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Electoral Cooperation and Observation
- The Unites States is committed to supporting the work of the OAS Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation (DECO) and remains one of the top contributors to these missions. The U.S. government supports OAS efforts to strengthen these missions in order to address current day challenges to elections and ensuring transparent, open and fair electoral processes.
- OAS electoral observation missions represent one of the most important areas of the organization and are vital in strengthening democracy and democratic institutions in the Americas.

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Open Government Partnership
- In September 2011, the United States was one of eight governments – including Brazil and Mexico – to launch the Open Government Partnership (OGP). At the inaugural OGP meeting on September 20, 2011, President Obama reiterated his belief “that the strongest foundation for human progress lies in open economies, open societies, and in open governments.”
- The United States has worked both domestically and internationally to ensure global support for Open Government principles to promote transparency, fight corruption, energize civic engagement, and leverage new technologies in order to strengthen the foundations of freedom.
- The United States is in the process of implementing the second U.S. Open Government National Action Plan, which was published in December 2013. Under this Action Plan, the United States is working to increase public integrity, manage resources more effectively, and improve public services.

Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (IACAC)
- The Unites States continually undertakes enhancements to its legal system and institutions to increase its ability to prevent, detect, and prosecute corruption.
The United States is subject to peer reviews on its compliance with anticorruption standards not only in the IACAC follow-up mechanism for implementation (MESICIC) and the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) review mechanism, but also in the Council of Europe Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) and the OECD Working Group on Bribery.
- The United States is a leading provider of technical assistance to help developing countries strengthen their measures to combat corruption, providing approximately $1 billion in funding for programs on anticorruption and good governance globally each fiscal year. The United States provides funding to MESICIC to support IACAC implementation and to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and other partners for UNCAC implementation.
- In the current round of IACAC MESICIC reviews, the Unites States has served as an expert peer reviewer of Bolivia and Grenada. The United States will be reviewed in 2014-2015. The U.S. government actively supports the debates in the MESICIC plenary and it has championed approaches to enhance transparency and the involvement of civil society in various stages of the process.

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Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (IACAC)

• In support of the IACAC and the Follow-up Mechanism (MESICIC), the United States provided a $1 million grant to the OAS’s
Department of Legal Cooperation efforts to fight corruption. The grant will assist ten countries in development of their Plan of
Action projects, which will focus on the implementation of the recommendations formulated by the MESICIC.

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Small Business Network of the Americas (SBNA)
- The Small Business Network of the Americas (SBNA), launched at the 2012 Summit of the Americas, facilitates an interconnected network of thousands of small business support centers in the Western Hemisphere and assists millions of small business owners. Interconnection expands the pool of available resources for business development, enhances access to business counseling services for entrepreneurs, and fosters small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth by providing a framework to connect businesses across the hemisphere. SBNA, in turn, promotes and supports job creation in SMEs and encourages greater trade among these businesses throughout the Western Hemisphere.
- The United States is working with its partners to increase the number of small business development centers (SBDCs) and other small business support centers; increase connections among SBDCs throughout the hemisphere; catalyze cross-border business-to-business connections; and expand resources for business development. In 2013, U.S. efforts generated $98.5 million in guaranteed lending to small businesses in Latin America.

Microfinance Growth Fund (MiGroF)
- President Obama announced the Microfinance Growth Fund (MiGroF) at the 2009 Summit of the Americas to provide a new source of funding for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in response to the reduction in their lending capacity due to the global credit crisis. It provides a stable medium- and long-term source of financing to allow MFIs throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to continue funding micro and small enterprises that have good repayment records and to find new entrepreneurs who have lacked access to microfinance services.
- The United States has disbursed $112 million to MiGroF to date, supporting access to finance for more than 100,000 micro and small enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Americas (WEAmericas)
- The United States and 11 private sector partners founded the Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Americas (WEAmericas) initiative at the 2012 Summit of the Americas. WEAmericas leverages public-private partnerships to promote inclusive economic growth in the Western Hemisphere by reducing barriers that women entrepreneurs face in starting and growing SMEs. The United States is also working with bilateral partners and has signed memoranda of understanding with Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru to further women’s economic empowerment and the goals of WEAmericas.
- Through these partnerships, the United States and its partners have awarded $1.5 million in small grants to 24 organizations to support women entrepreneurs across 24 countries, directly benefiting approximately 20,000 women. Approximately 300 women have directly participated in WEAmericas training programs, and over 100 additional women have received training from the initial trainees.
- Through ongoing partnerships, an additional 300 women will participate in WEAmericas training programs by 2015. Ongoing partnerships are also providing increased market access and access to capital for women entrepreneurs. For example, the Inter-American Development Bank is providing up to $55 million in grants and loans to improve lending to women-owned SMEs and WEConnect International is providing certification and supply chain integration services for women-owned SMEs.
- The United States is working to increase the number of public, private, and bilateral partners to expand opportunities available to women entrepreneurs under WEAmericas.

