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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
CONSIDERING:
That, according to Article 94 of the OAS Charter, and Article 1 of its
Statutes, the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) is
an organ of the OAS whose purpose is to promote cooperation among the
American States for the purpose of achieving integral development and, in
particular, helping to eliminate extreme poverty;
That the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development 2002-2005
(hereinafter the Strategic Plan) provides that technical cooperation is
important and embraces all the member states, regardless of their level
of development;
That the Special Multilateral Fund of CIDI (FEMCIDI) is funded with
voluntary contributions from member states and that its purpose is to
contribute to the financing of national and multilateral cooperation
programs, projects, and activities carried out under the Strategic Plan;
That, notwithstanding the important efforts by the Member States in
the attainment of the resources contributed each year to FEMCIDI, they
are insufficient to fund all projects presented. This reinforces the need
that the Inter American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD)
make special efforts to obtain, from different sources, additional
non-reimbursable financial and non-financial resources;
That the Strategic Plan indicates that within the spirit of the
partnership for development, the national institutions taking part in
activities will have to take into account the priority areas and the
guidelines contained in this Strategic Plan, to ensure that the projects
and activities related to the Plan are tied to mandates of Summits,
Ministerial and Inter American Committee Meetings and give priority to
those of a multilateral character;
That CIDI, in its resolution CIDI/RES.143 (IX-O/04) decided that
cooperation programs, projects, activities and initiatives generated by
Member States, carried out in the framework of the Strategic Plan, must
respond to the mandates of the General Assembly, the Summits of the
Americas, the ministerial meetings, or inter-American committees so that
cooperation strategies emanating therefrom are strengthened;
That the Strategic Plan indicates that cooperation activities in the
priority areas must, to the extent possible, include in their
formulation, implementation and evaluation, the following: (a) civil
society participation; (b) environmental considerations; (c) development
of human resources; and (d) gender equality and equity;
That the technical secretariat of the Ministerial and Inter American
Committee meetings provide support to the Member States, in preparing
FEMCIDI projects, and carry out activities to coordinate and execute such
projects, as requested;
That the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD),
by decision of its Management Board, has implemented a mechanism to
evaluate cooperation activities funded with FEMCIDI funds; and
That partnership for development activities are selected and evaluated
based on the document “Criteria for the Selection and Evaluation of
Partnership for Development Activities” (CEPCIDI/doc.134/97),
RESOLVES:
1. To reiterate that cooperation programs, projects, activities and
initiatives of technical cooperation for integral development generated
by the Member States, must respond to the mandates of the General
Assembly, particularly of the Strategic Plan, the Summits of the
Americas, the ministerial meetings, and/or the inter-American committees
and that priority shall be given to those of a multilateral character
while retaining recognition to the importance of national projects to
Member States.
2. To recommend to the Ministerial and inter-American committees to
consider, in their meetings, the formulation of projects that implement
the mandates and political decisions to which the preceding operative
paragraph refers for its timely presentation to FEMCIDI by a Member
State, and to instruct the GS/OAS, in all its areas, to provide
coordinated support to them in formulating, coordinating, or executing
projects, as requested, and in mobilizing other resources.
3. To note with satisfaction the project evaluation mechanism that has
been initiated by the IACD and to instruct that the findings be used by
the partnership for development actors to enhance the efficiency,
effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of the beneficial results of
partnership for development activities and to support the mobilization of
other resources.
4. To call upon the member states to increase, to the extent possible,
their contributions to finance partnership for development activities and
to request the IACD to make special efforts to obtain, from different
sources, additional non-reimbursable financial and non-financial
resources. In that connection, special attention must be paid to the
themes of interest for the permanent observer states.
5. To instruct the IACD to implement greater collaboration and synergy
among partnership for development programs and activities carried out by
the different areas of the General Secretariat, particularly FEMCIDI, the
fellowship and training programs, the Education Portal of the Americas,
and potential external partners.
6. To recommend the Member States that the cooperation activities they
present in the priority areas of the Strategic Plan, include, as elements
in their formulation, implementation and evaluation, to the extent
possible, the following: (a) civil society participation; (b)
environmental considerations; (c) development of human resources; and (d)
gender equality and equity, and to instruct the IACD, when preparing the
preliminary FEMCIDI Programming Proposal and when performing the
evaluation of technical cooperation activities, to verify if the projects
have included, when appropriate, such elements.
7. To instruct CEPCIDI that, based on the decisions taken in this
resolution and in resolution CIDI/RES. 143 (IX-O/04), it proceed to
update the document “Criteria for the Selection and Evaluation of
Partnership for Development Activities” (CEPCIDI/doc.134/97).
8. To instruct CIDI to continue strengthening the partnership for
development mechanisms, and to report to the General Assembly in its next
regular session.
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