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THE REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR
NATIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL
Rafael Correa Delgado
Constitutional President of the Republic
René Ramírez Gallegos Montgomery Sánchez Reyes
Secretary of National Planning and Development Representative of the Provincial Council
Consortium of Ecuador
Miguel Carvajal Aguirre
Coordinating Minister of Security
Paúl Granda López
Katiuska King Mantilla Representative of the Association of
Coordinating Minister of Economic Policy Municipalities of Ecuador
Doris Soliz Carrión
Hugo Quiroz Vallejo
Coordinating Minister of Politics
Representative of the Rural Parish Board
Council of Ecuador
Nathalie Cely Suárez
Coordinating Minister of Production,
Carlos Díez Torres
Employment, and Competitiveness
Representative of the Citizen Participation
Jeannette Sánchez Zurita
and Social Control Council (observer)
Coordinating Minister of Social Development
Diego Martínez Vinueza
María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés
National Planning Council Secretary
Coordinating Minister of the National Heritage
Jorge Glas Espinel
Coordinating Minister of Strategic Sectors
The Republic of Ecuador. National Development Plan
National Plan for Good Living 2009-2013: Building a Plurinational and Intercultural State
Summarized Version
© Secretaría Nacional de Planificación y Desarrollo – SENPLADES, 2010
Quito, Ecuador (first edition, 3,000 copies)
This material may be used provided it is properly cited.
The National Plan was developed by SENPLADES, in its capacity as Technical Secretary of the National Decentralized
System for Participative Planning pursuant to Executive Decree 1577 dated February 26, 2009, and submitted by
President Rafael Correa for the approval of the National Planning Council. The National Development Plan for this
Government term, entitled “National Plan for Good Living 2009-2013” was approved on 5 November 2009, through
Resolution No. CNP-001-2009.
This publication includes the names of the present authorities of the institutions represented in the National Planning Council.
Translation
Maricruz González C.
Editorial coordination and revision
María Belén Moncayo – Undersecretary for Planning and Public Policies
Adrián López – Director of Public Policies and Citizen Agreement
Design and layout
Miguel Dávila P. – Soluciones Gráficas
This document is a summarized version of the National Plan. The translator and editors
are responsible for any variation from the original Spanish version.
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Table of Contents
Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1. The Construction Process of the 2009-2013 National Plan for Good Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.1. Constitutional Provisions on National Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.2. Guiding Elements to Prepare the Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.3. Participative Planning for Good Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.4. Process Achievements and Scopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2. Ethical and Programmatic Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.1. Ethical Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.2. Programmatic Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3. Change of Paradigm: From Development to Good Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.1. Approaches to the Concept of Good Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.2. Principles of Good Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.3. Good Living in the Ecuadorian Constitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.4. Building a Plurinational and Intercultural State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4. Critical Diagnosis: Three Decades of Neoliberalism, 31 Months
of the Citizens’ Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.1. Why Did Ecuador Need a Change in the New Millennium? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.2. 31 Months of the Citizens’ Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5. Towards a New Way of Generating and
Redistributing Wealth for Good Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.1. A New Agreement for Coexistence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.2. Accumulation and (Re)distribution for Good Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
5.3. A New Long-Term Accumulation and (Re)distribution Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
6. Strategies for the 2009-2013 Period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
6.1. Democratization of the Means of Production, (Re)distribution of Wealth,
and Diversification of the Types of Property and Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
6.2. Transformation of the Economy’s Model of Specialization Through the
Selective Substitution of Imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
6.3. Increase of Real Productivity and Diversification of Exports,
Exporters, and Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
6.4. Ecuador’s Strategic and Sovereign Insertion in the World,
and Latin American Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.5. Transformation of Higher Education, and Transfer of Knowledge in Science,
Technology and Innovation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
6.6. Connectivity and Telecommunications for the Information
and Knowledge Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
6.7. Change of Energy Matrix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
6.8. Investment for Good Living within Sustainable Macroeconomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
6.9. Inclusion, Social Protection and Security, and Guarantee of Rights within
the Framework of the Constitution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
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6.10. Sustainability, Conservation, Knowledge of the Natural Heritage,
and Promotion of Community Tourism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
6.11. Territorial Development and Organization, Deconcentration, and Decentralization . . . . 68
6.12. Citizen Power and Social Protagonism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
