The Executive Secretariat for
Economic and Social Affairs shall have the following objectives and general structure.
I. OBJECTIVES
A. General Objective
To carry out activities intended to
promote the economic and social development of the member states.
B. Specific Objectives
1. To help strengthen each country's
capacity to promote development through its own efforts;
2. To improve the mechanism for regional
cooperation; and
3. To assist in strengthening action
taken by member states in negotiating with other countries.
C. Instruments
The main instruments available to the
Executive Secretariat for Economic and Social Affairs for achievement of these objectives
are the Program.
D. Coordination
In order to achieve maximum coordination
of the activities of the General Secretariat in the area of development cooperation and to
assure an effective and rational division of labor, the objectives and responsibilities
described in this Executive Order, and which concern direct services to the member states,
shall be accomplished in accordance with the provisions of Executive Order 75-15.
1976 - Year of the One Hundred Fiftieth
Anniversary of the Amphictyonic Congress of Panama
The references in this Executive Order to
the responsibilities of the Economic and Social Area regarding relations with other
international organizations and with non-member states refer essentially to technical
contacts, which shall be exercised within the special coordinating functions assigned by
the Secretary General to the Assistant Secretary General, to the Assistant Secretary for
Development Cooperation and to the liaison services component of the Office of the
Secretary General.
II. STRUCTURE
A. Office of the Executive Secretary
This Office shall provide the following
support services to the area as a whole:
-Technical support to Subregional and
Regional Integration
-Technical support to Program
Coordination
-Support to CEPCIES and CIES
-Operational support
B. Committee on Integration of
Activities of the Executive Secretariat
A Committee on Integration of Activities
is hereby created and shall be formed by the Program Directors or by their respective
delegates with responsibility for integrated programming of the activities of the
Executive Secretariat.
The Committee shall have the following
responsibilities:
a. To assure close and cooperative action
by the various operating units of the Executive Secretariat;
b. To serve as a source of support and
information for all Programs in regard to the national specialized training facilities
operating in the range of activities of the Executive Secretariat;
c. To suggest guidelines for
inter-American centers' operations integration, taking into consideration their
specialized nature and the convenience of concentrating their resources application
through a network of national centers capable of providing the centralized
interdisciplinary training coordination needed to support the economic and social
development process;
d. To collaborate in the formulation of a
joint program action-oriented towards an increasing involvement of inter-American centers
activities in conjunction with centers sponsored by other regional or international
organizations and given national counterpart institutions, in order to ensure better
utilization of common technical personnel and financial resources available in those
different sources, preferably in terms of a subregional approach;
e. To serve as liaison between the
programs' training activities within the Executive Secretariat, other areas of the General
Secretariat, and in relation to other international and regional institutions that provide
training services to the region.
C. Programs
1. Existing departments and offices are
hereby abolished. The following operating units are created for carrying out the
activities of the Executive Secretariat:
Program of Country Review
Statistical Program
Program of Social Development
Program of Regional Development
Program of Rural-Urban Development
Program of Industrial Development
Program of External Sector
Program of Development Financing
Inter-American Program for Project
Formulation and Evaluation (CETREDE)
Inter-American Program for Export
Promotion (CIPE)
Program of Tourist Development (CICATUR)
2. Existing dispositions regulating the
internal structure of the operating units of the Executive Secretariat are hereby
abrogated. The following general structure is established for each Program: directorate,
technical groups and projects. Each of these shall be composed of both technical and
support staff.
3. Each Program shall have a Director
responsible to the Executive Secretary. Other personnel shall be assigned to or within the
Program on the basis of current needs, in order to provide maximum flexibility and
utilization of available manpower.
4. The Technical Groups may be organized
on a geographical basis, by subregional groups, or on a functional/sectoral basis,
according to the specific nature and characteristics of each Program.
5. The Program Director may appoint
project supervisors for specific purposes within the area of activities of the Program,
using its technical personnel regardless of existing position levels, to assume that
necessary expertise is focused on a given problem.
6. In the case of an integrated project
involving multiprogram participation, supervision may be assigned at the discretion of the
Executive Secretary.
III. The Executive Secretary shall make
all the changes in procedures and staffing required by this reorganization, in accordance
with the regulations of the General Secretariat.
Alejandro Orfila
Secretary General
August 11, 1976
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