The Teguise City Council, following the guidelines of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, materialized this Tuesday - through a plenary agreement - to join the 'Network of Local Entities for the 2030 Agenda' of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP).
In this way, the municipality of Teguise is unified with that of "Tinajo and Haría in order to access, jointly, the next aid" linked to the Pluriregional Operational Program Spain 2021-2027 (POPE) in which "functional urban areas of a minimum of 20,000 inhabitants and a head of at least 10,000" can participate.
These aids entail the "transversal improvement of the territory and municipal policies in several axes: physical, environmental, social, economic and competitiveness". In this way, "from October" projects can be presented by those municipalities that have "an urban agenda at the local level that is implemented with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)". For its part, the Cabildo of Lanzarote will be the coordinator of this entire process.
According to the Councilor of the Local Development Agency of Teguise, Myriam Jorge Camejo, “we seek to involve different public and private agents to create together a more sustainable and inclusive growth model for our towns, thus complying with the strategies marked by the so-called 2030 Agenda”.
For this, it will be necessary to develop, first of all, an "action plan and a local strategy" that entails a "diagnostic study and a SWOT analysis of both the urban and rural areas". This work will be promoted by the Cabildo of Lanzarote, which will also be in charge of the "advisory work to be able to access the aid".
“With the SWOT analysis we will know our weaknesses and strengths to write projects that are aligned with the SDGs and allow us to make a more rational use of the land, avoiding urban sprawl, promoting social cohesion or improving mobility”, Jorge clarifies.
In addition, in the words of the Councilor of the Local Development Agency of Teguise, “it has been agreed in coordination with the Island Council and the seven town councils, to maintain synergies with less populated municipalities such as Haría or Tinajo”, because one of the highlighted aspects of the 2030 Agenda is “to improve inter-administrative collaboration through a more participatory and plural governance”. "It would not be fair for these municipalities to be left out of these investments for being less populated”.
Plenary in La Graciosa
On the other hand, the mayor of Teguise, Olivia Duque, was in charge of reporting on the "more than 20 contracts" that have been tendered since the legislature began, “which makes it clear that the wheel of the municipal administration has not stopped turning to continue advancing in the improvement of Teguise”.
Likewise, it was agreed to hold a "plenary session in person once a year in La Graciosa", which means that next October “we will move to the eighth island, thus committing ourselves to the proximity policy that we have assumed with our neighbors”.
