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Advances and challenges from the Course of Action of Playa del Carmen and the Consensus de Bogota

Advances and challenges from the Course of Action of Playa del Carmen and the Consensus de Bogota. XVI Regular CIDI Meeting Ambassador Alfonso Quiñónez Secretary for External Affairs.

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Advances and challenges from the Course of Action of Playa del Carmen and the Consensus de Bogota

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  1. Advances and challenges from the Course of Action of Playa del Carmen and the Consensus de Bogota XVI Regular CIDI Meeting Ambassador Alfonso Quiñónez Secretary for External Affairs

  2. “The Member States, inspired by the principles of inter­American solidarity and cooperation, pledge themselves to a united effort to ensure international social justice in their relations and integral development for their peoples, as conditions essential to peace and security…” OAS Charter Article 30, Chapter VII

  3. Policy level CIDI Inter-American Committees:Policy dialogue and cooperation. Areas of action: education, culture, social development, labor, sustainable development, science and technology, tourism Programmatic level: Develops, promotes, and implement programs, projects and cooperation activities aimed to: (1)strengthening of capacity building; (2) strengthening of institutions, and (3) design and implementation of effective public policy The OAS and Development Principal Goal: to support member states in their efforts to reduce poverty and inequity to provide equality of opportunities and to eradicate extreme poverty through capacity building of human resources and strengthening institutions. Action at two levels: Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development Cooperation

  4. Agreements Playa del Carmen and Bogotá 1.To promote the OAS as a forum for dialogue on hemispheric cooperation, particularly on the effectiveness of cooperation • Strengthening IACD • Meetings of cooperation authorities • Link cooperation efforts: • With implementation of political mandates • Strengthening CooperaNet • Mechanisms of dialogue among cooperation authorities • Exchange of practices • Increase the efectiveness of cooperation

  5. 2.Enhance the effectiveness of cooperation offered though the OAS Agreements Playa del Carmen and Bogotá • Promote innovative cooperation modalities. • Strengthening FEMCIDI • Review the Structural CIDI framework • Find common goals with other organizations • Fundraising • Support member States (MS) in strengthening their coop. information systems • Strengthen participation of MS in the selection, execution, monitoring and evaluation of projects

  6. Advances: Regional dialogue on cooperation effectiveness NEW SPACE WITH A MULTIPLYING EFFECT • New space for the OAS (facilitator and promoter) (Subregional Workshops: Ecuador, Barbados & Guatemala) • Common positions to place the region internationally • Coordinate agenda with a view of the meeting in Bussan, Korea • Introduce the regional perspective in the world debate • Tools and mechanisms for the effective implementation of cooperation are shared (information systems on cooperation) • Within CooperaNet subregional recommendations and exchanges on the effectiveness of cooperation (10 case studies, 13 stories) • Platform to share South-South, triangular and other forms of cooperation • Multiplying effect of knowledge via CooperaNet (Workshops were WebCasted, more than 8,500 users)

  7. Advances: Strengthening FEMCIDI MINISTERIALS, IA COMMITTEES AND FEMCIDI STRENGTHENED • Links political priorities and cooperation • A space for executing entities to have coordination, greater participation of member States • Adopts Programmatic Approach • Attacks external resources (Partners meeting) • Multiply partners (Ministers & Committees, others) • Includes new modalities of cooperation • Creates in-house synergies (capacity building, others) • Less projects greater impact greater visibility • Greater effectiveness – appropriation, monitoring, evaluation

  8. Advances: Fundraising strategy PASO INICIAL: UN PLAN • Increase number of donors and contributions • Analysis and research on potential donors • Promote the existing relations, create new (traditional and non traditional) • Image promotion. Comparative advantages of the OAS • Inventory of OAS Cooperation Agreements so that they can put into practice. • Effective mechanism of fundraising • Improving the internal capacity • Strengthening the responsible area with external resources, • Continue improving the administration (efficiency, reporting, transparency) • Improvement of technical capacity • Work based on results implementation, monitoring and evaluation

  9. Main challenges: • Too many mandates, priorities. Need to focus • Limited human and financial resources at the OAS • Regular CIDI meeting • Strengthening of the IACD and partipation in the sectoral cooperation • Mechanisms to identify good practices and to inform member States (match between offer and demand). • Mechanisms to incorporate in all areas offers to triangular and South South cooperation

  10. Opportunities: • The OAS is the natural vehicle where member States can benefit from the lessons learned and knowledge of its neighbors in the region • Triangular and South-South cooperation are apt models to transfer this knowledge • Many experiences in the region that could be shared through new modalities of cooperation. Need to identify how these experiences could complement the ongoing efforts in member States. Greater chance for the projects to be sustainable

  11. Opportunities: • Dialogue of high-level cooperation authorities would allow to. • Bring awareness of the particularities of the region in international fora and raise additional funds outside of the inter-American system • Improve the effectiveness of cooperation via exchange of experiences and practices. • CooperaNet is a tool to share experiences in cooperation effectiveness • Summit of the Americas Cartagena 2012 “Partnership for Development Cooperation” and “link efforts to reach higher levels of growth and prosperity”– Opportunity for CIDI and the High-Level cooperation Authorities

  12. The resources will always be limited. The OAS serves as communicating conduit among the countries of the Hemisphere so that they benefit from the experiences and knowledge accumulated by all their neighbors in solving similar problems and challenges

  13. Areas for action of the Strategic Plan • Social development and creation of productive employment • Education • Diversification and integration, trade liberalization, and market access • Scientific development and exchange and transfer of technology • Strengthening of democratic institutions • Sustainable tourism development • Sustainable development and environment • Culture Do these areas generate division? Do we have impact? Would it be better to have an unifying theme? What place would we like to give the OAS in these areas for action?

  14. Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI) Mission: • To provide support to member states in their efforts to reduce poverty and achieve greater economic and social development by: • Supporting dialogue at the highest level; • Acting as an agent that catalyzes and translates political agreements into concrete actions; • Promoting, coordinating, and facilitating the execution of programs, projects, and activities.

  15. Main objectives of SEDI • To contribute in the consolidation of the OAS as a main political forum; • To develop, promote, and implement programs, projects and cooperation activities aimed to: (1)strengthening of capacity building; (2) strengthening of institutions, and (3) design and implementation of effective public policy; • To establish or strengthen strategic partnerships; • To mobilize resources; • To increase the visibility of the Organization as an important actor in the area of development.

  16. Organizational Chart

  17. Resources for Cooperation • Resources: • - Regular Fund • - FEMCIDI • - Specific Funds • - Scholarship and Training Programs • - Foundations associated with the OAS Trust for the Americas, Young Americas Business • Trust (YABT), Pan-American Development Foundation (PADF) • - OAS offices in the member states (Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, • Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, United States*, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, • Honduras, Jamaica, México, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Saint Kitts & Nevis, • Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela) • Financing sources and partnerships: • - Member States • - Permanent Observers • - International and multilateral organizations • - Private sector (corporations, foundations, private academic/technical institutions) • - Non-profit organizations (civil society organizations, networks public academic/technical institutions)

  18. Resources allocated to SEDI and its Departments (2008 Budget): Regular Fund Funds allocated in the OAS Budget to SEDI in Chapter 7 (less the cost of meetings) and to the Department of Human Development, Sub-program 31E (only the Scholarships Division and the Education Portal) Total allocated for 2007: US $10.596.900,00

  19. Regular Fund: SEDI Percentage of the 2008 OAS Approved Budget

  20. FEMCIDI: Contributions

  21. FEMCIDI: Projects financed 1997- to date Total: US $ 87.144.300 and 861 projects

  22. FEMCIDI 2000-2007: Distribution of resources by region • 40.5% English-speaking Caribbean countries, Haiti, Belize, Guyana y Suriname • 23.5% Central American countries and the Dominican Republic • 26% Spanish speaking South America and Brazil • 10% North America (US and México)

  23. FEMCIDI 2000 - 2007: Requested funds (US$) vs. contributions by sector • The Secretariat has observed that the overall amount of requests to the fund represents on average almost 500% of the total contributions. • The most salient discrepancies occurred in the accounts of Culture where requests represented 1332% of the contributions during that time frame, Social Development 609%, environment 577% and trade 500%.

  24. Specific Funds: Some specific examples of SEDI activities Office of the Executive Secretary: • Best Practices Forum of the Americas (2004-07) US $ 137.623 • Municipal Efficiency and Transparency (MuNet) US $ 2.005.211 • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (2004-07) US $ 1.820.000 • Computers for Schools – Communities (CFS/CFC) (04-07) US $ 605.987 • e-Government Service Centers (2007-09) US $ 221.494 • Strengthening e-SMEs Policies and Institutions (2008-10) US $ 593.000 • RED GEALC –Network of e-government Leaders from LAC US $ 1.276.000 • Government Procurement Network (2004-08) US $ 220.000 • Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in SMEs in the Caribbean (07-09) US $ 651.000 • Institutional Capacity Building (2004-09) US $ 240.000 Approx Investment.US$ 6.888.000 Universal Civil Identity Program in the Americas US $ 6.420.000 (Honduras, Haití, partial amount Paraguay project - Fondo España)

