FOLLOW-UP AND MONITORING CHART -QUEBEC CITY …
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IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING CHART – CANADA
1. Making Democracy Work Better
Electoral Processes and Procedures
Mandate: Share best practices and technologies with respect to increasing citizen participation in electoral processes, including voter education, the modernization and simplification of voter registration and the voting and counting process, while taking into account the need to safeguard the integrity of the electoral process and promoting the full participation and integration of all persons eligible to exercise the right to vote, without discrimination;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |Regional level: CDN $1.6 million | |
|(DFAIT): OAS Strengthening Democracy Fund |- Canada’s $1.6 million democratic support facility will foster| | | |
|Canada is contributing $50,000 to the Strengthening |democratic dialogue, electoral observation and supervision, | |Hemispheric level: CDN $80,000 | |
|Democracy Fund. This fund was established at the 2000 |public participation and education on the electoral process in | | | |
|Windsor General Assembly. The goal of the Strengthening|Peru. | | | |
|Democracy Fund is to preserve, strengthen and |- Canada’s $2 milllion Elections Support and Democratic | | | |
|consolidate representative democracy in the hemisphere.|Development project in Guyana is strengthening the democratic | | | |
|This contribution was used to defray operating costs |system by providing support to strengthen the country's | | | |
|that have been incurred by the OAS-UPD for the OAS |democratic institutions through the purchase of election | | | |
|High-Level Mission to Peru. |materials and the provision of technical assistance to the | | | |
| |Elections Commission. | | | |
|OAS Community of Democracies |- The goal of CIDA's $4.8 million Democracy and Governance Fund| | | |
|Following the Community of Democracies Ministerial |in Jamaica is to contribute to good governance and to the | | | |
|meeting held in Warsaw, Poland in June, 2000, the |soundness of the democratic process by promoting a more | | | |
|Organization of American States has agreed to host an |peaceful political process and assisting public institutions | | | |
|international meeting to exchange experiences on the |become more transparent and accountable. | | | |
|role of regional and multilateral organizations in the | | | | |
|defence and promotion of democracy. Canada made a | | | | |
|contribution of $30,000. | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2003 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Continue to enhance electoral mechanisms, using information and communications technologies where possible, to effectively guarantee the impartiality, promptness and independent action of agencies, tribunals or other bodies responsible for the conduct, supervision and verification of elections at national and sub-national levels, and strengthen and facilitate, with the support of the Organization of American States (OAS) and other regional and international organizations, hemispheric cooperation and exchange of legislative and technological experiences in these areas, and the deployment of election observers when so requested;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Convene under the auspices of the OAS, and with the collaboration of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), meetings of experts to examine in more depth issues such as: political party registration, access of political parties to funding and to the media, campaign financing, oversight and dissemination of election results and relations of political parties with other sectors of society;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade | | |CDN $225 000 | |
|(DFAIT): OAS UPD Seminars on Political Party Systems | | | | |
|A contribution of $75,000 in 2001, and one of $150,000 | | | | |
|in 2002 were made to the Unit for the Promotion of | | | | |
|Democracy to support a seminars on improving the | | | | |
|political parties. The first seminar took place in | | | | |
|December 2001 in Miami and examined issues such as | | | | |
|political party registration, political party access to| | | | |
|media and funding, campaign financing, oversight and | | | | |
|dissemination of election results, and transparency and| | | | |
|accountability in electoral systems. The second seminar| | | | |
|will be held in Vancouver in December 2002. | | | | |
|Timeline: 2001-2002 |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Transparency and good governance
Mandate: Promote cooperation among national agencies in the Hemisphere charged with the development and maintenance of procedures and practices for the preparation, presentation, auditing and oversight of public accounts, with technical assistance where appropriate from multilateral organizations and multilateral development banks (MDBs), and support exchanges of information on oversight activities related to the collection, allocation and expenditure of public funds;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada | |CDN $825,000 | |
| |contributed $500,000 to the IDB for a project to improve | | | |
| |procurement procedures and controls in Nicaragua | | | |
| |Canada is providing $325,000 in support to the Office of the | | | |
| |Auditor General of Colombia to improve its capacity to monitor | | | |
| |the fiscal management of the Colombian government | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2003 depending on the project |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Encourage cooperation and exchange of experiences and best parliamentary practices between national legislators of the Hemisphere, while respecting the separation and balance of powers, through bilateral, subregional and hemispheric vehicles such as the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas (FIPA);
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Work jointly to facilitate cooperation among national institutions with the responsibility to guarantee the protection, promotion and respect of human rights, and access to and freedom of information, with the aim of developing best practices to improve the administration of information held by governments on individuals and facilitating citizen access to that information;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Create and implement programs with the technical and financial support, where appropriate, of multilateral organizations and MDBs, to facilitate public participation and transparency, using information and communications technologies where applicable, in decision-making processes and in the delivery of government services, and to publish information within time-limits established by national legislation at all levels of government;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $22.6 million | |
| |- CIDA contributes $500,000 to the Jamaica’s Cabinet office to | | | |
| |streamline decision-making and strengthen the policy capacity | | | |
| |of executives | | | |
| |- CIDA contributes up to $4.5 million to foster democratization| | | |
| |and respect for human rights in Guatemala through its | | | |
| |Democratic Development Fund | | | |
| |- CIDA will contribute up to $3 million to establish a fund | | | |
| |that will provide rapid and flexible support to public sector | | | |
| |reform in Bolivia | | | |
| |- CIDA will contribute up to $4 million for a program aimed at | | | |
| |increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of selected public | | | |
| |sector institutions in Bolivia | | | |
| |- CIDA will contribute up to $6 million over four years to | | | |
| |strengthen the public sector in Peru. The goal of the project | | | |
| |is to contribute to improving the efficiency and effectiveness | | | |
| |of Peru's public sector by strengthening the Government of | | | |
| |Peru's capacity to design and implement sound public policies, | | | |
| |regulations and public services. | | | |
| |- CIDA will make a contribution of up to $4.6 million to the | | | |
| |École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) to consolidate| | | |
| |its expansion of public management in Mexico, Chile and Costa | | | |
| |Rica. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2006 depending on the project |Timeline: | | |
Media and Communications
Mandate: Ensure the media is free from arbitrary interventions by the state, and specifically, work to remove legal or regulatory impediments to media access by registered political parties including by facilitating, where possible, equitable access during election campaigns to television and radio;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Encourage cooperation among public and private broadcasters, including cable operators, and independent broadcast regulatory bodies and governmental organizations, in order to facilitate the exchange of best industry practices and technologies at the hemispheric level, to guarantee free, open and independent media;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Encourage media self-regulation efforts, including norms of ethical conduct, to address the concerns of civil society with regard to, inter alia, reducing the dissemination of extreme violence and negative stereotypes of women and ethnic, social and other groups, contributing in this way to the promotion of changes in attitudes and cultural patterns through the projection of pluralistic, balanced and non-discriminatory images;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Fight Against Corruption
Mandate: Consider signing and ratifying, ratifying, or acceding to, as soon as possible and as the case may be, the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption, in accordance with their respective legal frameworks, and promote effective implementation of the Convention by means of, inter alia, the Inter-American Program for Cooperation in the Fight Against Corruption and associated technical cooperation programs and activities, including those of relevant multilateral organizations and MDBs, in the area of good governance and in the fight against corruption, as well as programs which each country designs and implements in accordance with national laws, by its own appropriate bodies that may require assistance;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Support the establishment as soon as possible, taking into consideration the recommendation of the OAS, of a follow-up mechanism for the implementation of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption by States Parties to this instrument;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade | | |CDN $50, 000 | |
|(DFAIT): | | | | |
|OAS Mechanism for the Inter-American Convention Against| | | | |
|Corruption | | | | |
|The Inter-American Convention Against Corruption was | | | | |
|adopted March 29, 1996 in Caracas, Venezuela. The | | | | |
|Convention contains a list of "acts of corruption" that| | | | |
|parties must establish as criminal offences including, | | | | |
|the solicitation or acceptance of a bribe by a public | | | | |
|official and the offering or granting of a bribe to a | | | | |
|public official. Canada's contribution of $50,000 will | | | | |
|go toward the development of a follow-up mechanism that| | | | |
|will help ensure the effective implementation of the | | | | |
|Convention. | | | | |
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Mandate: Support strengthening the Inter-American Network of Institutions and Experts in the Fight Against Corruption in the context of the OAS, as well as initiatives aimed at strengthening cooperation among ethics officials and members of civil society;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Strengthen, in cooperation with multilateral organizations and MDBs, where appropriate, the participation of civil society in the fight against corruption, by means of initiatives that promote the organization, training and linkage of citizens groups in the context of concrete projects which promote transparency and accountability in governance;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Continue to promote policies, processes and mechanisms that protect the public interest, the use of disclosure of assets mechanisms for public officials in order to avoid possible conflicts of interest and incompatibilities, as well as other measures that increase transparency;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada is | |CDN $4100,000 | |
| |supporting the consolidation of a network of Latin American | | | |
| |Parliamentarians Against Corruption (LAPAC) to more effectively| | | |
| |promote honesty, accountability and transparency in government | | | |
| |and the private sector in the Americas. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2002-2003 |Timeline: | | |
Empowering local governments
Mandate: Promote mechanisms to facilitate citizen participation in politics, especially in local or municipal government;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Promote the development, autonomy and institutional strengthening of local government in order to promote favorable conditions for the sustainable economic and social development of their communities;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada is | |CDN $4.9 million | |
| |supporting the Guyana Municipal Governance and Management | | | |
| |project to assist the government in fostering good governance &| | | |
| |reducing poverty to develop sustainable municipalities. The | | | |
| |purpose is to strengthen local governance & management in | | | |
| |selected municipalities for a more effective delivery of | | | |
