Workshop on Identification, Formulation and Socioeconomic Evaluation of Public Investment Projects with the incorporation of elements of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Sustainable and Inclusive Adaptation of Climate Change (ASICC)

The Preinvestment Directorate of the Secretariat of Planning and Programming of the Presidency, SEGEPLAN, of Guatemala, with the support of the RIDASICC Project, executed by the Subregional Headquarters in Mexico of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Executive Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of Finance of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (SECOSEFIN), carry out this Course-Workshop the days from March 6 to 8. Officials from 21 departments participate in it, out of the 22 that make up the national territory.

The inauguration of the workshop was attended by the Director of Pre-investment of SEGEPLAN, Mr. Edi Francisco Cua Chavez, who thanked the presence of the officials of the territory and the RIDASICC team. She raised the opportunity for all those present to deepen and exchange concepts and ideas related to issues associated with public investment to seek a more efficient allocation of public resources.

The Head of the Agricultural Development and Climate Change Unit of ECLAC’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico, who is the Project Coordinator, Ms. Julie Lennox, welcomed the Course-Workshop on behalf of Mr. Hugo Beteta, Director of the Subregional Headquarters in Mexico of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, (ECLAC), thanking SEGEPLAN for its collaboration and effort in the 3 years since the implementation of the project to integrate disaster risk reduction and sustainable and inclusive adaptation to climate change. She highlighted that SEGEPLAN has become a key partner with representation in the governance mechanism of this initiative and thanked the Pre-investment Management Team and the Delegations Management for the effort to involve the territory officials in the processes. training.

The Director of Delegations, also from SEGEPLAN, Alejandro Santillana, highlighted the importance of taking advantage of these spaces that seek to strengthen capacities that support the daily exercise of their functions in support of other actors and institutions involved in public investment processes, given regulatory changes to be implemented.

In this way, based on the experience and knowledge of project formulators and evaluators of the Guatemalan public sector and with the collaboration of the technical team of the RIDASICC Project, it is expected to contribute to strengthening their capacities for the practical integration of DRR-ASICC in the process of identification, formulation and evaluation of investment projects.

Likewise, sessions are planned to identify potential Pilot Projects that will be strengthened in the coming months in a training process with a “learning-by-doing” approach and with practical support for the national teams responsible for their formulation in order to better integrate elements of DRR-ASICC and thus reduce the risk of interrupting basic services required by the population of Guatemala.

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.