El Salvador.Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan with a CAT DDO

The DPL with a CAT DDO was approved by the Board on February 1, 2011, was made effective on May 24, 2011, and disbursed the total of US$ 50 Million through two requests on October 17 and 27, 2011. The project is achieving its objective to enhance the capacity of the Government to implement its disaster risk management program for natural disasters and project implementation is progressing as expected. The Bank has maintained an open dialogue on DRM issues with the country and verified that the operation is successfully supporting two key policy areas of El Salvador Disaster Risk Management Program: (i) strengthening of the institutional and legal framework, and (ii) mainstreaming disaster risk in the National Development and Investment Programs

World Bank. Author:Guzman Escobar,Armando Eduardo.Document Date:2011/12/03.Document Type:Implementation Status and Results Report.Report Number:ISR4839

El Salvador - Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan with a CAT DDO : P122640 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02x

El Salvador.Strengthening Public Health Care

The objectives of the Project are to: (i) expand the coverage, quality, and equity in utilization of priority health services provided under the RIISS; and (ii) strengthen MINSAL stewardship capacity to manage essential public health functions.

IDB. Author:Cortez,Rafael A.Document Date:2011/12/03.Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report.Report Number:ISR4529

El Salvador - STRENGTHENING PUBLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM : P117157 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01c

El Salvador.Support to the National Statistics Strategy Implementation

The KCP aims to create the base and provide the necessary guidelines to achieve institutional strengthening of the SEN, which is constituted as a starting point for further implementation of the provisions of the ENDE.

IDB.ES-T1168:Support to the National Statistics Strategy Implementationa

El Salvador.Support to reduce MN deficiency malnutrition in rural communities in El Salvador

The project seeks support to reduce malnutrition by deficiency on micronutrient in children under 5 years, improving their ability to resist diseases and contribute to sustainable poverty reduction.Goal: Strengthen the Pounds of Love Program and scale it to 2 municipalities located in the west of the country to overcome chronic child malnutrition in children under 5 years, once established the Program in the west, will begin a pilot program in at least two municipalities in an eastern department in Morazan.

IBD.ES-T1154: Support to reduce MN deficiency malnutrition in rural communities in El Salvadora

Raising the competitiveness of El Salvador

UNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2011/052. Geneva, 23 November 2011. Increased investment in science, technology and innovation (STI) in El Salvador is required in order to help advance the country´s economic performance, concludes the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) Review of El Salvador published today by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

Given that financial resources are scarce, the prioritization of investments in a few selected strategic sectors or technologies (based on a foresight study of key sectors and market potential) will be necessary.

The UNCTAD review underlines the need for greater public and private investment in knowledge-generation and its use in productive activities. Coherent public policies can promote stronger productive and innovation capacities and make full use of the country´s potential.

Establishing a coordinated national strategy for the development of STI in El Salvador will be essential to help local industry compete, generate employment opportunities, improve standards of living, and promote the country´s growth and export diversification strategy.

The study also emphasizes the importance of investing in the development of human capital: (a) by enhancing the quality of education at all levels, in particular the quality of scientific and technological education; and (b) by offering incentives, such as the establishment of research fellowships and accreditation systems, to promote research in institutions of higher education.

A number of measures are suggested in the review to promote private-sector development and innovation activities - such as increasing access to venture and seed capital, promoting collaboration and technology transfer between universities, research institutes and companies, and supporting the development of business incubators.

Stronger investment in STI would raise productivity and transform the country´s productive structure toward activities with higher value added. For example, the value of El Salvador´s diversified agricultural production could be increased with stronger agroindustrial capacities. The development of such capacities requires increased investment in education and research, the promotion of innovation activities in agroindustrial businesses, and the strengthening of collaboration among producers, industry, researchers and trainers.

The country can rely on a number of assets in the sphere of science, technology and innovation that can serve as the basis for progress and successful results. These include pockets of high-quality education and research capacity, and a large untapped potential of Salvadoreans abroad.

The report identifies a number of programmes already in place in El Salvador that have brought positive results. Examples include innovation funds that encourage investment in research and development activities. The Government of El Salvador could continue building upon such successful initiatives, which have, so far, been underfunded.

The Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) Review of El Salvador was prepared at the request of the Government of El Salvador. The report examines the country´s national innovation system from a general perspective and discusses the potential for innovation in two strategic sectors: agroindustry, and information and communications technologies.

This study is part of a wider UNCTAD programme to promote the development of policymaking capacities in the area of science, technology and innovation policies.

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El Salvador.Education Quality Improvement Project

The objective of the Education Quality Improvement Project for El Salvador is to improve access, retention and graduation rates for students in the lower secondary education and the upper secondary education of the Borrower's public schools adopting the Inclusive Full Time School (IFTS) model.

Project has 2 components. (1) Adoption of the IFTS Model. This component will support the creation of appropriate teaching-learning conditions in selected schools to convert them to IFTSs. 2. Improvement of Ministry of Education Institutional Capacity and the Schooling System's Governance. This component will support the introduction of selected governance reforms at the central, departmental and cluster level.

