Outcome and impact Indicators
The following are proposed examples of indicators classified according to the different fields of sustainable development in which land-use planning has a major influence:
A) Poverty and equality
Coordination of land-use planning and economic development models
Coordination of land-use planning and economic development models
- LUP guide public and private investment plans in the territory
- Sustainable execution of human activities, reducing their impact on the environment and natural resources
- Increase in investments in infrastructures, public services and institutional capacity building
- Degree of application of LUP for investing municipal and national resources
- Reduction of spatial inequalities caused by economic growth
B) Human settlements
Human settlements
Human settlements
• Irregular settlement processes and urban sprawl have been stopped, stabilized or redirected
• Delimitation of urban areas
• The LUP guides heritage use of the territory
C) Environment and disaster prevention
Better management and conservation of natural resources
Better management and conservation of natural resources
- Delimitation of areas at risk of natural disasters
- Demarcation of protected or special areas
- Better treatment of wastewater
- Investment in natural fertilizers
- Change in land use
D) Land tenure
Cadastral surveys conducted in the territories
Cadastral surveys conducted in the territories
- Percentage increase in surveyed land plots in the territory
- Percentage of plots that receive cadastral maintenance over the course of the year
Conflicts of tenure and natural resources and mechanisms for the resolution of said conflicts
Conflicts of tenure and natural resources and mechanisms for the resolution of said conflicts
• Percentage of border conflicts resolved
• Percentage of conflicts resolved in the municipality and official statements
• Percentage of conflicts resolved among the inhabitants residing in municipal lands
Integration of the National Land Administration System
Integration of the National Land Administration System
- Percentage of certified municipalities
- Municipalities conduct cadastral maintenance in the cadaster-register system
Increase in the population with legal certainty regarding property
Increase in the population with legal certainty regarding property
- Territorial area with reinforced land tenure rights
- Number of people that receive land ownership documents from the municipal government
Sustainability of Municipal Cadastral Units
Sustainability of Municipal Cadastral Units
- Evolution of the municipal unit’s operating costs
- Income generated from tax collection and the provision of cadaster services in comparison with the operating budget
E) Governance and participation
Integration of LUP in sectoral policies and its recognition by institutions and the citizenry
Integration of LUP in sectoral policies and its recognition by institutions and the citizenry
- Existence of regulations that make the LUP official and updating this document
- Existence of fines for violating the LUP
- Formal national recognition of new municipal borders
- Establishment of formalized macro-areas (urban, rural, risk areas, municipal land, etc.)
- Establishment of LUP approved by the citizenry
Democratic governance
Democratic governance
- LUP approved by the population and Municipal Council
- Existence of formally recognized trail court for the development and implementation of the LUP
- Presence and participation of Civil Society in this court
- The LUP is a defining instrument of the identity of a territory