7. National Objectives for Good Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Objective 1: To Foster Social and Territorial Equality, Cohesion,
and Integration with Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Objective 2: To Improve the Citizens’ Capabilities and Potentialities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Objective 3: To Improve the Quality of Life of the Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Objective 4: To Guarantee the Rights of Nature and Promote
a Healthy and Sustainable Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Objective 5: To Guarantee Sovereignty and Peace; to Promote Ecuador’s
Strategic Insertion in the World, and Latin American Integration . . . . . . . . . . 78
Objective 6: To Guarantee Stable, Fair and Dignified Work in its Diverse Forms . . . . . . . . . 80
Objective 7: To Build and Strengthen Public and Intercultural Spaces
for Social Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Objective 8: To Affirm and Strengthen National Identity, Diverse Identities,
Plurinationalism and Interculturalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Objective 9: To Guarantee Rights and Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Objective 10: To Guarantee Access to Public and Political Participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Objective 11: To Establish a Sustainable Socio-economic System Based on Solidarity . . . . . . 85
Objective 12: To Build a Democratic State for Good Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
8. National Territorial Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
8.1. A New Territorial Model to Achieve Good Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
8.2. The Historical Configuration of Ecuadorian Territory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
8.3. Strengthening a National, Polycentric and
Complementary Structure of Human Settlements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
8.4. Promoting Good Living and Food Sovereignty in Rural Territories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
8.5. Increasing the Efficiency of Mobility, Energy,
and Connectivity Infrastructure More Efficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
8.6. Guaranteeing the Sustainability of the Natural Heritage Through the Rational
and Responsible Use of Renewable and Non-Renewable Natural Resources . . . . . . . . 97
8.7. Promoting diversity and Cultural Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
8.8. Fostering Ecuador’s Strategic and Sovereign Insertion in the World
and Latin American Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
8.9. Consolidating a Decentralized and Deconcentrated Management Model
with Territorial Planning and Administrative Capacities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
8.10. Guidelines for Territorial Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
9. Criteria for Public Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
9.1. Satisfying Basic Need to General Capabilities and Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
9.2. Capital Accumulation in Value-Generating Productive Sectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
9.3. Prioritization Methodology for Public Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
10. Works cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
11. Acronyms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
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Presentation
When, in January 2007, we started preparing the community, by trusting in the country’s
2007-2010 National Development Plan, the capacity to define another historic course
“Plan for the Citizens’ Revolution”, we did not to achieve a fair, diverse, plurinational,
start from scratch. At this time, our challenge is intercultural, and sovereign society.
to consolidate it and this is why the 2009-2013
National Plan for Good Living establishes new 2. An Ethical Revolution to guarantee
horizons aimed to materialize and radicalize the transparency, accountability and checks
project for a change of the Citizens’ Revolution and balances as the pillars on which to
and for the achievement of Good Living for all build social relations that enable mutual
Ecuadorians. acknowledgement between individuals
and collective trust; essential for long-
The 2007-2010 National Development Plan, the term change.
“Plan for the Citizen’s Revolution”, was elabora-
ted for the first presidential term of Rafael 3. An Economic, Productive, and Agrarian
Correa. It was the result of many of the proposals Revolution to overcome an inherited
for change outlined in the Government Plan model of exclusion, and direct State
proposed by Movimiento País, in the run-up to the resources towards education, health, the
elections of 2006 and 2007. With the ratification road network, housing, scientific and tech-
of a new Constitution (2008), came new elec- nological research, to promote employ-
tions, a new presidential term for the Citizen’s ment and production, in a way which
Revolution (2009-2013). In accordance to the includes both rural and urban areas.
new political circumstances and the new legal
and constitutional framework, a new National 4. A Social revolution, hand in hand with
Development Plan was deemed necessary. It was inclusive economic policies, for the State
called the 2009-2013 “National Plan for Good to guarantee the essential rights of all
Living”, and sought to give strength to the Five individuals, communities, peoples, and
Revolutions of the Citizens’ Revolution, pro- nationalities.
mote the gradual construction of a Plurinational
and Intercultural State, and support the new 5. A Revolution in Defense of Latin
social contract contemplated in the new 2008 American Dignity, Sovereignty and
Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador. Integration, to uphold a clear, dignified
and sovereign position in Ecuador’s rela-
The Five Revolutions of the Citizen’s Revolution tions with international actors and multi-
are the following: lateral organizations, in order to advance
towards genuine integration within Latin
1. A Constitutional and Democratic America and the Caribbean; and to
Revolution to lay the foundations of insert Ecuador strategically in the world
an inclusive and reflective political community.
