sucre declared the Sistema Hidráulico del Bajo San Jorge y La Mojana as the most extensive protected archaeological area in Colombia
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Alcaldía de Sincelejo (Mayor of Sincelejo)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 August 2025Joint community engagement activities. The Gobernador of Sucre and the Mayor of Sincelejo collaborated with the Defensoría del Pueblo (Ombudsman's Office), Personería, and Veolia (public services company) in community listening sessions ('Sucre Escucha') in the El Poblado neighborhood. Joint initiative for citizen participation in local governance.
• Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo (Ministry of Commerce)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2024The Ministry and the Gobierno Departamental de Sucre collaborated on citizen participation sessions for the Plan Sectorial de Turismo 2026–2030, gathering citizen input on tourism development priorities in the department as part of the diagnóstico e identificación de problemas process.
• Veolia (Utilities Company)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 July 2023Participated in a joint community listening session (Sucre Escucha) in the El Poblado neighborhood, zona sur of Sincelejo, alongside the Alcaldía, Defensoría del Pueblo, and Personería to address community concerns and service delivery issues.
• Alcaldías de Betulia, San Antonio de Palmito, and SincelejocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 July 2023Municipal governments partnered with the departmental government under the Sucre Escucha strategy to conduct community listening sessions and health brigades across multiple municipalities, facilitating citizen participation and direct service delivery in underserved communities.
• Mi Colombia Digital (Ministerio TIC)coreTechnology or IntegrationMi Colombia Digital, the national digital government platform managed by the Ministry of ICT (Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones), provides the technological infrastructure and platform (portal solution) that powers www.sucre.gov.co, enabling digital governance, citizen services, transparency reporting, and online trá mites. Created by the Ministry of ICT.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Gobernación de Cesar: Colombian Caribbean department (capital: Valledupar) with comparable governance profile, mining-related royalty exposure, and multi-municipal coordination mandate.
• Gobernación de Magdalena: Colombian Caribbean department (capital: Santa Marta) with the same institutional architecture, fiscal exposure to royalties and SGP, and mandate to coordinate municipalities within its jurisdiction.
• Gobernación de Córdoba: Neighboring Colombian Caribbean department (capital: Montería) with comparable population, governance structure, and reliance on national transfers and royalties.
• Gobernación de Antioquia: Larger Colombian departmental government (capital: Medellín) operating a wider secretariat portfolio and budget under the same constitutional framework, frequently cited as a scale-leader for departmental digital governance practice.
• Gobernación de Atlántico: Colombian Caribbean department (capital: Barranquilla) operating the same departmental government model under Article 298, with parallel transparency, budgeting, and citizen participation obligations.
• Gobernación de Bolívar: Colombian Caribbean departmental government (capital: Cartagena). Same-tier territorial entity with identical constitutional mandate, governor-led secretariat structure, SGP/SGR revenue model, and citizen-service obligations.

Others

• Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC): National ministry that owns the Mi Colombia Digital platform upon which www.sucre.gov.co is built. Functions as a critical infrastructure provider rather than a competitor, but its roadmap effectively sets Sucre's digital service ceiling.

Broad incumbents

• Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá: District-level government in Colombia operating at a much larger scale under similar transparency, budget, and citizen engagement legal frameworks, often the reference benchmark for urban-style digital tr{á}mite practice within Colombian sub-national governments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/GobSucre
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCl-4Qwl1GA-4nltd7Kp7fAw
• Facebookfacebook.com/GobSucre
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gobsucre

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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