| |services. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2002-2008 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Strengthen the institutional capacity of local governments to allow full and equal citizen participation in public policies without any discrimination, facilitate access to those services fundamental to improving citizens’ quality of life, and strengthen decentralization and the integral development of these services in part through commensurate and timely funding and initiatives that permit local governments to generate and administer their own resources;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Promote sharing of information, best practices and administrative expertise among local government personnel, associations of local governments, community associations and the public, in part by facilitating access to information and communications technologies by municipalities and by encouraging cooperation and coordination among national, subregional and regional organizations of mayors and local government;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Stimulate international cooperation in training directors and managers of local government; Support convening a meeting in Bolivia of ministers or authorities at the highest level responsible for policies on decentralization, local government and citizen participation in municipal government, and consider closely the recommendations of the Sixth Inter-American Conference of Mayors and other relevant processes;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Support the OAS Program of Cooperation and Decentralization in Local Government, including, with the support of the IDB, the development of programs and the effective inclusion of citizens in decision-making processes;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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2. Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Implementation of International Obligations and Respect for International Standards
Mandate: Consider signing and ratifying, ratifying, or acceding to, as soon as possible and as the case may be, all universal and hemispheric human rights instruments, take concrete measures at the national level to promote and strengthen respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms of all persons, including women, children, the elderly, indigenous peoples, migrants, returning citizens, persons with disabilities, and those belonging to other vulnerable or discriminated groups, and note that the use of the term “peoples” in this document cannot be construed as having any implications as to the rights that attach to the term under international law and that the rights associated with the term “indigenous peoples” have a context-specific meaning that is appropriately determined in the multilateral negotiations of the texts of declarations that specifically deal with such rights;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Reaffirm their determination to combat and eliminate impunity at all levels within their societies by strengthening judicial systems and national human rights institutions;
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Mandate: Combat, in accordance with international law, genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes wherever they might occur, and in particular, call upon all states to consider ratifying or acceding to, as the case may be, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Recognize the importance of the Regional Preparatory Conference of the Americas against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance held in Santiago, Chile, in December 2000, and undertake to participate actively in the World Conference to be held in South Africa in 2001, promoting its objectives and stressing that political platforms based on racism, xenophobia or doctrines of racial superiority must be condemned as incompatible with democracy and transparent and accountable governance;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Support efforts in the OAS to consider the need to develop an inter-American convention against racism and related forms of discrimination and intolerance;
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Strengthening Human Rights Systems
Mandate: Continue promoting concrete measures to strengthen and improve the inter-American human rights system, in particular the functioning of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), focusing on: the universalization of the inter-American human rights system, increasing adherence to its founding instruments, complying with the decisions of the Inter-American Court and following up on the recommendations of the Commission, facilitating the access of persons to this protection mechanism and substantially increasing resources to maintain ongoing operations, including the encouragement of voluntary contributions, examining the possibility that the Court and the IACHR will function permanently, and entrust the XXXI General Assembly of the OAS, which will take place in San Jose, Costa Rica, in June of this year, to initiate actions to meet the above-mentioned goals;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Strengthen the capacity of governmental institutions mandated with the promotion and protection of human rights, such as national human rights institutions, thereby recognizing the important function they perform, and contribute to the successful establishment of a network of all such institutions of the Hemisphere, using information and communications technologies to promote and give effect to sustainable cooperation and better coordination;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada will | |Regional: level CDN $5 million | |
|(DFAIT) : OAS Protection and Promotion of Human Rights |provide up to $5 million in institutional support to Bolivia’s | |Hemispheric level: CDN $139, 000 | |
|of the Americas |Ombudsman office for its five-year plan focusing on the defense| | | |
|Canada is contributing $139,000 to the Network of |and promotion of human rights. | | | |
|National Institutions for the Protection and Promotion | | | | |
|of Human Rights of the Americas. Using new | | | | |
|technologies, the goal of the network is to share | | | | |
|information, increase person contacts between human | | | | |
|rights commissioners and ombudsmen, and enhance | | | | |
|contacts among the agencies and institutions | | | | |
|responsible for the promotion and protection of human | | | | |
|rights in the hemisphere. | | | | |
|Timeline: Completed |Timeline: 2001 – 2006 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Create and strengthen national human rights action plans, in accordance with the mandate of the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and foster independent national human rights institutions by seeking, where appropriate, technical and financial support from multilateral organizations, MDBs and specialized multilateral agencies;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | | |CDN $340, 000 | |
|Canada will contribute up to $340,000 over two years to| | | | |
|the Inter- American Institute for Human Rights (IIHR) | | | | |
|to link ombudsman offices of Latin America and the | | | | |
|Caribbean through a web-based network. The network will| | | | |
|be able to provide training, timely information and | | | | |
|other relevant services to fit the needs and the | | | | |
|capacities of participating organizations. | | | | |
|Timeline: 2001 - 2003 |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Seek to promote and give effect to the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms [also referred to as the United Nations (UN) Declaration on Human Rights Defenders];
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Mandate: Advance negotiations within the OAS on the Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples with a view toward its earliest possible conclusion and adoption;
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Migration
Mandate: Strengthen cooperation among states to address, with a comprehensive, objective and long-term focus, the manifestations, origins and effects of migration in the region;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Promote recognition of the value of close cooperation among countries of origin, transit and destination in order to ensure protection of the human rights of migrants;
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Mandate: Establish an inter-American program within the OAS for the promotion and protection of the human rights of migrants, including migrant workers and their families, taking into account the activities of the IACHR and supporting the work of the IACHR Special Rapporteur on Migrant Workers and the UN Special Rapporteur on Migration;
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Mandate: Commit to undertake the widest possible cooperation and exchange of information among states concerning illegal trafficking networks, including developing preventative campaigns on the dangers and risks faced by migrants, particularly women and children who often can be victims of such trafficking, with a view to eradicating this crime;
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Mandate: Establish linkages with subregional processes, such as the Regional Conference on Migration and the South American Conference on Migration, which are dialogue fora, in order to exchange information on the migration phenomenon, as well as promote cooperation with specialized international organizations, such as the International Organization of Migration (IOM), in order to advance and coordinate implementation efforts of Summit mandates;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Citizen and Immigration Canada: There are various migration | |Funding required has not yet been |Obstacles: |
| |forums in the hemisphere (i.e. the Regional Conference on | |identified |There may be some resistance on the assumption that by enlarging the |
| |Migration or Puebla Process, the South American Conference on | | |migration dialogue to the whole of the hemisphere some of the policy |
| |Migration, the Summit of the Americas, and the OAS), which | | |objectives of the Puebla Process may get somewhat diluted. |
| |still work in isolation . Given scarce resources, it is | | | |
| |important to avoid duplication of efforts. Hence, at the VII | | | |
| |Puebla Process conference, which will take place in Antigua, | | | |
| |Guatemala, April 11-12, 2002, Canada is spearheading a position| | | |
| |which seeks to look at the convergence of the respective plans | | | |
| |of action of the different forums with the objective of | | | |
| |striking some coordination of activities to minimize cost and | | | |
| |maximize results in the hemisphere. In this sense, it is | | | |
| |expected that formal linkages to discuss joint activities be | | | |
| |established. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: There is no specific time frame. However, it is |Timeline: | | |
| |expected that the Vice-Ministers attending the VII Regional | | | |
| |Conference on Migration launch the convergence process in April| | | |
| |2002 in Guatemala.Timeline: | | | |
Human Rights of Women
Mandate: Continue to implement the recommendations contained in the 1998 Report of the Special Rapporteur of the IACHR on the Status of Women in the Americas and ensure the evaluation of and, where appropriate, the establishment of national mechanisms for follow-up;
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Mandate: Integrate fully the human rights of women into the work of hemispheric institutions, including the Inter-American Court on Human Rights and the IACHR, and increase the nomination of women as candidates for positions in these bodies;
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Mandate: Request the OAS, through its specialized organs and particularly the Inter-American Commission on Women (CIM), to facilitate the integration of a gender perspective in the work of all its bodies, agencies and entities through the development of training programs and the dissemination of information on the human rights of women, as well as support governments in the systematic compilation and dissemination of sex disaggregated data;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | | |CDN $500, 000 | |
|Canada will provide up to $500,000 to promote gender | | | | |
|mainstreaming in the Organization of American States | | | | |
|Timeline: 2001-2005 |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Develop, review and implement laws, procedures, codes and regulations to guarantee compatibility with international legal obligations and to prohibit and eliminate all forms of discrimination based on gender, and continue work begun at the Santiago Summit that set the goal of legal equality between men and women by the year 2002;
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Mandate: Develop additional policies and practices to combat violence against women, including domestic violence, in accordance with the definition established in the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women (The Convention of Belém do Pará);
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Mandate: Consider signing and ratifying, ratifying, or acceding to, as soon as possible and as the case may be, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and its Optional Protocol;
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Human Rights of Children and Adolescents
Mandate: Consider, signing and ratifying, ratifying, or acceding to, as soon as possible and as the case may be, the two Optional Protocols to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, specifically on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, and the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography; seek to integrate fully their obligations pursuant to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and other international human rights instruments into national legislation, policy and practice;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Integrate fully the human rights of children and adolescents into the work of hemispheric institutions, including the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the IACHR and the Inter-American Children’s Institute (IACI);
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | | |CDN $250 000 | |
|Canada will contribute up to $250,000 to the | | | | |
|Inter-American Children’s Institute (IACI) to develop | | | | |
|policies regarding child labor practices. | | | | |
|Timeline: 2001 - 2003 |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Freedom of Opinion and Expression
Mandate: Continue to support the work of the inter-American human rights system in the area of freedom of expression through the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the IACHR, as well as proceed with the dissemination of comparative jurisprudence, and seek to ensure that national legislation on freedom of expression is consistent with international legal obligations;
