National Administrative Department of Solidary Economy

National Administrative Department of Solidary Economy
Departamento Administrativo Nacional de la Economía Solidaria
Agency overview
Formed August 4, 1998 (1998-08-04)
Preceding agency Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Cooperativas
Headquarters Carrera 10 № 15-22
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Annual budget COP$8,115,112,776
(est. 2010)[1]
Agency executives Rosemberg Pabón Pabón, Director
Luis Fernando Ortega, Deputy Director
Website
www.dansocial.gov.co

The National Administrative Department of Solidary Economy (Spanish: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de la Economía Solidaria, DanSocial) is the Colombian Executive Administrative Department in charge of directing and coordinating government policy to promote, plan, protect, strengthen, and develop the organizations of social economy in order to improve the quality of life of the Colombian people[2].

Congress created DanSocial on August 4, 1998, when it passed Law 454 of 1998, replacing the National Administrative Deapartment of Cooperatives (Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Cooperativas)[3].

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