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SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION

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Contents

Ministry of InteriorTraining in police tactical procedures1.1 Training courses in Anti - narcotic procedures> Guides’ training and Anti - narcotic canine training> Anti - narcotic training

1.2 Training courses in tactical operations and special procedures> Tactical operations > Operational action techniques > Explosive detection and deactivation > Parachuting training

1.3 Training courses in rescue> Canine rescue in disaster scenarios, “Arcon Method”> Aquatic rescue> Mountain rescue

1.4 Course in investigation and reconstruction of traffic accidents> Course in reconstruction of traffic accidents > Course in investigation of traffic accidents

Ministry of SportsSports> High - altitude training

Ministry of TourismSustainable tourism> Governance of the touristic system> Legal framework / Reinforcement of community tourism initiatives

Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle Raising, Aquaculture and Fishery4.1 Information and management of rural lands system / SIGTIERRAS> Methodology for the creation of an integral rural

cadastre> Geographical information system> Thematic cartography

4.2 Research Processes for sustainable development of agricultural, agro-industrial and agro - forestry sectors / INIAP> Biotechnology> Improvement of cocoa> Improvement of grain legumes> Agricultural technology transfer

Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion

5.1 Economic and social inclusion for persons with disabilities> Reinforcement of the associative movement of persons with disabilities

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> Training for persons with disabilities for working activities

> Rights promotion and attention to children with disabilities (INFA)

5.2 Management model for persons in vulnerability conditions> Management model for early infant development> Promotion of rights of elderly> Micro - credit programs with transfer guarantee> Payments systems for money transfer programs

National Secretariat for MigrantsMigratory issues> General training and expert support for creating an

integral migratory policy

Ministry of Urban Development and HousingUrban development and housing> Processes for the transfer of financial support for

social housing infrastructure (Bonds)> Improvement of neighborhoods

Ministry of EducationEducation> Weaving development: endowment of free school

uniforms. fostering social and popular economic processes

> Endowment of free school -texts - fostering inclusive and participating processes

Ministry of EnvironmentBiodiversity conservation> Biodiversity management in Ecuador: protected areas,

wild flora and fauna control

> Forest-protection program - Forest Partner (Socio Bosque)

Secretariat of Peoples, Social Movements and Citizen ParticipationCitizen participation> Design and management of public policies in citizen

participation

National Secretariat of Risk ManagementRisks prevention and management> Introduction to risk management topics and

adaptation to climate change> Local integral reinforcement of comunity skills in risk

management due to volcanic threat> Plan to reinforce skills in the local governments in

volcanic areas> National Information System and Situation Rooms

System

National Secretariat of Science and Technology (SENESCYT)12.1 Science and technology applied to human and social development> Detection of anti - core serological Marker (HBc) in

voluntary blood donors throughout the country to avoid hepatitis B - transmission due to transfusions

> Design and building of a high - altitude prototype platform for research aims

> Research of arboviruses of epidemiological importance in Ecuador

> Pilot factory for research, production and technological transfer of innovative ecological construction materials for low - cost building projects

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12.2 Science and technology applied to biodiversity, environment and habitat control> Inventory of genetic and morphological

characterization of the diversity of amphibians, reptiles and birds in the Ecuadorian Andean Region

> Strengthening of the Geo - Physics Institute: Enhancement and modernizing of the Seismology and Volcanology National Service (Seismology and Volcanology National Program)

12.3 Science and technology applied to the development of alternative energy sources> Sustainable Resources for Ethanol (SP. Reseta)> Hydrogen - based alternative electric generation for

households

12.4 Alimentary sovereignty> Improvement of Technological Bases to Enhance

competitiveness in the national cocoa chain in Sucumbíos and Orellana provinces (Ecuadorian North-ern Amazon Region)

> Usable Energy Assessment and determination of the new protein system (pdi) in meat and milk cattle in Ecuador

> Innovative production procedures for cassava (Manioc Esculenta Cratz) and sweet potato (Ipomoea Batatas L, ) from an alimentary-sovereignty approach. Market opportunities for small producers and entrepreneurs from Manabi Province, Ecuador

> Development of floury cereal mixtures (corn, barley, quinoa) and Ecuadorian potatoes as partial substitutes of imported wheat for bread and noodle production

12.5 Biological plague control> Integration of the biological component to the integral

control strategy of the Witches’ Broom pest (Moniliophthora perniciosa) and Moniliasis in cocoa farms, using Tricho-derma spp species

> Productivity enhancement of rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) productivity through the integral management of the Microcyclus ulei fungus, which causes the South American leaves’ disease

Ministry of External Affairs, Trade and IntegrationRefuge> Formulating and implementing public policies

regarding refuge

Ministry of FinancesSovereign management of public finances> New management model of the finance administration

system> Management of the national treasure account

Ministry of Public Health15.1 Research in public health> Environmental pollution due to hydrocarbons and its

effects in health> Methodology for the definition of priorities in public

health research

15.2 Communication in public health > Broadcasting specialized health information to the

community> Design of TV programs for rural areas on medicine

and health

15.3 Nutrition> Design, implementation and assessment of nutrition

programs

15.4 Intercultural health> Regulation of ancestral medicine practices> Intercultural strategy in the management model and

health attention > Communication strategies for implementation

processes of intercultural health programs

15.5 Policies for safe hospitals> Development of policies, legal and technical norms for

safe hospitals during adverse events

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15.6 Epidemiological watch> Development and strengthening of technical

knowledge on the control of dengue - fever and clinical and epidemiological management of hemor-rhagic dengue - fever cases

Ministry of Industry and Productivity16.1 Competitiveness> Identification of market opportunities> Identification of competitive products> Implementation and use of an Industrial and

Commercial Competitiveness Intelligence System (SICI)

> Construction of commercial and industrial competitiveness indexes

> Competitiveness analysis

16.2 Information and communication technologies for development> Implementation and use of an information system for

investors> Industrial information statistics management

16.3 Territorial development> Development of productive chains> Economic territorial development

16.4 Quality> Ecuadorian Quality System

16.5 Commerce> Identification of market and product opportunities

16.6 Sustainable productive development> Protection of the ozone layer

Coordination Ministry of HeritagePublic intercultural policy> Construction of public intercultural policies> Support to cultural productive enterprises

National Secretariat of Planning and DevelopmentThe National Planning and Development System > Planning National System of Ecuador> Orienting principles for policy making> Decentralization and deconcentration - The State in

the territory> A new State for a new development strategy> National System of Public Investment> Ecuador National Information System> Strategic ad sovereign insertion of Ecuador in the

world system, to enhance the internal development> Pre-investment within the scheme of planning for

development> Institute of High National Studies (IAEN)> National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC)

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Ecuadorian Technical Assistance Catalog

Coordination:Direction of Policies and Negotiation

Technical Secretariat for International Cooperation

Coordination Ministries:Coordination Ministry of Social Development

Coordination Ministry of HeritageCoordination Ministry of Strategic Sectors

Coordination Ministry of Politics an Autonomic and Decentralized GovernmentsCoordination Ministry of Economic Policy

Coordination Ministry of SecurityCoordination Ministry of Productivity, Employment ad Competitiveness

Ministries:National Secretariat of Planning and Development

Ministry of Interior Coordination Ministry of Heritage

Ministry of SportsMinistry of Tourism

Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle Raising, Aquaculture and FisheryMinistry of Economic and Social Inclusion

National Secretariat for the Migrants Ministry of Urban Development and Housing

Ministry of EducationMinistry of Environment

Secretariat of Peoples, Social Movements and Citizen ParticipationNational Secretariat of Risk Management

National Secretariat of Superior Education Science, Technology and InnovationMinistry of External Affairs, Commerce and Integration

Ministry of FinancesMinistry of Public Health

Ministry of Industries and Productivity

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Design and layout: Lápiz y papel www.lapizypapel.ec

First edition, October 2010Quito - Ecuador

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… Because our North is South. The in-verted cone has its own compass, its terri-tory. It still has its outlawed wise, men and women that bet for the Latin American in-tegration. These peoples from the bottom discard the useless and use what works, based upon their old faith, always close to their rules, where our memory tells us that others cannot rule.

Hence, the decision to move towards a South-South cooperation process appears. A cooperation among friend countries, united by similar geographical and histori-cal contexts, home to huge wealth, which can be shared in solidarity exchanges.

Skills, abilities, knowledge, technologies, are the fortunes that can be exchanged among neighbors. Cooperation in techni-cal assistance matters are a wealth and a fundamental tool that should be shared to reach well - being of our countries. It incor-porates principles of solidarity and sove-reignty.

With this in mind, fostering South - South Cooperation acquires a major importance in the global agenda. The sight and logic

of intervention among South neighbors tears down the paradigm of unilateralism, which, instead of promoting regional in-tegration, has become an obstacle to the hopes of justice and equity in Latin Ame-rica. Therefore, the South-South proposal seeks to re position our region in the glo-bal context.

The challenge is set. Within this frame-work, Ecuador has worked on its technical cooperation offers. The first instrument of this strategic vision is the “Catalog of Ecuadorian Technical Assistance,” which contains multidisciplinary offers resul-ting from the construction of a methodo-logy that raises the technical capabilities of eighteen governmental institutions, —ministries and secretariats—. A produc-tive dialog and an institutional coordina-tion has been held to offer its fruition to the world.

The National Secretariat for International Technical Cooperation puts this offer in your hands. It is part of the strategical objectives of national development and of the “National Plan for The Good - Living 2009-2013.” Ecuador, through this Cata-

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log, positions nationally and internationally as a technical cooperation supplier and strengthens the Ecuadorian external policy in the Latin American integration scope. At the same time, it becomes a space in order to open the way for exchanging capa-bilities among friend countries.

Finally, it must be remarked that this work is a part of an effort we are proud of, not only for its contents, but for the process we went through to obtain them. It has been a rich and mutual discovery for all those who permitted the offer systematizing, since in this process, coordination, analysis, inter-nal and inter - institutional discussion have been practiced. Doubtless, this elements contribute to more efficient, more trans-parent and more relevant practice in the international cooperation.

We thank every institution and their techni-cians, as much as the fellow Technical Secre-tariat for International Cooperation workers for being part of this dream and for showing, with their solidarity, that the South exists, too.

We hope that this instrument becomes a ma-terial to project abroad the work the Citizens’ Revolution Government is running in public policies, particularly in the sovereign manage-ment of the international cooperation.

Gabriela Rosero Moncayo

Technical SecretaryTechnical Secretariat for International Cooperation

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Constructing a State for the “Good Living” requires dimi-nishing the insecurity levels that affect citizens. The Consti-tution of the Republic of Ecuador introduced the obligation of the State of granting human security through integrated policies and actions, in order to safeguard peaceful human coexistence, to promote a culture of peace, to prevent dis-crimination and violence in all its forms, and to prevent infractions and crime. Hence, an integral approach to se-curity is incorporated, oriented to granting free exercise of rights recognized by the Ecuadorian legal framework, where the citizen is in the core of governmental policies in citizen-security matters.

This effort demanded increasing the investment levels des-tined to security to the training of police forces in the know-ledge of fundamental principles of the international system of Human Rights. The investment allows police personnel

to count on technology and the necessary instruments to a proper accomplishment of their roles. Moreover, investment serves the goal of enhancing the vision of security beyond crime prevention, and introducing community-participative construction of citizen security policies.

The same way, the offer of the Ecuadorian National Po-lice shows the development reached in risk prevention ma-nagement, quick response to natural disasters and in the construction of mechanisms of immediate intervention to minimize human casualties in natural disasters.

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Experience

Cooperation modality Available instruments

This training course seeks to train canines in drug detection, with the intervention of the Regional Center for Canine Training, working from 1998. Instructors obtained their specialization degrees in countries such as Guatemala, Colombia, Bolivia, Ger-many and Chile.

During the last years, 15 training courses for police personnel from Costa Rica, Panama and Venezuela have been taught.

Nationally, canine teams are assessed through internal auditory procedures and annual certifications. Likewise, the efficacy of the Center is monitored.

Demonstrations have been performed be-fore the delegation of the Bolivarian Re-public of Venezuela, during an observation visit. Results are displayed through concre-tion of successful operations.

Experts and instructors are sent to interested countries.Internships and training courses in Ecuador.

Anti - narcotic Procedure ManualHarbors, airports and highways-procedure manual. Specialized human resources.

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Guides’ training and anti - narcotic canine training

Anti - narcotic training courses

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NATIONAL POLICE

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Anti - narcotic training

From September 25th, 1992, the Anti - nar-cotic Training Center started operations. Many courses, nationally and internationally, have been organized, in coordination with governments such as those from France, Spain and the United States of America.

Based upon its experience and training courses offered abroad, the Center became Regional on February 1st, 2010.

The project goal is to develop training courses for different units of the National Police in Anti - narcotic procedures and tools.

Ecuadorian National Police has taught courses to police personnel from Mexico, Panama and Peru, as a display of the feasi-bility of this offer.

Experts sent to the interested countries.Internships and training courses in Ecuador.

Anti - narcotic procedure manual. Chemical systems manual.Assets - laundry manual. Specialized human resources.

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From 1984, the School of Tactical Opera-tions of the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR in Spanish) and, from 1991 the School of Special and Tactical Police Operations of the Special Operations Group (GOE in Spanish), have developed activities and courses on tactical operations and police procedures to be followed depending on the situations, in order to give support to citizen security.

