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Country cases cluster 1: Costa Rica | Ecuador | Paraguay | Uruguay

Cluster 1 focused on strengthening the institutional capacities of selected Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries in the areas of planning, statistics and financing, in order to ensure greater coherence in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. To this end, the 2018-2020 cooperation program provided technical assistance in these areas to Paraguay, Uruguay, Costa Rica and Ecuador.

Costa Rica
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Regional Development Policy

The ECLAC-BMZ/giz cooperation program supported the Ministry of Planning (MIDEPLAN by its acronym in Spanish) in preparing a regional development policy proposal. The 2030 Agenda’s territorialization strategy implied a process of appropriation and application at subnational level to ensure its coherence and coordination with the National Development Plan (PND). In MIDEPLAN (The Costa Rican Ministry for National Planning and Economic Policy) the monitoring and measurement capacities of the SDG were reinforced, especially regarding the question of which territorial information system should be created to guarantee monitoring and measurement of these indicators.

Data Interoperability

In addition, the cooperation program advised the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT by its acronym in Spanish) and the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC by its acronym in Spanish) in terms of strengthening institutions for greater and better access to information, transparency, citizen participation and accountability. The main topic was the development of a guideline for the creation of intersectoral links for digital development, particularly the provision of online public services through government interoperability.

Ecuador
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One of the governments’ commitments for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and direct contribution to the achievement of SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) is to promote policies of access to information, accountability and citizen participation. In 2018, the government of Ecuador officially joined the Open Government Partnership (Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto), committing itself to co-create its first Open Government Action Plan. In this context, the cooperation program supported Ecuador in strengthening the capacities of officials, civil society and academia to formulate and implement open government strategies, greater transparency and collaboration when carrying out their activities, and greater citizen participation in public affairs. To this end, a course was held to provide knowledge, information, experiences and good practices on key issues of open government. The challenge for the coming years is for this initiative to expand beyond the Executive Branch, incorporating government and private agencies and civil society organizations.

Paraguay
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In Paraguay the strategy for implementing the 2030 Agenda and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) was achieved by strengthening the coordination of the National Development Plan (PND by its acronym in Spanish) as an instrument for implementing the 2030 Agenda at subnational level. The institutional planning capacities were also strengthened, especially those of the Technical Secretariat for Planning (STP by its acronym in Spanish) which led to a greater focus on the SDG. The STP worked on this together with the General Directorate of Statistics, Surveys and Censuses (DGEEC by its acronym in Spanish) by performing a technical review of the PND. The renewal of the PND consisted of: the application of the concept of result-oriented management, which makes it possible to combine result-oriented planning and budgeting; a "critical node" methodology to prioritize activities to link the PND with the 2030 Agenda, for which the STP received technical training; the "Barometer Plan" methodology for the self-diagnosis of the planning system and its connection with the PND.

Uruguay
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In Uruguay the cooperation program supported the implementation of the 2030 Agenda by developing an intersectoral spatial planning and sustainable development program for the country's Central Region. The ECLAC-BMZ/giz cooperation program accompanied the Planning and Budget Office (OPP by its acronym in Spanish) in the preparation and validation of the "National Program for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development in the Central Region”. An important part of this was the link with SDG 5 (Gender Equality), in the sense that women in the rural areas of the Central Region were involved and participated and recommendations were prepared to make sure that the program's gender equality objectives were met..

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