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Mandate: Ensure that national legislation relating to freedom of expression is applied equitably to all, respecting freedom of expression and access to information of all citizens, and that journalists and opinion leaders are free to investigate and publish without fear of reprisals, harassment or retaliatory actions, including the misuse of anti-defamation laws;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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3. Justice, Rule of Law and Security of the Individual
Access to Justice
Mandate: Support public and private initiatives and programs to educate people about their rights relating to access to justice, and promote measures that ensure prompt, equal and universal access to justice;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $6 million | |
|Canada will provide $1.5 million to support the |-Canada will contribute $1.5 million over three years to a | | | |
|modernization of the justice systems of the Americas by|support program through UN Development Program for Haiti’s | | | |
|building the capacity of civil society organizations |penal system, the purpose of which is to strengthen | | | |
|and institutions that provide public criminal defense. |institutions and procedures of the Protecteur du Citoyen. | | | |
| |- The $3 million Fund for Support of Justice and Human Rights | | | |
| |in Haiti Phase II supports initiatives aimed at promoting | | | |
| |access to justice and representing the rights of Haitians | | | |
| |before courts and tribunals. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001 – 2006 depending of the project |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote cooperation to exchange experiences in alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to expedite the administration of justice, including among indigenous peoples, for which they may request the support as appropriate of the OAS, the IDB and other entities;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Independence of the Judiciary
Mandate: Encourage measures to strengthen the independence of the judiciary, including transparent judicial selection, secure tenure on the bench, appropriate standards of conduct and systems of accountability;
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Hemispheric Meetings of Ministers of Justice
Mandate: Continue to support the work done in the context of the Meetings of Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General of the Americas, whose Fourth Meeting will take place in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as subsequent meetings, and the implementation of their conclusions and recommendations;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Develop a funding plan for the Justice Studies Center for the Americas that takes into account the interests and resources of both governments and other likely donors, and that will enable the Center to contribute not only to the modernization and formulation of public policy in this area, but also to the institutional development of judicial systems in the region;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade | | |CDN $45,000 | |
|(DFAIT): | | | | |
|Justice Studies Centre | | | | |
|Canada is contributing $45,000 to the Santiago-based | | | | |
|Justice Studies Centre of the Americas, whose creation | | | | |
|was mandated by the 1998 Santiago Summit to support | | | | |
|judicial reform in the hemisphere. The funds will be | | | | |
|put toward designing and implementing an electronic | | | | |
|information system that will provide extensive | | | | |
|information about the operation of the region's | | | | |
|judicial systems and a place for virtual encounters | | | | |
|between the parties interested in this sector. | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Develop an exchange of best practices and recommendations, through the Meetings of Ministers of Justice and other appropriate mechanisms, seeking the technical and financial support of other multilateral organizations and MDBs where appropriate, that are consistent with international human rights standards, to reduce the number of pre-trial detainees, institute alternative forms of sentencing for minor crimes and improve prison conditions throughout the Hemisphere;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Establish, in the OAS, an Internet-based network of information among competent legal authorities on extradition and mutual legal assistance to facilitate direct communications among them on a regular basis and to identify common problems in handling specific cases and issues that merit collective attention and resolution;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Combating the Drug Problem
Mandate: Note with satisfaction the creation and implementation of the MEM, and reiterate their commitment to make this instrument, unique in the world, a central pillar of assistance toward effective hemispheric cooperation in the struggle against all the component elements of the global drug problem;
Mandate: Implement the proposals and recommendations found in the national and hemispheric reports, approved by CICAD, in accordance with the specific situation of each country;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Continue strengthening and reviewing the MEM to monitor national and hemispheric efforts against drugs, and recommend concrete actions to encourage inter-American cooperation and national strategies to combat this scourge;
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Mandate: Recommend intensifying joint IDB-CICAD efforts in order to obtain financial resources from the international donor community, through consultative groups supporting anti-drug efforts, for alternative development, as well as demand reduction programs;
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Mandate: Recommend establishing units with financial intelligence functions in countries that have not yet done so, with the support of CICAD and international agencies specialized in this area, and for which, in this context, it is recommended that CICAD and IDB training efforts be expanded;
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Mandate: Recommend developing, within the framework of CICAD, a long-term strategy that includes a three-year program to establish a basic and homogeneous mechanism to estimate the social, human and economic costs of the drug problem in the Americas, and to support countries through the necessary technical assistance;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Promote bilateral and multilateral cooperation and information exchange on policies and actions concerning drug prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and supply control, and develop educational campaigns to promote public awareness of the risk of drug consumption;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Support measures to impede organized crime, money-laundering, the diversion of chemical precursors, the financing of armed groups, and other illicit activities resulting from drug and arms trafficking;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Promote bilateral and multilateral cooperation in order to consider in an integral manner the displacement phenomenon of different factors related to the drug problem, including the displacement of persons and illicit crops;
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Transnational Organized Crime
Mandate: Encourage all countries in the Hemisphere to consider signing and ratifying, ratifying, or acceding to, as soon as possible and as the case may be, the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, its Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, as well as the Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components, and Ammunition, once that protocol is open for signature;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Implement collective strategies, including those that emerge from the Meetings of Ministers of Justice of the Americas, to enhance the institutional ability of states to exchange information and evidence by concluding international agreements on mutual legal assistance where necessary, develop and circulate national reports, and strengthen cooperation, seeking the technical and financial support of multilateral organizations and MDBs where appropriate, in order to jointly combat emerging forms of transnational criminal activity, including trafficking in persons and the laundering of the proceeds and assets of crime and cyber-crime;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Review national laws and policies to improve cooperation in areas such as mutual legal assistance, extradition and deportation to countries of origin, acknowledging the serious concerns of countries that deport certain foreign nationals for committing crimes in those countries and the serious concerns of the receiving countries about the negative effect of these deportations on the incidence of criminality in the countries of origin, and express the desire to work together, as appropriate, to address the negative effects on our societies.
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Promote, where necessary, and in accordance with national legislation, the adoption of investigation techniques, contained in the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, which are very important tools in the fight against organized crime;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Prevention of Violence
Mandate: Encourage national institutions to work together and coordinate with all appropriate multilateral organizations and MDBs in order to implement integrated programs that include initiatives for conflict resolution, where appropriate, for sustained prevention, permanent attention, public education and treatment relevant to cases of violence against persons, families and communities, strengthening national institutional capacities in these areas;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada will | |CDN $5.5 million | |
|Canada will provide $4.5 million over three years to |contribute $1 million over four years to establish a Fund for | | | |
|the University for Peace (UPEACE). CIDA's contribution |Governance and Human Security in Colombia that will look to | | | |
|will help UPAZ strengthen its institutional structure |improve that capacity of government and civil society in the | | | |
|and pursue the development of programs in such sectors|areas of human security, peace processes and causes of | | | |
|as education and peace, human security and peace, and |conflicts | | | |
|gender and peace. | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2005 depending on the project |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Consider developing cooperation with the media and entertainment industry with a view to avoiding the promotion and dissemination of a culture of violence, thus contributing to a culture of peace;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Encourage greater use of community-based policing, to develop increased dialogue and interaction of law enforcement authorities with civil society and local communities;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Promote cooperation to modernize criminal law, using information and communications technologies as appropriate, with a focus on human rights training and prevention of acts of violence, particularly violence perpetrated by law enforcement officials, in order to reduce violence against civilians and foster values necessary in our societies to retain social harmony;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Promote the exchange of national experiences and best practices on the use of police profiling with a view to preventing biased detentions, which tend to affect mostly minorities and the poor;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Expand opportunities to share experiences, techniques and best practices among government and civil society agencies involved in combating psychological, sexual or physical violence in the domestic setting and on the job, recognizing that such violence is overwhelmingly directed against women and children;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Seek to adopt necessary measures to prevent, impede and punish violence, the segregation and exploitation of women, minors, the elderly, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, and seek to ensure that national legislation addresses acts of violence against them and that these laws are enforced, recognizing that where victims of violence require legal assistance to obtain redress, every effort should be made to guarantee that they receive such assistance;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Request multilateral and other organizations that participate in the Inter-American Coalition for the Prevention of Violence to intensify their support and technical assistance to those countries that so request, in the elaboration of national strategies and actions regarding this topic;
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Mandate: Promote concrete measures to prevent hostile actions against minorities in the Hemisphere, as well as the violent activities of local, regional and international movements that support and foster racist ideologies and terrorist practices to reach their goals;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Increase regional cooperation with a view to preventing the criminal use of firearms and ammunition, and examine additional measures and laws at the national level if required;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Implement, as soon as possible, the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials, and apply the CICAD Model Regulations, as appropriate;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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4. Hemispheric Security
Strengthening Mutual Confidence
Mandate: Hold the Special Conference on Security in 2004, for which the OAS Committee on Hemispheric Security will conclude the review of all issues related to approaches to international security in the Hemisphere, as defined at the Santiago Summit;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Continue with priority activities on conflict prevention and the peaceful resolution of disputes, respond to shared traditional and non-traditional security and defense concerns and support measures to improve human security;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $10 million | |
|Canada is supporting the University for Peace of the |- Canada will contribute up to $500,000 to the UN Verification | | | |
|United Nations with $4.5 million to contribute to the |Mission in Guatemala to support the implementation of the Peace| | | |
