The Ministry of Environment projects, through the Sustainable Municipalities program, to strengthen and serve each of these agencies, in environmental matters, informed the undersecretary, Gerardo Amarilla.
Before the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, he presented a report based on the responses of each municipality to four areas of work, which will be the main input to create a database and plan actions.
Lacalle Pou and Amarilla were accompanied at the activity in the Torre Ejecutiva auditorium by the Environment Minister, Robert Bouvier; the coordinator of Decentralization and Cohesion of the Office of Planning and Budget (OPP), María de Lima; the president of the Executive Board of the Plenary of Municipalities, Christian Morel, and the manager of the Uruguayan Agency for International Cooperation (AUCI), Claudia Romano.
The Sustainable Municipalities program, which seeks to strengthen, support, and assist each municipality with respect to environmental problems, will provide technical support and human resource capacities to the third level of government. For this, the portfolio will work with the support of AUCI, OPP, and the Plenary of Municipalities of Uruguay.
On the occasion, Amarilla presented a report made between Environment and the OPP that describes the current environmental situation of each municipality in the country. These data will be used as a basis for planning the program presented, highlighted the undersecretary, who thanked the existing commitment in environmental matters.
92% of the municipalities participated in the consultation that included four areas: waste, water, green areas and climate change, reported the hierarch,
For his part, Morel highlighted the work of the Ministry of the Environment and said that the creation of a previously unpublished database will be the starting point to start the program.
Meanwhile, De Lima pointed out that the interaction between local and departmental governments with the ministry allows efficiency in the management of resources. He added that the OPP seeks to reach the entire country with public policies in a timely manner.
In the same way, Romano indicated that AUCI seeks to strengthen existing capacities to respond to demands. “It is key, in a public policy, to bring information closer to the territory with data from reality, because it will allow establishing what the priorities are,” he added.