Supporting Local Businesses and Communities
- The United States promotes and invests in the best ideas from local communities for their own economic and social development through the Inter-American Foundation (IAF). The IAF grants multi-year funding to citizen-led, grassroots development projects throughout the region and supports project implementation by providing technical advice and independent verification of project goals throughout the life of the grant. These grants enable community enterprises, cooperatives, and local businesses to get off the ground, refine their products and services, create jobs, and access the global marketplace. The U.S. government’s support helps vulnerable people improve their lives, strengthen the local economy, and remain in their communities to contribute as workers and leaders.
- The IAF has dedicated 22 percent of its grant funds from 2009 to 2013 to enterprise development and 25 percent to training or education, for a total of $36.3 million. This support created, improved, or sustained at least 3,882 jobs in 2013 and 5,300 jobs in 2012, and resulted in many new micro and small businesses in the region. Through the IAF, the United States committed another $25.2 million in the last five years to grants for agriculture, many of which enabled or improved food production for sale in domestic and international markets.

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Economic Recovery
• President Obama led efforts to substantially increase the resources available to a reformed International Monetary Fund through
contributions to a renewed and expanded New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB). The United States also supported expanding the
Inter-American Development Bank's short term crisis response through changes in lending limits and capital ratios.
• As President Obama noted at the Summit, the United States worked with its G20 partners, setting aside over a trillion dollars to
ensure assistance to those countries that are the most vulnerable.

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Americas Competitiveness Forum (ACF):

• The United States Secretary of Commerce will host the fourth ACF November 14-16, 2010, in Atlanta.
• The Forum provides a platform for nearly a thousand officials from the public sector, private sector, and civil
society to discuss ways to enhance the region’s competiveness.

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Education Partnership for At-Risk Youth
- The Education Partnership for At-Risk Youth initiative, launched at the 2009 Summit of the Americas, promotes public-private partnerships that expand education and employment opportunities for at-risk youth in Latin American and Caribbean countries that have high levels of inequality, significant youth unemployment, and an active and engaged private sector and civil society.
- During the initial phase of the initiative, the United States implemented three regional public-private partnership pilots established via the International Youth Foundation’s (IYF) Obra program, based in sub-regional hubs in Jamaica, Guatemala, and Peru. The United States provided seven Obra innovation grants to promising or existing youth-focused public-private partnerships in those three countries, providing 1,500 youth received life skills and employment training. The United States mobilized an additional $3.5 million in commitments from private sector partners within the three countries to support at-risk youth. The Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) program reached 600 youth in Jamaica.
- With lessons learned from Obra, the United States and its partners expanded the successful A Ganar Alliance. The A Ganar program started as a four-country pilot in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and was expanded to include four additional countries: Dominica, Suriname, Guatemala, and Honduras. A Ganar now covers 16 countries in the region through support from the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank. U.S. government support to A Ganar Alliance has provided life skills and technical training to 3,600 youth since 2009, and will reach an additional 2,400 at-risk youth by 2015.

Investing in Young People
- The United States invests in education and vocational training programs designed and administered by local community members and parents to help their young people develop the skills they need to become leaders, find employment and launch enterprises that contribute to the local economy.
- Nearly 20 percent of active Inter-American Foundation (IAF) grants in 2009-2013 were dedicated to working with marginalized or at-risk youth, and 25 percent of IAF grant funds during this period were committed to education or training initiatives, for a total of $19.6 million. Youth aged 18 years or younger make up about one-third of beneficiaries from U.S. government grants through the IAF.

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Inter-American Social Protection Network (IASPN)
- The Inter-American Social Protection Network (IASPN) facilitates cooperation among governments, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and experts from across the region to share best practices on implementing innovative anti-poverty programs.
- In support of IASPN, the United States implemented a series of grants to the Organization of American States (OAS) to support bilateral and trilateral technical assistance on social protection programming involving ten countries, including seven IASPN international conferences and workshops, as well as the creation of two social protection certification programs. The grants also supported the creation of the bilingual IASPN Knowledge Portal (socialprotectionet.org), where social protection practitioners can share information on social protection programs. The United States and OAS are also working to catalyze public-private partnerships for financial inclusion.
- The United States is also supporting civil society organizations’ efforts to improve delivery of and access to community social protection programs in Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, and Peru.

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Initiatives to Combat Child Labor and Forced Labor
- Since 2009, the U.S. government has provided nearly $68 million for multiple projects to address the worst forms of child labor, including among highly vulnerable indigenous and Afro-descendant children in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Paraguay. In Ecuador, initiatives have also focused on the relationship between child labor and disabilities.
- In 2012 and 2013, the United States provided $6 million to consolidate and disseminate efforts to combat forced labor in Brazil and Peru, and to share lessons between the two countries.

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Inter-American Social Protection Network (IASPN)

• President Obama announced his support for the Inter-American Social Protection Network, which includes sharing best practices
on the development of conditional cash transfer programs.
• Secretary of State Clinton joined then-President Bachelet of Chile, President Uribe of Colombia, New York City Mayor Bloomberg
and the heads of the OAS and IDB to successfully launch the IASPN in New York City on September 2, 2009.
• The United States awarded a grant to the OAS to implement activities of the IASPN including maintaining the website that was
lanched in March 2010, providing virtual training tools, and facilitating training workshops.
• The United States and Chile signed a memorandum of understanding on development cooperation, which includes enhancing
social protection networks.
• The United States provides bilateral assistance that supports social protection programs in ten countries in the region, including
more than $10 million in support of social protection programs in Central America.


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Support for the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS)
- The United States continues to engage actively in the institutions of the independent inter-American human rights system (IAHRS), including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), to build multilateral support for the protection of human rights throughout the hemisphere, including within the United States. ? The United States supported the March 2013 resolution of the OAS General Assembly, which reaffirmed the importance of strengthening the IAHRS. The IACHR is stronger and more capable as a result of the decision of all OAS member states to seek full financing for its operations and to strengthen its rapporteurships.
- Ongoing U.S. funding for the IAHRS reflects strong U.S. support for the Commission’s work, as well as the need for increased resources to support friendly settlement efforts, reduce case backlogs, and advance thematic initiatives of Commission rapporteurs within the framework of the 2011-2015 IACHR Strategic Plan.
- The United States also worked with the IACHR to build support for the rights of LGBTI people. In 2011, President Obama and Brazilian President Rousseff announced joint support for the establishment of a Commission Rapporteurship on the human rights of LGBTI people. A special Unit on the Rights of LGBTI Persons began operating in 2012, and a Commission Rapporteur was designated to oversee the Unit’s work in February 2014.

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Supporting Marginalized Groups and the Practice of Democracy
- The U.S. government, through the Inter-American Foundation, supports grassroots initiatives that advance the economic, social and civic inclusion of the region’s disadvantaged or historically excluded citizens, including women, African descendants, indigenous peoples, children and young people, persons with disabilities, and LGBTI persons. Grantee partners are building a more democratic citizenry and a more inclusive civil society by training and encouraging marginalized communities to exercise their civic responsibilities, respect rights, engage public officials and hold them accountable.
- U.S. government grants active in fiscal year 2013 have benefitted more than 357,000 people in poor and marginalized communities in 20 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
- The United States is also working with bilateral partners to reduce racial and ethnic discrimination through the U.S.-Brazil Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination (Joint Action Plan) and the U.S.-Colombia Action Plan on Racial and Ethnic Equality (CAPREE). Both initiatives seek to share best practices in addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health, environmental justice, education, economic opportunities, and access to the justice system.

Americas Partnership for Social Inclusion and Equality (APSIE)
- The Americas Partnership for Social Inclusion and Equality (APSIE) aims to raise visibility of and provide support for social inclusion efforts in the region, building on lessons learned from civil society.
- As part of APSIE, the U.S. government supports historically marginalized groups in the Western Hemisphere, including LGBTI persons, women and girls, people of African descent, indigenous peoples, and people with disabilities, through technical assistance, training, and education. The United States has leveraged over 1.4 million dollars to fund projects that build the capacity of vulnerable groups to access economic and educational opportunities and to promote inclusive practices and civic engagement through eight projects in five countries (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru).

The Global Equality Fund
? In December 2011, the United States launched by the Global Equality Fund to support civil society organizations working to advance the human rights of LGBTI persons.
- The Global Equality Fund is a multi-stakeholder platform bridging like-minded governments, foundations and corporations. The Fund leverages resources from the U.S. government, other governments and private donors.
- The Fund also provides emergency assistance to LGBTI human rights defenders and civil society organizations who find themselves under threat from state or nonstate actors.

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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

• On November 10, 2009, the United States announced a voluntary financial contribution of over $1.3 million to support the activities
of the IACHR.
• This contribution will support the work of its Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, the Rapporteurship on the Rights of
Women, the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Afro-descendants and against Racial Discrimination, the Rapporteurship on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples, and the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families.
• The United States has announced continued financial support for the Commission’s Unit for Human Rights Defenders. The United
States also provided a grant to the IACHR to contribute to regional efforts for the promotion and defense of democrcy and human
rights in Africa and the Americas through strengthened collaboration between the OAS /IACHR and the African Commission on
Human and People’s Rights.


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100,000 Strong in the Americas
- President Obama launched 100,000 Strong in the Americas in March 2011 and reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to increasing educational exchanges between the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean at the 2012 Summit of the Americas. The goal of 100,000 Strong in the Americas is to achieve 100,000 educational exchanges annually between the United States and other Western Hemisphere countries, in each direction, by 2020.
- In support of 100,000 Strong in the Americas, the United States established the Innovation Fund, a capacity-building program to expand collaboration between higher education institutions, with Partners of the Americas and NAFSA Association of International Educators. The Innovation Fund has awarded 22 university grants, with plans for two additional grant rounds in 2014. The Fund’s first capacity-building workshop for Latin American university officials will take place in May 2014. To further facilitate an increase in student exchanges, the United States created the Innovation Network, which currently includes 740 higher education institutions and continues to grow.
- 100,000 Strong is on target to meet its goals. In the 2011-2012 academic year, the number of U.S. students studying in Latin America and the Caribbean went up 12 percent to 44,677. The number of Latin American and Caribbean students studying in the United States went up four percent in 2012-2013 academic year to 66,864, reversing a trend of declining numbers in previous years.

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Scholarships:

• The President announced that 1500 students from marginalized groups would receive scholarships to learn English in our
binationals centers, and 1300 students would receive scholarships to study in the United States over the next five years through
the Scholarships for Education and Economic Development (SEED) program.
• Programs are in place to achieve both of these goals. In 2009, SEED provided 270 scholarships to participants from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. SEED will provide at least 250 new scholarships per
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Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA)
- The Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), launched at the 2009 Summit of the Americas, provides a flexible framework for partnerships between governments, private sector companies, and non-governmental organizations to collaborate on low-emissions development and climate-resilient growth. As a mechanism to exchange best practices in the development of renewable resources, energy efficiency standards, and clean production cycles, ECPA is helping ensure solutions can be replicated more broadly.
- In addition to clean energy technologies, ECPA continues to serve as an important tool for promoting low carbon development and reduced emissions. Through ECPA, partner countries work on more than 40 distinct projects on issues including, but not limited to, clean energy technology, energy efficiency, glacier monitoring and water resource management, deforestation, biodiversity, climate-resilient planning, and unconventional gas development. Together, the United States and partner countries are developing solutions that will increase the region’s collective energy security and promote diverse energy sources in the hemisphere.

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Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA):

• President Obama invited countries of the region to participate in an Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas; a
voluntary and flexible framework for advancing energy security and combating climate change.
• Just two months following the Summit, the United States worked with the Government of Peru and the Institute of the
Americas to hold the Americas Energy and ClimateSymposium in Lima in June 2009.
• Secretary of Energy Chu announced the Low-Carbon Communities of the Americas initiative to promote clean energy,
an Energy Efficiency Center with Peru, and the 2010 Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas.
• Thirty-two governments participated in the Energy and Climate Ministerial, which took place April 15-16 in Washington, DC
at the IDB and OAS.
• ECPA is comprised of initiatives that focus on energy efficiency; renewable energy; cleaner fossil fuels; energy infrastructure
maintenance and development; energy poverty; sustainable urban development. ECPA will also soon include initiatives on
sustainable forests, land use, and adaptation.
• The United States is supporting the OAS, which serves as the ECPA information clearinghouse and manages a website,
www.ecpamericas.org, to facilitate public understanding of ECPA.
• As of May 2010, the United States and other governments have launched nearly a dozen ECPA initiatives and projects.

