A milestone in decentralization was achieved yesterday, with the official launch of the Ñuble Productive Development Committee, a regional body of strategic coordination in matters of economic development and productive promotion, which will grant greater decision-making power to the region to resolve, in a manner collaborative, the productive, innovation and entrepreneurship challenges in the territory.
Among its powers, the Committee will have the possibility of proposing and deciding the distribution of the budgetary framework granted to the region, through the Corfo budget. In addition, they will be able to decide on the allocation of resources to their programs and delegated lines of support. In Ñuble there are 21 delegated instruments, including Activa Inversión, Integrated Territorial Program, Networks, Innova Region, Viraliza and Semilla Inicia, to mention a few.
In a ceremony led by the regional governor, Óscar Crisóstomo; the Undersecretary of Economy, Javiera Petersen; and the executive vice president (s) of Corfo, Marcela Guerra, introduced herself to the 14 regular members of the council that will make up this Committee (12 men and 2 women), which is chaired by the governor and has representatives from the public and private world. and academic, who will be in charge of launching this new regional institutionality.
In addition to the governor, the Committee’s council is made up of: the head of the Gore Development and Industry Division, Jorge Romero; the head of the Gore Budget and Investment Division, Rubén Sandoval; regional councilors Javier Ávila and Sergio Inostroza; the Minister of Economy, Erick Solo de Zaldívar; the regional director of Sercotec, Pedro Elissetche; the deputy director of Programs of the Territorial Data Analysis Unit of Corfo, Andrés Gálvez; and the advisor to the Ministry of Economy, David Calderón. They are joined by María Eugenia González, dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Concepción; Ricardo Salman, president of the Chilean Chamber of Construction-Ñuble; Sonja Ungar, manager of the Katankura truffle exporting SME; Gabriel Pulgar, R&D&i manager of the biotechnology company Kimun Biotec; and Cristian Ortiz, member of the Radical Party and union advisor. Likewise, the regional director of Corfo, Macarena Dávila, acts as executive secretary of the body.
The launch of the Committee is part of a national plan that in 2023 allowed this organization to be established in O’Higgins, Los Lagos, Atacama, Valparaíso and Tarapacá, which joined those already in operation in Antofagasta, Biobío and Los Ríos. During 2024, it is projected that committees will also be established in La Araucanía, Aysén and Maule, in order to reach 16 regions in 2025.
Decentralization
“The implementation of this policy makes us very happy because it is an important step in the country’s decentralization process. This Committee provides a development space designed by and for the regions, which is undoubtedly a great advance for the productive development of the Ñuble region,” indicated the executive vice president(s) of Corfo.
For his part, Governor Crisóstomo stated that “this initiative is an effort by the Ministry of Economy with the regional governments of all of Chile, which is part of the agreements we assumed in the decentralization meeting we had with President Boric, a year ago. back, and that little by little advances in each of the regions. This Committee will allow decisions to be made based on the productive vocations and identity of our territory. “We are going to establish important definitions and resources that allow our entrepreneurs and businessmen to progress, and with that we see greater growth, development and employment, which are the fundamental points that we are working together to give more dynamism to our young region.” .
The Undersecretary of Economy, meanwhile, expressed that “what we are doing is giving more powers to Ñuble so that it can decide what is best for its economy. Our country is diverse and the instruments of promotion, innovation and entrepreneurship cannot be the same in all regions. There is no one better than the people who live in the region to provide guidelines on these policies.”
Guilds
The helmsman of the CChC Ñuble celebrated the establishment of the Committee, “representing significant progress in the decentralization process, granting autonomy to the regions to decide on the investment of their resources, both from Corfo and from agreements with the Regional Government . Members have greater sensitivity and knowledge about local needs, which enables them to effectively direct these resources for the benefit of economic growth and job creation.”
Likewise, the president of the Chillán Chamber of Commerce, Alejandro Lama, valued the formation of the Committee, “since the public and private sectors will be at the table, a representative of the academy, but the attention that there are key productive sectors of the region that are absent, such as agriculture, commerce, industry and tourism.”
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