Follow-up and assessment systems ap-plied to this project are performed through support operations to police units, rescue operations and evacuation of endangered areas.

Personnel are trained continuously in cour-ses in Spain, France, Chile, the United States of America, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Haiti and Bolivia.

During last years, Ecuadorian Police has taught courses to police personnel from Haiti, France, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Mexi-co, Panama and Paraguay.

There are four High Performance Training Centers in: Quito (Pichincha Province), Guayaquil (Guayas Province), Guano (Chimborazo Province) and Manta (Manabi Province).

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships and training courses in Ecuador.

Special operations manual and Vademecum.Assessment on the contribution on citizen security management. Specialized human resources.

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Tactical operations

Training course in Tactical Operations and Special Procedures

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NATIONAL POLICE

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Operational action techniques

In 2003, the School of Techniques in Operational Action of the Special Opera-tions Group was created. Its purpose is to offer continuous training to police person-nel on operational techniques that have to be applied during police procedures.

Human resources involved are trained in France, Chile and Spain.

Follow-up and assessment systems applied to this project are elaborated to give sup-port to operations to intelligence units and police services.

During the lat years, training courses have been taught with this proposal to police personnel from Haiti, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, Panama and Paraguay.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships and training courses in Ecuador.

Operational action techniques manual.Specialized human resources.

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Training course in Tactical Operations and Special Procedures

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Experience

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From 1984, the School of Tactical Operations of the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR) runs continuous training to police personnel on detection, neutralizing, transportation, and destruction of explosive devices.

The project counts on safety and assessment systems that are elaborated through methods, such as: tactical support operations, anti-subversion fight, Anti - narcotic operations and explosives.

This initiative has received support form governments from countries like France, Spain, Brazil and the United States of America.

Currently, courses and internships have been offered to Panama, El Salvador, Chile, Colombia, Spain and Peru.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships and training courses in Ecuador.

Explosive devices management manual.Tactical special operations manual and vademecum.Specialized human resources.

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Explosive detection and deactivation

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Training course in tactical operations and special procedures

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Parachuting courses

In 2005, the Police Tactical Parachuting School of the Special Operations Group started a training process in Parachuting.

The aim of the project is to give assistance in support operations to intelligence units and police services.

The implementation was achieved trough training courses in the Dominican Republic and Chile.

Currently, courses are offered to police per-sonnel form Haiti, Mexico, Uruguay, Argen-tina, Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia and Panama.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships and courses in Ecuador.

Parachuting operations manual.Specialized human resources.

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Training course in Tactical Operations and Special Procedures

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The School of Tactical Operations of the Intervention and Rescue Group, from 2001, started the training process in the Arcon Method, with cooperation from the Government of Spain. In 2010, the International Training and Standard-Setting Center of the Arcon Method was created.

The Police unit offers this new service to the countries in the region. As an assessment tool, tactical rescue operations are constantly implemented.

Canine training under this methodology is a life opportunity in natural disaster or human-caused events, allowing the availability of a operational tool for searching and detection of persons buried in any kind of environment.

The same way, it delivers trained personnel with the responsibility of keeping physical and psychological health of canines under their custody, ensuring their food, well- being and care.

Experts and instructors are sent to the interested countries.Internships and training courses in Ecuador.

ARCON Method, Manual for Canine Rescue in Disasters.Specialized human resources.

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Course in canine rescue in disasters - “Arcon Method”

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Rescue operations course

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Aquatic Rescue

From 2002, National School of Aquatic Search and Rescue trains its members in courses endorsed by the Ecuadorian Scuba-Diving and Sub-Aquatic Activities Federation. (ACUC and CEMAS)

After their training, support search, rescue and evacuation-in-natural-disasters operations are applied.

Ratifying its compromise with the international community, this police unit has delivered training courses to police personnel from Haiti, Uruguay, Peru, Paraguay and Panama.

Experts and instructors are sent to the interested countries.Internships and courses taught in Ecuador.

Search and Rescue in Sub-Aquatic Environments Manual.Specialized human resources.

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Rescue operations course

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The school for Rescue in High, Mid and Low-Mountain started the training of its members in 2005.

The training developed in Chile and France, to perform operations in searching, rescue, saving and evacuation of victims in case of natural or men-caused disasters, missing persons and victims of accidents.

Personnel of the institution has taught courses to Haiti Police Forces.

Experts and instructors are sent to the interested countries.Internships and training courses in Ecuador.

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Rescue operations course

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Mountain - rescue manual.Specialized human resources.

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Experience

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Training course in traffic - accident reconstruction

From year 1993, a continuous training and a consolidation of the Service of Investigation of Traffic-Accidents (SIAT in Spanish) started, in cooperation of governments from Chile, Peru, Argentina and Spain.

SIAT has taught training courses to Panama Police Forces on the determination of causes of traffic-accidents and how to collect information in these events.

The training program includes reviewing ant teaching 4 subjects: accident simulation, digital planimetry, elaboration and writing of technical reports and traffic-accidents investigation.

Experts and instructors are sent to the interested countries.Training courses taught in Ecuador. Operational practices.

Proceeding manual in traffic-accidents.Proceeding manual of the Judicial Police. Specialized human resources.

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Training courses in investigation and traffic - accident reconstruction

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The service of Investigation of Traffic Accidents (SIAT, in Spanish), has gone through a continuous training process since 1993 with the objective of obtaining reliable results from the study and scientific analysis of traffic accidents occurring in the country.

This training counts on the cooperation from Peru, Argentina, Chile and Spain.

The course approach includes new subjects, such as: MIAT II (standing for Prevention measures, study of human being, vehicle and terrain, Physics applied to traffic accidents and computer software (Office).

The training pursues an optimal performance to give technical-scientific support to competent traffic authorities,through their departments, units and experts.

Experts and instructors are sent to the interested countries.Internships in Ecuador. Training courses in Ecuador.Operational practices.

Procedure Manual of the Judiciary Police. Procedure Manual in Traffic Accidents. Specialized human resources.

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NATIONAL POLICE

Training courses in investigation and traffic - accident reconstruction

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The Ecuadorean Constitution incorporates among the duties of the Sate, those of protecting, promoting and coordinating activities of physical culture and recreation, in order to contribute to people’s health, formation and integral development. The state fosters massive access to spor ts and spor t activities in formational, neighborhood and parish scopes. This legal disposition encourages the state to foster the preparation and par ticipation of spor ts representatives in different international competitions.

The same way, the “National Plan for Good Living” establishes among its goals: “Improving the quality of life of the Ecuadorean People”, as a ground requirement to achieve the “Good Living”, understood as a multidimensional and complex process which includes promoting healthy habits among the population and fostering spor ts among society.

The Ministry of Spor ts is the institution that rules and performs the plans for spor ts, physical education and recreation in Ecuador. The ministry sets, exercises, guarantees and applies policies, guidelines and plans for the development of the sector, according to the Constitution, laws, international instruments, and rules that may apply. It pursues two main goals: the activation of the population to ensure health among citizens; and, obtaining spor ts achievements nationally and internationally among spor ts representatives, including those with some kind of disability.

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High - altitude training

The project focuses in the search of new ways of metabolic adaptation, nutrition and hydrating needed to sports practice in high altitude.

In the national territory, this project has been implemented for a year. Follow-up and assessment systems have been applied, through the results obtained in the Bolivarian Games Medal Chart.

This work has been developed with the intervention of the Venezuelan Ministry of the Popular Power for Sports. Therefore, this experiences has been offered to Venezuela; both, Ecuador and Venezuela signed an agreement for cooperation in sports issues.

Internships.Athletes’ exchange programs.

Specialized human resources.Sports facilities.Certificate of medals obtained in the Bolivarian Games, Sucre - Bolivia.

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The Ecuadorean Constitution establishes that the economic system of the country is based on society and solidarity, acknowledging the human being as a subject and a goal. This system pursues a dynamic and balanced relationship among society, state and market, in harmony with nature, integrating forms of popular and solidary economic organization.

The “National Plan for Good Living” incorporates in its strategy of endogenous development the need to enhance sustainable touristic development with a community approach. It also considers that the enhancement of the sector is an essential stage in the building process of a society of bio-knowledge and community-tourism services. This society shall allow overcoming the commodity-exporting productive structure, present today in Ecuador. To this effect, ground principles have been introduced in Ecuador, such as wealth redistribution, social inclusion and environmental sustainability of productive activities.

Ecuador considers that ecotourism is a new alternative for development, an inclusive and integrating model based on environmental conservation, equity in the distribution of wealth among local population. Communities shall assume social and environmental responsibility of the tourism industry.

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Touristic System Governance

Touristic decentralization aims to set strategies to consolidate the process of decentralizing competences in the tourism sector. Through this, programs, projects and actions are performed, within the framework of territorial and competitive economic development.

These projects have been implemented for nine years in the national territory. Follow-up and assessment systems have been applied, through revising of tourism competences transferred to local governments.

Currently, the Ministry of Tourism has transferred competences to seventy-six municipalities and nineteen province counsels.

The execution of the governance of the touristic system has developed with participation of public actors of local governments.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Specialized human resource.Decentralization Law.Ministry Agreement 200600085, issued on October 24th, 2006.

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Community tourism is a management model in which local communities take advantage of the natural and/or cultural heritage of the region they are settled on. It aims to develop and offer a touristic service characterized by the active community participation in the planning and execution of actions leading to enhancing sustainable development of the population, through reinvestment of profits coming from touristic activity.

This project has been implemented for ten years in Ecuador. Follow-up and assessment systems have been applied.

The execution counts on the participation from communities that develop touristic entrepreneurships, such as: the Plurinational Federation of Community Tourism; Napo River Community Tourism Network; Secretariat of Peoples; Catholic University of Ecuador; University of Touristic Specialties; NGOs such as Rainforest Alliance, Ecuadorean Association of Ecotourism, Esquel, Maquita Cushunchic; and, cooperation organisms.

The Ecuadorean state has received recognition for this project in forums on community development, i.e. OTCA, SNV, OMT.

Technical consulting.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Specialized human resource.Regulation for the Registration of Community Tourism Centers. Organizational development and Legal Framework for Community Tourism in Ecuador.Portfolio of financing-feasible community tourism projects. Program of Consolidation of Community Tourism.

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Legal framework/ Reinforcing community tourism initiatives

Ministry of Tourism

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The Constitution of The Republic of Ecuador establishes as a responsibility of the State to promote redistribution policies that allow peasants access to land, water and other productive resources. Within this framework, the “National Plan for Good Living” sets as its number one objective “to foster social and territorial equity, cohesion and integration within diversity.” Aiming this goal, policies on land management have been incorporated. They contribute to reach the goal of “Rural Good Living”, through integral, balanced, equitable, and sustainable territory ordering, which favors a polycentric national structure.

The seventeenth transitory disposition of the Constitution says: “The Central Government, within two years after this Constitution becomes in force, shall finance and, in coordination with the decentralized autonomous governments, shall elaborate the geodesic cartography of the national territory in order to design the urban and rural cadastres of the real estate and those of the territory planning processes, in all the levels established by this Constitution.”

According to what is ordered by the constitutional framework, the Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle-Raising, Aquaculture and Fishery undertook, from year 2002, the Rural Land Administration Program, aiming to validate a process which allows to solve integrally juridical, technical, logistical, and administrative problems linked to the rural cadastre and land ownership.

With the SIGTIERRAS program, the Information System, rural cadastre, regularizing of rural-land ownership, technological facilities an strategic use of information are developed nationally, whose main objective is to set a national integrated system of efficient land management. The program guarantees security in the land ownership and gives information through the implementation of a national technologic data infrastructure, in order to plan the national development, territorial ordering, strategic decisions for the rural area, and application of equitable and fair tax policies.

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The methodology seeks to implement nationally an efficient, reliable, modern, and continuously upgraded cadastre method, to assure the land-property rights. To achieve this goal, integrated and systematic campaigns of cadastre-formation and legalization land-ownership have been developed. In the other hand, the cadastre system is linked with the real estate property register. Moreover, information is offered for the national development planning, territorial ordering, strategic decisions for the rural area and for the promotion of fair and equitable tax policies.The real estate scanning campaigns include taking aerial photographs and/or satellite images, generating orthophotos,

orthoimages, collecting systematized information and transferring it to SIGTIERRAS.

The System of Geographical Land Information (SIGTIERRAS), corresponding to each of the cantons is grouped to form a national database.

The real estate scanning methodology, as well as the one applied for valuing lands, were socialized and agreed in some workshops, with institutions linked to the topic.

This project has developed with the contribution of municipalities and international cooperation.

Technical consulting.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Specialized human resource.RAT publication, (Program of Regu-larization and Management of Rural Lands.)

4.1

Methodology for the elaboration of an Integral Rural Cadastre

Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle-Raising, Aquaculture and Fishery

Information and rural land management system

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Geographical Information System

SIGTIERRAS System of Geographical Land Information was developed in order to count on a tool that allows managing great volumes of information fast and efficiently. The information is generated in the integrated campaigns of real estate scanning.

It links the graphical database (theme maps, orthophotos with land limits) with the alphanumeric database (information collected in the field with the real-estate chart). It also eases the visualization and management of both databases in an interrelated and systematic way.

The system has been operating for eight years in Ecuador. It has been applied and tested in eight municipalities. Computerized assessments are applied to monitor the system.

This project has developed with the contribution of municipalities and international cooperation.