|understanding of the role of the media in the promotion|Accords. | | | |
|of peace and security at local and international levels|- The $5 million Durable Solutions for Displaced Persons | | | |
|by reinforcing the Institute for Media, Peace and |project in Colombia is contributing to the capacity of civil | | | |
|Security in its efforts to conduct practical training |society to protect, assist, integrate and represent vulnerable | | | |
|and research in matters related to the use of free |and displaced populations affected by conflict. The long-term | | | |
|media to prevent violent conflict and promote peace and|goal is to develop the capacity of Colombia's civil society to | | | |
|security. |collaborate in legitimized processes to address both the causes| | | |
| |and effects of the armed conflict and forced displacement, and | | | |
| |to facilitate the transition to sustainable peace and | | | |
| |development once a resolution to the conflict is achieved. | | | |
|Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2007 depending on the |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2007 depending on the project |Timeline: | | |
|project | | | | |
Mandate: Support the efforts of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to address their special security concerns, recognizing that for the smallest and most vulnerable states in the Hemisphere, security is multi-dimensional in scope, involves state and non-state actors and includes political, economic, social and natural components, and that the SIDS have concluded that among the threats to their security are illicit drug trafficking, the illegal trade in arms, increasing levels of crime and corruption, environmental vulnerability exacerbated by susceptibility to natural disasters and the transportation of nuclear waste, economic vulnerability particularly in relation to trade, new health threats including the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) pandemic and increased levels of poverty;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Improve the transparency and accountability of defense and security institutions and promote greater understanding and cooperation among government agencies involved in security and defense issues, through such means as increased sharing of defense policy and doctrine papers, information and personnel exchanges, including, where feasible, cooperation and training for participation in UN peace-keeping activities and to respond better to legitimate security and defense needs, by improving transparency of arms acquisitions in order to improve confidence and security in the Hemisphere;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Continue promoting greater degrees of confidence and security in the Hemisphere, inter alia through sustained support for measures, such as those set forth in the Santiago and San Salvador Declarations on Confidence and Security Building Measures (CSBMs), and for existing mechanisms, agreements and funds, and consider signing and ratifying, ratifying, or acceding to, as soon as possible and as the case may be, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, the Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Weapons Acquisitions, and the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials, giving full support to the UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all Its Aspects to be held in July 2001, bearing in mind the results of the Regional Preparatory Meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Brasilia in November 2000, and the work of the OAS, which contributed a regional perspective to the discussions;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade | | |CDN $171,681 | |
|(DFAIT): | | | | |
|OAS Small Arms Meeting: | | | | |
|In June, 2000 at the 30th Organization of American | | | | |
|States (OAS) General Assembly in Windsor, a resolution | | | | |
|was adopted giving the Permanent Council a mandate to | | | | |
|develop a declaration on all aspects of the excessive | | | | |
|and destabilizing accumulation and transfer of small | | | | |
|arms and light weapons to be presented at the UN | | | | |
|Conference. In response to this resolution, Canada is | | | | |
|inviting its fellow members of the OAS to meet in May | | | | |
|in Ottawa to seek ways to contribute to the UN | | | | |
|Conference. The preparation of the Seminar will be | | | | |
|coordinated by the Biting the Bullet Project (a | | | | |
|credible UK-based consortium of NGOs) while Project | | | | |
|Ploughshares, based in Waterloo, Ontario, and the Arias| | | | |
|Foundation, based in Costa Rica, will be the main | | | | |
|implementing agencies. These NGOs are members of the | | | | |
|NGO based International Action Network on Small Arms | | | | |
|and Light Weapons (IANSA) which has been created to | | | | |
|facilitate NGO action aimed at enhancing human security| | | | |
|by preventing the proliferation and misuse of small | | | | |
|arms. It is expected that the seminar will result in | | | | |
|closer positions on an OAS strategy to tackle SALW in | | | | |
|all its aspects; in a Plan of Action to be built into | | | | |
|the OAS Declaration on SALW to be adopted at the OAS GA| | | | |
|in June 2001; and, finally, in a strong common position| | | | |
|of the OAS countries at the UN 2001 Conference. | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Strongly support the Third Meeting of State Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, to be held in September 2001 in Managua, Nicaragua, and the Review Conference of the 1980 UN Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, to be held in December 2001 in Geneva; as well as the efforts of the OAS to pursue the goal of the conversion of the Western Hemisphere into an anti-personnel- landmine-free zone;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Call for an experts meeting, before the Special Conference on Security, as a follow-up to the regional conferences of Santiago and San Salvador on CSBMs, in order to evaluate implementation and consider next steps to further consolidate mutual confidence;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Mandate: Promote financial support to the OAS Fund for Peace: Peaceful Settlement of Territorial Disputes, established to provide financial resources to assist with defraying the inherent costs of proceedings previously agreed to by the parties concerned for the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes among OAS member states;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade | | |CDN $50, 000 | |
|(DFAIT): | | | | |
|OAS Peace Fund - Guatemala - Belize | | | | |
|OAS Peace Fund - Nicaragua - Honduras | | | | |
|Canada is contributing $50,000 to the OAS Peace Fund. | | | | |
|This fund was established at the 2000 Windsor General | | | | |
|Assembly. The goal of the Peace Fund is to assist in | | | | |
|the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes. | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support the work leading up to the Fifth Meeting of Defense Ministers of the Americas to take place in Chile, as well as meetings that will take place subsequently;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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Fight Against Terrorism
Mandate: Support the work initiated by the Inter-American Committee on Terrorism (CICTE) established within the OAS as a result of the Commitment of Mar del Plata adopted in 1998, and encourage hemispheric cooperation to prevent, combat and eliminate all forms of terrorism, taking into account the approval of the Statute and Work Plan of CICTE;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Consider signing and ratifying, ratifying, or acceding to, as soon as possible and as the case may be, those international agreements related to the fight against terrorism, in accordance with their respective internal legislation;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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5. Civil Society
Strengthening Participation in Hemispheric and National Processes
Mandate: Seek to establish public and private funding instruments aimed at building the capacity of civil society organizations in order to highlight the work and contribution of these organizations and to promote accountability;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada will | |CDN $303, 000 | |
| |provide up to $303,000 to strengthen civil society in Haiti and| | | |
| |Mexico on issues such as human rights, gender equality and | | | |
| |environmental protection | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001 - 2003 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Develop strategies at the national level and through the OAS, other multilateral organizations and MDBs to increase the capacity of civil society to participate more fully in the inter-American system, as well as in the political, economic and social development of their communities and countries, fostering representativeness and facilitating the participation of all sectors of society; and increase the institutional capacity of governments to receive, absorb and act on civil society input and advocacy, particularly through the use of information and communications technologies;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada will |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada will|CDN $8.6 million | |
|- Canada’s $750,000 Civil Society Participation Fund |contribute $140,000 to strengthen NGO capacity of the |provide up to $2 million over three years to the Canadian | | |
|supports civil society participation in policy dialogue|Caribbean. This program will augment dialogue with governments |Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) for the Knowledge for | | |
|related to inter-American cooperation and integration |of the region, increasing the participation of West Indies |Development Project. This project will use information, | | |
|processes. |diaspora in Canada. |knowledge, intellectual leadership and advocacy to promote | | |
|- Canada's $5 million Summit Follow-up Fund promotes | |policy development and implementation in selected priority | | |
|policy dialogue on cooperation and integration issues | |areas in Latin America and the Caribbean. The three main | | |
|in the Americas and strengthens the capacity of civil | |thematic areas are poverty and inequality, trade and | | |
|society to effectively participate in the Summit | |development, governance and civil society. | | |
|process. | | | | |
|- Canada's $380,000 Social Policy Facilitation Project | | | | |
|uses development information, research, knowledge and | | | | |
|advocacy to help put poverty reduction and greater | | | | |
|social equity at the centre of economic and social | | | | |
|policy-making in Latin America. | | | | |
|Timeframe: Ranging from 2001-2006 depending on the |Timeframe: Ranging from 2001-2006 depending on the project |Timeframe: Ranging from 2001 – 2006 depending on the project | | |
|project | | | | |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT): |Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade | |Obstacles: |
|(DFAIT): During the Labour Ministerial held in Ottawa, |Canada is working with the SOC in the development of guidelines|(DFAIT): The Department of Foreign Affairs and International | |Keeping the experts involved in the implementation process; |
|Canada facilitated the participation of COSATE and |for holding sub-regional |Trade (DFAIT) began a process of “information exchanges,” | |distinguish constructive from |
|CEPAL to the discussion. |seminars on the FTAA process and is further collaborating with |which take place periodically, in order to explain the Summit| |unconstructive dialogue; avoid duplication of efforts between |
|DFAIT is also working with the FTAA Committee of |the United States and Mexico in |process; provide updates on summit implementation; and seek | |different departments; provide |
|Government Representatives on the Participation of |the organization of a North American FTAA seminar for civil |views. This provides opportunities for civil society groups | |groups with relevant documents prior to consultations. |
|Civil Society (SOC) to promote, facilitate, disseminate|society. |to contribute to the development of Canada’s foreign as well | | |
|and act on civil society | |as trade policy towards the hemisphere. DFAIT also consults | |Recommendations and Best Practices: |
|input. | |with provinces and territories (which include indigenous | |Engaging in a constructive dialogue with civil society facilitate |
| | |populations), sectoral advisory groups and other stakeholders| |access to and exchange of information; contribute to the development |
| | |on the FTAA process. Moreover, parliamentary committees | |of new ideas and the refinement of existing approaches; and enhance |
| | |occasionally engage civil society through public hearings and| |the credibility of the process and the visibility of constructive |
| | |studies to solicit and take into consideration their | |citizens’ groups. |
| | |comments on the FTAA, which inform and guide the development | | |
| | |of Canada’s trade policy, and the direction the government | | |
| | |undertakes in these trade negotiations. | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Finally, DFAIT is continuously making information on the FTAA| | |
| | |available through its website (Canadian position, negotiation| | |
| | |text, civil society contributions, FAQ, etc.), which | | |
| | |includes the names and contact information of government | | |
| | |officials responsible for negotiation groups and other | | |
| | |entities so as to facilitate civil society input. | | |
|Timeline: The engagement of civil society is an |Timeline: The engagement of civil society is an on-going |Timeline: The engagement of civil society is an on-going | | |
|on-going process and has become part of the development|process and has become part of the development of Canada’s |process and has become part of the development of Canada’s | | |
|of Canada’s foreign and trade policies. As such, no |foreign and trade policies. As such, no time-frame can be |foreign and trade policies. As such, no time-frame can be | | |
|time-frame can be determined. Canada continues to |determined. Canada continues to support these efforts |determined. Canada | | |
|support these efforts throughout 2002 and, from the |throughout 2002 and, from the perspective of the FTAA, until at|continues to support these efforts throughout 2002 and, from | | |
