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NICARAGUA - Support to the Technical Secretariat of Production and Competitiveness |
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Saturday, 18 February 2006 |
Support to the Technical Secretariat of the Nicaraguan Production and Competitiveness Cabinet (Gabinete de Produccion y Competitividad)
Overview
This project focused on providing assistance to the Government of Nicaragua to establish and implement mechanisms to improve coordination and consensus among the Public Sector, Private Business and International Cooperation Agencies. The main component of this project focused on providing support to MIFIC, through the framework of the Presidential Competitiveness Commission (Comisión Presidencial de Competitividad - CPC), a national competitiveness strategy. Counterpart
The principal counterparts for this initiative were the Ministry of Development, Industry and Trade in Nicaragua and the Technical Secretariat of the Production and Competitiveness Cabinet (Gabinete de Producción y Competitividad). Timeframe
Assistance was provided from September 2004 through December of 2004. Activities
The project provided short term consultants to assist in establishing and implementing a coordination structure and/or mechanisms to guarantee the formulation, approval and execution of competitiveness and production policies, strategies, programs and projects as mandated by the National Competitiveness Strategy and the National Development Plan. Results
A total of 14 person months of technical assistance was provided to the Government in support of this project. Under this project, USAID / CARANA also purchased and donated two laptop computers and a printer to MIFIC for its consultants to use. At the end of the project period, the Government of Nicaragua was able to secure additional funds to contract these individual on their own. Relevant Documents
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Project Activities 