Technical consulting.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Specialized human resources.Atlases of various cantons participating in the PRAT (Program of Regularization and Management of Rural Lands.)

4.1

Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle-Raising, Aquaculture and Fishery

Information and rural land management system

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Facing the need of support to the campaigns of real estate scanning, as well as the land-valuing process, a 1:50 000-scale theme cartography of the cantons included in the pilot was prepared.

Charts allow obtaining geo-referenced information of biotic, socioeconomic and environmental aspects. In them, new maps, at required scales, are generated.

The methodology used to obtain maps starts by using the existing information of related themes, at minor scales. Then, current satellite images are attached. Field work, cabin work and laboratory tests of soil samples are incorporated.

Among theme maps developed, there are: base maps, pending maps, current use maps, vegetal coverage, natural hazards, productive systems, soil classification and archeological classification.

The collaboration of the Ministry of Environmental Issues is important in elaborating cartographical material, since this institution identifies protected natural areas, protecting forests and native forests.

Technical consulting.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Generated products, in digital and printed format.Methodologies.Systematized memoirs.Specialized human resources.

4.1

Theme cartography

Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle - Raising, Aquaculture and Fishery

Information and rural land management system

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istr

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Cooperation modality Available instruments

Biotechnology

Biotechnology in Ecuador must contribute to sustainable development of agricultural sectors. Therefore, the National Autonomous Institute for Agricultural Research (INIAP, in Spanish), developed the National Biotechnology Department, with four Molecular Biology and Tissue Cultivation laboratories, strategically located in diverse areas of great agricultural importance for Ecuador.

Fifteen years of experience have passed by since the project was implemented. It

counted on the support and participation of public and private parties, civil society, local and provincial governments.

The methodological processes have developed follow-up and assessment systems, through the revising and upgrading of work plans, and department assessments to measure its efficacy.

Technical consulting.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Specialized human resources.Technical reports.Methodology for identifying strategic places for laboratory implementation.Six top molecular techniques, applied to the enhancement of plantations, to the prevention of plant diseases, to preserva-tion of genes and value combinations.

4.2

National Autonomous Institute for Agricultural Research

Research processes for sustainable development in agricultural, agro-forestry and agro - industrial sectors

Min

istr

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The Cocoa Program run by the National Autonomous Institute for Agricultural Research (INIAP, in Spanish), has consolidated itself thanks to research performed, specifically in the fine-aroma-cocoa branch, produced for more than 50 years in Ecuador. This has led the country to position its fine-aroma cocoa as a strategic export product.

The Program develops conventional genetic improvement methods; it also applies molecular techniques; it develops cloning gardens and generates divulgation material.

The Program’s experience and products are based on genetic knowledge, follow-up and control processes, selection and field- and lab- assessment processes.

For its execution, this project counted on the support and participation of public and private parties, civil society, and autonomous decentralized governments.

Technical assistance.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Specialized human resources.Genetic and biotechnological enhancement methods.Specialized techniques.Cultivation manuals.Gardens where cloning processes are run.Divulgation material and methods.Quality-analysis laboratory equipment.

4.2

Enhancement of cocoa production

Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle - Raising, Aquaculture and Fishery

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istr

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Grain - legumes improvement

In Ecuador, the Legume Program of the National Autonomous Institute for Agricultural Research (INIAP) is one of the most productive in terms of variety generation and use of non-conventional technologies.

For 28 years, the project has focused in artisanal seed production with small producers, and participative research.

Methods of conventional improvement have been developed, through molecular techniques, cultivation manuals, publications and broad databases.

During its implementation, follow-up and assessment systems have been applied to the project. These systems have been applied through work plans, and assessment of the department networks.

The implementation of this project counted on the support and participation of public and private parties, civil society, and autonomous decentralized governments. The plan has been offered to France, Brazil and Argentina.

Technical assistance.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Specialized human resources.Conventional improvement methods.Molecular techniques.Cultivation manuals.Publications.Broad information bases.Products that certify the experience, such as 28 varieties of kidney beans, 4 of beans, 1 of lentil.

4.2

Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle - Raising, Aquaculture and Fishery

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The National Autonomous Institute for Agricultural Research offers an innovating technology transfer and diffusion system, oriented to meet the real demand of small and mid-size agricultural producers of Ecuador.

In order to measure the impact of the project, assessment and follow-up systems have been used for fifteen years. These systems include work plans, and assessments of programs and departments.

The implementation of this project counted on the support and participation of public and private parties, civil society, and autonomous decentralized governments. The plan has been offered to Venezuela and Japan.

Technical consulting.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Specialized human resources.Conventional improvement methods.Molecular techniques.Cultivation manuals.Publications.Broad information bases.

4.2

Agricultural technology transfer

National Autonomous Institute for Agricultural Research

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Building a State, where social and economic justice materializes, is one of the ethic orientations that are in the core of the Ecuadorean political process. In a fair society, every person that integrates it is granted with the same level of access to material, social and cultural means needed to subsist and have a satisfactory life, to allow them to have a self-realization and mutual recognition as equal.

Therefore, objective number 1 of the “National Plan for Good Living” establishes the need of “fostering equity, social and territorial cohesion and integration within diversity.” This objective proposes integral policies, capable of approaching the complexity of exclusion and of promoting new logics of cohesion and redistribution, within the framework of the recognition of diversity. The same way, it seeks to re-establish inclusion, social protection and territorial integration mechanisms that can reach the whole of the national territory, incorporating mainly priority-attention groups, introducing gender, intercultural and generational justice approaches.

A full exercise of rights to health, education, social security, food, water and housing implies that everyone has to be included and integrated to social dynamics, through an equitable access to material, social and cultural goods. This exercise is a must to go forward to building a more fair and solidary society, willing to rise a new State, under the light of a new breaking paradigm, constructed around the principle of the “Good Living.”

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This project aims to reinforcing of organizations, financing and involvement with NGO’s by the associative movement of persons with disabilities.

The project has been implemented for seven years. Its objectives are: promoting citizen participation; reinforcing organization in the local scope, with support from the local governments, local organizations of first degree; and the formation of the National Federation for Disabilities, with structures in the twenty-two Ecuadorean provinces. Currently, the National Federation for visual Disability has been founded, with a

solid structure and functionality. It works in a work-insertion program, literacy, community-based rehabilitation and home-attention to persons with visual disability. In the territorial scope, a local, cantonal and provincial organization process is run, expecting to expand in the rural areas. In its initial stage, the project counted on technical assistance financed by international cooperation, in the field of training in work-insertion topics; on the other hand, the Central Agency for the Visually Impaired from Finland and the FOAL from Spain gave support as well.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Systematized reports.Experience records at a territorial level.Specialized human resources.

5.1

Reinforcing the Associative Movement of Persons with Disabilities

Ministry for Social and Economic Inclusion

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Economic and social inclusion for persons with disabilities

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Work training for persons with disabilities

The proposal focuses on work training for persons with disabilities.

The Ecuadorean Service for Professional Training (SECAP, in Spanish) and the Ministry of Labor Relationships have contributed to the execution of this experience moving towards the conceptualization of “protected employment”, which incorporates a more integral vision in the matter. The inter institutional cooperation was focused on the construction of curricular webs suited for the training of persons with intellectual

disabilities, especially in basic activities such as general services, gardening, among others.

In Ecuador, the experience has been run for six years, time in which methods of validation and completion have been developed, through report systems and memoirs of events. In its initial stage, the project counted on technical assistance from specialists, financed by international cooperation.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.

Project follow-up and measurement methodologies. Recording systems and memoirs of events.Curricular webs.Specialized human resources.

5.1

Ministry for Social and Economic Inclusion

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Economic and social inclusion for persons with disabilities

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The experience guarantees the application of the Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities in the actions of the Childhood and Youth Code, in order to move forward to a better promotion of rights of children and teenagers.

Its implementation starts with a diagnosis, which measures the strength of the organizations in the detection of abilities and competences. The organizations should determine which has been the usual management methods used by institutions dedicated to work with children.

The diagnosis allowed to produce a “Manual of Disabilities”, which sets the standards and suitable procedures to guarantee the full incorporation of rights recognized by the Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities.

The contribution of civil society organizations and local governments that attend up-to-four-year-old children has generated a greater concern in the social network, regarding a broader incorporation of a rights approach in services for infants.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.

Manual of Disabilities.Indicator-based follow-up systems.External assessment studies.Specialized human resource.

5.1

Rights promotion and attention to children with disabilities

Institute for Childhood and Family

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Children Early Development Management Model

The project focuses on the execution of public policies for the first infancy, through the implementation of a co-responsible attention model, centered in cooperation between family, government and civil society. The model directs its efforts to the local scope and includes various attention modalities.

It has been implemented in Ecuador for five years, with positive results.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.Training courses.

Specialized human resources.Attention model with social and territorial articulation.Child attention services.

5.2

Institute for Childhood and Family

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Economic and social inclusion of persons in vulnerability situations

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The offer seeks to foster rights of this human group, through workshops and seminars.

The main objectives of the project are:

Raise awareness among public institutions that break the rights of the elderly.

Socialize the rights and benefits the elderly have, through trainings and meetings.

Empower the elderly, regarded by the Ecuadorean Constitution, as a priority attention group, with equal conditions, rights and duties as the whole of society.

The project has been implemented in Ecuador for three years, and it has counted in a broad participation of social actors who work actively in promoting and guaranteeing human rights.

Seminars and workshops are constantly assessed, in order to measure the results of the initiative in raising awareness of the rights sacred in the national legal framework.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Training courses.

Specialized human resources.Follow-up methodologies and result-based assessments.Workshops and seminars systematization.

5.2

Promotion of rights of the elderly

Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion

MIE

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Transfer-granted Micro - credit Programs

The proposal focuses in the implementation of micro-credit programs for vulnerable homes that benefit from the Human Development Bonus (HDB).

The project constitutes an effort to enhance the access to credit, using the HDB as a grant.

The beneficiaries of this initiative are located in number 1 and 2 poverty quartiles. The National Promotion Bank and credit unions grant the credit.

The credits are directed to develop productive activities.

The program counts on an online follow-up system. The National Secretariat for Planning and Development is currently designing an impact-assessment system, which shall be applied in the near future.

In its initial stage, this initiative had the support from the international cooperation.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.

Specialized human resources.Computer tools.Management and information systems.

5.2

Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion

MIE

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This plan is oriented to provide support in the usage of payment systems to monetary transfer programs, such as the Human Development Bonus, among others.

This payment modality permits to have greater control over the quality of information, transfers management of monetary payments. It expedites processes in order to provide a more dignified service to the beneficiary population.

The plan has permitted to establish an efficient follow-up system that has eased

the implementation of impact assessments of the Human Development Bonus among its beneficiaries.

In Ecuador, the experience has been developed through a public-private coordination, between the government and the private banks and credit unions. The latter have, nowadays, a broad installed network that reduces the costs of monetary transfers.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.

Specialized human resources.Report and control systems.Efficiency indicators.Impact assessments of the Human Development Bonus.

5.2

Payment systems for monetary transfer programs

Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion

MIE

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Within the framework of international relationships established by the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, the following principles are advocated: universal citizenship, free mobility of all inhabitants of the planet and the progressive end of the condition of foreigner, as a transforming element of the unequal relationships among countries. According to these principles, respect to human rights is demanded, particularly of those of migrants. It fosters the full exercise of rights by accomplishing all the obligations assumed with the signing of international instruments of human rights.

Likewise, the right to migrate is recognized, and it is said that no human being shall be regarded as illegal for their migratory condition in Ecuador.

The Ecuadorean State assumes the commitment, regarding its migrants, to develop actions for the exercise of their rights abroad. The State, through the National Secretariat for the Migrants, ruling, executing and planning entity of the Ecuadorean migration policy, offers assistance to Ecuadoreans abroad and their families. Moreover, it provides attention and consulting services, and integral protection, so they can exercise their rights freely. It also precautions their rights when they are deprived of their liberty abroad; it promotes links between them and Ecuador, facilitates familiar reunion and promotes fee-willing return. Summarizing, the National Secretariat for the Migrants protects transnational families and the rights of their members.

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In year 2008, the government took over the direction of the migratory policy and its corresponding planning, under the approach of human rights, as the capability recovery for the country and the design of work schemes for the migrants.

The National Secretariat for the Migrants (SENAMI) receives support from the International Organization for Migration, trough the 1035 Facility, for the realization of international spaces.

The project goes forward, thanks to the participation of different governmental institutions with competence in migratory affairs, such as the Ministry of External Affairs, Trade and Integration (Consular Services Sub

Secretariat), Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (human rights infringement), Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion, Ministry of Interior, among others.

Cooperation mechanisms on integral migratory policy have been established with the following countries:Bolivia (Bi national Technical Commission) and Paraguay (Assessment of compromises acquired in the Agreement for Cooperation in Migratory Affairs-2009) are a real show of the success of this experience. Within the framework of the IX South American Conference for Migrations, it was proposed to countries to adopt the South American Plan for Human Development for Migrations.

Internships.Officials’ exchange.Technical assistance.

South American Plan for Human Development for Migrations and South American Migratory Cooperation Network. National Plan for Human Development for Migrations.Training Manual on Rights of the Migrant Workers and their Families . Specialized human resources.Documents of the campaign “We are all migrants”.