|perspective of the FTAA, until at least 2005, the |least 2005, the deadline for the successful conclusion and |the perspective of the FTAA, until at | | |
|deadline for the successful conclusion and |implementation of the negotiations. |least 2005, the deadline for the successful conclusion and | | |
|implementation of the negotiations. | |implementation of the negotiations. | | |
Mandate: Promote participation of all minority groups in forging a stronger civil society;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): The $4.5 | |CDN 4.5 million | |
| |million Democratic Development Fund III in Guatemala seeks to | | | |
| |promote citizen participation in the fledgling democratic | | | |
| |process. While the promotion of human rights and tolerance | | | |
| |remains an important cornerstone of the program, greater | | | |
| |emphasis than before is placed on the participation of citizens| | | |
| |-- especially the Indigenous and women -- in the decisions and | | | |
| |policies that affect them. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2002-2005 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Develop educational programs, in conjunction with relevant civil society organizations, academic experts and others, as appropriate, to provide democracy and human rights education and to promote the introduction of books and educational materials that reflect the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of the Americas as part of primary and secondary school curricula;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
6. Trade, Investment and Financial Stability
Trade and Investment
Mandate: Ensure the transparency of the negotiating process, including through publication of the preliminary draft FTAA Agreement in the four official languages as soon as possible and the dissemination of additional information on the progress of negotiations;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Foster through their respective national dialogue mechanisms and through appropriate FTAA mechanisms, a process of increasing and sustained communication with civil society to ensure that it has a clear perception of the development of the FTAA negotiating process; invite civil society to continue to contribute to the FTAA process; and, to this end, develop a list of options that could include dissemination programs in smaller economies, which could be supported by the Tripartite Committee or other sources;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Ensure full participation of all our countries in the FTAA, taking into consideration the differences in the levels of development and size of the economies of the Hemisphere, in order to create opportunities for the full participation of the smaller economies and to increase their level of development;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $10 million | |
| |-Canada will provide up to $5 million over six years to promote| | | |
| |the economic and social development of CARICOM member states by| | | |
| |deepening the regional integration process. The purpose is to | | | |
| |strengthen the institutional capacity of the CARICOM | | | |
| |Secretariat to provide leadership in the regional integration | | | |
| |process; and to enhance the capacity of the Secretariat to | | | |
| |achieve clear results in core program areas, results that can | | | |
| |be demonstrated to its stakeholders. | | | |
| |- CIDA is providing $5 million for technical assistance related| | | |
| |to the Canada-Central America trade negotiations. The project | | | |
| |will help Central American countries to participate in, and | | | |
| |benefit from, the international economy. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2007 depending on the project |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Supervise and support, with technical assistance, the full implementation of adopted business facilitation measures;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Instruct our representatives in the institutions of the Tripartite Committee to continue securing the allocation of the resources necessary to contribute to the support of the work of the FTAA Administrative Secretariat;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Urge the Tripartite Committee institutions to continue to respond positively to requests for technical support from FTAA entities; and request the institutions, according to their respective internal procedures, to favorably consider requests for technical assistance related to FTAA issues from member countries, in particular from the smaller economies, in order to facilitate their integration into the FTAA process;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada: Canada and Mexico have a | | | |
| |frame work for agricultural cooperation that has resulted in | | | |
| |the development of a work plan containing eighteen initiatives | | | |
| |to share technology and expertise. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ongoing |Timeline: | | |
Economic and Financial Stability
Mandate: Welcome and support the work of our Ministers of Finance, who met in Toronto, Canada on April 3-4, 2001, to promote financial and economic stability as well as strong and sustainable growth, as fundamental preconditions for accelerated development and poverty reduction, and to ensure that the benefits of globalization are broadly and equitably distributed to all our people;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $36 million | |
| |- Canada will contribute $5 million per year for 3 years for a | | | |
| |technical assistance program to help strengthen the financial | | | |
| |sectors in the Caribbean and elsewhere. | | | |
| |- Canada will contribute $13 million to the Eastern Caribbean | | | |
| |Economic Management Program that will build the capacity of key| | | |
| |sub- regional and national institutions to manage public sector| | | |
| |expenditures, generate revenues, and improve fiscal policies | | | |
| |- Canada will contribute $8 million to the CARICOM Regional | | | |
| |Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC). CARTAC will provide | | | |
| |technical assistance to improve public expenditure management, | | | |
| |tax, and customs administration, and statistics for economic | | | |
| |policy- making | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2007 depending on the project |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Recognize the value of efforts undertaken to advance Hemispheric integration, including improved access to goods, services, capital and technology, to achieve the full range of social and other objectives;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $5 million | |
| |- Canada will contribute up to $5 million for technical | | | |
| |assistance related to the Canada-Central America trade | | | |
| |negotiations. The project will help Central American -countries| | | |
| |to participate in , and benefit from, the international economy| | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2005 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support the efforts of Finance Ministers to address the challenges associated with globalization, to protect the most vulnerable and prevent crises, and affirm the importance of having the benefits of globalization widely distributed to all regions and social sectors of our countries, recognizing, at the same time, the unique challenges faced by small states;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Affirm that greater attention must be given to increasing economic growth and reducing poverty in a mutually reinforcing way, and that this priority must include social sector policies that effectively achieve poverty reduction and greater investment in people, with improved access to basic education and health services;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $300 000 | |
| |- Canada will provide up to $300,000 over two years to support | | | |
| |Honduras to implement their Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP) | | | |
| |in selected sectors of Canadian expertise. This support aims | | | |
| |to strengthen the capacity of the sectoral co- ordination | | | |
| |tables where the Government of Honduras, Honduran civil society| | | |
| |and the donor community work together on development issues. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2003 depending on the project. |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Instruct our Finance Ministers to continue to explore ways to ensure that international financial institutions, regional development banks and other international bodies take adequate account of Summit initiatives in their lending policies and technical assistance programs for the Hemisphere;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Corporate Social Responsibility
Mandate: Support the continued analysis and consideration in the OAS of corporate social responsibility, ensuring that civil society, including the private sector, is appropriately and regularly consulted and that this process benefits from the experiences of other international organizations, national agencies and non-governmental actors;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|The Americas Conference on Corporate Social | | |$100,000 | |
|Responsibility (CSR), organizedby the Inter-American | | | | |
|Development Bank (IDB), in collaboration with the | | | | |
|Organization of Americas States (OAS), the World Bank | | | | |
|and the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), was held in | | | | |
|Miami, Florida, September 22-24, 2002. | | | | |
| | | | | |
|The conference, mandated by Leaders at the Third Summit| | | | |
|of the Americas, held last year in Quebec City, was | | | | |
|attended by more than 500 participants from 28 | | | | |
|countries, representing all sectors of society, | | | | |
|including government, private sector, civil society and| | | | |
|multilateral organizations. The Conference ,a | | | | |
|resounding success, addressed the benefits of CSR and | | | | |
|reviewed strategies for developing and implementing | | | | |
|successful partnerships involving the private sector, | | | | |
|civil society and governments. | | | | |
| | | | | |
|Canada, whose leadership was the driving force behind | | | | |
|the inclusion of this item in the Quebec City Plan of | | | | |
|Action contributed $100,000 to the conference. Our | | | | |
|contribution, both financially and in bringing the | | | | |
|issue of CSR to the forefront of the Summit agenda, was| | | | |
|highlighted by many speakers. | | | | |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: Completed |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Convene a meeting as early as feasible in 2002 with the support of the OAS, the IDB and other relevant inter-American organizations involving representatives from governments, civil society, including mainly the business community, to deepen dialogue on corporate social responsibility in the Hemisphere, raise awareness of key issues to be determined and discuss ways to promote the development, adoption and implementation by the business community of principles of good conduct that will advance corporate social and environmental responsibility;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade | | |CDN $100 000 | |
|(DFAIT): | | | | |
|OAS CSR Hemispheric Meeting | | | | |
|In the Summit of the Americas Plan of Action, Canada | | | | |
|proposed a hemispheric meeting to be held under the | | | | |
|auspices of the OAS before the end of 2001. Canada's | | | | |
|contribution of $100,000 will ensure that as many | | | | |
|voices as possible are heard from governments, | | | | |
|non-governmental organizations and the private sector | | | | |
|on issues that centre on the corporate social | | | | |
|responsibility agenda, such as human rights, labour and| | | | |
|environmental standards. The meeting has been postponed| | | | |
|to Fall 2002. | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
7. Infrastructure and Regulatory Environment
Telecommunications
Mandate: Propose measures designed to modernize national laws, as appropriate, based on principles such as: permanence of strong and independent regulatory bodies; a pro-competitive approach, including the adoption of rules on dominant operators; a flexible regulatory framework consistent with technological convergence, and to develop human and institutional capacity in support of these principles;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada is | |CDN $1.5 million | |
| |providing $1.5 million for a Telecommunications Regulatory | | | |
| |Advisor to enhance the economic competitiveness, diversity and | | | |
| |growth of the Jamaican telecommunications industry by assisting| | | |
| |the Office of Utilities Regulation to establish an effective | | | |
| |and fair regulatory regime for the telecom industry. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2004 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Facilitate the upgrading of human resources in the telecommunications sector through ongoing training programs on telecommunications policy, regulation, management and technology, and request the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), in coordination with national agencies, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s Centre of Excellence for the Americas, and in partnership with regional and subregional organizations and the private sector, to create a focal point for information on human resource development programs to foster exchanges of information on relevant training programs among governments, universities, industry associations and the private sector, in order to assist countries of the Americas in meeting the growing need for trained and competent personnel in the rapidly changing knowledge-based economy;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Take measures striving to implement the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) for Conformity Assessment developed by CITEL without prejudice to each participant`s sovereign right to regulate its own telecommunications sector, and encourage discussion of adequate standards to ensure interoperability for existing and future telecommunications networks and the timely introduction of technology in new and existing markets, taking into account the regulations and recommendations of the ITU and other appropriate standard-setting bodies;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Industry Canada (IC): Within CITEL P.C.C. I, Canada |Industry Canada (IC): Within the NAFTA Telecommunication |Industry Canada (IC): Enabling legislation enacted in Canada |In the next two years, a few |Obstacles: |
