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The Councilor for Citizen Participation of the City of Lorca, Francisco Javier Pelegrín, reported that the Espin Cultural Fund hosted yesterday the meeting of the Plenary Session of the City's Social Council, which addressed as main issues the work that has been developed by of its different areas of work, such as the Adaptation to Climate Change Plan and the Life Adaptate Project;

the Accessibility Plan or the update of the study to define strategies for economic development and employment, improving the quality of life and welfare in the municipality.

Francisco Javier Pelegrín said that "it is time to verify the degree of compliance with the proposed objectives, to check if these objectives continue to be relevant and, if appropriate, to propose adjustments to make it as operational as possible and in accordance with present needs. We will do it with a mid-term evaluation of the aforementioned study.Strategic planning is based on anticipating the future and reducing uncertainty, but this requires a constant comparison with reality.On the other hand, this intermediate evaluation will allow us to adapt the framework of the municipality to the needs of the new global strategic framework and access to an Urban Agenda.The Urban Agendas are going to be the necessary instrument for the municipalities to choose funds from the European Union ".

The Councilor for Citizen Participation recalled that "the Social Council of the City commissioned 7 years ago the work of defining strategies for economic development and employment, improving the quality of life and welfare in the municipality of Lorca to the University of Murcia in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Cartagena This study allowed us to carry out a detailed analysis of the socio-economic reality of Lorca highlighting the problems and strangulations that haunt its closest horizon but also evidenced the strengths and potentialities that open a range of possibilities in the future, from the elaboration of a shared diagnosis, in which all the participants were involved, both from the Council itself and from representatives of civil society and technicians and officials, as well as the population in general through a broad surveys and other instruments of participation, the result of this

low was a dynamic strategic framework and widely shared by citizens. "

Pelegrín has pointed out that "a few days ago the central government approved the Spanish Urban Agenda after a long process that lasted more than a year.This agenda is a strategic document, without normative character, and therefore of voluntary adhesion, which, of In accordance with the criteria established by the 2030 Agenda, the new Urban Agenda of the United Nations and the Urban Agenda for the European Union pursue the achievement of sustainability in urban development policies.It also constitutes a working method and process for all actors, public and private, that intervene in cities and that seek an equitable, fair and sustainable development from their different fields of action, that is, cities must design their own strategy and be aligned with the rest of strategic instruments, both at a higher level and coordinating those of the agents present in the territory, thus multiplying the

what you want to achieve with these planning tools. "

The Mayor of Citizen Participation has detailed that "in the Plenary Session of the City's Social Council, they also agreed, among other aspects, the constitution of a Citizen Participation Table to take part in the Adaptation to Climate Change Plan and the Life Project Adaptate, which is an initiative aimed at reducing and mitigating CO2 emissions through the installation of awnings in urban public spaces, and the start of the Accessibility Plan of the municipality of Lorca in order to consolidate us as an accessible city for everyone without exception".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca