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That the technical secretariats of ministerial meetings and meetings of the inter-American
committees provide support to member states in the preparation of FEMCIDI projects and carry out
activities to coordinate and execute said projects, as requested;
That the IACD is implementing a mechanism for evaluating cooperation activities funded
with FEMCIDI funds; and
That partnership for development activities are selected and evaluated on the basis of the
document “Criteria for the Selection and Evaluation of Partnership for Development Activities”
(CEPCIDI/doc.134/97),
RESOLVES:
1.
To reiterate that technical cooperation for integral development programs, projects,
activities, and initiatives generated by the member states must respond to the mandates of the General
Assembly, in particular mandates of the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development 2002-2005,
the Summits of the Americas, ministerial meetings, or meetings of the inter-American committees,
and that priority shall be given to those of a multilateral character while retaining recognition of the
importance of national projects to member states.
2.
To recommend to the ministerial meetings and meetings of the inter-American
committees that they consider the formulation of projects that implement the mandates and political
decisions referred to in the preceding operative paragraph for their timely presentation to FEMCIDI
by a member state, and to instruct the General Secretariat to provide coordinated support to member
states in all its areas in the formulation, execution, and coordination of projects, as requested, and in
the mobilization of other resources.
3.
To note with satisfaction the project evaluation mechanism initiated by the InterAmerican Agency for Cooperation and Development (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 positive 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 topics of interest to the permanent observers.
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, and to report to the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American
Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) in that regard.
6.
To recommend to 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