|co-chairs the Working Group charged with awareness |Standards Subcommittee, the regulatory authorities of Canada, |to permit full participation in the MRA. Establishing |information exchange and training |The unstable political situation in some parts of the region may |
|raising and related activities designed to assist and |USA and Mexico are working towards an early implementation of |regulatory procedures for the implementation of the MRA. |workshops will be organized to |prolong and defer the full participation of all CITEL member |
|encourage CITEL member economies to fully participate |the MRA among the NAFTA countries and to set a sample model for|Performing the designation and recognition of the conformity |exchange ideas on how to get |countries. |
|in the MRA. Five countries have committed to join the |the rest of CITEL countries |assessment bodies to facilitate trades. |started and to implement. Canada | |
|MRA. | | |and USA will also provide training|Recommendations and best practices: |
| | | |sessions based on their |Be patient, identify and understand others’ difficulty/problems, then|
| | | |experience. Funding for these |offer assistance to resolve. |
| | | |extra resources are required. | |
|Timeline: For the Hemispheric Level Actions: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
|Canada, USA, Brazil, El Salvador are participating | | | | |
|Phase 1 (mutual recognition of testing labs) of the | | | | |
|MRA. Mexico is planning to join in the fourth quarter | | | | |
|of 2002. Canada and USA are also participating in Phase| | | | |
|2 (mutual recognition of certification bodies) of the | | | | |
|MRA. | | | | |
Mandate: Support the convening of the ITU World Summit on the Information Society to be held in 2003, which will focus on the use of information and communications technologies for social and economic development;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Industry Canada (IC):Canada is working with CITEL |Industry Canada (IC): Canada will also be working bilaterally |Industry Canada (IC): IC and DFAIT co-chair an |TBD |Obstacles: |
|members and other relevant regional organizations in |with countries in the Region leading up to key preparatory mtgs|inter-departmental working group spearheading Canadian | |Organizational issues re the consultation process. |
|preparation for the WSIS, including regional | |preparations for, and developing contributions to, the WSIS. | | |
|consultation mtgs. and intl. preparatory mtgs. | |Consultations will involve federal and provincial government,| |Recommendations and best practices: |
| | |Canadian arm of UN specialized organizations, the private | |Building on work of the SOA, G-8 DOT Force, UN ICT Task Force and |
| | |sector and civil society including NGOs. | |looking at lessons learned from other Summits, including ongoing |
| | | | |preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development |
|Timeline: There will be ongoing consultations between |Timeline: There will be ongoing consultations between now and |Timeline: There will be ongoing consultations between now and| | |
|now and the Phase 1 of the WSIS to be held in Geneva, |the Phase 1 of the WSIS to be held in Geneva, 10-12 December |the Phase 1 of the WSIS to be held in Geneva, 10-12 December | | |
|10-12 December 2003. |2003. |2003. | | |
Mandate: Recommend that our national bodies work within CITEL to prepare guidelines on Universal Service, based on principles to be developed by CITEL and develop a clear definition of the responsibilities of governments and private entities;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Industry Canada & Canadian Radio and Television |Industry Canada & Canadian Radio and Television Commission |Industry Canada (IC) and Canadian Radio-Television and |TBD |Obstacles: There are no significant obstacles to developing guidelines|
|Commission (CRTC): Industry Canada participates in |(CRTC): Canada also engages with many countries in the |Telecommunications Commission (CRTC): Canada has a | |and principles, and indeed these have been done many times. |
|CITEL PCC.I working groups and there shares experiences|hemisphere on a bilateral basis. |long-standing regulatory framework which has succeeded in | |Implementation can be more problematic in the face of obstacles such |
|and information to assist other countries of the region| |providing universal service to Canadian citizens. | |as outdated legislation and regulation, as well as entrenched |
|to achieve the goal of universal access. | | | |bureaucratic and economic interests. |
|Timeline: ongoing |Timeline: ongoing |Timeline: ongoing | | |
Mandate: Instruct, as appropriate, our telecommunications authorities and our relevant regulatory bodies, working within our regional and sub-regional agencies and organizations to develop and implement before the next Summit of the Americas a cooperative and collaborative program to support a connectivity agenda for the Hemisphere;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Industry Canada (IC): Canada participated with |Industry Canada (IC): Canada has consulted with several |Industry Canada (IC): Canada has a well-established |TBD following the CITEL Assembly |Obstacles: |
|Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico in drafting the Agenda for|countries in the region on the Agenda for Connectivity and |“Connectedness Agenda” which addresses all key areas of the |meeting |While the Agenda for Connectivity in the Americas and Action Plan of |
|Connectivity in the Americas and Plan of Action of |Action Plan of Quito, with a view to understanding how the |Connectivity statement from the Summit. Canada serves as a | |Quito originated in CITEL, it is essential that government, the |
|Quito (ACAPAQ) which was adopted in principle by |principles in the document can be implemented and in what way |model and is active in assisting other countries in the | |private sector and civil society in each country be made aware, and |
|COM/CITEL in December, 2001. In February, 2001, the |Canada can assist. |region to develop Connectivity Agendas appropriate to their | |commit to implementing the Agenda. The problem is to find a means of |
|World Telecommunication Development Conference of the | |circumstances. Domestically, Canada has announced a new | |raising the awareness of the Agenda in each country and getting the |
|International Telecommunication Union included in the | |Broadband for Rural and Northern Development Pilot Program | |commitment of these sectors, as well as from the international |
|“Istanbul Declaration” support for initiatives under | |designed to ensure that rural and remote parts of the country| |financial institutions, to make implementation possible. The |
|the ACAPAQ as a high priority for the ITU. The | |have access to high-speed networks. | |assistance and advice of the SIRG will be sought in this matter. |
|document was presented to Senior Telecommunications | | | | |
|Officials at the CITEL Assembly in mid-August, 2002. | | | |Recommendations and best practices: |
|The ACAPAQ was forwarded to the OAS Executive | | | |CITEL has taken a positive step by initiating this process. |
|Secretariat for the Summit Process to be distributed to| | | |Commitment from the CITEL Assembly, followed by promotion of the |
|all member states. The document provides guidance to | | | |Agenda and Action Plan by the SIRG will go far in achieving the Summit|
|countries of the Americas as to how to fulfil the | | | |mandate. |
|Summit mandate. | | | | |
|Timeline: Prior to the next Summit of the Americas. |Timeline: Prior to the next Summit of the Americas. |Timeline: Prior to the next Summit of the Americas. | | |
Mandate: Encourage increased competitiveness and productivity of all sectors through applications such as distance education and tele-health and promote the creation of domestic activities dedicated to the generation of Internet-based industries;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Request ministries or departments responsible for telecommunications and appropriate regulatory bodies to cooperate, within CITEL, in order to clarify and simplify rules governing the provision of satellite services in our countries, and work to complete the development of a Hemispheric Web site including each country’s requirements and forms of application for licensing to provide satellite-based telecommunications services;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Industry Canada (IC): Canada takes part in CITEL |Industry Canada (IC): Canada has shared its experiences with |Industry Canada (IC): Canada has clarified and simplified its|TBD |Obstacles: |
|PCC.III meetings, and will contribute expertise to the |regards to governing the provision of satellite services with |own rules governing the provision of satellite services, | |The primary obstacle will be to ensure that each country of the region|
|development of a hemispheric web site consistent with |other countries of the region and will continue to do so. |consistent with our commitments under the WTO. All relevant | |contributes to the development of the hemispheric web site, and to |
|the Summit mandate. At the XX meeting of CITEL PCC.III| |information pertaining to domestic policies, regulations and | |clarify and simplify its own domestic rules in order to facilitate the|
|held in Mexico City in February, 2002, a resolution was| |licensing are currently available on the Industry Canada web | |broad provision of satellite services in support of connectivity. |
|adopted to do a study of the feasibility of | |site. | | |
|implementing “One Stop Shopping” for very small | | | |Recommendations and best practices: A database for VSAT services has |
|aperture terminal (VSAT) satellite services in the | | | |been successfully established by CITEL, which should serve as a basis |
|hemisphere. If this does prove to be feasible, it will| | | |for expansion to include other types of satellite licensing conditions|
|represent a step beyond the Leader’s charge in the Plan| | | |in future. |
|of Action for at least one type of satellite service. | | | | |
|Timeline: A questionnaire to gather data to facilitate |Timeline: A questionnaire to gather data to facilitate this |Timeline A questionnaire to gather data to facilitate this | | |
|this activity was sent out on September 10 with a |activity was sent out on September 10 with a deadline for |activity was sent out on September 10 with a deadline for | | |
|deadline for submission of September 27. It is |submission of September 27. It is expected that the next |submission of September 27. It is expected that the next | | |
|expected that the next meeting of PCC.II (Successor to |meeting of PCC.II (Successor to PCC.III mentioned above) will |meeting of PCC.II (Successor to PCC.III mentioned above) will| | |
|PCC.III mentioned above) will report on and consider |report on and consider the results of the questionnaire. |report on and consider the results of the questionnaire. | | |
|the results of the questionnaire. | | | | |
Mandate: Promote the modernization and expansion of telecommunications infrastructure in rural and urban areas through timely introduction of new technologies and services, in particular broadband technologies, the adoption of new standards on telecasting, Web casting, and Internet Protocol (IP), paying particular attention to spectrum management, interconnection policies, appropriate pace of development and emergency communications;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Industry Canada: Through participation in CITEL and |Industry Canada: Canada engages with many countries in the |Industry Canada (IC): Canada has put in place a | |Obstacles: |
|other multilateral forums, Canada works to share best |hemisphere to provide bilateral assistance with spectrum |technology-neutral policy, legislative and regulatory | |Governments can only provide an environment to encourage and enable |
|practices and information on ways and means to fulfil |management, understanding of technical issues, and discussions |framework which is intended to speed the introduction of | |introduction of new technologies and services by the private sector. |
|the Summit mandate. For example, Canada co-chairs |of regulatory and policy principles designed to encourage the |communications technologies and services in this country, | |It is a challenge to engage the private sector to join governments in |
|CITEL working groups in the Global Information Society |development of information infrastructure. |which is entirely in accord with all aspects of the Summit | |all parts of the hemisphere to ensure that citizens have access to |
|and on Internet technologies in CITEL, and contributes | |mandate. The Government of Canada has recently committed to | |up-to-date technology and services. |
|to the development of manuals and handbooks on spectrum| |work with Canadian industry, provinces, communities and the | | |
|management and regulatory issues. Canada also plays an| |public on private sector solutions to further broadband | | |
|active role to assist with emergency preparedness in | |Internet coverage in Canada, particularly for rural and | | |
|communications. | |remote areas, with a target date of 2005. | | |
|Timeline: No specific time frame can be assigned |Timeline: No specific time frame can be assigned because the |Timeline: No specific time frame can be assigned because the | | |
|because the goal moves with changes in technologies and|goal moves with changes in technologies and changes in market |goal moves with changes in technologies and changes in market| | |
|changes in market conditions |conditions |conditions. | | |
Mandate: Address voluntary funding for the implementation of CITEL's additional mandates set out in this Plan of Action;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Transport
Mandate: Endorse the areas for cooperation identified at the Ministers' meeting in Punta del Este, Uruguay, in March 2001;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|- Ministers decided to establish the Western Hemisphere|The Executive Committee is establishing contact with regional | |The WHTI Executive Committee | |
|Transportation Initiative Executive Committee with the |organizations having a transportation mandate and programme to | |operates without a budget and its | |
