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Mayor’s Office of Western Santiago, the Santiago Free Trade Zone Corporation, the Strategic Board, Dominican Municipal League will invest in technical resources and will provide support for projects.
The Mayor of Western Santiago, Eddy B谩ez, the president of the Free Zone Corporation, Miguel Lama, the president of CDES, Ricardo Fondeur, and the president of the LMD, V铆ctor D’ Aza, articulated initiatives in favor of Western Santiago, actions based on the experience of the Santiago Strategic Plan and swore in around 200 commissioners.
The Western Santiago Strategic Plan will count on the scientific-technical expertise of the Santiago Strategic Development Council (CDES, for its acronym in Spanish). An entity certified since 2008 by the Ibero-American Center for Urban Strategic Development (CIDEU) based in Barcelona in the context of the Ibero-American Summits, with the number 01CA-08 of June 2008 for the methodological quality of the territorial planning that has facilitated the development of authentic and sustainable projects in coherence with MEPyD and the support to more than 10 development plans in provinces and municipalities of the Dominican Republic.
More than 50 government agencies, civil society, the business community, and the women’s network of Western Santiago have united to convene and develop the Strategic Plan for this Municipal District, with the objective of turning Western Santiago into a model of municipal development. Requesting the support of CDES, the Free Zone Corporation and Compromiso Santiago.
The new Plan will impact an area populated by around 240 thousand inhabitants who reside in just 16.4 square kilometers, accumulating the second highest population density in the province, which makes this territory a district with many opportunities, but also with great threats and weaknesses associated with urban violence, feminicides, low social services from the State and high cases of dengue fever and high prevalence of COVID, at the time.
In addition, there is a great opportunity to ally with the most emblematic Free Zone park in the Dominican Republic, which in turn has important development plans and programs.聽This area, which together with the Municipal Districts of San Francisco de Jacagua, Pedro Garc铆a, Hato del Yaque and La Canela, of the municipality of Santiago, accumulates more inhabitants than 10 other provinces of much territory, but few people in the entire Dominican Republic, such as Barahona, Independencia, San Pedro de Macoris, El Seibo, Hato Mayor, El铆as Pi帽a, Bahoruco, among others.
In this order, all the technical capacities accumulated by the Santiago Strategic Plan (PES, for its acronym in Spanish), the Association for Development (APEDI, for its acronym in Spanish), and Fundacion Solidaridad (Solidarity Foundation), have agreed on a work program that in under 7 months will simultaneously establish a situation diagnosis, a development vision, action scenarios, intervention strategies, more than 25 projects to be agreed upon and quick win actions that will show that this territory can be organized in a metropolitan sense in coordination with the Santiago de los Caballeros City Council, to promote its progress.
Fundacion Solidaridad (Solidarity Foundation), as part of the consortium that together with the Comprehensive Center for Local Development (CIDEL, for its acronym in Spanish) and the Balms Children’s Foundation, implements the program to improve livability in western Santiago, contributes its technical capabilities and experience working in the territory to strengthen this initiative.
The president of the Dominican Municipality League (LMD, for its acronym in Spanish), also announced their active participation as an advisor in technical and planning matters for the municipalities, which will contribute to provide western Santiago and other municipalities with a road map or development guide for the following 10 years.
