Chapitre 2. Les défis de l’articulation des territoires face à la pandémie, une comparaison entre l’Équateur et le Pérou

Abstract

After coming into force in 2008, the new Constitution of Ecuador mandated Ecuador´s first national planning system. A key innovation of this system is the introduction of government spatial planning (ordenamiento territorial) as State policy something which now is mandatory to all levels of the political -administrative jurisdictions. This article analyzes three political concepts that contextualize the embedding of spatial planning as a State policy: the idea of Good Living (Buen Vivir), the transformation of the national production matrix and decentralization. Secondly, the results of the implementation of the National System of Decentralized Participatory Planning are analyzed including the responses of the sub-national governments and civil society. A central point of discussion concerns the implementation of the national government´s strategic projects through the spatial planning at local levels.