UNFPA recently launched a regional platform for SSC on issues related to population policies.
In this framework –and in line with what it has done with other development cooperation agencies in Latin America– UNFPA seeks to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the AMEXCID in order to allow Mexico to strategically contribute to and benefit from the platform.
This would allow the coordinated participation of specialized Mexican entities in this area, such as the National Population Council (CONAPO) and State Governments.
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Karin Kramer Presidential Agency for International Cooperation of Colombia
UNFPA: First Regional Capacity-Building Workshop on South-South Cooperation (Panama, April 2013).
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National Institute for Women (INMUJERES):
Advances in women’s political participation;
budgets with gender focus; the production and analysis of information on violence
against women and femicide.
Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation
(AMEXCID):
Advances in the humanitarian assistance architecture
National Migration Institute (INM):
Experiences of Beta Groups on Humanitarian Assistance to Migrants.
Centre for Housing and Urban Studies (CENVI):
Capacities of urban communities, through an Ibero-American forum.
Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF):
Electoral justice experiences.
Ministry of Public Administration (SFP):
Designing corporate integrity incentives in the fight against corruption.
National Statistics and Geography Institute
(INEGI):
Surveys on victimization and crime classification.
National Population Council (CONAPO):
Experiences and solutions concerning population policies and practices.
Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare
(STPS):
Experiences of the System for Integrated Measurement and Productivity Improvement.
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genDAKnowledge management and the generation of best practices are crucial prerequisites and the foundation for SSC. Clearly identified and systematized development solutions ready to be transferred are key for engaging in mean-ingful SSC schemes with partners and peers in other countries. The process of turning an implicit experience (related to individual) into explicit knowledge (documented and ready to be shared, independent of individ-ual experience) is a central challenge for SSC.
On the one hand, the desire to make SSC grow may clash with the limited number of
experts and Government officials who are available and capable of sharing the country’s development solutions. On the other hand, however, systematizing experiences may lead to better results-based management based on more formal knowledge-transfer methodologies. The UN has the necessary in-struments and capacities to become a key support for systematization processes, build-ing on both its sectorial-thematic networks as well as relevant experience and reputation to guarantee the quality of best practices identified by the Government.
“The advice and experience transferred by Mexico’s Integrated Measurement and Productivity Improvement System (SIMAPRO) through the ILO in Mexico helped us to adapt it quickly to the Chilean context, and to avoid making the same mistakes, in spite of the fact that we adapted Mexico’s experience to another sector: fruit. Being part of the regional network on the issue keeps us up to date, provides a great oppor-tunity to incorporate and share best practices, and, above all, serves as an effective communication mechanism on innovation.”
Rodrigo López General Manager of the Fruit Export Training Institute of Chile
“Mexico’s experience with the Integrated Measurement and Productivity Improvement System (SIMAPRO) in the sugar industry allowed us to easily assimilate it as we were dealing with a similar context. The flexibility of the methodology also allowed us to focus on aspects that could be more easily integrated into our work – particularly its philosophy: the social dialogue on improving productivity and working conditions.“
Juan Wright Noé Nerio
Council President of the El Angel Secretary-General, El Angel Sugar Mill, El Salvador Sugar Mill Labour Union
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6.4 Supporting Institutional and Operational Development for South-South Cooperation
Regarding the UN’s support for institutional development for SSC, a couple of agencies are already working with Mexican Government entities on their SSC capacity. Embedded in the 2011 Collaboration Framework Agreement, the joint project between the AMEXCID and UNDP aims at strengthening the Agency’s institutional capacity and consists of three components:
1) Strengthening the AMEXCID’s immediate institutional capacity by supporting the implementation of the RENCID, the national registry system that re-cords relevant aspects of Mexico’s international development cooperation;
2) Identifying Mexican institutions with widely recognized experience on the transfer of knowledge and practice to strengthen them as centres of excellence for international development cooperation, based on UNDP’s experience in countries such as Brazil, Singapore and Turkey; and
3) Systematizing best practices and public policies to facilitate strategic knowled-ge transfer.
UNDP: Conference on South-South cooperation with representatives from the AMEXCID, the UN, civil society and development cooperation agencies (Mexico City, September 2013).
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Salomé Flores Sierra Franzoni Coordinator, INEGI-UNODC Centre of Excellence
UNODC: First meeting of the Working Group on Security and Criminal Justice Statistics in the framework of the ECLAC Statistics Commission of the Americas, organized by the INEGI-UNODC Centre of Excellence (Mexico City, August 2013).