Intersectoral engagement framework for urban sustainable development

Abstract

This research deals with the creation and implementation of an intersectoral engagement framework focused on sustainable urban development in the municipality of Guaíba in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The framework is called the Sustainable Development Strategy, which is composed by the following steps: multidisciplinary partnership building, situational assessment, interventions proposition and alignment, monitoring and evaluation, general review and expansion, renewal of activities and partnerships. The action-research methodology was adopted to implement each of the steps, combined with the case study approach to report the experience and its results. The results indicated that the Sustainable Development Strategy fostered better articulation among municipal executive secretariats, identification of relevant data for use in the urban planning process, and better strategic alignment among representatives of the public sector, private sector and civil society focusing the planning and implementation of initiatives related to urban sustainability. In this sense, the Sustainable Development Strategy was identified as managerial framework with potential to be implemented by other municipalities towards the urban sustainable development.