Commitments 3
Management, surveillance and environmental protection and territorial planning
To encourage the open government principles as a tool to advance in the integrated and sustainable management of the territory and the environment, to progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and to contribute to the principles promoting the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement).
3.1 National System for Environmental Complaint´s Management
Ministry of Environment (MA, for its acronym in Spanish)
To implement a national system for the management of environmental complaints which allows receiving complaints through multiple channels, extending the available public information and allows making a citizen monitoring of the complaint processing and resolution.
Goals and/or major milestones
- To generate participative instances to foster exchange among multiple actors and receive contributions which allow redesigning the management processes of environmental complaints and generating the adaptation proposal.
- To modify the system of environmental complaints, to incorporate new proposals generated through the participative process.
- To implement the new system within the scope of the Ministry of Environment and incorporate at least 3 public institutions.
- To make available an instrument for the follow-up of the complaints and tools which provides transparency to all the reporting and resolution processes.
- To publish the information and the data in open formats in the National Environmental Observatory and in the national catalogue of open data, to facilitate the access and use by different interested audiences.
3.2 Observatory “Uruguay más circular” (More circular Uruguay): National Waste Plan
Ministry of Environment (MA)
To create an Observatory - Uruguay más circular: National Waste Plan which allows monitoring the progress, and provides data and information in connection with the Plan follow-up indicators, initiatives to promote recycling and circular economy, information categorized by type of waste valorisation route, among other key information for decision-making and informed citizen participation.
Goals and/or major milestones
- To perform the concept design of the Waste Information Single Integrated System, incorporating instances for exchange and contributions with different interested actors. It includes the concept design of the incorporation of the Observatory Uruguay más circular: National Waste Plan as a module of the National Environmental Observatory.
- To develop the Waste Information Single Integrated System and implement the Observatory Uruguay más circular: National Waste Plan.
- To incorporate applications into the Observatory Uruguay más circular to facilitate the participation of civil society in the recycling programs.
- To publish information with indicators that allow following up the National Waste Management Plan.
- To provide information related to applications enabling waste traceability.
- To train in the use of the applications and promote the information about waste to foster the use by the different sectors of the society.
3.3 Participative process for the preparation of Uruguay´s Second Nationally Determined Contribution and its follow-up
National System on Climate Change Response and variability (SNRCC, for its acronym in Spanish)
To design and implement a participative process with the objective of contributing to the preparation of Uruguay´s Second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), consolidating and articulating a set of actions aimed at fostering the participation and involvement of the actors and sectors, and at achieving great ambition and commitment in this instrument. The process will include a public consultation by means of the Digital Citizen Participation Platform as a tool to amplify and diversify the public participation opportunities. Once the Second NDC becomes effective, a system will be implemented for its follow-up, which will be made public in the National Catalogue of Open Data, and accessible through the use of display panels.
Goals and/or major milestones
- To design a participative process for the preparation of the Second Nationally Determined Contribution on Climate Change.
- Communication and diffusion.
- To implement consultation and exchange instances within sectors and with different transversal actors.
- To implement a public consultation on the draft of the Second NDC.
- Completion of the Second NDC document, considering the contributions.
- Preparation of follow-up indicators and methodological guides considering the possibility of opening data.
- Implementation of display of indicators and communication strategy with involved subjects.
3.4 Santa Lucía Portal, a tool for the territorial management of the River basin
Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning (MVOT, for its acronym in Spanish) – National Directorate of Territorial Planning (DINOT, for its acronym in Spanish)
To design and implement a digital participation platform that enables the performance and management of the preparation process of the National Program on Territorial Planning and Sustainable Development in the Santa Lucía river basin and the integrated management thereof. This tool shall allow unified access to the Program cocreation process, facilitating the operation of the Coordination and Follow-up Commission, and the spaces for the construction of collaborative documents during the territorial planning instrument preparation process.
To develop a portal that supplements the solution and allows: a) Accessing information, services, and ongoing initiatives on a centralized basis in the basin with regard to territorial planning instruments, fostering information, participation, and training instances. b) Having a direct channel to file complaints of non-compliance with territorial planning provisions. c) Incorporating compliance follow-up and accountability components concerning the territorial planning instruments and provisions that affect that territory.
Goals and/or major milestones
- To implement a design process of the Santa Lucía Portal for the territorial planning and management of the river basin, and the institutional agreements so that it works as an integrated space.
- To develop the platform and launch it.
- To implement public promotion campaigns to involve the citizens in the processes implying the monitoring and follow-up of the plans and measures with impact on the territory.
- To develop 2 training session workshops and opportunities for exchange and appropriation of the use of the platform by the different actors involved in Santa Lucía´s river basin.
- Generation and application of consultation and assessment forms to the users so as to make adjustments and improvements to the solution in two instances.