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The 2009-2013 National Plan for Good Living needs, achieving a dignified quality of life and death;
raises significant technical and political cha- loving and being loved; the healthy flourishing of all
llenges, as well as methodological and instru- individuals in peace and harmony with nature; and
mental innovations. However, the Plan’s achieving an indefinite reproduction perpetuation of
greatest significance lies in the conceptual rup- human cultures. Good Living implies having free
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ture with the so-called Washington Consensus time for contemplation and personal emancipation;
and the most orthodox approaches to the con- enabling the expansion and flourishing of people’s
cept of development. liberties, opportunities, capabilities and potentiali-
ties so as to simultaneously allow society, specific
Good Living is the result of a search, over seve- territories, different collective identities, and each
ral decades, for new ways of living on behalf of individual, understood both in universal and rela-
Latin American social actors. It is the result of tive terms, to achieve their objectives in life (without
their demands in the face of the neoliberal eco- causing any kind of material or subjective domi-
nomic model and paradigm. In Ecuador, these nance over any other individual). Our concept of
demands were eventually incorporated into the Good Living compels us to re-build the public sphere
Constitution and have since become the gui- in order to recognize, understand and value our-
ding principles of the new social contract. selves as diverse but equal individuals, and in order
to advance reciprocity and mutual recognition,
Good Living is based on a vision that surpasses enable self-advancement, and build a shared social
the narrow confines of quantitative economi- future” (Ramírez, 2008: 387.)
cism and challenges the notion of material,
mechanic and endless accumulation of goods. This conceptual rupture we are proposing is
Instead the new paradigm promotes an inclu- based on ethical principles that pave the road to
sive, sustainable, and democratic economic radical change and a fair, free and democratic
strategy; one that incorporates actors historica lly society. In this regard, it relies on five essential
excluded from the capitalist, market-driven understandings of justice: social and economic
logic of accumulation and (re)distribution. justice; democratic and participative justice;
inter-generational and inter-personal justice;
Similarly, Good Living revises and reinterprets transnational justice; and unbiased justice. Its
the relation between nature and human main proposals could be resumed as follows:
beings, and proposes a shift from the current
prevailing anthropocent rism to what we may • To build a society that recognizes unity
call bio-pluralism (Guimaraes in Acosta, within diversity.
2008). Good Living posits that humans should • To recognize humans as gregarious beings
use natural resources in a way that allows their who wish to live in society.
natural generation (or regeneration.) • To promote social equality, integration,
and cohesion.
Finally, Good Living also relies on social equa - • To progressively guarantee universal
lity and justice, and gives importance to dia- rights and potentiate human capabilities.
logue with – and acknowledgement and value • To build social and economic relations in
of – diverse peoples, cultures, forms of know- harmony with nature.
ledge and ways of life. • To build a fraternal and co-operative
coexistence.
Good Living, therefore, is a complex, non-linear • To consolidate liberating forms of work,
concept which is in permanent re–signification. allowing for leisure.
In sum, Good Living could be defined as “covering • To re-build the public sphere.
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The Washington Consensus was an ideological way out to the capitalist crisis that resulted from a conference held in
1989 by the Institute for International Economics, in Washington.
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• To deepen the construction of a represen- The Plan therefore proposes a logic based on
tative, participative, and deliberative the 12 main national objectives previously set
democracy. forth in the 2007-2010 National Development
• To consolidate a democratic, pluralist Plan, and currently updated in view of the
and secular State. Government’s recent performance, new propos-
als for sectorial and territorial public policies,
The conceptual rupture with the notions of and the need to take into account the new con-
“development” and “State” relies on a long- stitutional framework. The updated objectives
term strategy that seeks to build an “eco-touristic of the National Plan for Good Living are:
biopolis” in the context of a post-petroleum eco-
nomic model aimed at generating and redistri - Objective 1. To foster social and territorial
buting wealth for Good Living. For the first equality, cohesion, and inte-
phase of its implementation (2009-2013), this gration within diversity.
model articulates twelve strategies for change: Objective 2. To maximize the citizens’
capabilities and potentialities.
