Why a strategy for walking?

The Nacional Walking Strategy is necessary to help address social, economic, environmental, cultural and territorial disparities, without neglecting local idiosyncrasies. It stimulates the coordinated development of various measures.

Defining a Walking Strategy reinforces the importance of walking and contributes to:

• Envisioning a comprehensive and cross-cutting vision for a desirable social future;
• Identifying trends and anticipate opportunities;
• Setting prioritized objectives and allocating resources accordingly;
• Facilitating debate and sustating open dialogue beyond strategy definition;
• Organizing implementation approaches for proposed actions;
• Aligning public policies with defined objectives;
• Establishing timelines, scales, programs and content;
• Ensuring a global, systematic and holistic approach to implement concrete measures.

The specificity of pedestrian mobility necessitates local implementation. However, the existence of a national-scale strategy remains crucial framing, supporting and coordinating the diverse actors involved.