METHODOLOGY TO EVALUATE THE TERRITORIAL PLAN OF CANTÓN PORTOVIEJO

METODOLOG͍A PARA EVALUAR EL PLAN TERRITORIAL DEL CANTÓN PORTOVIEJO

Abstract

The canton Portoviejo is a city in the province of ManabÍ­ belonging to the coastal region of Ecuador. The population according to the last population census is 280,029 inhabitants. In recent years has had a breakthrough in terms of urbanism, adequacy and infrastructure of basic services resulting from the planning developed by the municipality. But there is still a lot to do so that Portoviejo can provide the best living conditions for its inhabitants. For this purpose, the municipality designed the Territorial Development Plan that is in force from 2011 to 2026 and whose objectives are to implement a management model that allows citizens to participate and improve their living conditions, among others. It is for this background and taking into account that successful cities and regions are those that plan their future, which is the importance of studying the methodology designed by the municipality of Portoviejo to evaluate the planned strategies. This methodology should allow the monitoring and updating of the strategies through the assessment of the objectives, monitoring reports, annual reports of the plan, designation of agents in the monitoring process and a scorecard that finally allows the evaluation of the degree of compliance with them. In this research, the search and bibliographic review method was used to normalize the fundamental theoretical aspects of strategic planning - evaluation and others of the theoretical level (analytical - synthetic, inductive - deductive). The systemic method also allowed to elaborate the evaluation process and the relationships between its stages.