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Renewable Energy and Climate Change – Metrology and Technology Challenges for the Americas
- The United States and the OAS are implementing the Metrology and Technology Challenges for the Americas project. The collaborative project provides regional capacity-building activities through workshops, seminars, training, exchange missions and targeted technical or policy assistance as core, demand-driven activities to be implemented within the region.
- The goals of the project contribute to ECPA’s goals for advancing of renewable energy technologies and low carbon economic growth. The project assists in the development of measurement capabilities and standards for renewable energy and climate science to reduce the region’s potential contribution to climate change, while promoting its overall economic development and energy independence.

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Education Partnership for At-Risk Youth
- The Education Partnership for At-Risk Youth initiative, launched at the 2009 Summit of the Americas, promotes public-private partnerships that expand education and employment opportunities for at-risk youth in Latin American and Caribbean countries that have high levels of inequality, significant youth unemployment, and an active and engaged private sector and civil society.
- During the initial phase of the initiative, the United States implemented three regional public-private partnership pilots established via the International Youth Foundation’s (IYF) Obra program, based in sub-regional hubs in Jamaica, Guatemala, and Peru. The United States provided seven Obra innovation grants to promising or existing youth-focused public-private partnerships in those three countries, providing 1,500 youth received life skills and employment training. The United States mobilized an additional $3.5 million in commitments from private sector partners within the three countries to support at-risk youth. The Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) program reached 600 youth in Jamaica.
- With lessons learned from Obra, the United States and its partners expanded the successful A Ganar Alliance. The A Ganar program started as a four-country pilot in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and was expanded to include four additional countries: Dominica, Suriname, Guatemala, and Honduras. A Ganar now covers 16 countries in the region through support from the U.S. government and Inter-American Development Bank. U.S. government support to A Ganar Alliance has provided life skills and technical training to 3,600 youth since 2009, and will reach an additional 2,400 at-risk youth by 2015.

Investing in Young People
- The United States invests in education and vocational training programs designed and administered by local community members and parents to help their young people develop the skills they need to become leaders, find employment and launch enterprises that contribute to the local economy.
- Nearly 20 percent of active Inter-American Foundation (IAF) grants in 2009-2013 were dedicated to working with marginalized or at-risk youth, and 25 percent of IAF grant funds during this period were committed to education or training initiatives, for a total of $19.6 million. Youth aged 18 years or younger make up about one-third of beneficiaries from U.S. government grants through the IAF.

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Education Partnerships for At-Risk Youth:

• The President proposed a pilot program to form partnerships with countries that have the highest levels of inequality,
significant numbers of unemployed and at-risk youth, and considerable potential for leveraging additional public and private sector resources. This program will focus on youth at risk such as out of school youth, under-employed youth, and ex-gang
members.
• In November 2009, The United States signed a $2 million cooperative agreement with the International Youth Foundation
to implement Obra, a program that will build three public-private partnerships in sub-regional hubs centered in Jamaica, Guatemala and Peru, to raise awareness of youth-at-risk issues and strengthen services to improve education and employment prospects for youth throughout the region.
• Obra was launched in Kingston, Jamaica on April 14, 2010. The launch kicked off partnership-building activities and included
a workshop that allowed partners from each sub-region to review the many challenges facing the region’s young people and identify what is working to support youth.
• Over the life of the project, Obra will improve employment and educational outcomes for 1,000 youth at risk, and partnerships will be used as a platform to share best practices.

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Broadband Partnership of the Americas (BPA)
- At the 2012 Summit of the Americas, President Obama announced a three-year Broadband Partnership of the Americas (BPA) to “provide faster internet to more communities in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially in rural areas…to ensure that no one is left behind in our digital age.”
- The BPA mobilizes the expertise and resources of the U.S. government, the donor community, regional organizations, and the private sector to support the broadband rollout and adoption efforts of motivated countries in the region. It promotes universal access to communications and broadband technologies as a tool for competitiveness, development, and economic prosperity.
- The United States and partner countries in the region are exploring ways to accelerate connectivity to and use of broadband for development. Since 2012, the BPA has shared U.S. government technical and regulatory expertise via sub-regional meetings on universal access, broadband plans, spectrum and frequency management, and implications for broadband deployment.

