Territorial Development Plan for San Salvador

The overall objective of the plan is to formulate a tool for territorial planning in the medium and long term (projected to the year 2024), which integrates proposed land development - rural and urban- at a local and sub-regional level, with the opportunities and challenges of each of the municipalities that are part of the Sub Region 1, in order to achieve feasible and viable proposals that will contribute to improving the economic, social, and environmental conditions and the quality of life of its inhabitants, providing the social agents with an instrument that will allow them to manage local development efficiently .

This plan completes the 14 projected for all the sub-regions of the country and marks an essential step forward for the implementation of the recently approved Law on Management and Development.

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Challenges For Guatemala City

September 2011

In the past four decades great advances have not been made in the problems of water distribution, solid waste management, land use and transport.

Nine municipal administrations have presented action plans for solving the problems facing Guatemala City, but most have ended up as just that, plans.

$45 million for Salvadoran Transport System

January 2012

The agreement signed with the IDB has as its primary objective the improvement of public transport and general traffic in the metropolitan area of San Salvador.


A press release from the Ministry of Finance states that the Salvadoran Minister of Finance, Mr. Carlos Cáceres and the representative of the Inter American Development Bank in El Salvador (IDB) Mr.

Loan Approved for Public Transport System

January 2012

Members of the Finance Commission of El Salvador have agreed to approve a loan for $45 million to upgrade the public transport system.

A press release from the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador states that:

“The approval of a loan agreement signed between the Government of El Salvador and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), for the amount of $45 million to finance the implementation of a "Transportation Program for the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador" was the subject discussed by the deputies in the Special Committee on Finance and Budget.”

Honduras Launches Tender for Parking System

March 2011

The municipality of San Pedro Sula announced the tender of a regulated parking system.

Mayor Juan Carlos Zuniga stated that the new system seeks to restore order in city roads.

Within the reorganization plan the mayor also referred to necessary infrastructure, stating that some of the projects will get done this year and some others before 2013, considering the high amount of resources needed.