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General orientation and expert support for the formulation of an integral migratory policy

National Secretariat for the Migrants

Migratory affairs

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The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador recognizes the right of people to inhabit a safe and healthy place, and to a dignified and suitable dwelling place, independent on their economic and social situation. The same way, it recognizes the right to fully enjoy of the cities and their public spaces, under principles of sustainability, social justice, respect to different urban cultures and balance between the urban and the rural. The right to the city is incorporated, understood as a democratic management in full exercise of citizenship.

The Ministry for Urban Development and Housing (MIDUVI) assumes the mission of formulating norms, policies, guidelines, plans, programs and projects on habitat, housing, drinkable water, cleansing and solid-waste disposal, trough a transparent and ethic management to contribute to the “Good Living” of the Ecuadorean society.

The Ministry for Urban Development and Housing assumes the challenge of becoming the strategic piece of social development nationally, by conforming a National system for Human Settlements, inclusive, solidary, competitive and participative cities, in order to guarantee a sustainable habitat for the Ecuadorean society.

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From year 1998, the country develops a policy of humanitarian support in the housing sector, monitored through the System of Housing Incentives. It focuses in overcoming the chronic housing deficit in the rural and marginal-urban sectors.

With the execution of the project, economic support for social housing project is provided, in the urban, marginal-urban and rural sectors. Therein, minimum criteria are incorporated, to dignify the housing reality of Ecuador. This support goes from popular houses installment with minimum

or inexistent taxes, based on the need or emergency situations the population finds itself in, to the delivery of bonds to help low-income families to legalize the property of their land.

Another modality is to assign bonds to build or improve houses.

The process is run with entities of the financial system, private construction promoters, construction chambers, private contractors and NGOs.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Officials’ exchange.

Specialized human resources.Systematic studies.Social housing construction projects.

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Processes for delivering economical support for social housing facilities (bonds)

Ministry for Urban Development and Housing

Urban development and housing

MID

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Neighborhood - betterment program

From 1998, through Ministry Agreement no. 058, the Sub Secretariat of Habitat and Housing of the Ministry for Urban Development and Housing was incorporated to the “Community Partner” program, in order to dignify the housing reality of the country.

The program seeks to improve the habitation conditions of families who live in neighborhoods with unsatisfied basic needs, through the execution of integral projects of facilities and social services.

The work is made with local governments and civil society, who organizes co-work and financing. At the same time, the idea is to promote community participation and articulate the efforts coming from the national government and local governments.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Technical assistance.

Integral neighborhood betterment.Social actions to improve facilities and social services.Specialized human resources.

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Ministry for Urban Development and Housing

Urban development and housing

MID

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Min

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The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador recognized the right to education along people’s lives, and establishes that the guaranty of this right is an ineludible and inexcusable duty of the State. Education is, for Ecuador, a priority area of public policy and government investment, which assures equity and social inclusion, indispensable condition for the “Good Living”.

Education must focus in the human being, trying to grant a holistic development, within the framework of respect to human rights, to sustainable environment and to democracy. Education is participative, obligatory, intercultural, democratic, inclusive and diverse, with quality and warmth; it shall impulse gender equity, justice, solidarity and peace; it shall stimulate the critical sense, arts, physical education, individual and community initiative, and the development of competences and capacities to create and work.The State recognizes in education a strategic pivot for the national development, which responds to a public interest. Access to it is universal, permanent and mobile, with no discrimination.

The Ministry of Education has started a series of initiatives and policies aiming to own this difficult work. Among them, we can count the provision of uniforms and school texts, through processes that promote social and economic inclusion of handcrafters and independent editors. This way, it creates new spaces for popular and solidary economy. Moreover, it guarantees conditions, necessary to the access to education for all the Ecuadoreans.

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Weaving Development: Granting free uniforms promoting popular and solidary economy processes

The project “Weaving Development” seeks to generate a model that promotes socioeconomic solidary local development, aiming to contribute to the disappearance of barriers that hinder students to access public education. It grants free school uniforms for children in rural areas.

The project has contributed to the articulation of the textile and handcrafts sector (private actor), the central government (Ministry for Economic and Social Inclusion), the deconcentrated units of the Ministry of Education, and parents as surveyors.

For the success of this plan, inter institutional relationships were established, in order to

provide with micro-credit. Inter institutional agreements were signed, to privilege small handcrafters. This causes an economic redistribution effect, which goes hand-to-hand with the provision of social services. Recently, women prisons were included in the initiative.

For four years, the project has been monitored with assessment and follow-up systems, such as: analysis of information forms of the budget-executors’ performance; elaboration of a logical framework structure; and, public expenditure follow-up.

The plan has been shared with Guatemala and El Salvador.

Technical consulting.Experts are sent to the interested countries.

Specialized human resources.Reports on accountability of the Ministry of Education and the Governability Information System.Legal framework for public institutions in contractual issues.

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Ministry for Education

Education

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Cooperation modality Available instruments

The program grants free school texts for General Basic Education students, (from the 1st to the 10th grade) in public schools nationally. The program has been run for four years, and follow-up and assessment systems have been implemented, such as:

During years 2008 and 2009, texts were revised and corrected by the independent editors and authors, according to the different school timetables (Coast and Andean Region).

Training on the use of texts with the support from the National direction of Professional Development of the Ministry of Education, through work plans and department assessments.

Up to the first term of year 2010, independent editors and authors took part in the implementation of the experience and in the selection of new collections to be distributed in the Andean Region (September 2010). Curriculum experts and other ministry officials are part of the evaluating team.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Specialized human resources.Documents containing technical requirements for independent authors and editors.Assessment criteria for constituting elements of school texts (form and substance).School texts selected according to the document of curriculum strengthening and upgrading for the General Basic Education, implemented from September 2010.

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Granting free school texts promoting participative and inclusive processes

Ministry for Education

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The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador recognizes nature as a subject of rights, making an effort to guarantee integral respect to its existence and conservation and to the regeneration of its vital cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes. Aligned with this norm, it is proclaimed that it is a duty of the State to assure the intangibility of natural protected areas, so the biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of the ecological functions are preserved.

The state has the sovereignty over the biodiversity. The administration and management over it has to be performed with inter generational responsibility. The conservation of biodiversity and all its components is declared of public interest, especially the agricultural and wild biodiversity and the genetic heritage of the country. This wealth constitutes the main comparative advantage of the country, for it is pivotal in the goals and strategies oriented to build the state for the “Good Living.”

The Ministry of the Environment, as the national environmental authority, incorporates these principles in its activities, with the explicit aims of: making Ecuador a nation that preserves and uses its biodiversity in a sustainable way; keeping and improving its environmental quality, promoting sustainable development and social justice; and, recognizing the soil, the water and the air as strategic natural resources, fundamental to the energetic and productive transition of the country.

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This project is the result of a simultaneous initiative between the Ministry of External Affairs, Trade and Integration of Ecuador and the Ministry of Environment of Peru and it has been run for ten years.

The Sub Secretariat for Environmental Planning, through the Direction of Environmental Investment, runs the follow-up and assessment of the project, designed to keep the number of species that live in the ecosystem of the country.

From year 2000, this experience facilitates the conservation of animal and vegetal species, with a specialized consulting.

During the development of the initiative, ten Peruvian technicians have been trained in different Ecuadorean institutions.

Officials’ exchange.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Systematized studies.Elaboration of technical reports. Specialized human resources. Memoirs of achievements during the ten-year bi national biodiversity management.

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Biodiversity Management in Ecuador: protected areas, wild flora and fauna control.

Ministry of the Environment

Biodiversity conservation

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Forest Protection Program – Forest Partner

This initiative seeks to reduce the deforestation rate and the associated greenhouse-effect-gas emissions. It also seeks to improve the life conditions of rural communities. The program provides economic incentives to peasants and communities who, free willingly commit to conserve and protect native forests, moorlands and other native vegetal formations. Figures show that more than ten thousand Ecuadorean families satisfactorily benefited from the “Forest Partner” program.

Until now, and with this initiative, Ecuador has been able to preserve more than 500,000 hectares of native forest and moors.

There are two experiences in the program: Ecuador – Brazil: The Brazilian Ministry attended to a visit to exchange experiences on the implementation of the mechanism called “Reduction of emissions caused by Deforestation Degradation”.

Ecuador- Peru: Forest Partner, the conservation program of the Ministry of Environment, visited Peru to share the operational framework of the initiative, since Peru is preparing a similar project, called “Preserving the community forest”

Experience exchange.Experts are sent to the interested countries.

Specialized human resources.Technical documents with achieved results.

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Ministry of the Environment

Biodiversity conservation

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The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador states the sovereignty resides in the people, whose will is the ground of authority, and it is exercised through the organs of the public power and established direct-participation forms.

The Constitution recognizes the right of citizens to participate in an individual and collective ways in the decision-making, planning and management of public issues, and in the popular control of state institutions, society sand its representatives, within a process of permanent citizen-power construction. Participation shall be oriented by principles of equity, autonomy, public deliberation, respect to differences, popular control, solidarity and cross-cultural awareness.

Conscious, informed and motivated full exercise of participation rights is a fundamental objective in the process of building a state for the “Good Living”. The citizens shall be the highest protagonists in collective deliberations, since in the latter criteria are set, which orient production, circulation and wealth distribution. In the collective deliberations, norms that regulate the political community are also set.

The Secretariat of Peoples, Social Movements and Citizen Participation is the ruling and coordinating organism of the public policy that grants the right to citizen, cross-cultural participation in Ecuador through actions oriented to stimulate and consolidate peoples, social movements and citizenship as fundamental elements in the key decision-making process towards a new development model.

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Design and management of public policies for citizen participation

In year 2007, the Secretariat of Peoples, Social Movements and Citizen Participation becomes the ruling and coordinating organism that grants the right to citizen, cross-cultural participation from the executive function.

It also runs actions oriented to stimulate and consolidate peoples, social movements and the civil society, regarding key decisions within the new development model.

Because of this new policy, training workshops on citizen participation and social control have been organized.

A volunteer network at a regional level has been formed, as well as a Citizen-Formation National System. Moreover, observatories and citizen surveillances have been organized, which control the banking system, mass media, specific productive sectors (like flower producers in Cayambe), and the National Police.

Internships.Officials’ exchange.Technical assistance.

Specialized human resources.Month- and quarter- reports.

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Secretariat of Peoples, Social Movements and Citizen Participation

Citizen participation

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The state is committed to protect people, collectivities and nature against the negative effects of disaster of natural or human-caused origin, through risk prevention, disaster relief, recovery and improvement of social, economic and environ-mental conditions. The objective is to minimize the condition of vulnerability.

The decentralized national risk management system incorpo-rates all public and private institutions at the local, regional and national levels. The state is the ruling authority through the National Secretariat for Risks Management, under the logic of subsidiary responsibility.

The National Secretariat for Risks Management identifies existing and potential risks, internal and external, that af-fect the Ecuadorean territory. Likewise, it generates infor-

mation and democratizes access to it. Information must be sufficient and timely, in order to manage the risk properly at all levels. It ensures that all the institutions, public and pri-vate, incorporate principles and regulations for risk manage-ment transversally. In the public sphere, it compromises to strengthen the citizens’ capacity, and that of the public and private institutions, to identify risks inherent to their action range, in order to incorporate actions to reduce them. This way, it articulates the civil society with institutions for the coordination of actions to prevent, relief and joint answer be-fore natural disasters.

The application of policies for risk prevention and manage-ment in the country, has established instruments, norms and forms that mean experiences, where valuable teachings have been extracted from.

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Incursion in risk management and climate change topics

In Ecuador, risk management has contributed to the improvement of social protection against possible disasters, minimize threats and vulnerability of exposed population, and strengthen the skills of the citizenship, and those of public an private institutions.

This offer proposes the construction of tools to monitor, assess and adjust adaptation tactics before climate risks and uncertainties.

The components of the risk management develop the following phases:

• Risk analysis.• Emergency management.• Risk reduction.• Recovery and rehabilitation.

All these phases execute responsive and coordination actions in adverse events caused by climate change. They also reinforce the skills of the sector units of response and prevention at a local level.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Experiences exchange.Internships.Exchange of technical information in hydro-meteorological events.

Emergency plans for hydro-meteorological events.Risk reduction plans.Action plan for droughts.Assessment of alimentary security in case of droughts.Risk management model.Program for the recovery of flood-affected facilities.Document: “Risk management and the Climate-Change Agenda”.Specialized human resource.

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National Secretariat for Risks Management

Risk prevention and management

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Currently, the National Secretariat for Risks Management works in collaboration with the Geophysical Institute in strengthening communities within the range of influence of Cotopaxi and Tungurahua volcanoes. Cotopaxi volcano can potentially become active in the short term. Tungurahua volcano has been under an eruptive process since October 1999.

The work with communities includes training courses in topics, such as: family emergency plans; community emergency plans; simulations; training and equipping guards, among others.

It is also important to create a culture of prevention through various strategies and communication products.

While strengthening local skills, this initiative facilitates deconcentration of response mechanisms and empowers communities on their role towards risk management. Therefore, it enhances the efficiency and speed of the interventions.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Technical assistance.Internships.Experiences exchange with community members.

Specialized human resources.Warning protocol in volcanic activity.Community risk-management guide.Management model of the National Secretariat for Risks Management, which includes community action.Project of volunteering in emergencies and early recovery.

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Strengthening the skills of volcano-threatened communities at a local level

National Secretariat for Risks Management

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Strengthening the skills of local governments in volcano-threatened areas

This plan allows local governments to develop coordinate risk management within their territories.

The National Secretariat for Risks Management applies, in collaboration with local governments, instruments that allow deconcentration of risk management through a pilot operating since June 2010.

The goal is to generate feedback mechanisms between local authorities and the National Secretariat. This enhances the monitoring, responding, preventing and managing of risks.

Internships.Technical assistance.Experiences exchange among local authorities.Experts are sent to the interested countries.

Specialized human resources.Province plans of development and territorial ordering. Content and process guide to the formulation of provincial, cantonal, and parish development and territorial ordering plans.Video of an evacuation-simulation in Baños, Tungurahua Province, due to volcanic threat.ISQ-based norms for risk signals.

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National Secretariat for Risks Management

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Losses caused by natural, socio-natural, and human phenomena; devastation in most vulnerable populations; awareness of the social causes and consequences of these impacts; all these aspects make inclusion of risk management issues in development and security agendas urgent.

From the experiences of floods in the coastal region in 2008, the need of being able to manage information through a National System of Information for Risk Management became a priority.

Situation rooms allow monitoring of adverse events that can be presented in the national territory, foresee different scenarios related to risks, and, this way, facilitate the decision-making process of competent political actors. Nowadays, there are: one National Situation-Room, and twenty-four Provincial Situation-Rooms.

Internships.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Technology transfer.

Websites network with technical information.Communicational products.Project of implementation of the National Situation-Rooms System.Project of the National Information System for Risk Management.Specialized human resources.Andean virtual library for prevention and attention in disasters.Database with records of historical events.

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National Information System and Situation - Rooms System

National Secretariat for Risks Management

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In Ecuador, science and technology have become one of the pillars in the paradigm-change the country has started. Research seeks to become in one of the main grounds of the new productive and energetic structure, from a primary-sector export economy, to a tertiary-sector based economy of bio-knowledge and touristic services.

Science and technology are oriented to the well-being of the Ecuadoreans, supporting socio-economic development of regions, according to their needs and potentials, within an approach of integral sovereignty and human development. In other words, science and technology are oriented to achieve energetic and alimentary sovereignty, human development for all, control of biodiversity and environment conservation, aiming to guarantee sustainability of human and productive activities, in harmony with nature and ecosystems.

Along with these goals, the SENESCYT was created. It is in charge of directing and coordinating the National System of Science, Technology, Innovation and Ancestral Knowledge, and of developing and executing national policies in these scopes.

The goals of the National System of Science, Technology, Innovation and Ancestral Knowledge, are: generate, adapt and broadcast scientific and technological knowledge; recover, reinforce and enhance ancestral knowledge; develop technologies and innovations that foster and improve the quality of life and contribute to reaching the “Good Living”, within the framework of respect to nature and environment, life, cultures, and sovereignty.

*Currently, the SENACYT has changed its name to the National Secretariat of Superior Education Science Technology and Innovation. (SENESCYT)

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Hepatitis B is considered a world public health problem, because of its geographical distribution, the number of chronic carriers (c.a. 400 million), and its relationship with transfusion-caused spreading.

With the application of the (HBC) blood test, the risk of contamination reduces and the certainty and speed of the results increase. This test examines the co-relation among three tests to detect HBV in blood donors, in which results obtained from HbsAg, anti-HBc and molecular PCR HBV AND (Cobas AmpliScreen HBV Test) serologic tests are compared. This test is selected because of the easy sample manipulation. It means

that there is a lower risk of contamination of the samples, results are obtained fast and precisely, the kits include internal controls that ensure the presence of DNA, and the equipment to implement it exists.

This research allows establishing if the inclusion of new tests is necessary, if new technology in the donor-blood-analysis services is required. It also allows obtaining free-of-infectious-agents blood derivates.

This study shall be presented in clinic scientific congresses internationally, relevant to physicians, blood services and public/private attention centers.

Internships.Experts’ exchange.

Publications.Systematized studies and technical reports.Specialized human resources.

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Detection of anti-core serological marker (HBc) in voluntary blood donors throughout the country to avoid Hepatitis B

transmission due to transfusions

SENESCYT

Science and technology applied to human development

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Design and building of a high-altitude prototype platform for research purposes

The goal of the project is to design and to build a prototype of a High-Altitude Platform, which shall remain in a geostationary position, at a 15-km altitude, being able to: load a 50 kg burden; produce photovoltaic energy of 4 Kw and serve as a re- transmitter of an IP telecommunications system. The latter will serve an electronic inclusion program for rural sectors of Ecuador, where transmitters will be installed to broadcast the signal of state-owned media (radio and TV). The platform has an optical multispectral observation system that monitors the Earth surface.

The project is developed in three consecutive phases: base-line determination; study and implementation of prototypes; and, finally, design, construction and launching of the final prototype.

The product consists of experimentally determining the atmospheric profile of the station using atmospheric probes; it also seeks to produce a mathematic model of the atmospheric profile of the station.

Internships.Experts’ exchange.

Documented methodologies.Studies.Technical documents with achieved results.Specialized human resources.

SENESCYT

Science and technology applied to human development

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The objective of this project is to enhance the knowledge in Epidemiology of the arboviruses, with a particular approach from the Ecuadorean experience. With this objective, mosquitoes and small vertebrates were captured, especially wild birds and mammals (rodents and marsupials); sentinel hamsters were collocated.

Mosquitoes and vertebrates were identified by species in the laboratory before being processed in order to find traces of the virus in their tissues. Moreover, serologic surveys

were applied to human groups and among home animals (bovines, equines and birds), with the objective of getting to know the natural immunity against arboviruses living among us, such as: Venezuelan Encephalitis, East Encephalitis, San Luis Encephalitis, Yellow fever, or Dengue fever.

The study will be part of scientific publications, which will prove the results of isolated and identified viral species from vectors and reservoirs involved in the natural cycle of the arboviruses found.

Internships.Experts’ exchange.

Publications.Systematized studies and technical reports.Documented results.Specialized human resources.

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Research of Arboviruses of Epidemiological Importance in Ecuador

SENESCYT

Science and technology applied to human development

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Pilot factory for research, production and technological transfer of innovative ecological construction materials for low-cost building projects

The project develops and broadcasts a transferable and innovative system of small- and large-scale production of construction materials, generally referred to as “eco-materials”, whose main trait is being environmentally and economically sustainable. The use of bamboo-cane is emphasized, both as a material and as an alternative construction technique.

By using clean technologies, the project seeks to reduce the cost of housing costs in Ecuador, responding to principles of social and environmental responsibility.

The production model to be implemented employs non-qualified handwork intensively,

which turns it into an inclusive source of employment and income, adaptable for urban and rural areas.

Its spreading will help think strategic material combinations, which shall lead to conceiving urban projects that should be more friendly with the landscape, more respectful with the environment, that collaborate to reduce the causes of climate change.

The project comprehends training to university professors and professionals, along with the broadcasting of educational TV programs to train construction workers and society.

Internships.Experts’ exchange.

Prototypes of houses. Pilot factory and a physical-test laboratory. Material bank.Specialized human resources.

SENESCYT

Science and technology applied to human development

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Latin American countries are characterized for being mega diverse. However, the organism- and genetic-diversity inventory is still incomplete. The ignorance of the biodiversity makes development of medicines and food impossible, as the use of it in biotechnology.

The objective of this experience was to quantify and characterize the genetic and morphologic variability of species and animal populations of vertebrates (reptiles, amphibians and birds) of the Ecuadorean Andes. Its genetic characterization allows to discover new species, which contributes to the inventory of biologic resources of the countries.

The description of discovered species trough traditional techniques (i.e. morphology), substantially increased the number of samples of sequence animal genome and cryogenic-preserved tissue. This guarantees the availability of genetic resources in the long term for the use of the scientific community, industries and institutions dedicated to their management.

Additionally, DNA sequences generated can be used for an immediate and certain identification of species and vertebrates, allowing a greater control of illegal species-traffic.

Internships.Experts’ exchange.

Inventory and characterization of vertebrates from the Andes.Genome bank.Electronic Encyclopedia of Ecuadorean Vertebrates.Specialized human resources.

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Inventory of genetic and morphological characterization of the diversity of amphibians, reptiles and birds in the Ecuadorean Andean Region

SENESCYT

Science and technology applied to biodiversity, environment and habitat control

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Strengthening of the Geo-Physics Institute: Enhance-ment and modernizing of the Seismology and Volcanol-ogy National Service (Seismology and Volcanology National Program )

This project enhances and modernizes the Seismology and Volcanology National Service to reach an appropriate instrumental coverage nationally. This way, the risk of seismic and volcanic origin is reduced and the knowledge of hazard is increased.

The service consists of giving timely information to national and local institutions. Simultaneously, it generates a database with quality information and easy access. It is useful for scientific research on seismology and volcanology.

Experts’ exchange.Technical assistance.Internships.

National Seismograph Network, offers tectonic and volcanic seismic data instantly. National Geodesic Network, provides GPS data in almost-real time, and instant data of inclinometer, as well as EDM campaign-based data. Ecuador Volcanic Observatory Network, provides geo-chemical data (gases) in real time, geo-chemical (water, fumaroles) campaign-based data, thermal campaign-based data, and hydrological (volcanic flows) data instantly.National Accelerometers Network, provides data of strong earth movements in almost-real time.Repet, instrumental data in real time in monitoring centers.

SENESCYT

Science and technology applied to biodiversity, environment and habitat control

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In Ecuador, there is a massive amount of agricultural waste that is used as a sustainable resource to obtain ethanol, especially the lignocellulosic one.

From 2008, the project tried different hydrolysis, and starch and lignocellulosic fermentation techniques. They use wild, genetically modified micro-organisms to produce ethanol.

Ecuador counts on geographic information systems to elaborate abundance and character izat ion-of-agr icultural-waste maps. By this, all the potential of sustainable

resources is taken advantage of; materials considered waste can be turned to ethanol for industrial and fuel uses.

Currently, this project is accompanied by a bio-refinery, as a pilot factory, where a wide range of agricultural waste is processed. The procedure is run with a bio-digester, which produces biogas and bio-fertilizers. An average of 40 000-60 000 liters/year of ethanol is obtained. The goal of the bio-refinery is becoming an industrial factory where ethanol can be produced, along with biogas and bio-fertilizers.

Experts’ exchange.Technology transfer.Technical assistance.

Multi-time maps of distribution and quantification of available agricultural waste.Methodology for the production of ethanol: hydrolysis, fermentation, distillation and dehydrating.Design for the construction of the pilot refinery.

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Sustainable Resources for Ethanol

SENESCYT

Science and technology applied to the development of alternative energy sources

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Hydrogen - based alternative electric generation for households

In Ecuador, this project opens in the natio-nal market a substitutive-to-oil energetic system, using hydrogen as fuel to produce electricity. This is made by using chitin ex-tracted from crab crusts and shrimp covers. With them, bio-polymeric membranes are made to make home-use generators that work with a cell system of modular fuel that, when joint, increase the voltage as a battery.

Contrary to batteries, the cells work with a hydrogen and oxygen supply. It does not have mobile parts and does not produce noise. The project counts on a bank of fuel cells for home supply, and on a test labora-tory for its functioning.

This way, a non-polluting energy source is implemented. It is also oriented to increa-sing productivity of aquaculture industries, by reusing waste, as the crust of crabs and the covers of shrimps.

Experts’ exchange.Technical assistance.Internships.

Methodology for the extraction of chitin and fabrication of chitosan by chemical methods.Methodology for the mounting of hydrogen fuel cells Proton Exchange Membrane Type.Methodology for the alternative electric generation with hydrogen.

SENESCYT

Science and technology applied to the development of alternative energy sources

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In the Sucumbios and Orellana provinces, production, productivity, quality and commercialization of cocoa are developed and improved.

This process is based on the implementation of clone-garden networks, which are cemented with technical and methodological parameters for the supply of vegetative material (yolk-holding crochets). They allow low-productive and new plants to be renewed.

Simultaneously, a training-to-instructors program is developed. It allows the transferring and application of appropriate technologies for mid- and small producers.

An increase in the production has been achieved, by using environment-friendly technical processes, in order to conserve the biodiversity of the area.

In addition, the cocoa harvest and post-harvest management have been strengthened, using gathering centers, in order to improve the quality of cocoa for export.

Finally, marketing strategies have been used, to link producers with alternative markets in the area, such as: Prodes San Carlos, Tamia Muyo, Aroma Amazonico and Kallari. This provides an aggregate value to cocoa for national and international markets.

Training-to-instructors program. Technical assistance.

Management report, elaborated by the executing unit, responsible of the project.

12.4

Improvement of technological bases to enhance competitiveness in the national cocoa chain in

Sucumbios and Orellana provinces (Ecuadorean Northern Amazon Region)

SENESCYT

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Usable energy assessment and determination of the new protein system (pdi) in meat and milk cattle in Ecuador

The project determines the real energetic value of the main pasturages and concentrates used for feeding the ruminants in Ecuador, through digestibility tests in vivo, applying the studies to 30 sheep (12 from the Coast and 18 from the Highlands).

Simultaneously, 28 tropical (Coast and Amazon Region) and temperate (Highlands) pasturages are analyzed. 18 raw materials, the most widely used ones in elaborating balanced food, are also examined. The digestible protein is determined in the ruminant. The whole procedure counts on a

methodology to obtain optimal requirement data on the nutrients (energy, protein) for milk- and beef-producing cattle.

A chart of to measure the value of the PDI, BPM, ENI, Eng has been established. It also analyzes the chemical composition (proximal analysis). Alongside with this, zoo-technicians, nutritionists, veterinarians, portion preparers, and cattle raisers are trained, so they can interpret and use the values to formulate quality diets that enhance the feeding of milk- and beef-producing cattle.

Training courses.Technical assistance.Experts’ exchange.Internships.

Presentation of data of optimal require-ments of nutrients (energy, protein) for milk- and beef-producing bovines. Value charts for PDI, BPM, ENI, ENg.

SENESCYT

Alimentary sovereignty

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This project contributes to the improvement of the alimentary and environmental security, to the quality of life of rural small producers of cassava and sweet potato in Manabi, by implementing innovative technological, commercial and institutional processes. All this happens within the framework of a participative approach in the productive chains. Through genetic banks of sweet potato and cassava, the genetic variability of these products is preserved. In addition, a pre- and post-harvest technology is available in dry and humid tropical areas.

Trained human talent in technology management is developed. The work develops in innovative processes of strategic alliances with members of rural communities.

The project fosters a participative approach in productive chains, with social, gender and environmental equity. Strategic allies participate in the project, such as: INIAP, CIAT, CLAYUCA, CIP and UTAPPY. Definitely, new market opportunities have been opened for the sweet potato and the cassava.

Training courses.Technical assistance.Technology transfer.

Pre- and post-harvest technology.Genetic banks.Trained human talent.

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Innovative production procedures for cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz) and sweet potato (Ipomoea Batatas I) Efrom an alimentary-sovereignty

approach. Market opportunities for small producers and entrepreneurs from Manabi Province, Ecuador

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Development of floury cereal mixtures (corn, barley, quinoa)

and Ecuadorean potatoes as partial substitutes of imported wheat for bread and noodle production

The per capita wheat consumption per year of the Ecuadoreans is 30 kg/person/year. However, Ecuador is not a big wheat producer, and flour must be imported for the baking of bread and the making of noodles. Its cost gets higher and higher. Facing this reality, the proposal developed technology to mix imported flour with flour made of other cereals, such as corn, barley, quinoa, and potato, for the elaboration of brad and noodles, reducing costs and keeping quality standards.

This process is based on charts that contain nutritional characterizations (bromatologic, amino acids and minerals) of the flours and

their mixtures, as well as those of the final products.

Laboratories were adapted to enable them to determine the rheological characteristics of the flours, and the dough generated with their mixtures. A pilot factory was built, to produce bread, noodles and new flour-derived products. The factory can also be used for training artisans and micro entrepreneurs in these new techniques.

It is remarkable that this project has motivated the agricultural industry to use and cultivate other cereals than wheat, generating new work sources.

Technical assistance.Training courses.

Technology for the elaboration of flour mixtures. Rheological analysis of flour.Pilot factory for bakery and training.Charts with nutritional features.

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The project works in laboratories to produce the Tricho-derma spp. A series of bio-tests are performed, using different temperatures and cultivation means, to confront species in study with biocides and fertilizers used in cocoa, in order to learn about their compatibility.

The application of plague controls is developed in cocoa-producing farms, to obtain information on the adaptation reactions, surviving of the Tricho-derma spp, as well as that of agro-chemicals used for

controlling diseases in the fruit. Technology for an organic management of the crop is developed. Additionally, an economic analysis of the biological component of plague control is developed.

Trough this experience, an integrated technology is developed. This can be applied to traditional orchards and organic crops. Al the process is accompanied by the use of teaching and learning tools with those involved in the process.

Technical assistance.Technology transfer.

Technical and scientific articles.CDs with methodology and experiences.Development of workshops to share experiences among farmers. Trained human talent.

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Integration of the biological component to the integral control strategy of the Witches’ Broom pest

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Productivity enhancement of rubber tree (hevea brasilensis) produc-tivity through the integral management of the Microcyclus ulei fungus, which causes the South American leaves’ disease

The national natural rubber production is 4,218 tons per year, while the demand reaches more than 12,000 tons.

The plantations control with fungicides is feasible in young, low-height trees, and in limited areas. However, this process is expensive and environment-aggressive.

Therefore, the integral management of the South American leaves’ disease, caused by the Microcyclus ulei fungus is possible by developing resistant/tolerating genetic material. This project has identified escape zones and the characterization of the physiological variability of the fungus in Ecuador.

This way, a lower failure percentage in the disease-resistant clone selection is obtained.

Vegetative samples with fungus presence are collected in the rubber producing areas (Coast and Amazon Regions). The pathogenic strains are isolated, and once they are purified, they are inoculated in ten rubber clones coming from the experimental station located in French Guyana, so they can be studied. The result allows the production of new plantations, assuring an improvement in the plantation of rubber to satisfy the internal demand and for exporting.

Technical assistance.Technology transfer.

Documents on the causes of diminishing of the rubber cultivation.Documents on the partial and total resistance of clones. Ecuador is a member of the Latin American network for the study of the disease.

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Ecuador, in correspondence with its interest of protecting and defending the human rights, its solidary tradition and its posture before problems linked with human mobility, receives thousands of people who need international protection from 2002.

The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador recognizes the right to asylum and refuge, according to the law and human rights international instruments. People who are under asylum or refuge conditions shall enjoy special protection that grants them full exercise of their rights. The State shall respect and guarantee the no-devolution principle, as well as the humanitarian and emergency assistance.Ecuador shall not apply punishments to asylum- or refuge-seekers for entering or remaining in the country in an irregular situation.

Along with these norms, from year 2008, Ecuador establishes an integral policy in refuge matters. This policy is the result of a series of consulting processes made nationwide to establish immediate protection and inclusion measures for refugees in Ecuador. These processes were run with collaboration of the Ecuadorean State, civil society, representatives of refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and other agencies of the United Nations System. This is a solidarity response to the dramatic situation forced displacement has caused among thousands of Colombian citizens in Ecuadorean territory.

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Elaboration and Implementation of a Policy in Refuge Matters

In year 2009, with the Extended Register and the Regular Register, 27.626 people were recognized as refugees. With this, the total figure of recognized refugees in Ecuador ascended to 52.495 (data on April 1st, 2010). The construction of a policy in refuge matters identifies the investment priorities in the northern border, links the strategies and programs in charge of different ministries and secretariats.

Also, it reinforces the coherence of the

initiatives that cooperation executes in priority areas. It determines the immediate needs of protection and inclusion of refugees, among state, civil society, representatives of refugees, UNHCR, and the UN. Indeed, Ecuador is the only Latin American country with a national policy on refuge.

This policy has a mixed model: emergency plans, extended register of resident refugees who need special protection, and modernization of the process for new solicitants.

Technical assistance.Experts are sent to the interested countries.

2009-2011 Action Programs.Extended register.Documents for the implementation of the policy.

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Refuge

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The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador proclaims the principle of economic sovereignty as a transverse axis of the national economic system, reflected in the fiscal, economic, public debt, budget, monetary and financial national policies. This statement implies a change in the way of managing public finances, having the construction of the state for the “Good Living” as an articulating axis.

The Ministry of Finances is in charge of guaranteeing the financial resources for the national development with sovereignty, transparency and sustainability, serving Ecuadorean society and the national strategic interests.

The sovereign management of the public finances has turned in Ecuador into emblematic processes for the financial history of the country. The transparent, efficient, timely, planned management of the fiscal resources required the consolidation of a New System of Financial Administration, and of the National Current Account, which meant an unprecedented innovation in the budgetary management in Ecuador. This means a better fund assignment and a stimulus to a better budgetary execution. It is an efficient mechanism against corruption, since the intermediary, who used to manage budgets and requirements, disappears.

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New management model for the Financial Administration System

Thirteen years ago, the Ministry designed and implemented an information system to strengthen planning, organization, coordination, control, follow-up, and evaluation of the management of public resources, by using compatible and integrating informatics modules, such as: ESIGEF, ESPIREN, SIPREN. This happened thanks to the support of international cooperation.

In 2008, important changes were produced in the Financial Administration System: Result-based Budget; State and General Budget Organization; changes in the legal framework; and, changes in the informatics tool.

At the beginning of 2009, eSIGEF assumed the institutionalization of the project, establishing strategies for its operation and reinforcement of the technological

infrastructure, in order to assure sustainability and continuous activity. The Financial Administration System has attained public finances to be managed through an only and modern information system that guarantees reliability and transparence for the decision-making and accountability.

The definition of the concept model of the new system reflects the result of detail-revising of all the processes included in the composing sub-systems and modules, such as: Budget, Accounting, Treasury and Public Credit. The model suits the needs imposed by the Management Model of Public Affairs, which is based in a centralized-cash and accounting model, and in a deconcentration of the budgetary execution. This facilitates the record-keeping and the control of use of public resources, in terms of transparency, efficiency, efficacy and economy.

Training courses.Technical consulting.Experts are sent to the interested countries.

Programming and planning methodology. Follow-up and assessment of the management model.Development of modules of the information system.

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Sovereign management of public finances

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Article 292 of the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador regulates the use of the General Budget. Article 299 disposes the management of the budget through an only account of the National Treasury of the Central Bank, with the corresponding sub-accounts. Special accounts shall be created for deposits of public enterprises and deconcentrated organisms.

Within this context, from January 2009, all the entities of the General Budget manage their resources through the only National current Account of the Treasury. Therefore, after the National Assembly approves the General Budget, entities develop an annual indicative planning, a four-month financial compromise program, and a monthly-earned program. Upon this, they are able to execute their current expenses, capital expenses, investment and payments realized through the National Account of the Treasury.

By this management, once disperse (more than 3,000 accounts) financial resources were centralized in an only account, which optimized the management and distribution of public resources, diminishing the emission of treasury certificates for the temporary financing of the National Treasury.

Keeping an only account, within the new public financial management model, allows optimizing the use of public resources and timely meet obligations generated by the General Budget.

The fact that deconcentrated autonomous governments and public enterprises are able to use resources through special sub-accounts within the only National Account, allows them manage finances autonomously, according to the laws that created those entities.

Training courses.Technical assistance.Experts are sent to the interested countries.

Legal framework.Procedures. Agreements of inter-operation with the Central Bank of Ecuador, social security entities, the IRS, Development Bank, and other public institutions.Computational tools: eSIGEF and eSIPREN.

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Management of the National Treasury Account

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Sovereign management of public finances

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Health is a right granted by the Ecuadorean legal framework. The exercise of the right to health goes hand to hand with the right to water, food, education, physical activity, work, social security and healthy environments. These rights support the “Good Living”.

Provision of health services shall be regulated by principles of equity, universality, solidarity, cross-cultural awareness, quality, efficacy, efficiency, precaution and bio-ethics, with a gender and cross-generational approach. The Ecuadorean state compromises to guarantee the permanent and timely access to health programs, actions and services, with no possible exclusion. Sexual and reproductive health deserves a special mention.

The Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador defines health as an instrument for the continuous improvement of the collective wellbeing, which shall be continuously revised, improved and adapted to changing social conditions. It also shall take into consideration all the social synergies generated in the local, provincial and cantonal levels. Therefore, the ministry has structured the National Health System through a service network that seek to guarantee integral health in the population and universal access, with coordinated participation of public and private organizations, and civil society. Currently, this system is reference model in Latin America.

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In Ecuador, the oil production has gone through a vertiginous growth in the last years, and even more, it involves a growing number of people. The are concerns, since the oil industry has a high environmental impact and causes effects in the health of workers and neighboring communities.

This study, based con an environment epidemiology approach, considered the 15-to-40-year-old population living near the Petroindustrial state refinery, located in Esmeraldas, in order to determine the effects in health of continuous exposure to benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX).

The sample included 400 people and a sub-sample of 96 people was also taken, in order to exposure-monitor it and for studies of amino acids. Through a questionnaire designed to identify exposure and related symptoms, a survey was applied and urine and blood samples were taken. Once the information was collected, it was analyzed and conclusions and recommendations were drawn. AS a result, it is to remark that the important difference in the presence of chromosomal aberration among exposed people in relation with the reference group.

This factory is the most important refinery of heavy oil in the country.

Researchers and experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.Officials’ exchange.

Publication of the study: “Occupational and environmental health: Diverse realities.”Specialized human resources.

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Environmental pollution by hydrocarbons and its effects in health

Ministry of Public Health

Research in public health

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Methodology for the definition of priorities in health research

Constructing and agenda of priorities in health research is an essential tool to enhance the technological and scientific exploring capacity, which helps rank, select and organize problems that can be totally solved or partially attended by scientific methods.

The agenda secures a better use of the available resources, increases efficacy of policies and programs that foster research, and doubtless, facilitates coordination and articulation of the challenges in research matter.

This project allowed involving and articulating groups that ran research in public health, and facilitating the exchange of information among the various institutions of the health sector.

The objective of the project is to respect the local research needs and increase the selective induction for producing new knowledge, material goods and procedures in the priority areas. This helps the development of public policy in health issues.

Technical assistance.Internships.

Portfolio: “Priorities in Health Research in Ecuador”.Agenda: “Priorities of Research in Health Science and Technology in Ecuador”.National Directory of Health Researchers.Methodology for the construction of the above cited documents.Specialized human resources.

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This program has allowed designing new public policies in Cross - cultural health, by including the participation, dialog and communication among culturally-diverse people, with different health models and systems, that can be mutually enriched. In addition, officials in charge of the Cross - cultural health program have fostered exchanges and creative articulations with cross-cultural awareness.

