The third version of the Congress on Decentralization and Regional Improvement, which introduced collectively regional, nationwide and worldwide figures and was held on the College of O’Higgins (UOH), allowed governments to interrupt down and deal with their tasks in reaching true decentralization of their areas.
The occasion organized by the Regional Improvement Division (Subdere) was attended by the Minister of the Inside and Public Safety, Carolina Tohá; Governor Pablo Silva Amaya; the Presidential delegate, Fabio López Aguilera; the Undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Improvement, Francisca Perales and the Vice-Rector of the UOH, Álvaro Cabrera; in addition to governors and mayors from varied areas of the nation.
The set up of this Third Congress was answerable for the pro-rector of the UOH, Álvaro Cabrera; who highlighted in his speech that “our college, along with others, has developed what is named the regional barometer, an instrument that, within the two editions which were carried out, permits to offer content material to this debate, offering high-quality enter to query decentralization from the attitude of residents.”
Governor Pablo Silva Amaya then took the ground to welcome and thank the authorities current at this necessary occasion and known as on Minister Tohá to attend the assembly she held with the Minister of Finance, Mario Marcel, and the nation’s governors, the place the plan was to “proceed to advance in the direction of decentralization.”
“This yr, within the Price range Legislation, we have now discovered many difficulties in exercising the finances (…) which harms the neighborhood extra,” stated the regional governor, highlighting the significance of holding the sort of Congress to consolidate a course of over time and have extra decentralized areas.
For her half, Minister Carolina Tohá burdened in her speech that “decentralization is above all a political undertaking for the nation” and that Chile has traditionally been a undertaking primarily based on the thought of centralism.
The top of the Inside and Public Safety portfolio commented that, by way of decentralization, the federal government of President Gabriel Boric believes on this political undertaking. “We consider that the way forward for Chile lies in shifting in the direction of that course and the way in which of formulating selections, of distributing energy, distributing assets and in addition of executing selections, slightly than the standard idea that has accompanied us as a centralist.”
On this regard, the Undersecretary for Regional Improvement, Francisca Perales, stated that this occasion permits for the articulation of experiences of native, regional and nationwide governments in issues of decentralization and switch of powers, as areas of productive, social and territorial planning growth; in addition to a fourth axis, which is the strengthening of establishments.
“This Congress brings collectively a bunch of actors from these establishments, from academia and civil society to have the ability to develop discussions on this topic,” defined Perales.
Throughout the first day of the occasion, there have been a sequence of discussions, the place the matters targeted on care, territorial planning and productive growth, with the participation of the Minister of Housing and City Improvement, Carlos Montes; the Minister of Agriculture, Esteban Valenzuela; the Undersecretary of Social Companies, Francisca Gallegos; the Governor and President of the Affiliation of Governors of Chile (AGORECHI), Rodrigo Mundaca; the Governor of the Metropolitan Area, Claudio Orrego; the Governor of Maule, Cristina Bravo; the Particular Advisor on Gender and Range of the IDB and former Secretary of Ladies of Bogotá (2020-2023), Diana Rodríguez Franco, amongst others.
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Cielo Morales, director of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Financial and Social Planning (ILPES) of ECLAC, believes that this Third Congress places on the desk one of the necessary points for the sustainable growth of Chile.
“I assumed it was glorious to see the participation of authorities similar to Minister Tohá or the Minister of Science, since there are a number of components that have to be taken into consideration when designing and implementing a decentralization coverage in Chile,” stated Morales.
For his half, Rodrigo Alda, president of the Affiliation of Regional Universities of Chile (AUR) and Rector of the Catholic College of the North, considers that this occasion is “a recognition of the work that the College of O’Higgins is doing in such a wealthy territory and that may contribute a lot, not solely to the area, but additionally to the nation.”
“This permits us to place into context the dialogue that can happen relating to the alternatives for enchancment that exist for greater training establishments, in order that they’ll enhance their contribution to the territories to the extent that they’re adequately coordinated with regional and central governments,” Alda burdened.
Likewise, Aisén Etcheverry, Minister of Science, Expertise, Information and Innovation, identified that this Congress is important to have the ability to share experiences and find out how they’re advancing on this decentralization course of in an orderly and efficient method to profit the territories.
Etcheverry burdened that “in the present day, we’re going to be speaking about science and expertise as a device for financial growth,” utilizing for example the mining royalty funds, a major a part of that are allotted to those issues, and subsequently, it’s important that collectively and in a collaborative method “we find out how these assets can be utilized effectively for the event of agriculture.”
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