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PRIORITYMEASURE81
“Plan andmanage territorial and urban development, from a human rights and gender perspective, by formulatingmobility, population settlement and activity location
policies that contemplate, among their objectives, avoiding the use of vulnerable and protectedareas and preventingandmitigating the impact
of socioenvironmental disasters and combating the environmental vulnerability of those living in poverty and ethnic and racial groups
who are subject to discrimination, aswell as climate changemitigation and adaptation.”
Possible lines of action
1. Create regulatory instruments for territorial and urban development that include the human rights, gender and environmental
perspectives; 2. In territorial and urban development plans, implement guidelines to guarantee protection of vulnerable or protected natural
areas; 3. Take action for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the area of urban and territorial development; 4. Implement
sustainable urban mobility and public transportation policies that are coherent with urban and territorial development plans; 5. Provide
localitieswith equipment, services and infrastructure tomanage people’s spatial mobility; 6. In zoning plans, incorporate the identification
of vulnerable and environmentally at-risk areas and determine those in which human settlement is banned; 7. Strengthen information and
communications technologies; 8.Make administrative services readily available to the local population; 9. Create policies and instruments
for oversight and improvement of air quality.
Targets
1. Include the population, human rights, gender and interculturality perspectives in territorial planning and urban development instruments;
2. Have in place territorial and urban development plans withmeasures to protect vulnerable and protected natural areas; 3. Have in place
territorial and urban planning instruments that includemeasures of environmental mitigation and adaptation to climate change; 4. Have in
place suitable, sustainable and good-quality equipment, services, infrastructure and public transit in all centres of population; 5. Identify all
vulnerable and environmentally at-risk areas in the country; 6. Adopt national and local regulations governing the location of human
settlements and prohibiting them in vulnerable and environmentally at risk areas; 7. Have in place comprehensive reforestation
management plans for areas at risk of erosion and landslides in the vicinity of human settlements.
Tentative indicators
1. Percentage of urban and territorial development plans that incorporate the rights, gender and interculturality perspectives; 2. Percentage
of vulnerable and protected areas that have amanagement plan; 3. Percentage of human settlements located in vulnerable areas; 4. Number
ofminor administrative areaswith sustainable transport systems and infrastructure.