In its initial phase, the project was directed to broadcasting information related to primary health attention, blood donation, teenage-pregnancy prevention, vaccinations and HIV/AIDS.

As a result of this process, the First Cross - cultural health Congress was organized in

Coca city, Orellana Province, between June 9th to 12th, 2008. In this congress, indigenous people, Ministry officials, professors and guests developed research papers, open forums, debates and discussions to define conclusions and recommendations about Cross - cultural health.

The program seeks to reinforce the new family, community and Cross - cultural health program, through experience exchanges, discussions and agreements between ancestral and western medicine. Both can collaborate to current health policies with research, systematization and study processes.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Sumak Kawsay (Good Living) modules.Sensitization modules.

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Broadcasting specialized health information to the community

Ministry of Public Health

Communication in public health

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Design for TV - health and TV - medicine programs for rural areas

TV - health and TV - Medicine are programs within the framework of the “National Plan for “Good Living”, whose purpose is to strengthen the health attention model. This means to articulate the three levels of health attention: primary attention or healing attention; secondary attention or basic hospitals; and, tertiary attention or specialty hospitals.

TV - health and TV - medicine policy contributes to universalizing the national, free health service for the Ecuadorean population, through clinic consultations (emergency or not), management programs, training, bibliographic query, promotion, prevention research and cross - cultural awareness.

The goal is to grant principles of equity, quality and efficiency of the system in its Integral Public Health Network.

While TV - medicine refers to bio - medical requirements of clinics for individual services for treatment of disease, TV - medicine has a social collective integral approach of health.

Equity and quality mean that every citizen or community, no matter haw distant and disperse they are, shall be able to access major national scientific and technologic research and knowledge centers, as well as to ancestral knowledge.

Technical assistance.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

TV - Health / TV - medicine programs, in the framework of the National Development Plan.Specialized Human Resource.

Ministry of Public Health

Communication in public health

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Design and execution of programs fostering breastfeeding and complementary feeding.

Design and implementation of human milk banks.

Design and implementation of supplement with micro nutrients.

Design and development of programs fostering healthy life styles.

Design of policies, strategies and programs of intervention in nutritional health.

Technical assistance.Internships.

Work documents.Reports.Publications.Specialized human resources.

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Design, implementation and assessment of nutrition projects

Ministry of Public Health

Nutrition

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Regulation of ancestral health practices

It is necessary to regulate knowledge and practices linked to the exercise of ancestral health, since there are distortions in its use by false practitioners.

Therefore, inquiries of work mechanisms have been performed, allowing the meeting of the demand of knowledge and truth coming from the thought of nationalities and peoples, as well as from western medicine. Local, regional and national meetings have been organized for the continuous cross-cultural exercise.

Nowadays there are elements and input that permit normalization the practice of ancestral medicine. The purpose is to formulate an instrument of broad and flexible contents that facilitates a free and protected exercised of specialists in ancestral medicine and the users that demand their service.

Internships.Experts are sent to the interested countries.

Specialized human resources.Guidelines for the exercise of ancestral medicine of wise men and women in Ecuador.Second systematization of local experiences in the application of ancestral medicine in Ecuadorean provinces.

Ministry of Public Health

Ancestral health

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The new management models are based on shared powers, deconcentration, regionalization and territorial-districts delimitation for the policy-definition, strategy-operation and service development for the population.

The Cross - cultural health model assumes that ancestral medicine is a resource that must be revalued in two ways: formalization of the informal through the institutionalization in the Operational Universities of Cross-Cultural Medicine; and, legitimization, trough the approval of laws and reforms in those articles of the Criminal and Civil Codes contrary to the Constitutional norm related to the collective rights.

Currently, sensitization of authorities, leaders, community agents and health professionals is achieved. A socio-cultural diagnose was elaborated. It has been processed, contributing to a better dynamic of the intellectual and operational goals of governmental institutions. In addition, the program was given investment for financial, human and technological resources.

Experts are sent to the interested countries. Internships.

Implementation plan of the cross-cultural strategy.Execution, follow-up, monitoring and evaluation of the strategy.Guide for the Cultural Adaptation of Health Services (pedagogical instrument of sequence structure and phase-development.)Specialized human resources.

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Cross - cultural strategy in the Management Model and Health Attention

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Communication strategies for the implementation of cross - cultural public health processes

The participation of various experts in the promotion and awareness spaces to improve information about practices and concep-tions of ancestral-peoples’ medicine has been a mechanism to build cross-cultural relationships between the professional and non-professional personnel of the Ministry of Public Health. This was possible with the mediation of Amawtay Wasi University.

This project seeks to build knowledge-between the ancestral wisdom, developed in thousands of years, and knowledge con-ceived and developed in other environmen-tal, cultural and economic realities. The

objective is to provide society with continu-ously trained personnel, within an integral, holistic and experiential reality. The per-sonnel shall be connected with the natural and community environment and also, they should have enough knowledge necessary for institutionalized medicine in specialized schools.

Experts, trained in the re establish-ment of balance and harmony of the internal body processes (dynamic balance), are sent to the interested countries.Internships.

Specialized human resources.Book: Amawtay Wasi Cross-Cultural University. Module: Raising Awareness on Cross - cultural health and Medicine. Academic Approach on the modality of Learning Communities.Syllabus of the cross-cultural professional in Healing.Professional formation schools on Institu-tionalized Health.

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Cross - cultural health

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Developing a policy of safe hospitals contributes to the application of diagnose, assessment and intervention instruments, in order to diminish vulnerability in hospitals, even during adverse events.

Up to the date, in Ecuador, meeting the hospital policy and development of the program, the following has been achieved:

Establishing inter-institutional and inter-sector strategic alliances.

Reducing vulnerability in currently-operating centers.

Applying technical and legal norms in all new centers, to make them safe.

Strengthening actions in risk management in the health sector.

Implement an ensure a follow-up and evaluation system in the Safe Hospital Program.

Form multidisciplinary teams for the application of assessment tools.

Internships.Training courses en Ecuador.

Methodology guides for developing hospital plans for emergencies and disasters.National policy and Safe Hospital ProgramRegulation for Safety Signaling for Health Centers (National Regulation).Trained human resources in the application of the Hospital Safety Index tool.

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Development of policies, legal and technical norms, for safe hospitals during adverse events

Ministry of Public Health

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Development and reinforcement of technical knowledge in the control of dengue fever and clinical-epidemiologic management of hemorrhagic dengue cases

Along the last years in Ecuador, skills in epidemiologic control of tropical diseases have been reinforced. Therefore, expertise in the following fields have been developed:

Epidemiologic watch in dengue fever outbreaks.Clinical management of patients with dengue fever.Community participation.Inter institutional coordination (participation of local governments and local leaders.)

The core objective has been to diminish morbidity and mortality by dengue fever and hemorrhagic dengue fever.

In 2009, Bolivia presented a dengue fever epidemics and a high figure of hemorrhagic dengue in topical areas of the country. Therefore, the government declared the health emergency state and requested international support from Ecuador.

Activities developed in Bolivia were integral a complementary to face the sanitary emergency and permitted sharing the experience acquired by Ecuadorean technicians in integrated management in prevention and control of dengue fever. All this helped considerably reduce mortality rates.

Epidemiology experts are sent to the interested countries, clinical patients’ management.Technicians in anti-vector operations.

Cooperation agreements and experiences exchange.Specialized human resources.

Ministry of Public Health

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The Ecuadorean Constitution establishes, as an objective of economic policy, it is necessary to promote national production, systemic productivity and competitiveness, accumulation of scientific and technological knowledge, strategic insertion in the world economy, and complementary productive activities of regional integration. Other objectives include securing alimentary and energetic sovereignty, promoting value aggregation with top efficiency, within the bio-physic limits of nature and with respect to life and other cultures.

Alongside, the State promotes production schemes that assure the “Good Living” of the population and discourages those that attack their rights and those of nature; it encourages production to satisfy the internal demand and to grant an active participation of Ecuador in the international context.

The Ministry of Industries and Productivity (MIPRO) assumes the challenge of developing the industrial and handcrafts productive sector, through the formulation and execution of public policies, plans, programs and specialized projects that promote investment and technological innovation. This should incentive production of goods and services with high aggregate value and quality, in harmony with the environment, generating jobs and accompanying the process of sovereign insertion of the country in the world system.

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Identification of market opportunities

The offer elaborates the identification of market and product opportunities. It also assesses the dependence on imports a country has to satisfy the demand. In addition, it analyzes variables such as commercial base and the importance of the product in total imports.

The functionality of the project counted with support of the international cooperation. In the national territory, it has been applied for five years. The offer was canalized to countries such as: Paraguay, Colombia, Rwanda and Palestine.

Technical consulting.Expert technicians are sent to the interested countries.Internships in the Ministry of Industries and Productivity - Direction of Technological Observatory for Industry and Manufacture.

Specialized human resources.Sector-based Studies of Value Chains that identify market opportunities.Sector profiles for the industry.

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A methodology was developed, in order to measure relative competitiveness of a country, in a product within a specific segment of the value chain, considering the per capita exports and the participation in the world market.

The methodology allowed producing of sector-based studies of value chains that identify competitive products.

The experience has been applied in Ecuador for five years with successful results. This experience was offered to Paraguay, Rwanda and Palestine. The functionality of the project counted on support from the international cooperation.

Technical assistance.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships in the Ministry of Indus-tries and Productivity – Direction of Technological Observatory for Indus-try and Manufacture.

Specialized human resources.Sector - based studies of value chains that identify competitive products.Technical reports.Instructions of technical methodology of information management an search.Information on databases and procedures.

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Identification of competitive products

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Competitiveness

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Implementation and use of an Intelligence System for Industrial and Commercial Competitiveness

Management of the Intelligence System for Industrial and Commercial Competitiveness (SICI, in Spanish) allows consulting comparative information referred to industrial performance in Latin American countries, as well as competitiveness-determining factors, commercial figures and indexes at global and sector levels. It is a fundamental tool in planning and defining the sector agenda.

The project has been applied in the country for three years. It has gone through follow-up and assessment processes using technical reports and internal monitoring. This experience has been offered to Paraguay and Colombia. The functionality of the project counted on support from the international cooperation.

Technical consulting.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships in the Ministry of Industries and Productivity – Direction of Technological Observatory for Industry and Manufacture.

Specialized human resources.Intelligence System for Industrial and Commercial Competitiveness.Manuals.Information on databases and procedures.

MIPRO

Competitiveness

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The offer of the Ministry of Industries and Competitiveness is based on the construction of indexes of industrial and commercial competitiveness, using technical tools adapted to the information available in the country.

The goal of the project is to establish productive priorities and potentials. The experience has been offered to Paraguay and Colombia. The functionality of the project counted on support from the international cooperation.

Technical consulting.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships in the Ministry of Industries and Productivity – Direction of Technological Observatory for Industry and Manufacture.

Specialized human resources.Databases.Instruction profiles.Technical methodologies on information management an search.Information and procedure databases.

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Construction of indexes of industrial and commercial competitiveness

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Competitiveness studies

The construction and interpretation of the Indexes of Competitive Combined Industrial Performance include indicators of: productive capacity, industrialization - process intensity, manufacturing - exporting capacity, manufacturing - exporting structure, manufacturing - exporting dynamism, and product - and market diversification.

The experience has been applied in Ecuador for five years with successful results. This experience was offered to Paraguay, Colombia, Rwanda and Palestine. The functionality of the project counted on support from the international cooperation.

Technical assistance.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships in the Ministry of Indus-tries and Productivity – Direction of Technological Observatory for Indus-try and Manufacture.

Specialized human resources.National and sector - based industrial and commercial competitive studies.Instructions and manuals.Technical methodologies on information management an search.Information and procedure databases.

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The information system seeks to democratize the access to strategic information on business costs, for local and international investors.

This experience has been applied in Ecuador for three years. Simultaneously, follow-up and evaluation techniques have

been applied, through technical reports and internal audits, for learning on its operation.

The experience has been offered to Paraguay and Colombia. The functionality of the project counted on support from the international cooperation.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Technical consulting.Internships.

Specialized human resources.Information System for Investors.Technical reports.Instruction manuals.Technical methodologies on information management an search.Information and procedure databases

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Implementation and use of an Information System for Investors

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Management of statistics on industrial information

This offer consists of facilitating the methodology of data search, using websites specialized in statistic processing of industrial information.

The experience was offered to Paraguay, Colombia, Rwanda and Palestine. The functionality of the project counted on support from the international cooperation.

Technical assistance.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships in the Ministry of Industries and Productivity – Direction of Technological Observatory for Industry and Manufacture.

Specialized human resources.Sector-based value chains studies that identify competitive products.Technical reports.Technical methodologies on information management an search.Information and procedure databases.

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Information Technology for Development

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The offer is focused in the support to the formation of value chains in:

Suppliers’ development.Development of business networks.Formation of common services centers.Development of innovation capacity.Business in-factory technical assistance.Links with universities.Development of management models for SMEs.Strengthening of business-incubators and formation of entrepreneurs.Identification of product and market opportunities.

This methodology has contributed to the implementation of projects in the following manufacturing sectors: tex tile and confection, leather and footwear, metal mechanics, tagua, wood and furniture, organic coffee, medicinal herbs, fishing and fishing products, software, long-fiber cotton, and artisanal tourism.The project has been applied in Ecuador for five years, and has gone through follow-up and evaluation processes. The functionality of the project counted on support from the international cooperation.