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Connecting the Americas 2022 (Connect2022)
- Colombia and the United States co-launched Connect 2022 at the 2012 Summit of the Americas under the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA). Connect2022 aims to provide all citizens of the hemisphere with access to clean, reliable, and affordable electricity through increased interconnection of electricity grids and accelerated deployment of clean energy technologies by 2022.
- Under this initiative, the United States continues to promote increased power sector integration, access to electricity, and greater deployment of clean energy by interconnecting power grids, building regional power markets that can facilitate electricity trade and investment, and creating an attractive climate for investment in renewable energy sources. It also aims to improve policies and regulatory frameworks to facilitate the integration of lower carbon technologies, including distributed generation and renewable energy into power systems.
- During the Connect2022 Ministerial in Washington, D.C., in June 2013, representatives of the governments of the member countries of the Central American Electricity Interconnection System (SIEPAC) signed on to the Action Plan for the Consolidation of the Regional Electricity Market. In the lead up to the 2015 Summit of the Americas, the United States and the Inter-American Development Bank plan to follow through on a commitment in the Action Plan to hold an annual investors’ forum.

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V. Reforzar la Gobernabilidad Democrática
Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH)
El 10 de noviembre de 2009, Estados Unidos anunció una aportación financiera voluntaria de más de 1,3 millones para respaldar las actividades de la CIDH.
Esta contribución respaldará los trabajos de la Relatoría Especial para la Libertad de Expresión, la Relatoría sobre los Derechos de la Mujer, la Relatoría sobre los Derechos de los Afrodescendientes y contra la Discriminación Racial, la Relatoría sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas y la Relatoría sobre los Derechos de los Trabajadores Migratorios y Miembros de sus Familias. Pág. 12

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Inter-American Year of the Woman:

• In March, 2010, Secretary of State Clinton and Brazilian Foreign Minister Amorim signed a Memorandum of Understanding
for the Advancement of Women. The MOU will promote increased cooperation in areas including eliminating violence
against women, combating trafficking of women and children, promoting the participation of women in decision-making
processes, and promoting equality in the workplace, economic opportunity, and improved livelihoods for women.
• In October 2009, the United States hosted a conference entitled ACCESS for seventy women entrepreneurs from countries
participating in the Pathays to Prosperity in the Americas partnership. The conference not only provided a forum for providing
information and materials relating to access to markets, finance and technology, it also laid the foundation for a sustainable
mentoring network for business women throughout the region.

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Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI))
- CARSI assists the seven nations of Central America in the strengthening and integration of security in coordination with other nations, international financial institutions, the private sector, civil society, and the Central American Integration System (SICA).
- The United States has appropriated more than $642 million to CARSI programs and activities in the region. CARSI programs are designed to assist law enforcement and security forces to create safe streets, confront illicit trafficking, reduce the negative effects of gangs and criminal organizations, and strengthen border security deficiencies. CARSI also works to build the capacity of law enforcement and the justice sector to serve citizens and to address regional threats, and to advance community policing, gang prevention, and economic and social programming for at-risk youth and communities disproportionately affected by crime.

Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI)
- The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) is a multi-year, regional citizen safety engagement with the Caribbean that stemmed from commitments made at the 2009 Summit of the Americas. The United States, CARICOM member nations, and the Dominican Republic are improving citizen safety throughout the Caribbean by working together to substantially reduce illicit trafficking, increase public safety and security, and promote social justice.
- Since 2010, the United States has appropriated $263 million in funding for CBSI activities with its partners in the Caribbean. Activities include maritime and aerial security cooperation, law enforcement capacity building, border/port security, firearms interdiction, justice sector reform, crime prevention, and at-risk youth.

