The General Secretariat of Planning, in coordination with the Metropolitan Institute of Urban Planning, the City Institute and the Secretariat of Territory, Habitat and Housing, is preparing the Metropolitan Development and Territorial Planning Plan (PMDOT) 2020-2030.

The PMDOT is conceived as the instrument that contains the main guidelines of the city, in order to organize, make compatible and harmonize strategic development decisions regarding human settlements, economic-productive activities and the management of natural resources based on territorial qualities. This plan is built or updated with each new municipal government, that is, every 4 years.

The first two phases of the plan’s construction, the diagnosis and the proposal, have been completed. The management model is currently being developed, which includes the mainstreaming of a human rights approach to its guiding policies, for which, priority attention and vulnerability groups in the Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ) are taken into account [1] .

To mainstream the rights-based approach, the General Planning Secretariat has requested technical support from the Tomorrow’s Cities Center ( https://tomorrowscities.org/ ), which aims to provide scientific support to reduce the risk of disasters due to natural threats to communities with economic and social vulnerabilities by strengthening capacities through science, history and art, seeking to promote participatory action by the different actors related to territorial management, and thus contribute to adequate sustainable development.

Based on this, several meetings were held between the Center’s teams and the General Planning Secretariat since August, in which various working documents, presentations, indicators, and other inputs from the PMDOT, the diagnoses of the current situation in the city and mainly the situation of priority attention and vulnerability groups were reviewed. On this basis, a work methodology was developed between September and November 2020, which was shared with the Council for the Protection of Rights and its related institutions. The plan, its axes, programs, operational strategies, and other components were shared with the representatives of the priority attention groups one week before the workshops. The workshops were held on December 16 and 17, 2020.

[1] For more details on priority attention and vulnerability groups, see: https://proteccionderechosquito.gob.ec/grupos/