Los planes de vida como derecho fundamental de los pueblos y nacionalidades indígenas de la Amazonía ecuatoriana

Abstract

Abstract: The objective of this work is to consider life plans as a fundamental right for indigenous peoples and nationalities, also to analyze their importance as an instrument of community strategic planning, to recognize their national and international legal context, and finally to seek the applicability of this right, considering that it is currently not formally recognized as part of the national planning process, despite its relevance as a navigation chart for true territorial planning, which only strengthens the exercise of collective rights. From a scientific, descriptive and analytical research, it was possible to identify the current existing problems of life plans, based on two indigenous Amazonian cases, through qualitative techniques such as interviewswith experts, presents among its results the proposal of three proposals of legal framework for the recognition and implementation of this tool essentially as a planning instrument in the context of the Ecuadorian Amazon, concluding that while there is such recognition in the national legislation it will be possible to obtain the budget for its implementation, thus guaranteeing the exercise of the collective rights of peoples and nationalities.