Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD)

Data

Status

Active

Start

2000

Implementation

Social Networks

@OAS_Development

The Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD) is a subsidiary organ established by the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), which is composed of the Management Board and the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development.

AICD's main purpose is to promote, coordinate, manage, and facilitate the planning and execution of programs, projects, and activities, "partnership for development activities", within the scope of the OAS Charter.

The General director of the IACD shall be the Executive Secretary for Integral Development, who will serve a term of office for four years, which may be renewed once.

Purpose and Functions of the IACD:

The IACD has a Management Board, which is the representative body of the member states, designed to promote greater efficiency in the administration of partnership for development activities and to strengthen the Organization's capacity to benefit from expertise in development cooperation and to attract technical support and other resources from member states and other states and public and private sector organizations. The Management Board is comprised by nine (9) member states elected by CIDI at its annual meeting. Each member state elected to the Board of Directors is entitled to one vote and should appoint an official representative who would serve for a period of two years.

Current Authorities and Members of the Management Board:

Chair (2023-2024): Ambassador Luz Elena Baños Rivas, Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the OAS (Elected on February 15, 2024) (2024-2025 - The Chair will remain in this position until the 2025 General Assembly is held, in accordance with decision AICD/JD/DE-124, taken by the Management Board on July 9, 2024)

Vice Chair (2023-2024): Omari Seitu Williams, Minister Counselor, Deputy Permanent Representative and Alternate Representative, of the Permanent Mission of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Reelected on February 15, 2024) (2024-2025 - The Vice Chair will remain in this position until the 2025 General Assembly is held, in accordance with decision AICD/JD/DE-124, taken by the Management Board on July 9, 2024)

Documents of the IACD Management Board:

Orders of Business

(AICD/JD/OD)

Documents

(AICD/JD/doc)

Consultations

(AICD/JD/CN)

Decisions

(AICD/JD/DE)

Informatives

(AICD/JD/INF)

2025

2024

Prior Authorities and Members of the Management Board

Argentina 2024-2026
Brazil 2024-2026
El Salvador 2023-202
Guatemala 2024-2026
Mexico 2024-2026
Panama 2023-2025
Saint Lucia 2023-2025
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2024-2026
United States 2023-2025United States 2023-2025

Objectives

Approve the method for implementing partnership for development activities and determine the level of funding, ensuring that the cooperation resources made available to the IACD are used to meet the most urgent needs of the member states, particularly those with smaller economies and those with less relative development.
Manage and account for the resources of the OAS Development Cooperation Fund (OAS/DCF) and other funds raised and entrusted to the IACD.
Promote, coordinate, manage and facilitate the planning and execution of programs, projects and activities within the scope of the OAS Charter and, in particular, within the framework of CIDI's Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development.

Activities

Develop and establish cooperative relations with Permanent Observers, other states, national and international organizations, and the private sector in the area of partnership for development activities.
Manage the raising of financial, technical and other resources to strengthen partnership for development activities.
The Management Board Meetings are hosted periodically.

Beneficiary Countries