Municipal development plan: The guiding instrument for municipal management in Chile?
This paper questions the belief that the Municipal Development Plan (PLADECO) serves —according to the current legislation— as the “guiding instrument for local municipal development”. To contrast this idea, a content analysis was performed on a sample of 58 PLADECO documents from different Chilean...
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Revista INVI
2016
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| Rochtain Ar Líne: | https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62723 |
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| Achoimre: | This paper questions the belief that the Municipal Development Plan (PLADECO) serves —according to the current legislation— as the “guiding instrument for local municipal development”. To contrast this idea, a content analysis was performed on a sample of 58 PLADECO documents from different Chilean urban municipalities. Four aspects were analyzed: citizen participation, strategic planning, information accessibility and accountability. In addition, interviews were conducted with key actors from various municipal systems in order to understand their views on the scope and limitations of PLADECO. Through this methodology, a high degree of heterogeneity was found in the levels of accomplishment of the analyzed documents. The results show that local governments focus on following the requirements of the current legislation; however they rarely use them as a guiding tool for local administration. Accessibility conditions were the best assessed aspect, surpassing the areas of strategic planning, citizen participation and accountability. Finally, political will was found to be a fundamental factor in the performance of PLADECO. |
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