I. The democratization of the means of pro-
Objective 3. To improve the population’s
duction, the (re)distribution of wealth, and
quality of life.
the diversification of the forms of pro perty
Objective 4. To guarantee the rights of
and organization. nature and promote a healthy
II. The transformation of the pattern of eco- and sustainable environment.
nomic specialization through the selec- Objective 5. To guarantee sovereignty
and peace; and to promote
tive substitution of imports.
Ecuador’s strategic insertion
III. The increase of real productivity and the
in the world, and Latin
diversification of exports, exporters and
American integration.
markets.
Objective 6. To guarantee stable, fair, and
IV. Ecuador’s strategic and sovereign inser-
dignified work and employ-
tion in the world, and Latin American
ment in its diverse forms.
integration. Objective 7. To build and strengthen pu-
V. The transformation of higher education blic spaces for intercultural
and the transfer of knowledge in science, social interactions.
Objective 8. To affirm and strengthen
technology and innovation.
national identity, diverse
VI. To boost connectivity and telecommuni-
ident ities, plurinationalism,
cations to build the “information society”.
and interculturalism.
VII. To change the energy matrix.
Objective 9. To guarantee rights and justice.
VIII. The investment for Good Living within
Objective 10. To guarantee access to public
sustainable macroeconomics.
and political participation.
IX. The inclusion, social security and protec- Objective 11. To establish a social, frater-
tion, and guarantee of rights within the nal and sustainable economic
context of the Constitutional Rule of Law system.
Objective 12. To build a democratic State
and Justice.
for Good Living.
X. The sustainability of the natural heritage,
conservation, knowledge and the promo-
This Plan offers a cohesive vision of society
tion of community tourism.
based on a rights-and-opportunities approach.
XI. Territorial development and planning,
Its axes are environmental sustainability; and
deconcentration and decentralization. gender, generational, intercultural and territo-
XII. Citizen power and social leadership. rial equality. A great deal of coordination and
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articulation is required in order to harmonize territorial subject matters were discussed. As a
the demands of diverse sectors with the natio - contribution to the discussion, opinion polls
nal objectives. were conducted among more than 5,000 indi-
viduals, on the meaning of Good Living
To achieve this articulation, this Plan deve- amongst other questions.
loped sectorial agendas which were conceived
as instruments of sectorial coordination and The 2009-2013 National Plan for Good Living
consensus in order to define policies, strategies, is divided into nine parts. Part one presents the
programs and projects to be executed by the di - Plan’s formulation process, which was pro-
fferent institutions of the Executive Branch. foundly democratic and intensely participatory.
These sectorial agendas and policies are consis- Part two displays the ethical and programmatic
tent with constitutional provisions and with guidelines, which underlie and guide the current
the objectives of Good Living. transformation of the country, and part three
discusses the change of paradigm, from develop-
Sectorial consensus, by itself, however, is insu - ment to Good Living.
fficient. The different visions of the inhabitants
of the “territories” must be included in order to Part four offers a critical diagnosis of the country’s
strengthen the integration and improve the li- historic economic, social and political processes
ving conditions of communities. This is a two- during the recent decades, as well as an analysis of
way process in which local planning nurtures the Government’s first 31 months. In relation to
national planning, and vice versa, in order to the diagnosis, part five puts forward the transfor-
build a new type of polycentric State. In 2007, mations required to achieve a new mode of accu-
therefore, Ecuador promoted a National mulation and (re)distribution essential for Good
Development Plan in which the territorial pers- Living. The next part develops the 12 national
pective was taken into account through the strategies for the 2009-2013 period.
incorporation of provincial plans. For the 2009-
2013 period, this objective was achieved Part seven develops the 12 National Objectives
through the elaboration a National Territorial for Good Living, which have been updated
Strategy, which is itself one of this Plan’s main follow ing the new constitutional provisions and
innovations. the results of the assessment of the 2007-2010
National Development Plan, new sectorial and
Establishing differentiated agendas for the territorial agendas and policies, and citizens’
seven planning zones enabled us to identify the contributions. This section is concerned with
populations’ needs in relation to the territories’ objectives and policies. A major concern is to
qualities, potentialities and limitations, as well put an end to bureaucratic and institutional
as to develop a proposal for a territorial model inertia which are major obstacles to the
articulated to a national proposal. National Government’s compliance with its
own transformation proposal.
