The Medina administration is moving towards establishing the land development ordinance in the Dominican Republic, the Ministry of Economy reports. On Friday, 2 March, the Ministry unveiled the technical report for the application of the land use plan whose implementation is required by the National Development Strategy Law. The plan includes managing public policies for land ordinance, public policies and facilitates integrated risk management at a national and local level. The report was released by the Land Development Ordinance Department (DGODT), part of the Ministry of Economy (MEPyD). The Strategic Environmental Assessment Report of the National Territorial Ordinance Plan (PNOT) is sponsored by the USAID/TNC Environmental Protection Program with support from a technical team of the Ministry of Environment, the National Council for Climate Change and the Mechanism for Clean Development, as well as DGODT.
The decision to move ahead with land ordinance is key for the Dominican Republic, where many corrupt municipal governments are known to have not allowed for an efficient use of land resources to date.
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