Merida Initiative
- The Merida Initiative is an unprecedented partnership between the United States and Mexico to fight organized crime and associated violence while furthering respect for human rights and the rule of law throughout Mexico.
- The United States has appropriated $2.1 billion since the Merida Initiative began in fiscal year 2008. Under the Initiative, the United States and Mexico have improved citizen safety in affected areas to fight drug trafficking, organized crime, corruption, illicit arms trafficking, money-laundering, and the demand for drugs on both sides of the border.
- Bilateral efforts support strengthening Mexico’s institutions, especially police and justice systems at both the federal and state level; bolstering development of a secure border that facilitates legitimate trade and travel while disrupting illicit trade; and building strong and resilient communities able to withstand the pressures of crime and violence.

U.S.-Colombia Action Plan on Regional Security Cooperation
- At the 2012 Summit of the Americas, President Obama and Colombian President Santos announced an agreement to develop a coordination mechanism to support capacity-building to improve citizen security in third countries: the U.S.-Colombia Action Plan on Regional Security Cooperation.
- Activities under the Action Plan support hemispheric citizen security priorities through capacity building in multiple areas, such as asset forfeiture, investigations, polygraphs, and interdiction. The United States and Colombia implemented 39 activities in Central America in 2013 and agreed to implement 152 activities in Central America and the Caribbean in 2014.

Colombia Strategic Development Initiative (CSDI)
- The U.S. government supports the Colombian government's National Consolidation Plan by selectively working in key “consolidation zones” where drug trafficking, violence, and the lack of government presence have historically converged. The U.S. government coordinates its efforts in these areas through the Colombia Strategic Development Initiative (CSDI), an inter-agency, whole-of-government approach to providing specific U.S. assistance in eradication and interdiction; capacity building of the military, national police, access to rule of law; and creation of viable options for citizens in the licit economy, particularly in the agricultural sector.
- CSDI also provides general support for the implementation of Colombian government reforms in land restitution; reparations for victims and vulnerable populations; demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants; strengthening the Colombian Attorney General’s Office in support of human rights, the rule of law, and protection of vulnerable citizens; and addressing global climate change and environmental issues.

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National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security, and the U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally
- Building on the recognition that countries are more peaceful and prosperous when women are accorded full and equal rights and opportunity, President Obama released the first National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security in December 2011 and signed an executive order directing the plan’s implementation. The National Action Plan represents a fundamental change in how the United States approaches its diplomatic, military, and development-based support to women in areas of conflict by ensuring that their perspectives and considerations of gender are woven into the fabric of how the United States approaches peace processes, conflict prevention, the protection of civilians, and humanitarian assistance.
- In August 2012, the United States released the first U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence Globally, accompanied by a presidential executive order directing its implementation. The Strategy includes a comprehensive, multi-sector approach to prevent and respond to gender-based violence through increased coordination of gender-based violence prevention and response efforts among U.S. government agencies and with other stakeholders; enhanced integration of gender-based violence prevention and response efforts into existing U. S. government work; improved collection, analysis, and use of data and research to enhance gender-based violence prevention and response efforts; and enhanced or expanded U.S. government programming that addresses gender-based violence.

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Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime
- In July 2011, the White House announced the Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime to build, balance, and integrate the tools to combat transnational organized crime and related threats to U.S. national security – and to urge the United States’ partners to do the same.
- The strategy proposes 56 priority actions, starting with ones the United States can take within its borders to lessen the impact of transnational crime domestically and on the United States’ foreign partners. Other actions seek to enhance U.S. intelligence; protect the financial system and strategic markets; strengthen interdiction, investigations, and prosecutions; disrupt the drug trade and its facilitation of other transnational threats; and build international cooperation.
Military Cooperation on Transnational Organized Crime
- Beginning in January 2012, the U.S. military and its partners in the Western Hemisphere and Europe launched Operation Martillo, a joint effort targeting illicit trafficking routes in coastal waters along the Central American isthmus.
- Operation Martillo is a critical component of the U.S. government’s coordinated interagency regional security strategy to counter transnational organized crime in the Americas. Fourteen countries are participating: Belize, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Chile has also contributed to the operation.

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Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
- In March 2012, President Obama established the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. The task force is committed to furthering U.S. efforts to eradicate trafficking in persons and it draws on tools ranging from law enforcement and victim service provisions, to public awareness building and diplomatic pressure. The task force also increased U.S. government partnerships with a broad coalition of local communities, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations, schools, and businesses.