World Bank.Document Date: 2011/11/1o.Document Type:Project Appraisal Document.Report Number:65034. Volume No:1 of 1

El Salvador-Education Quality Improvement Project

El Salvador to reduce vulnerability of slums to natural disasters with help from the IDB

IDB.News Releases.Nov 21, 2011. $50 million loan will also finance expanded basic services and social programs in San Salvador neighborhoods. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a loan for $50 million to El Salvador for a project to reduce the vulnerability of residents in slums in the San Salvador Metropolitan Area (AMSS, for its initials in Spanish) to floods and landslides, and improve their living conditions.

The capital region has 514 settlements with poor access to adequate sanitation, drinking water, or electricity. Of these, 93 are highly vulnerable to floods or landslides because houses have been built on river banks and steep hillsides.

The IDB-funded program, which will be carried out by the Ministry of Public Works, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, will invest in infrastructure to mitigate those risks and improve access to basic services.

"The program also includes improvements in social services to provide greater access to health and early childhood development and, where necessary, facilitate the relocation of families to less vulnerable areas," said Luis Tejerina, IDB project team leader.

Program resources will finance flood buffers and river channeling. Additional investments will provide communities with water, sewerage services, electricity, and drainage.

The program will also finance diagnostic and modeling hydraulic studies needed for the creation of a master drainage plan in coordination with the Office of Planning of AMSS, which was created by the council of mayors representing 14 municipalities in the capital region.

The loan was extended for 25 years with a grace period of five years and variable interest rate based on LIBOR.

Salvador.Proposal for Reduction of Vulnerability in informal Urban Neighrborhoods.

The objective of the program is to diminish vulnerability and improve living conditions of families living in Precarious Human Settlements exposed to floods and landslides in the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador. The program will combine interventions of neighborhood improvement, local risk management and investment in structural solutions for water management and access to social services.

IDB. Salvador.ES-L1016: Proposal for Reduction of Vulnerability in informal Urban Neighrborhoods.

Latin America.Anchor SMEs promoting production development in the BOP

El objetivo de este proyecto es fomentar la competitividad de los pequeños productores de la base de la pirámide a través del fortalecimiento de las cadenas productivas de pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYME) anclas en los sectores agrícolas, agroindustrial, manufactura y turismo de Bolivia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, República Dominicana, Perú, Paraguay, El Salvador y Colombia.

 

A través de este proyecto se espera generar un efecto de demostración positivo en el acceso al financiamiento a largo plazo, el cual potencia el rol del sector de las PYME en las economías regionales como motor de generación de empleo formal, ingreso y aumento en la productividad de pequeños productores que pertenecen a la base de la pirámide y que hacen parte de sus cadenas de suministro y de producción.

 

Latin America.RG-L1040 : Anchor SMEs promoting production development in the BOP

 

Anchor SMEs promoting production development in the BOP

World Bank. El Salvador.Project Information Document (Appraisal Stage).Education Quality Improvement Project

El Salvador was severely impacted by the global economic crisis and the recovery is still fragile. The U.S. recession and the resulting decline in remittances, investment, and foreign demand contributed to a contraction in El Salvador's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 3.1 percent in 2009. Although positive, growth in 2010 (1.4 percent) was the lowest in Central America. External shocks also impacted social outcomes.

After falling to its lowest levels in 2006 (30.7 percent), the poverty rate increased to 40 percent in 2008 and remained at 37.8 percent in 2009.The crisis also contributed to relatively high levels of unemployment and insecurity, particularly among youth, and contribute to an increase in crime rates.

In response to these challenges, authorities prepared an Anti-crisis Plan for 2009-2011. The plan included actions to generate temporary jobs, increase the coverage of the social security system and improve access to popular housing and basic infrastructure, and violence mitigation.

The government plan sought to mitigate the immediate impacts of the crisis, especially among the most vulnerable segments of the population, while addressing longer-term development challenges such as social service delivery

World Bank.Education Quality Improvement Project.P126364.Author: Ambasz,Diego. Document Date: 2011/11/08 00:00:00.Document Type:  Project Information Document Report Number:  PIDA53. Country:  El Salvador. Disclosure Date:  2011/11/08 00:00:00

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Should cash transfers be confined to the poor ? implications for poverty and inequality in Latin America

This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that are given to all children and the elderly (that is, "categorical" transfers), to programs of equal budget that are confined to the poor within each population group (that is, "poverty targeted" transfers).

The analysis finds that both the incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical versus poverty targeted transfers. The comparison of transfers to children and the elderly also supports the view that choosing carefully categories of beneficiaries is almost as important as targeting the poor for achieving a high poverty and inequality impact.

Overall, the findings suggest that although in the Latin American context poverty targeting tends to deliver higher poverty impacts, there are circumstances under which categorical targeting confined to geographical regions (sometimes called "geographic targeting") may be a valid option to consider. This is particularly the case in low-income countries with widespread pockets of poverty.

Argentina,Bolivia,Brazil,Chile,Colombia,Dominican Republic,Ecuador,El Salvador

Author:Acosta,Pablo;Leite,Phillipe;Rigolini,Jamele.Document. Date: 2011/11/01.Document Type:  Policy Research Working Paper.Report Number: WPS5875.Volume No: 1 of 1

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