The regional coordination process promoted by the South-Southeast states, through which they seek to build a shared regional vision , as well as define a comprehensive strategy for development , has several impulses.
In December 2001, at the initiative of the Government of the Republic, the South Southeast Regional Development Trust (FIDESUR) was established as the financial instrument that supports the operation of the regional planning model and promotes studies and projects that contribute to regional development. of the South Southeast of Mexico.
This initiative fostered a work scheme based on thematic groups made up of state authorities who met with the purpose of exchanging experiences. Subsequently, the meetings were motivated by the expectation of defining projects that could be promoted jointly by several states. This network of interstate relations was what led to the emergence of the region as a new management space.
During the 2002-2006 period, several sectoral technical groups were formed with the purpose of identifying lines of work in their respective areas of competence for regional coordination, as well as promoting and implementing interstate actions and projects for the development of the region. Among these we can mention the Regional Infrastructure Council, the Economic Group of the South Southeast region, the Group of Environmental Authorities, the Rural Development Group and the Social Development Group.
In 2013, the Governor of Tabasco assumed the coordination of this Commission, promoting the establishment of the bases for the formulation of the National Strategy for Comprehensive Development of the South Southeast, which proposes as its main strategic objective the configuration of a regional organization for interstate coordination and intergovernmental in three aspects: thematic, territorial and institutional/instrumental. Until June 2017, the South Southeast Commission held the following six meetings:
The base document for a comprehensive development initiative for the South Southeast region was presented, also defining an initial work agenda.
The governors requested the Undersecretary of Expenditures of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) to modify the operating rules of the South Southeast Fund (FONSUR), to admit the presentation of joint projects by two or more states of the region. The Commission assumes the elaboration of the National Strategy, initially considered as a commitment of the federal government.
The Executive Commission unanimously approved the National Strategy for the Development of the South Southeast Region prepared by the Technical Coordination of the Commission, previously agreed upon in a process of meetings of the Technical Commission in which state government officials participated.
The governors signed with the head of the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (SEDATU), an intergovernmental coordination agreement for the articulated and synergistic implementation of the National Strategy for the Development of the South Southeast, assumed by the Commission and the Regional Program for Development of the South Southeast 2014-2018, formulated by SEDATU within the framework of the Federal Planning Law. Six regional thematic working groups defined in the National Strategy are formalized as intergovernmental coordination groups for the implementation of the two planning instruments.
The Executive Commission supported and promoted an agenda of topics previously agreed upon by heads of state agencies within the regional thematic groups, from which the implementation of the first five regional public action initiatives emerged.
The governors and the coordinator of CONAGO asked the Federal Executive to reestablish FONSUR, which allows the states of the region to have financing to carry out pre-investment studies, as well as strengthen state capacities in the management of public investment projects. . The regional promotion of sustainable tourism is also assumed as the sixth regional initiative promoted by the Commission for the Integral Development of the South Southeast Region (CDIRSSE).
More information: South Southeast Commission of CONAGO
