Without the creation of legal frameworks and institutions that perform specific functions for interstate and metropolitan coordination, regions such as La Laguna will not be able to meet the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, the New Urban Agenda and the plans oriented towards regional economic development and nearshoring. , as is the case of the Prospective Territorial Atlas for Attracting Investments.
A Metropolitan Planning Institute (Imeplan); metropolitan transportation agencies, for waste treatment, for the promotion of investments, as well as a Metropolitan Interstate Fund, must emerge as part of the institutional framework to meet these objectives and be on par with the development that the region demands.
When presenting the Interstate and Metropolitan Parliament of La Laguna in the forum Local Diplomacy as a Tool for the Localization of Global Development Agendas, Julián Mejía Berdeja, president of the Renacer Lagunero organization, highlighted the importance of counting, both at the national and subnational, with said scaffolding in the legal and institutional aspect, that are capable of recognizing and responding to the new realities and challenges of the territories.
Although this Parliament constitutes the basis for development in the metropolitan area of La Laguna, the Local Congresses of Coahuila and Durango have not taken on the task of formulating initiatives for the creation of laws and regulations, in addition to the aforementioned institutions, through the which can translate into greater coordination on issues that concern the inhabitants of this area.
During his speech, Mejía Berdeja expressed that the levels of success and effectiveness obtained by high diplomacy and by local diplomacy or paradiplomacy will depend each time on the quality with which intermunicipal, metropolitan and interstate diplomacy is carried out, and how through it it is possible to build, or not, intelligent and institutionalized territorial coordination and governance.
The Interstate and Metropolitan Parliament of La Laguna is not only a mechanism of interparliamentary collaboration between the Congresses of Coahuila and Durango, but also an example of interstate and metropolitan diplomacy and as a component within the legal-institutional scaffolding that interstate metropolises require to its coordination, governance, socioeconomic development and international promotion.
“Mexico needs cities and metropolises coordinated in their management and institutionality, connected to markets, networks, agendas and sources of financing, and connectable, in such a way that productive investments can arrive and operate without difficulties and the objectives of global agendas development projects can be executed,” he said.
The forum was organized by the Senate of the Republic, the International Habitat Summit for Latin America and the Caribbean (CIHALC), the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) and the Mexican Association of International Affairs Offices (AMAIE).
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