Good Practices interchange among Pinar del Río and Artemisa about territorial development management.

PHOTO: A moment of the interchange

In the framework of the continuous process of knowledge transfer and strengthening of local capacities for the territorial development management, from the 7th until the 11th of December 2015, the interchange among the Provinces of Pinar del Río and Artemisa was carried out. During the week of work, the Governments of the Provincial Administrations, the Study Center for Management, Local Development and Tourism (GEDELTUR) of the University of Pinar del Río and the Councils of the Municipalities Administrations of San Cristóbal, Artemisa, Candelaria, Güira de Melena y Alquizar drove an intense agenda of training and interchange among counterparts developed in the Pinar del Río territory.

The 22 public servants from the Provincial Administration and the 5 Artemisian Municipalities Administration were able to delve into the dynamics, tools and prospectives of comprehensive local and territorial development in which multidimensional approaches are linked. The themes addressed and the experiences visited encompassed the municipal and provincial planning, the communication for the territorial development, funding for local development, the articulation between state and non-state economy, the new management ways, until the monitoring and follow-up.

In addition, talking to the protagonists about the experiences of the implementation of models of strategic management in the municipalities of Consolacíon del Sur and Los Palacios, getting to know the perspectives of a provincial strategy of local development, seeing first hand the non-state management of tourism in Viñales and the development perspectives of La Güira and San Diego allowed to produce inputs and proposals for the definition of a working and training plan between the two provinces in 2016.

The opportunity to examine, in detail, the challenges, visions and the opportunities that the new Government organization model which the Artemisia Province is experimenting with, was very interesting and formative for the pinareños.

Without any doubts, accompanying, fostering and driving these interchange processes among counterparts, under the leadership of Cuban actors is one of the axis and the focuses that strategize and encourage the work of the Articulated Platform for the Comprehensive Territorial Development (PADIT).

The Articulated Platform for the Comprehensive Territorial Development (PADIT) is a frame program that offers an articulated development platform that drives the processes of decentralization, strengthening of the local and territorial capacities for the local socio-economic planning and development, the development management and multilevel articulation. PADIT counts on the financing of the Swiss Agency for the Development and Cooperation (COSUDE).

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