1.- The construction process of the 2009-2013 National Plan for Good Living -- 2.- Ethical and Programmmatic Guidelines --3.- Change of paradigm -- 4.- Critical diagnosis -- 5.- Towards a new way of generating and redistributing wealth for good living -- 6.- Strategies fo r the 2009-2013 Period -- 7.-National objectives for good living -- 8.- National territorial strategy -- 9.- Criteria for public investment -- 10.- Works cited

When in January 2007, we started preparing the 2007-2010 National Development Plan, the «plan for the Citizens' Revolution”, we did not start from scratch. At this time, our challenge is to consolidate it and this is why the 2009-2013 National Plan for Good Living establishes new horizons aimed to materialize and radicalize the project for a change of the Citizens' Revolution and for the achievement of Good Living for all Ecuadorians.

The 2007-2010 National Development Plan, the “Plan for the Citizen's Revolution”, was elaborated for the first presidential term of Rafael Correa. It was the result of many of the proposals for change outlined in the Government Plan proposed by Movimiento País, in the run-up to the elections of 2006 and 2007. With the ratification of a new Constitution (2008), came new elections, a new presidential term for the Citizen's Revolution (2009-2013). In accordance to the new political circumstances and the new legal and constitutional framework, a new National Development Plan was deemed necessary. It was called the 2009-2013 “National Plan for Good Living”, and sought to give strength to the Five Revolutions of the Citizens' Revolution, promote the gradual construction of a Plurinational and Intercultural State, and support the new social contract contemplated in the new 2008 Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador