CEPAL - cooperacion

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Resumen / Abstract / Résumé:

Lack of information is one the factors that hamper the fulfilment of internationally agreed development goals including the Millennium Development Goals. According to available information, countries with greater indices of poverty have more difficulty achieving the goals, since they lack the resources and institutions necessary to obtain significant advances. This situation is still more serious if analyzed at the level of local governments and territories in each country, due to major social, economic and technical disparities. The goals? fulfilment in Latin America and the Caribbean has been very uneven especially at the level of local territories. Thus, policy responses need to give preferential attention to territories. The production of information at the local level is also required to allow the classification of the different territories by the extent to which they achieve the internationally agreed development goals. The project aims at building technical capacities at the local level and attaining greater decentralization in the design and implementation of policies to reach the fulfillment of the goals, specially, if they are targeted towards the territories that most need to fulfill them. The project envisages a series of seminars, training courses and horizontal cooperation missions related to experience exchange in order to promote collaborative learning among the countries involved.

Objetivos / Objectives / Objectifs:

To strengthen local governments? capacity to identify, quantify, assess and achieve internationally agreed development goals, including Millennium Development Goals at local and sub-national levels. EA1 Greater awareness and exchange of experience regarding the Millennium Development Goals at the local and subnational levels.

Resultados / Results / Résultats:

EA1 Greater awareness and exchange of experience regarding the Millennium Development Goals at the local and subnational levels.
EA2 Strengthened technical capacity of staff of subnational governments to incorporate the Millennium Development Goals in local and subnational development plans.
EA3 Strengthened capacity of governments at the local and subnational levels to measure, value and budget and assess the Millennium Development Goals.