|mandate to oversee the implementation of their |increase cooperation and reduce duplications. | |initiatives are either funded by | |
|directives as well as the transportation elements of | | |national government(s) or by | |
|the Summit of the Americas’ Action Plan. The Executive | | |multilateral agencies. | |
|Committee was chaired by Canada until November 2002. A | | | | |
|further ministerial meeting is planned for May 2003. | | | | |
|- As directed by Ministers, a Group of Experts on | | | | |
|Aviation Safety, Security and Assistance has been | | | | |
|established. This Group is chaired by Canada. | | | | |
|-Canada is also chairing a project aimed at comparing | | | | |
|transporation statistics throughout the Americas | | | | |
|region. | | | | |
|Timeline: Each project and initiative has its own time |Timeline: Each project and initiative has its own time line. |Timeline: | | |
|line. Some have a short deadline while others are of |Some have a short deadline while others are of an ongoing | | | |
|an ongoing nature |nature. | | | |
Mandate: Promote and facilitate increased cooperation, convergence and information-sharing in the transportation-related activities of the five subregions of the Hemisphere and with multilateral organizations, with a view to furthering the development of human and institutional capacity and ensuring the environmental sustainability of transportation systems and infrastructure; to this end, request that the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) continues to provide its valuable support to the WHTI;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Improve human resources development programs by encouraging exchanges of personnel among the countries and institutions of the region, as well as the development of, and participation in, transportation-related training programs and the dissemination of information regarding these programs by way of the WHTI's Web site and by other means;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Emphasize the need to develop proper infrastructure and high safety standards as a principal priority for the WHTI's work program, while recognizing the importance of human and institutional capacity development in ensuring the safety of transportation services;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Actively and collectively encourage international maritime and air carriers to fully comply with International Maritime Organization (IMO), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) standards of safety governing the transport of dangerous goods including nuclear, hazardous and noxious substances and waste and stress the importance of having effective liability mechanisms in place;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Actively and collectively encourage international maritime carriers, in particular cruise ships, to comply with IMO standards in relation to the protection of the marine environment, and to take full account of the special area status of the wider Caribbean;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Acknowledging the concerns of some states about the transport of radioactive material, including waste, through routes close to the coasts of states or along navigable waterways of the Hemisphere and the potential health consequences for our people and the possible threat to the marine environment, and consistent with maritime rights and obligations in international law; encourage and support full compliance with existing IMO and IAEA conventions, standards and codes of practice and stress the importance of having effective liability mechanisms in place; encourage the consideration by the IAEA and the IMO and other competent international bodies to strengthen additional international measures, as necessary, which may include: the assurance of non-contamination of the marine environment; the recovery of radioactive material, including waste, in the case of accidental release; the provision of relief, rehabilitation or reconstruction, as appropriate, for affected people in the case of an accident; and invite countries shipping radioactive material, including waste, to provide timely information to potentially affected states in the Hemisphere relating to such shipments, consistent with the need to maintain and ensure the safety and security of those shipments;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Instruct our Ministers of Transportation to explore the possibility of discussing the modernization of air services in order to meet the growing flow of people and goods that has been taking place in the Hemisphere;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Energy
Mandate: Recognize that in pursuing the regional integration of energy markets, issues such as market reform and stability, regulatory reform and trade liberalization will be addressed; support and endorse the Hemispheric Energy Initiative which promotes policies and practices to advance such integration;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada will | |CDN $700,000 | |
| |bring an additional $700,000 to a technical assistance project | | | |
| |for Jacmel in Haiti. This project with a total budget of $13.6 | | | |
| |million will allow for technology transfers allowing personnel | | | |
| |at Electricite d’Haiti to better manage the power system of | | | |
| |Jacmel. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2002 |Timeline: | | |
8. Disaster Management
Mandate: Develop the capacity to forecast, prepare for and mitigate the potential impacts of natural and man-made hazards; promote vulnerability reduction; adopt and enforce better building codes and standards; ensure appropriate land-use practices; inventory and evaluate the vulnerability of critical facilities and infrastructure; estimate climate change variability and sea-level rise and assess their possible impacts; and in pursuit of the above, create the requisite legal framework and establish the cooperative mechanisms to access and share advances in science and technology and their application in the early warning, preparedness for and mitigation of these hazards;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $19.5 million | |
| |- Canada will contribute $815,000 for a project to improve | | | |
| |disaster preparedness and response in communities in El | | | |
| |Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras | | | |
| |- Canada will contribute up to $5 million over six years to the| | | |
| |Caribbean Disaster Management Fund. | | | |
| |-Canada will contribute up to $1 million to improve the | | | |
| |standard of living of poor Salvadorans affected by the recent | | | |
| |earthquakes, by building houses for about 350 families whose | | | |
| |homes were completely destroyed. The project provide basic | | | |
| |social infrastructure (clean water and sanitation facilities), | | | |
| |and local disaster mitigation plans to reduce future | | | |
| |vulnerability to natural disasters. | | | |
| |- Geoscience for Andean Poor Communities is a $12.7 million | | | |
| |multinational Andean project using geoscience database | | | |
| |integration for disaster mitigation and land use planning for | | | |
| |economic and social development in the poorest communities in | | | |
| |the Andean region. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2009 depending on the project. |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote the exchange of information on the vulnerability of infrastructure exposed to disasters as well as the early warning capacity, particularly in the border areas of the countries of the Americas, in order to design specific prevention measures in the fields of engineering and legislation with the aim of reducing the socio-economic impact of natural disasters;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT): |Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |Resources are earmarked from |Obstacles: |
|(DFAIT): OCIPEP was asked formally, by the Chair of the|None related to the NDMS |(DFAIT): In 1998, Emergency Preparedness Canada (the |OCIPEP’s budget to complete the |The biggest challenge related to the NDMS and the OAS Summit Theme and|
|UNISDR, to report on behalf of the North American | |forerunner of the Office of Critical Infrastructure |consultations. |Mandate is to link our national priorities with other initiatives in |
|Region an “Overview of the Americas” at the Disaster | |Protection and Emergency Preparedness - OCIPEP) co-sponsored | |the Hemisphere. This will require partnership and coordination between|
|Risk Reduction Conference held in San Jose, Costa Rica,| |a series of regional workshops on disaster mitigation. We | |the Federal, Provincial/Territorial and Municipal governments in |
|December 4-6th, 2001. We spoke to our efforts in | |learned from those consultations that Canadians were aware of| |Canada (e.g. legislation, policy, planning and program framework) and |
|multilateral work with Mexico and the US in the field | |hazards but were less knowledgeable about measures they can | |other country governments that are members of the OAS. |
|of disaster research. OCIPEP’s disaster research | |take to prevent those hazards from becoming disasters. We | | |
|includes work to implement a National Disaster | |also learned that more measures and expenditures have been | |Recommendations and best practices: |
|Mitigation Strategy. | |directed towards building a capacity to prepare for and | |The outcome would be a national policy framework for Disaster |
| | |respond to disasters than have been directed toward building | |Mitigation agreed by Federal, Provincial and Territorial Governments. |
| | |a capacity to mitigate the occurrence of or recovery from | |The main factor that will contribute to the success of this initiative|
| | |disasters. A focus on disaster mitigation is a key measure to| |will be a strong partnership among all levels of government and |
| | |help ensure the safety and well-being of Canadians. | |stakeholders. Best practices are yet to be identified but may address |
| | | | |the following elements: |
| | |OCIPEP has been working for several months with other federal| | |
| | |departments to determine how the Government of Canada can | |PROPOSED ELEMENTS |
| | |support the development of a National Disaster Mitigation | |The proposed elements of a national disaster mitigation strategy |
| | |Strategy (NDMS) and the co-operative arrangements that would | |described here are based on the themes and key areas highlighted by |
| | |be needed for its implementation. | |the 1998 consultations. The results of these consultations were |
| | | | |instrumental in leading to the Government’s decision to work towards a|
| | |The Honourable Art Eggleton, Minister of National Defence, | |national disaster mitigation strategy. The proposed elements listed |
| | |announced on June 26, 2001, the launch of a series of | |below provide a focus for dialogue to help determine priorities and |
| | |consultations toward the development of a National Disaster | |activities for a NDMS. |
| | |Mitigation Strategy (NDMS). The Office is holding | | |
| | |consultations with other key stakeholders in the Winter and | |Leadership and Coordination - Decisions that affect societal capacity |
| | |Spring of 2002. | |to resist, respond to and recover from consequences of disaster are |
| | | | |made everyday, by many agencies. Disaster mitigation activities occur |
| | | | |at all levels of government, the private sector, non-government |
| | | | |organizations (NGOs) and communities. Co-ordination of disaster |
| | | | |mitigation activities is required among these interests to ensure an |
| | | | |integrated approach to managing mitigation. The 1998 consultations |
| | | | |highlighted support for Government of Canada leadership and |
| | | | |coordination regarding disaster mitigation. The Government of Canada’s|
| | | | |coordination of Y2K transition activities confirmed the value of |
| | | | |systematic coordination to deal with potential disruptions. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Partnership and Shared Responsibility - The 1998 consultations |
| | | | |reflected a consensus that disaster mitigation requires partnerships |
| | | | |and shared responsibilities. The multiplicity of players and expertise|
| | | | |required to address mitigation comprehensively continues to be |
| | | | |acknowledged. Partnerships among all levels of government, |
| | | | |professional groups and academia, and the private and voluntary |
| | | | |sectors are encouraged to develop consensus on disaster mitigation |
| | | | |matters. Partnering should ensure mitigative measures are implemented |
| | | | |in a coordinated and efficient way. Local participation and that of |
| | | | |other stakeholder groups in disaster mitigation is key to success. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment - To be effective, any |
| | | | |measures to reduce the impact of probable disasters should be taken |
| | | | |based on sound risk assessment and hazard identification. Conducting |
| | | | |risk assessments can be complex, but they are an essential |
| | | | |undertaking. Comprehensive approaches in this area involve historical |
| | | | |research, data gathering and scientific estimations about hazard |
| | | | |frequency, magnitude, damage potential, and vulnerability of |
| | | | |potentially affected peoples and communities. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Research, Information Dissemination, and Decision Support Systems - |
| | | | |Research provides useful knowledge and tools upon which disaster |
| | | | |mitigation decisions should be based (e.g., risk assessment |
| | | | |methodologies, land use practices, building engineering and best |
| | | | |practices). Current, accessible, coordinated, and complementary tools |
| | | | |will assist better-informed decision making on disaster mitigation. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Public Awareness, Training, and Education - A culture of prevention |
| | | | |and risk reduction could ultimately be achieved through sustained |
| | | | |public awareness, training, and education programs that encourage |
| | | | |governments, decision-makers and individuals to take into account the |
| | | | |evolving threat and risk environment and the importance of |
| | | | |implementing disaster mitigation measures. Before governments and |
| | | | |individuals can reduce their risk from hazards, they need to perceive |