Internships. Technical assistance.

Technical reports.Instruction manuals.Technical methodologies on information management an search.Information and procedure databases.Specialized human resources.

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Development of productive chains

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Territorial economic development

This project is focused in formulating Territorial Economic Development agendas, with the support and advice of the local governments. This aims to take full advantage of the local potentials.

This project has been applied in Ecuador for three years and has gone through follow-up and evaluation processes, by technical reports and business accompaniment to measure its effectiveness.

The functionality of the project counted on support from the international cooperation.

Internships.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Technical consulting.

Specialized human resources.Territorial Development Agendas.Technical reports.Instruction manuals.Technical methodologies on information management an search.Information and procedure databases.

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The plan is focused in the development of the Accreditation System, as a base for the quality infrastructure.

Counting in a national quality system means raising the standards of the Ecuadorean production, creating conditions for the development of the productive potential Ecuador has.

The implementation of the system developed with the participation of the Ecuadorean Accreditation Organism and public and private certification entities.

This experience was offered to Bolivia. A consulting option is in process. The functionality of the project counted on support from the international cooperation.

Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships.Consulting and follow-up in procedures and methodologies of international organisms (PTB, ILAC, IAF, IAAC.)

Accreditation system, as a part of the Ecuadorean Quality System.Specialized human resources.

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Ecuadorean Quality System

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Identification of market and product opportunities

By identifying market and product opportunities, the dependence of imports a country has to satisfy the demand is evaluated. It analyzes variables, such as trade balance and the importance of the product in the total imports.

This experience has been applied in Ecuador for five years.

The experience has been canalized to Paraguay, Colombia, Rwanda and Palestine. The functionality of the project counted on support from the international cooperation.

Technical assistance.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Internships in the Ministry of Industries and Productivity – Direction of Technological Observatory for Industry and Manufacture.

Specialized human resources.Sector-based value chains studies that identify market opportunities.Technical reports.Industry sector profiles.

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The offer consists of advising on technological reconversion projects, to eliminate ozone-destroying substances.

These projects have been implemented in Ecuador for eighteen years. In fact, there are already reconverted-to-alternative-technology enterprises.

The functionality of the project counted on support from the international cooperation.

Technical assistance. Training courses.

Technical reports.Manuals.Specialized human resources.

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The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador recognizes, in its initial part, the plural character of the Ecuadorean State from its millenary roots. This way, the first article states: “Ecuador is a constitutional state of rights and social justice, democratic, sovereign, independent, unitary, cross-cultural, multinational and laic.” Cross-cultural awareness is a fundamental principle, transversal to the objectives of national development stated in the “National Plan for Good Living.”

The incorporation of the constitutional norm of recognition and affirmation of the multinational state and cross-cultural awareness in the Ecuadorean society reflects the adoption by the State of a broad and inclusive conception. This way, it incorporates a multiplicity of symbolic universes expressed in diverse historic memories, as well as the life practices of peoples and nationalities that inhabit the country. Therefore, it recognizes them as emerging actors, resulting from the contemporary social transformations.

The constitutional recognition of the cross-cultural principle requires a deep transformation of the logics and institutions of the mestizo-bourgeois state, alongside with the construction of a legal-institutional framework that permits the recognition of cross-cultural awareness as a constituting element of the state for the “Good Living”. The Constitution incorporates the principle of cross-cultural awareness along its articles, becoming one of the fundamental objectives in the national and territorial development plans. “Affirm and reinforce the national identity, the diverse identities, multinationality and cross-cultural awareness.” From this approach, rights granted to all the Ecuadorean citizens can be read. The principle is incorporated in the formulation of public policies oriented to reach the Sumak Kawsay (Good Living.)

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In agreement with the principles of multinationality and cross - cultural awareness proclaimed in the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, the are advancements in the elaboration of a methodology and definitions of criteria for the construction of cross - cultural public policies.

The objective of the construction of cross-cultural public policies is to strengthen the exercise of cultural rights, fostering the enhancement of public participation, reduction of discrimination, promotion of opportunity equity of ethnically excluded groups. This is achieved by designing, executing and impact evaluation of policies in solving identified problems.

The methodology for constructing cross-cultural public policies is inclusive, and incorporates the participation of peoples and nationalities of Ecuador.

The United Nations System provides technical assistance in the application of the methodology.

In order to evaluate the experience and set new development mechanisms, a project follow - up software was created.

Officials’ exchange.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Technical consulting.

Project follow-up software.Specialized human resources.Methodology for the construction of a cross - cultural public policy.

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Support to productive cultural entrepreneurships

The project seeks to enhance the opportunities of human development and cultural revitalization, through the promotion of creative cultural entrepreneurships of ethnically excluded population.

Under a cultural revitalizing approach, models of entrepreneurships are implemented, for local organizations, which permit the construction of sustainable means of life. These models shall guarantee management and conservation of the natural and cultural heritage.

As an evidence of the work performed, 30 projects are executed. They benefit peoples and nationalities of Ecuador. The initiative receives technical assistance from the United Nations System.

In order to evaluate the experience and to set new development mechanisms, a project follow - up software was created.

Officials’ exchange.Experts are sent to the interested countries.Technical consulting.Internships .

Systematized studies.Project follow-up software.Specialized human resources.

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The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador recognizes planning as an irreplaceable instrument for the construction of a new state, which must be efficient, efficace, fair and solidary. Article 275 of the Constitution provides: “The State shall plan the country’s development to grant the exercise of rights, the achievement of development goals, and other principles sacred in the Constitution. Planning will foster social and territorial equity; it shall promote deconcentration and be participative, deoncentrated and transparent.” it is an effort to rationalize public management, orienting it to the exercise of rights and responsibilities in the framework of cross-cultural awareness, respect to diversities, and harmonic coexistence with nature. This aims to achieve the “Good Living” of people, communities and nationalities that compose the multicultural and multinational Ecuadorean state.

The development regime has as main goals: improving the life quality and expectance of the population, increasing this way capacities and potentials; building a fair, solidary

and sustainable economic system, to modify the wicked machanisms of wealth distribution now in force; fostering social participation and control; recovering and preserving nature, in a way development does not compromise the quality of life of coming generations, introducing the principle of cross-generational justice.

Another objective is to guarantee national sovereignty, promoting Latin American integration and strategic insertion in the international context, to participate actively in constructing a new, multipolar international order. Planning also seeks to promote a balanced and equitable territorial order, which shall integrate and articulate different activities at all government levels, promoting a deconcentrated planning with strong articulation with the national planning. Alongside, its purpose is to promote cultural diversity and respect to reproduction and exchange spaces, recovering, preserving and increading social memory and cultural heritage.

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Ecuador National Planning System

The process of construction of the National System of Planning and Development incorporates:

Concept definitions.- Constitutional provisions.- Definition elements.

Elaboration of the National Development Plan.Elaboration of planning instruments: National Planning Counsel, Planning Counsel of the Deconcentrated Automouns Governments, Formulation of the National Development Plan through national objectives with a participative planning methodology.

The construction of the National Planning System had the support from international cooperation agencies and it is the result of a participative process. It incorporated the perspectives of social organizations, afro Ecuadorean groups, Montubio organizations, indigenous organizations and local governments.

Workshops.Internships.Technical assistance.

National Dvelopment Plan.“National Plan for Good Living.”Specialized human resources.Process systematization.

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The orienting principles for the definition and formulation of policies in Ecuador are:

Fiscal sustainability.Granting of rights.Emphasis in the development regime and the regime of “Good Living.”Sector agendas in the National Planning System.Sector-territorial articulation.National territorial strategy.Planning cycle.

The construction of the National Planning System had the support of international cooperation, and it is the result of a participative work, which incorporates perspectives of social organizations, afro Ecuadorean groups, Montubio organizations, indigenous organizations and local governments

Workshops.Internships.Technical assistance.

National Development Plan.“National Plan for Good Living.”Specialized human resources.Process systematization.

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Orienting principles for the definition and formulation of policies

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Decentralization and deconcentration: the state in the territoty

The process of decentralization and deconcentration provides:

Construction of a decentralized and deconcentrated model.Deconcentrated management of the state.Administrative planning regions.New territorial organization.Formation of autonomous regions.New decentralization model.New model of resource distribution.Democratization of public management.

The construction of the National Planning System had the support of international cooperation, and it is the result of a participative work, which incorporates perspectives of social organizations, afro Ecuadorean groups, Montubio organizations, indigenous organizations and local governments.

Workshops.Internships.Technical assistance.

National Development Plan.“National Plan for Good Living.”Specialized human resource.Process systematization.

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The change of paradigm started in Ecuador implies the construction of a new state, coherent with a new development strategy. This, in Ecuador, means:

The recuperation of the state for the collective well-being.State and power organization in the new constitution.Decentralization, autonomies and territorial organization.Government actions to reform the state.Re-design of the executive function. Territorial re-organization.Bring the government actions closer to the territories.Re-structuring of the executive function.

Creation of public enterprises and regulation of strategic sectors.Regulation of the finance sector.Innovation of the pubic management.

The construction of the National Planning System had the support of international cooperation, and it is the result of a participative work, which incorporates perspectives of social organizations, afro Ecuadorean groups, Montubio organizations, indigenous organizations and local governments.Cooperation modality.

Workshops.Internships.Technical assistance.

National Development Plan.“National Plan for Good Living.”Specialized human resource.

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A new state for a new development strategy

The National System of Planning and Development

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National System of Public Investment

The recuperation of state planning process showed the need of constructing a new National System of Public Investment, wich includes:

Definitions on how to apply the public investment cycle.Planning through priorizing projects of public investment.Computer system of public investment.Elaboration of thre Annual and Multiannual Investment Plan.Mechanism for decision-making.

The construction of the National Planning System had the support of international cooperation, and it is the result of a

participative work, which incorporates perspectives of social organizations, afro Ecuadorean groups, Montubio organizations, indigenous organizations and local governments.

Workshops.Internships.Technical assistance.

National Development Plan.“National Plan for Good Living.”Specialized human resource.

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The National Planning System is supported by a National Information System.

Ecuador, through this offer, seeks to transfer skills in:

Developing a National Information System.Define components of the National Information System for Information Management.Construct a National Information System for Development.

The construction of the National Planning System had the support of international cooperation, and it is the result of a participative work, which incorporates perspectives of social organizations, afro Ecuadorean groups, Montubio organizations, indigenous organizations and local governments.

Workshops.Internships.Technical assistance.

National Development Plan.“National Plan for Good Living.”Specialized human resource.

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Ecuador National Information System

The National System of Planning and Development

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Strategic and sovereign insertion of Ecuador in the World System to enhance endogenous development

The construction of a strategy of sovereign insertion of Ecuador in the world system, articulated to the national strategy of endogenous development, incorporates the following variables:

Satisfaction oriented endogenous development phases.Commercial analysis of the insertion of Ecuador in the world system.Population analysis of the insertion of Ecuador in the world system.Political analysis of the insertion of Ecuador in the world system.Touristic analysis of the insertion of Ecuador in the world system.

The construction of the National Planning System had the support of international cooperation, and it is the result of a participative work, which incorporates perspectives of social organizations, afro Ecuadorean groups, Montubio organizations, indigenous organizations and local governments.

Workshops.Internships.Technical assistance.

National Development Plan.“National Plan for Good Living.”Specialized human resource.

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The incorporation of pre-investment within the scheme of planning for development includes:

Definition of strategic objectives of pre-investment.Constructing of strategic pre-investment plans.Constructing of a project portfolio.Methodologies of eligibility and prioritization.Identification of achievements and challenges.

The construction of the National Planning System had the support of international cooperation, and it is the result of a participative work, which incorporates perspectives of social organizations, afro Ecuadorean groups, Montubio organizations, indigenous organizations and local governments.

Workshops.Internships.Technical assistance.

Strategic 2009 - 2010 Plan.Specialized human resource.

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National Institute of Higher Learning

The National Institute of Higher Learning is a non-profit post-graduate higher education center, with public-right legal personality and own patrimony. It is part of the Ecuador National Higher Education System, regulated by the Constitution of the Republic and the Organic Law of Higher Education and its Bylaw.

The National Institute of Higher Learning, to accomplish its mission and institutional goals, runs programs and confers post-graduate academic titles, certified and recognized by the competent authority.

The Institute focuses in the continuous training of government officials.Among the mian goals of the institute, the following are remarkable;

Generating training initiatives.

Generating new strategies for the promotion of academic research.

Workshops.Internships.Technical assistance.

Specialized human resources.Syllabus.Training programs.

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The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses has developed methodologies for the construction of:

Price indexes (Retail, producers, construction, among others.)Vital statistics and health figures.Ecuador in figures (Ecuador en cifras, in Spanish.)Statistics for manufacturing, trade and services.Transport statistics.Construction statistics.Social statistics.International statistics.Agricultural statistics.Life conditions survey.Demographic statistics.Environmental statistics.

Weekly figures.National Surveys.Technological innovations.Cartographic upgrades.Optical-reading data processing.Figures of the behavior of income and expense of Ecuadorean homes.Figures on socio-economic stratification.Sample Design Measure.Administrative Records (enterprises.)

Workshops.Internships.Technical assistance.Special statistics commissions.

Specialized human resources.Methodologies.Publications.Procedure manuals.

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National Institute of Statistics and Censuses

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