Photo, from left to right, Carlos Burgos and Ivan Cerda, ICAP Consultants; María José Castillo, Director of Risk Management and Climate Change at ICAP; Luz Graciela Calzadilla, General Director of the Hydrological Meteorological Institute of Panama; José Manuel Iraheta, Economic Affairs Officer at ECLAC Subregional Headquarters, Mexico; Alfredo Flores, Executive Secretary of SECOSEFIN and Róger Vega, Principal Technical Advisor of the RIDASICC project.
In one of the spaces provided for learning environments in smaller groups, a summary of the RIDASICC Project, its partners, its approach and its products was shared, with greater emphasis on its GIS Module for formulators and evaluators of public investment projects in the drinking water and sanitation sector. The space was shared with the INCENTIVA Project, financed by GIZ and executed by the Central American Institute of Public Administration (ICAP), an organization of the Central American Integration System (SICA), which presented the INCENTIVA Groupware platform, Collaborative Information System for Formulation , Evaluation and Prioritization of Investment Projects.
In the initial greetings, the RIDASICC Project was represented by Mr. Alfredo Flores, Executive Secretary of the Council of Ministers of Treasury or Finance of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (COSEFIN), Camille Flückiger, Regional Head of Humanitarian Affairs of SDC Central America and Julie Lennox, Head of the Agricultural Development and Climate Change Unit of ECLAC’s subregional headquarters in Mexico; Ms. Maria José Castillo, Director of Risk Management and Climate Change at ICAP, and Ms. Alejandra Barragán, GIZ Advisor, spoke on behalf of the INCENTIVA Project.
In the presentation on the RIDASICC Project, it was highlighted that today more than ever, any public investment project is a golden opportunity to ensure a greater continuity of provision of goods and services to the population in the face of disaster-climate change risks, for means of identifying threats and measures to make them more inclusive and environmentally sustainable and reduce the significant costs associated with repeated rebuilding without these measures.
The partners of the RIDASICC project agreed to innovate in their mode of intervention, carrying out highly participatory processes, with learning-by-doing training processes; generating more practical guides and tools, based on the experience of formulators and evaluators of public investment projects and developing an offer of GIS modules that respond to the particular needs of formulators and evaluators in specific sectors, involving national and regional institutions that provide information geographic. In 2023, the activities will be focused on the training and consultancy process with teams of project formulators selected with the partners to carry out pilots of the various instruments. The project has a governance mechanism that includes a Regional Technical Committee, national and regional technical groups, appearances in Councils of Ministers and coordination between ECLAC, SECOSEFIN and the cooperating agency COSUDE.
The presentation was made by José Manuel Iraheta, Economic Officer of the Agricultural Development and Climate Change Unit of ECLAC’s subregional headquarters in Mexico, and Róger Vega Rodríguez, Technical Advisor of the RIDASICC Project.
Within the framework of the PR DRR, the RIDASICC team held meetings with COSUDE, ICAP and other organizations present.
About RIDASICC
ECLAC and the Executive Secretariat of the Council of Treasury or Finance Ministers of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (SECOSEFIN) with the close participation of the seven Treasury or Finance Ministries and three Planning Ministries or Secretariats responsible for the National Investment Systems Public (SNIP) of the member countries of COSEFIN/SICA implement the RIDASICC project with financing from COSUDE.
Focused on capacity building, the RIDASICC project has interconnected training components with a “learning-by-doing” approach, strengthening of methodological guides, generation of tools, pilot projects and strengthening of geographic information systems required for the formulation and evaluation of projects. of public investment.
The project combines actions at the national level focused on strengthening the capacities of the SNIPs, including dependencies and entities of the prioritized sectors and specialized institutions, with actions at the regional level to strengthen the capacities of SICA instances, including COSEFIN, the Sectoral Council of Ministers of Transportation of Central America of the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (COMITRAN/SIECA), the Coordination Center for the Prevention of Disasters in Central America and the Dominican Republic (CEPREDENAC), the Regional Committee for Hydraulic Resources (CRRH) and the Secretariat General of SICA.
