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OAS Development Cooperation Fund SEDI/DCF

Explore OAS/DCF opportunities for social protection and employment initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing local capacities, knowledge exchange, and sustainable results.

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OAS Development Cooperation Fund SEDI/DCF

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  1. OAS Development Cooperation Fund SEDI/DCF OAS/DCF

  2. OAS/DCF Participating Member States

  3. OAS/DCF Process Timeline: By April 20th Presentation to MB April 27 By May 15

  4. OAS/DCF Criteria for Programs • A clearly defined objective; • Support for solving a national or regional problem; • Promote transfers or exchanges of experiences, knowledge, good practices, techniques, and technologies; • Promote triangular, south–south, and horizontal forms of cooperation;

  5. OAS/DCF Criteria for Programs (cont’d) • Increase opportunities for coordinating and mobilizing funding; • Contribute to the use and development of local capacities and human capital; • Direct the programs toward strengthening institutions and on training human resources; • Avoid duplication of efforts in resource allocation; • Ensure the sustainability of the programs’ results

  6. OAS/DCF Key Considerations for development objective • National Development Plans • Action Plan of the Social Charter of the Americas • Ministerial Mandates • Specialized Meetings of OAS member states • Consultations with Depts of the Secretariat

  7. OAS/DCF Goal:Social Protection / Social Inclusion Promote the creation and strengthening of comprehensive social protection systems Productive Employment Promote the creation of opportunities for productive employment particularly among vulnerable groups

  8. OAS/DCF Possible Tracks Social Inclusion/Social Protection • Improved national capacities to deliver effective social protection and social inclusion programs • Establishment  and strengthening of linkages between social protection, productive inclusion, income generation and financial inclusion programs

  9. OAS/DCF Possible Tracks Productive Employment • Improve skills training to address the needs of the productive sector • Adapt training to respond to the particularities and needs of vulnerable populations (youth/persons with disabilities/indigenous, etc) • Strengthen institutions that assist SMEs in order to boost innovation and productivity

  10. OAS/DCF Budgetary Considerations • Approved funding for 2014-2017 DCF Programming Cycle: $ 3,200,000 • National Activities should not exceed US130,000 in the initial stage of development • 1/3 of budget should designated for activities in Education(human dev), Innovation and Technology- Cross-cutting elements

  11. OAS/DCF Counterpart and Other Donors • To date, the counterpart offered from Member States adds up to $ 1,718,694 • To date, the actual amount from other donors in country is $209,700

  12. OAS/DCF Cooperation Opportunities

  13. OAS/DCF DCF discussion with Potential Partners Microsoft: discussed as a long time engagement strategy for the cross cutting area of education, innovation and technology. (Access to project management software for implementing national activities within the DCF is being explored) INTEL: Partner on cross-cutting Policy Development tools GOOGLE: A research-based assessment mechanism/methodology to be integrated on every capacity building component presented in the 2014-2017 DCF Programmatic Framework GIZ: Synergies with actual Initiatives implemented by GIZ in the Americas on Social protection and productive employment will be discussed in early May USAID: Overall Partnership/ Complementary programming in LAC KERIS: Complementary Programming in LAC

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