This completely new exercise in national pla n -
ning also involved high levels of participation. As one of the main innovations in the 2009-
The 2009-2013 Plan was achieved through a 2013 National Plan for Good Living, part eight
sustained process of consultation that began includes the National Territorial Strategy that
with the 2007-2010 National Development identifies and establishes the territories in
Plan. It was constructed by a collective process which the main national strategic interventions
involving a great diversity of actors. In this and projects are to be carried out. A first ver-
regard, it is particularly important to high- sion of agendas for each planning zone is
light the organization of several Citizen included in a complementary attachment.
Consultation Workshops, in which more than
4,000 representatives of Ecuadorian civil society In its final part, the Plan develops resource allo-
participated, and both national objectives and cation criteria though the formulation of a
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Pluriannual Investment Plan. It should be and decision-making and build the Plurinational
noted that the planning and prioritization of and Intercultural State. In this sense, and in
public investment was performed alongside an accordance with constitutional provisions, this
analysis of the programs and projects articula ted Plan leaves the door open for all of Ecuador’s peo-
to medium-term strategies and the policies ples and nationalities to build their Life Plans, as
defined for each objective highlighted above. well as to develop the special Plan for Amazonian
territorial constituencies. Similarly, the Plan
The 2009-2013 National Plan for Good Living recom mends the Autonomous Decentralized
is a flexible and dynamic instrument, also avai - Governments seek to articulate themselves to
lable in a digital version. The digital version, in this Plan, and update their pla nning instruments
addition to the contents described above, gathers and territorial intervention priorities.
the results of participation in the citizen consul-
tation tables and includes additional informa- The “2009-2013 National Plan for Good Living –
tion in order to allow a process of permanent Building a Plurinational and Intercultural State”
update as policies are developed. This version was developed with the technical and metho-
also includes an option for a geographic visua - dological guidance of the Secretariat for National
lization of indicators. This provides public policy Planning and Development (SENPLADES), in
makers with instruments that enable them to coordination with the technical teams of a
develop coverage projections and gauge the number of different ministries and secretariats,
impacts their programs may have in given areas, and with the help and contributions of a great
bearing in mind environmental sustainability many Ecuadorian citizens. The Plan’s approval
and gender, generational, intercultural and terri - by the National Planning Council is a milestone
torial equality. in enforcement of the new Constitution and in
the consolidation of participative democracy.
Finally, the National Plan for Good Living is also
a first step to build the National Decentralized René Ramirez Gallegos
System for Participative Planning that aims to NATIONAL SECRETARY
decentralize and deconcentrate political power FOR PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
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1. The Construction Process of the
2009-2013 National Plan for Good Living
The creation of the Plan required confronting
four main challenges: articulating the planning Pursuant to the constitutional provi-
to the new constitutional framework; genera ting sions set forth in Art. 280, the National
processes of intra-State articulation and feed- Development Plan is the instrument
back processes, incorporating a result-oriented which governs public programs, policies
form of management; inserting territorial and and projects, the programming and
local planning; and promoting a process of social implementation of the State budget,
participation. public investment and allocation, and
coordinates exclusive competences
between the Central Government and
the Autonomous Decentralized Govern-
ments. Its observance is mandatory for
the public sector and exemplary for other
sectors.
1.1. Constitutional Provisions
on National Planning
The 2008 Constitution considers planning and
public policies as instruments to achieve the 1.2. Guiding Elements
Objectives of Good Living and guarantee of to Prepare the Plan
rights. In accordance with the Fundamental
Law, the aim of planning is to promote social The 2008 Constitution, the new social contract
and territ orial equality and consensus. For this approved in referendum, is the main point of
purpose, the eradication of poverty, the promo- reference for the national planning process.
tion of sustainable development, and the equi- The Plan was updated according to the
table (re)distribution of resources and wealth Constitution and received a different name to
are essential. In this new approach, the citizens, reflect the change of paradigm encompassed in
both individually and collectively, are entitled the term “Good Living”. It was called the “2009
to particip ate and be protagonists in public - 2013 National Plan for Good Living: Building
decision- and policy-making. a Plurinational and Intercultural State.”
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