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Convention on Illicit Trafficking in Firearms (CIFTA)
- The ratification of the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and other Related Materials (CIFTA) is a priority for the Obama administration.
? The United States has offered technical assistance to a variety of countries to trace illicit firearms and control, store, or destroy excess national stockpiles. Through the OAS, the United States provided more than $1 million for the provision of marking equipment to countries in the hemisphere, increasing hemispheric capability to trace firearms and identify illicit trafficking routes and suppliers.
- The United States has signed eTrace agreements with all seven countries in Central America, and fourteen of the fifteen countries in the Caribbean. Expanding eTrace participation throughout the hemisphere is a priority for the U.S. government.

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Caribbean Basin Security Dialogue:
• President Obama announced a multiyear regional citizen safety initiative with the Caribbean, including $45 million this year.
• The United States and the Caribbean held successful technical security meetings in 2009, one in Suriname in May, and a second
in Barbados in August, a third in the Dominican Republic in November, and a fourth in Washington this past April.
• The Inaugural U.S.-Caribbean Security Cooperation Dialogue will be held in Washington on May 27, 2010. All members of CARICOM, the Dominican Republic, and partner nation observers (the EU, the U.K., France, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada and Colombia) will be invited to the Dialogue.

Public Security Cooperation:
• President Obama asked the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to meet with all of their counterparts in the hemisphere to address violent crime in our communities.
• Attorney General Holder met with his CARICOM counterparts in Barbados in May, and met with hemispheric counterparts at the OAS REMJA in February 2010. the Department of Justice led the U.S. delegation to the second Ministers of Public Security of the Americas meeting in the Dominican Republic in November 2009.

Merida Initiative:
• The Merida Initiative is an unprecedented partnership between the United States and Mexico to fight organized crime and associated violence while furthering respect for human rights and the rule of law. Based on principles of shared responsibility, mutual trust, and respect for sovereign independence, our efforts have built confidence that is transforming our bilateral relationship.
• Merida was conceived in 2007 as a multi-year, $1.4 billion effort. The United States Congress has appropriated $1.3 billion since the program’s inception in 2008.
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Convention on Illicit Trafficking in Firearms (CIFTA):

• President Obama announced that ratification of CIFTA is a priority for his Administration, and he offered technical assistance
to trace illicit firearms and control, store, or destroy excess national stockpiles.

• The United States provided the OAS a $1 million grant to provide marking equipment to states in the hemisphere in order to
increase hemispheric capability to trace frearms and identify illicit trafficking routes and suppliers.

• The United States signed eTrace agreements with all seven Central American states, and fourteen of the fifteen Caribbean states.
Expanding eTrace participation throughout the hemisphere is a priority for 2010 and will be aided by the introduction of a Spanish
version of the eTrace software in 2010.
• The United States has assessed and offered stockpile management and destruction assistance to a number of states in Latin
America and the Caribbean.

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Innovation Fund for the Americas (IFA)
- At the conclusion of the Sixth Summit of the Americas, President Obama announced the Innovation Fund for the Americas (IFA) to invest in the world’s most cost-effective, breakthrough solutions to development challenges. The IFA supports solutions to environmental vulnerability, citizen insecurity, at-risk youth, poor quality education, weak governance, uncompetitive SMEs, and Haiti’s reconstruction.
- Through the IFA, the United States makes awards ranging from $100,000 to $15 million on a rolling basis, tapping into the best development ideas coming from non-traditional partners in academia, the private sector, and civil society.
- To date, IFA has awarded 11 innovation grants, totaling $1.5 million, to discover and test development solutions in Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru.

Citizen-Led Grassroots Initiatives
- Through the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), the United States identifies and invests directly in the most promising initiatives designed and implemented by marginalized communities in Latin America and the Caribbean to help their communities thrive. The U.S. government invests in the knowledge, skills, ingenuity, and organizational strength of local citizens to facilitate the success of their projects. In addition to the external results of such projects, local communities gain invaluable experience in project management, business development, and organizational governance. This substantially improves their ability to sustain their own efforts beyond U.S. support and to the strengthening of civil society.
- The United States requires grantee partners to invest their own resources and mobilize contributions from others, helping to multiply the effect of U.S. government funding. On average over the last five years, each dollar invested by the United States leveraged $1.30 from grantee partners or others. In fiscal years 2009-2013, grantee partners committed $100.9 million in cash or in kind, more than matching the United States’ investment of $77.8 million. Over the past five years, the United States has funded the initiatives of more than 400 civil society organizations.