2024 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"

The Basic Land Use Plan of Ubaté, a ‘Rural-urban symbiosis -SIRU- Ubaté a sustainable and resilient municipality’, is the implementation of a society that after having faced the ravages of the La Niña Phenomenon between 2010-2011, which affected the majority of the population, the economy, one of the best dairy production lands in the country and the infrastructure, today wants with optimism, synergy and new approaches in terms of planning and sustainable development, design its Model of Territorial Occupation -MOT- to become resilient in the face of the ravages, improve the quality of life of its inhabitants, be a lung in the centre of the Province of the same name formed by nine other municipalities, care for and protect water throughout its cycle, improve ecosystem services, integrate the countryside and the city into a single ecosystem and provide support services to the inhabitants of the Province of Ubaté.

Four territorial ordering principles guided the vocation, competitive and comparative advantages that the municipality has today: 1. Protection and conservation of natural areas, correlated with risk management, climate variability and change and water. 2. Strengthening as a sub-regional centre for services. 3. Promotion of knowledge and information to strengthen the human and social capital of the municipality and 4. Development of ecotourism potential.

• https://www.ubate-cundinamarca.gov.co/ (External link)