- a)Regional Legal Advisory Unit (Asesoría Legal Regional): Unit responsible for legally advising the Regional Directorate in the administrative and judicial processes that arise in the rural territory.
- b)Assignment (Asignación): A valid and effective administrative act issued by the Board of Directors by which a property is assigned to a natural or legal person applicant who has been declared suitable.
- c)Lease Fee (Canon): Amount of the monetary payment, in arrears per annum, that the lessee must annually pay for the lease concept.
- d)Territorial Councils for Rural Development (Consejos Territoriales de Desarrollo Rural, CTDR): Territorial instance for coordination and articulation of territorial rural development, whose establishment and coordination shall be facilitated by the Inder.
- e)Agreements (Convenios): These are the interinstitutional agreements that, based on the Principle of Comprehensiveness, may be signed by public entities, in which they undertake to contribute the components specific to their specialty within a general plan, a territorial strategic plan, or a specific project or program carried out for the fulfillment of the purposes of Law 9036. The purpose of such agreements is for public entities, among themselves, to formally commit to an integral territorial development strategy and consequently, to make the corresponding contribution so that the intersectoral public offer is fulfilled. They are a consequence of a Territorial Rural Development Plan, which, as territorial social pacts and the result of an understanding process among public entities on objectives, resources, and projects, also constitute a tool for concerted planning, for which the total component of the public offer is embodied and formally committed in favor of the territories or regions in those contemplated agreements.
- f)Declaration of Suitability (Declaratoria de Idoneidad): Act by which the Board of Directors of the Inder grants this condition to a natural person or non-profit legal entity, upon meeting the requirements of Law 9036, this Regulation, and the selection procedures, considering them suitable for the execution of a project.
- g)Territorial development (Desarrollo territorial): A process of comprehensive change in economic, social, environmental, cultural, and institutional matters, promoted in a territory, with the concerted and organized participation of all existing social actors in said territory, aimed at the pursuit of competitiveness, equity, well-being, and the social cohesion and identity of its inhabitants.
- h)Regional Directorate (Dirección Regional): Regional administrative unit responsible for coordinating and supervising territorial rural development processes, in the terms of Article 4, subsection c) of Law 9036, for each of the regions established by MIDEPLAN.
- i)Empowerment (Empoderamiento): The process by which people strengthen their capacities, confidence, vision, and protagonism as a social group, to drive positive changes in the situations they experience.
- j)Budgetary estimation and source of financing (Estimación presupuestaria y fuente de financiamiento): The overall projection of resources required to finance the execution of each of the various territorial development projects and programs or any of their components, as well as the identification of its source or sources of financing and the additional resources required for the execution of the plan for each of the years of its execution period.
- k)Indicator (Indicador): The unit of measure that can be expressed in quantitative and qualitative terms, which measures a process or a result of a situation to be evaluated.
- l)Law 2825: Law of Lands and Colonization (ITCO), of October 14, 1961, and its amendments.
- m)Law 8131: Law on Financial Administration of the Republic and Public Budgets.
- n)Law 8220: Law for the Protection of the Citizen from Excessive Administrative Requirements and Procedures.
- ñ)Law 9036 or Inder Law: Law for the Transformation of the Ida (IDA) into the Inder (Inder) of May 11, 2012.
- o)LGAP: General Law of Public Administration.
- p)Territorial Office (Oficina Territorial): Administrative unit located within a Regional Directorate, responsible for coordinating and executing the rural development process in the territory, in the terms of Article 4, subsection c) of Law No. 9036, for each of the territories established in accordance with Article 9 of Law 9036.
- q)Territorial Rural Development Plan (Plan de Desarrollo Rural Territorial, PDRT): A planning instrument whose purpose is to guide the different sectors linked to the comprehensive development of the territory, to make specific contributions through physical and budgetary goals based on the identification of needs and action priorities generated from each territory and the institutional offer.
- r)National Public Development and Investment Plan (Plan Nacional de Desarrollo y de Inversión Pública, PNDIP): A guiding framework of the Government of the Republic that defines the policies that will govern government action to promote the development of the country, the increase in production and productivity, the distribution of income, access to social services, and citizen participation for the improvement of the population's quality of life. It establishes, in a binding manner for public entities, ministries, and other bodies, the priorities, objectives, and strategies derived from those policies, which have been set by the Government of the Republic at the national, regional, and sectoral levels (Regulation to the Law on Financial Administration of the Republic and Public Budgets, Decree number 32.988 H-MP-PLAN).
(*)(Sinalevi Note: Its name was thus modified by subsection a) of Article 43 of the Regulation for the Implementation of Law No. 10441 of March 13, 2024, and the Operation of the National Public Investment System, approved by Executive Decree No. 45163 of August 8, 2025. Previously, it indicated "National Development Plan (Plan Nacional de Desarrollo, PND)") s) National Rural Development Plan (Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Rural, PNDR): A national planning instrument that defines the strategic actions and projects defined in the PDRTs, in accordance with the State Policy for Territorial Rural Development, and within the framework of the PND.
- t)State Policy for Territorial Rural Development (Política de Estado para el Desarrollo Rural Territorial, PEDRT) 2015-2025: A conceptual and normative framework in the area of rural development that allows the definition of strategic actions and projects for regions and territories, by social actors, for their subsequent incorporation into the PND.
- u)Project (Proyecto): A set of planned and interrelated activities aimed at achieving defined objectives through concrete products.
- v)Private sector (Sector privado): Natural or legal persons, organizations engaged in business activities and the social economy, as well as SMEs, duly accredited before the Inder.
- w)SEPSA: Executive Secretariat for Agricultural Sector Planning, advisor to the Governing Body of the Agricultural and Rural Sector.
- x)Civil society (Sociedad civil): A set of legally established organizations of society and persons involved in the rural development of the territory, which maintain their independence from the State, and which in their relationship act as interlocutors, participants, or recipients of territorial rural development processes.
- y)Rural territory (Territorio rural): A geographical unit dedicated to the development of agricultural and non-agricultural activities, composed of a particular social and institutional fabric, settled on a base of its own natural resources, with common forms of organization, production, consumption, exchange, and manifestations of identity. It is made up of one or several cantons, or some of their districts, which present common characteristics from the point of view of their ecology, their economic, cultural, institutional, political activities, and the income generation modalities of the population inhabiting them.
- z)Territories of greater social lag (Territorios de mayor rezago social): In accordance with Article 7 of Law No. 9036, these are those with less social and economic development, in which State intervention is a priority.
aa) Updated property value (Valor actualizado del inmueble): The updated value is the land purchase cost brought to present value by applying the discount rate set by the Central Bank, adding the value of any improvements paid for by the Inder that are present on the land at the time of formalizing the land endowment contract.