It is important that local governments build public policies focused on the implementation of the 2030 Universal Agenda for Sustainable Development. City's urban plans should consider the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) targets in their elaboration phase, allowing access to national and international funding and collaboration, as well as the engagement of community stakeholders in the achievement of a sustainable development. Despite of many municipality actions, projects and policies that contribute to the achievement of Fortaleza’s sustainable development, few mention the SDGs or localize the SDGs targets.
Fortaleza is located in Northeast Brazil, in the State of Ceará. Its maritime waterfront is endowed with great natural beauty. However, over the years, like several Brazilian capitals, it has been occupied in a disorderly and irregular manner, both by the high-income population and by low-income communities that have poor housing conditions. Necessarily prepared with social participation, Orla Project is considered an effective tool that can evidence and promote actions carried out by the municipalities in their coastal systems in an integrated manner, reconciling environmental development and preservation in the coastal region.
The 2018’s Integrated Project for the Management of the Maritime Waterfront of Fortaleza (Orla Project 2018) was the first urban plan of the city that localized and aligned its actions with the SDGs targets. For each action established, the correspondent Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target was localized, making possible the future publicization to society of how exactly each established action contributes to the achievement of Agenda 2030. The Fortaleza Orla Project 2018 is been considered a reference for other municipalities that are elaborating it’s Orla Project in the State of Ceará. It brings several innovations, starting with the fact that Fortaleza was the first city in Brazil to set a review of its Orla Project starting in 2017, with no defined methodology or reference document for review, which made the technical team develop its own methodology. That includes the integration of Orla Project 2018 through the alignment of the proposed actions with the objectives of Fortaleza 2040 Strategic Plan and the SDGs targets, in order to enhance the scope and effectiveness of the proposed actions, as well as to facilitate the means of managing, controlling and financing the plan.
This article aims to identify innovations, lessons learned and achievements of Fortaleza’s Orla Projects 2006 and 2018, to enable all the potential of Orla Project in order to contribute to the achievement of the local objectives established and the aligned global objectives of 2030 Agenda (SDGs), describing guidelines for improving its elaboration methodology.