1. Territorial development requires a long-term comprehensive territorial project spanning 5-15 years, not just short-term projects. This project must come from the territory itself. 2. Effective territorial management must address both day-to-day management and long-term strategic planning to transform the territory, despite changes in local government. It must also secure commitment from stakeholders. 3. A long-term territorial vision is needed that is unique, shared, and agreed upon for the territory. This vision can be developed through a collaborative process involving stakeholders starting with a blank slate, leveraging local intelligence, and using participatory methodology.

1. Territorial Innovation for Development
(Innovación Territorial para el Desarrollo)
Red LALIX – La-STIP Discussion Group
February, 15, 2021

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Summary
1. What are we calling development?
2. 3 ideas to cope with local complexity management
3. 4 guidelines to define the territorial “Long-Term Plan”
4. How can we bring it to reality?

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What are we calling development?
• Boosting a city or region takes more than 3 o 4 projects,
more than 3 to 4 years.
• Development is transforming the city in a completely
new one with new hopes, new commitments, new social
dynamics and new energies and strengths
• For this we need a comprehensive territorial project to
be deployed along, 5, 10 or 15 years.
• This project may only come up from the territory itself.

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Idea number 1
Territorial management has two sides
1. Day-to day management
2. The management of our territory future.....
...which is the one transforming our territory

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Idea number 2
Territorial development has to deal with
two big problems
1. How can we secure the continuity of development
policy in spite of local government changes?
2. How can we get territorial stakeholders committed to
development efforts?

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Idea number 3
The example of the State of…..
But, ¿what about Governor's criteria?
Now, guess if the criteria would have been: “I want
our State to be the leading worldwide “chiles” exporter!”
The Infrastructures Secretary and his doubts

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Remember Sun Tzu
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat”
Let's translate to territorial development:
• With strategy alone (i.e. long-term vision), you will last
longer to get success, but
• With tactics alone (SDGs) you will go straight to failure in
developing your city.

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So, what role for each tool?
To reach local development we need a Strategic Plan
built up from two parts:
• A Territorial Long-Term Vision +
• A working program for each SDG, taking the
Long-Term Vision Plan as a guideline

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As a result of ideas 1, 2 & 3...
...What we need is...
...a long-term vision...
...unique
...shared and agreed
...for our territory
Ok, then. We now need to know how to get it?

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Let's come back to defining
the long-term vision
In order to do this, we are using 4 methodological tips:
1. A collaborative leadership style
2. Starting from a white sheet of paper
3. Generating territorial innovation by surfacing territorial
intelligence
4. By means of an adhoc participative process
...and (5) getting the city future out of the political debate

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1. A collaborative leadership style:
https://youtu.be/qlBUAnPFUd8

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2. Starting from a white sheet of paper
And this means:
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calling up local stakeholders...
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...to jointly define our shared long-term vision
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with no a priori ideas
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with no “expert” suggestions in advance
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opening so, the future to new possibilities
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and avoiding killing territorial innovation from scratch

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3. Generating territorial innovation
• By exchanging ideas from different sectors...
• ...different interests...
• ...different knowledge areas
• in order to let never explored opportunities arise
• so, we'll find new unique options for our territory and
• we'll set-up a differentiating and remarkable project

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4. By means of an adhoc participatory
methodology
We'll need to combine:
• Local talent, to put in the best ideas
• And a global participation
And doing so we'll get:
1.The best possible project for the city and
2. local stakeholders and citizens actively engaged

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How this process would look?
1. A group of 40 citizens will define the Local Long-Term Plan
(10 to 15 pages) in 3 days
2. An open participatory process spreads and improves the
Plan as well as getting stakeholders and citizens engaged
3. A mixed governance structure, in charge of driving the
Strategic Plan implementation, is then created, including
all relevant stakeholders in it.
4. Every required SDGs plans will be, then, defined (or revised)
taking the Long-Term Plan as the starting point

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The result will be a Long-Term Plan ...
...providing a strategic frame for the territory
...which all local stakeholders aligned with and
commited to it
...encouraging synergies between stakeholders
...with a mixed governance organization
...which will boost territorial potential...
...and its impact abroad!
...and moreover, this Plan will stay as a working guide for
future local authorities

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Recap
Let's see some real life examples:
• State of xxxxx, México: no strategy, no way
• City of xxxx, Ecuador: Strategy vs. ODS
• Región Norte del Ecuador, creating a shared goal
• Santa Cruz de Tenerife, getting a lasting strategy

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