1. Development Agencies and Local Governments—Coexistence within the Same Territory.
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Garat de Marin, Mirtha Silvana, Soriano Flores, Emmanuel, Rodríguez Velasco, Carmen Lili, Silva Alvarado, Eduardo, Calderon Iglesias, Ruben, Álvarez, Roberto Marcelo, and Gracia Villar, Santos
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POLITICAL participation ,LOCAL government ,DECENTRALIZATION in government ,GOVERNMENT agencies ,CONSTITUTIONAL reform ,URBAN growth - Abstract
This article proposes a discussion on the form of coexistence of local Development Agencies in Uruguay, with local governments in the face of the new scenarios marked by the decentralization process, initiated in the country with the Constitutional Reform of 1996 and culminating in February 2009, with the Law of Political Decentralization and Citizen Participation. The discussion applies in particular to the local development agency of the city of Rivera (ADR), located in the northeast of the country. A descriptive, mixed, bibliographic, documentary investigation was carried out with primary data collection to internal and external references to ADR. The results show that the coexistence of both institutions has been difficult, without defining clear roles. Promoting dialogue to define the role of each seems to be the great challenge facing the sustainability of the agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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