  25. Specific Funds: Some specific examples of SEDI activities Social Development: Employment: Network/based Capacity Building on Social Protection Strategies: Since 1991 holds annual Conferences of the Social Network of Latin America and the Caribbean 4Hemispheric Workshops (on social protection systems) Effective promotion of cooperation between the Caribbean and Latin America 1technical study on the effectiveness of social policy in providing of social services Close collaboration with international organizations (ECLAC, IDB, World Bank, among others) Strong support of the academic sector (UWI, Universidad de Chile, among others) In 1 and a half year, the Inter-American Network for Labor Administration (RIAL) has organized and achieved: 5Hemispheric workshops (Migration, employment services, health and occupational safety, labor dimension of FTAs) 8bilateral cooperation activities among ministers of labor 247 representatives of ministries of labor, union and business sector trained 10international organizations participating (ILO, IDB, among others) 11centers of research and participating NGOs 1technical study on gender and employment APPROX. INVESTMENT: US $725.000 APPROX. INVESTMENT:US $445.000

  26. Specific Funds: Some specific examples of SEDI activities Education: Culture: 3 ministerial priority areastranslated in concrete activities during 2007: • Culture and Development Seminar “Culture as an engine of economic growth”– public policy to promote the cultural sector and economic development. Partnerships with the WB, UNCTAD, IDB • Culture, identity and diversity Seminar “Art and Culture as strategies to prevent social violence”. International seminar“Cultural diversity: practice and perspectives” – exchange of public policy practices to promote diversity • Preservation and protection of cultural heritage Workshops and sub regional case studies of policy and programs on protection of cultural heritage. APPROX. INVESTMENT: US $2.180.000 APPROX. INVESTMENT: US $150.000

  27. Specific Funds: Some specific examples of SEDI activities Trade: Sustainable Development: • Capacity building in member States, in the last 5 years : • 150 courses, seminars, workshops and programs • 8,000 people training from government, private sector and civil society • Partnerships with IDB, WB, CARICOM, SIECA, Andean Community, CAF, etc. • Approx. Investment: US$ 4,983,000 • Foreign Trade Information System (SICE): • Regular Fund: • Specific Funds: US$620.000 • Biodiversity and Sustainable Forest Management US $6.9 MILL. • Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation US $2.6 MILL. • Environmental Law, Policies and Economics US $2.46 MILL. • Integrated Water Resource • Management US $44.2 MILL. • Management of Natural Hazard • RiskUS $3.79 MILL. APPROX. INVESTMENT: US $59.900.000 APPROX. INVESTMENT: US $5.500.000

  28. Specific Funds: Some specific examples of SEDI activities Science and Technology Tourism: Engineering in the Americas (EftA), created in 2005 to improve the quality of engineering education and to establish recognized accreditation systems in the Hemisphere. 1International Symposium in Engineering 4 EFtA planning meetings Partnership with the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Inter-American System of Metrology (SIM) Created in 1978 and joint to the OAS since 1995 with the participation of all member States. The OAS is the SIM Secretariat and since 2000 has: Promotedthe creation of national laboratories of metrology in all member States Trained 1017 professionals in metrology Organized104 inter comparisons (in 2002 only 3 laboratories participated, today has increased to 15) • Small Tourism Enterprise Program • Assistance Program to Small Hotels in Central America US $ 1.000.000 • Caribbean experiences US $ 332.000 • Haiti Public Attitudes Awareness Project • Local Cuisine US $ 125.000 • Tourism Training and Capacity • Building US $ 190.000 APPROX. INVESTMENT: US $2.900.000 APPROX. INVESTMENT: US $ 1.050.000

  29. Scholarships and Training: Investment Funds executed by the OAS Scholarships and Training Program 2002-2007 The budget execution for 2006 and 2007 reflect the temporary pause of the OAS Scholarships and Training Program Total executed 2002-2007: US $ 36.177.765

  30. Scholarships and Training: Academic studies

  31. Scholarships and Training: Professional development Portal of the Americas

  32. The OAS investmentin the are of development has been more than US $ 250 million in the last 5 years

  33. Resources are limited andwe cannot be nor do everything for everyone It is important to define our niche and to focus our efforts on obtaining greater impact and recognition

  34. “…democracy is not just a matter of ideas, institutions, or values. Much more importantly, it is also about delivering results that benefit the people. For good governance, it is not enough to feel and act like a democrat or achieve high levels of growth: the real challenge is to preserve the stability of democracy and achieve economic growth by providing citizens at the same time with all those benefits and solutions to their problems promised them by a fully-fledged democracy and a prosperous economy” José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the OAS, during the Regional Seminar “Macroeconomic Policies and poverty””, Lima, Peru, September 19-20 de 2007 What role do we want the OAS to play in the development of the Hemisphere?

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