| | | | |and understand the threats, associated risks, and the range of |
| | | | |contingencies for reducing the risk or impact. Education and awareness|
| | | | |programs should be multi-targeted and designed to reach the general |
| | | | |public, stakeholders, technical experts and decision-makers. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Incentives and Resources - There must be an incentive for disaster |
| | | | |mitigation if it is to become a consideration for all stakeholders. |
| | | | |Most mitigation implementation occurs at the local level and requires |
| | | | |up-front expenditures for benefits to be attained in the future. |
| | | | |However, any mitigation incentives should take into consideration the |
| | | | |necessity for broad based multi-level funding among all stakeholders. |
| | | | |Mitigation incentives and resources must be sensitive to all federal, |
| | | | |provincial, regional, and local concerns and flexible enough to fully |
| | | | |support the necessary mitigation activities. |
|Timeline: The results of the consultations will be |Timeline: The results of the consultations will be summarized |Timeline: The results of the consultations will be summarized| | |
|summarized and used to develop options for a proposed |and used to develop options for a proposed NDMS. The Government|and used to develop options for a proposed NDMS. The | | |
|NDMS. The Government of Canada will consider the |of Canada will consider the consultation results and options |Government of Canada will consider the consultation results | | |
|consultation results and options for a NDMS later this |for a NDMS later this year. |and options for a NDMS later this year. | | |
|year. | | | | |
Mandate: Establish or strengthen, where appropriate, partnerships with all relevant actors, including the private sector, technical professional associations, regional institutions, civil society, educational and research institutions and other multilateral coordinating agencies such as the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in the development and implementation of disaster management policies and programs at the national and community levels, and promote greater awareness and effective integration of these policies and programs among national policy makers, local authorities, communities and media, and promote the insurance and reinsurance of the social and economic infrastructure as well as the decentralization of information and decision-making;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences regarding the combat against inappropriate practices in the exploitation of natural resources and unsustainable patterns of consumption, including the problems of waste management, which increase the vulnerability of the people to natural disasters;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT): |Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |Resources are earmarked from |Obstacles: |
|(DFAIT): OCIPEP was asked formally, by the Chair of the|None related to the NDMS |(DFAIT): In 1998, Emergency Preparedness Canada (the |OCIPEP’s budget to complete the |The biggest challenge related to the NDMS and the OAS Summit Theme and|
|UNISDR, to report on behalf of the North American | |forerunner of the Office of Critical Infrastructure |consultations. |Mandate is to link our national priorities with other initiatives in |
|Region an “Overview of the Americas” at the Disaster | |Protection and Emergency Preparedness - OCIPEP) co-sponsored | |the Hemisphere. This will require partnership and coordination between|
|Risk Reduction Conference held in San Jose, Costa Rica,| |a series of regional workshops on disaster mitigation. We | |the Federal, Provincial/Territorial and Municipal governments in |
|December 4-6th, 2001. We spoke to our efforts in | |learned from those consultations that Canadians were aware of| |Canada (e.g. legislation, policy, planning and program framework) and |
|multilateral work with Mexico and the US in the field | |hazards but were less knowledgeable about measures they can | |other country governments that are members of the OAS. |
|of disaster research. OCIPEP’s disaster research | |take to prevent those hazards from becoming disasters. We | | |
|includes work to implement a National Disaster | |also learned that more measures and expenditures have been | |Recommendations and best practices: |
|Mitigation Strategy. | |directed towards building a capacity to prepare for and | |The outcome would be a national policy framework for Disaster |
| | |respond to disasters than have been directed toward building | |Mitigation agreed by Federal, Provincial and Territorial Governments. |
| | |a capacity to mitigate the occurrence of or recovery from | |The main factor that will contribute to the success of this initiative|
| | |disasters. A focus on disaster mitigation is a key measure to| |will be a strong partnership among all levels of government and |
| | |help ensure the safety and well-being of Canadians. | |stakeholders. Best practices are yet to be identified but may address |
| | | | |the following elements: |
| | |OCIPEP has been working for several months with other federal| | |
| | |departments to determine how the Government of Canada can | |PROPOSED ELEMENTS |
| | |support the development of a National Disaster Mitigation | |The proposed elements of a national disaster mitigation strategy |
| | |Strategy (NDMS) and the co-operative arrangements that would | |described here are based on the themes and key areas highlighted by |
| | |be needed for its implementation. | |the 1998 consultations. The results of these consultations were |
| | | | |instrumental in leading to the Government’s decision to work towards a|
| | |The Honourable Art Eggleton, Minister of National Defence, | |national disaster mitigation strategy. The proposed elements listed |
| | |announced on June 26, 2001, the launch of a series of | |below provide a focus for dialogue to help determine priorities and |
| | |consultations toward the development of a National Disaster | |activities for a NDMS. |
| | |Mitigation Strategy (NDMS). The Office is holding | | |
| | |consultations with other key stakeholders in the Winter and | |Leadership and Coordination - Decisions that affect societal capacity |
| | |Spring of 2002. | |to resist, respond to and recover from consequences of disaster are |
| | | | |made everyday, by many agencies. Disaster mitigation activities occur |
| | | | |at all levels of government, the private sector, non-government |
| | | | |organizations (NGOs) and communities. Co-ordination of disaster |
| | | | |mitigation activities is required among these interests to ensure an |
| | | | |integrated approach to managing mitigation. The 1998 consultations |
| | | | |highlighted support for Government of Canada leadership and |
| | | | |coordination regarding disaster mitigation. The Government of Canada’s|
| | | | |coordination of Y2K transition activities confirmed the value of |
| | | | |systematic coordination to deal with potential disruptions. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Partnership and Shared Responsibility - The 1998 consultations |
| | | | |reflected a consensus that disaster mitigation requires partnerships |
| | | | |and shared responsibilities. The multiplicity of players and expertise|
| | | | |required to address mitigation comprehensively continues to be |
| | | | |acknowledged. Partnerships among all levels of government, |
| | | | |professional groups and academia, and the private and voluntary |
| | | | |sectors are encouraged to develop consensus on disaster mitigation |
| | | | |matters. Partnering should ensure mitigative measures are implemented |
| | | | |in a coordinated and efficient way. Local participation and that of |
| | | | |other stakeholder groups in disaster mitigation is key to success. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment - To be effective, any |
| | | | |measures to reduce the impact of probable disasters should be taken |
| | | | |based on sound risk assessment and hazard identification. Conducting |
| | | | |risk assessments can be complex, but they are an essential |
| | | | |undertaking. Comprehensive approaches in this area involve historical |
| | | | |research, data gathering and scientific estimations about hazard |
| | | | |frequency, magnitude, damage potential, and vulnerability of |
| | | | |potentially affected peoples and communities. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Research, Information Dissemination, and Decision Support Systems - |
| | | | |Research provides useful knowledge and tools upon which disaster |
| | | | |mitigation decisions should be based (e.g., risk assessment |
| | | | |methodologies, land use practices, building engineering and best |
| | | | |practices). Current, accessible, coordinated, and complementary tools |
| | | | |will assist better-informed decision making on disaster mitigation. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Public Awareness, Training, and Education - A culture of prevention |
| | | | |and risk reduction could ultimately be achieved through sustained |
| | | | |public awareness, training, and education programs that encourage |
| | | | |governments, decision-makers and individuals to take into account the |
| | | | |evolving threat and risk environment and the importance of |
| | | | |implementing disaster mitigation measures. Before governments and |
| | | | |individuals can reduce their risk from hazards, they need to perceive |
| | | | |and understand the threats, associated risks, and the range of |
| | | | |contingencies for reducing the risk or impact. Education and awareness|
| | | | |programs should be multi-targeted and designed to reach the general |
| | | | |public, stakeholders, technical experts and decision-makers. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Incentives and Resources - There must be an incentive for disaster |
| | | | |mitigation if it is to become a consideration for all stakeholders. |
| | | | |Most mitigation implementation occurs at the local level and requires |
| | | | |up-front expenditures for benefits to be attained in the future. |
| | | | |However, any mitigation incentives should take into consideration the |
| | | | |necessity for broad based multi-level funding among all stakeholders. |
| | | | |Mitigation incentives and resources must be sensitive to all federal, |
| | | | |provincial, regional, and local concerns and flexible enough to fully |
| | | | |support the necessary mitigation activities. |
|Timeline: The results of the consultations will be |Timeline: The results of the consultations will be summarized |Timeline: The results of the consultations will be summarized| | |
|summarized and used to develop options for a proposed |and used to develop options for a proposed NDMS. The Government|and used to develop options for a proposed NDMS. The | | |
|NDMS. The Government of Canada will consider the |of Canada will consider the consultation results and options |Government of Canada will consider the consultation results | | |
|consultation results and options for a NDMS later this |for a NDMS later this year. |and options for a NDMS later this year. | | |
|year. | | | | |
Mandate: Promote the development of telecommunications for humanitarian assistance; actively encourage greater use and interoperability of telecommunications and other technologies and information systems that allow the observation and monitoring of different natural phenomena; use early warning systems such as remote sensing imagery, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based data necessary to address and prevent emergencies; promote the compatibility of these systems in the planning and response to emergency operations among governments, specialized agencies, relevant international organizations, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and, in this spirit, consider signing and ratifying, ratifying, or acceding to, as soon as possible and as the case may be, the Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT): |Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |Resources are earmarked from |Obstacles: |
|(DFAIT): OCIPEP was asked formally, by the Chair of the|None related to the NDMS |(DFAIT): In 1998, Emergency Preparedness Canada (the |OCIPEP’s budget to complete the |The biggest challenge related to the NDMS and the OAS Summit Theme and|
|UNISDR, to report on behalf of the North American | |forerunner of the Office of Critical Infrastructure |consultations. |Mandate is to link our national priorities with other initiatives in |
|Region an “Overview of the Americas” at the Disaster | |Protection and Emergency Preparedness - OCIPEP) co-sponsored | |the Hemisphere. This will require partnership and coordination between|
|Risk Reduction Conference held in San Jose, Costa Rica,| |a series of regional workshops on disaster mitigation. We | |the Federal, Provincial/Territorial and Municipal governments in |
|December 4-6th, 2001. We spoke to our efforts in | |learned from those consultations that Canadians were aware of| |Canada (e.g. legislation, policy, planning and program framework) and |
|multilateral work with Mexico and the US in the field | |hazards but were less knowledgeable about measures they can | |other country governments that are members of the OAS. |
|of disaster research. OCIPEP’s disaster research | |take to prevent those hazards from becoming disasters. We | | |
|includes work to implement a National Disaster | |also learned that more measures and expenditures have been | |Recommendations and best practices: |
|Mitigation Strategy. | |directed towards building a capacity to prepare for and | |The outcome would be a national policy framework for Disaster |
| | |respond to disasters than have been directed toward building | |Mitigation agreed by Federal, Provincial and Territorial Governments. |
| | |a capacity to mitigate the occurrence of or recovery from | |The main factor that will contribute to the success of this initiative|
| | |disasters. A focus on disaster mitigation is a key measure to| |will be a strong partnership among all levels of government and |
| | |help ensure the safety and well-being of Canadians. | |stakeholders. Best practices are yet to be identified but may address |
| | | | |the following elements: |
| | |OCIPEP has been working for several months with other federal| | |
| | |departments to determine how the Government of Canada can | |PROPOSED ELEMENTS |
| | |support the development of a National Disaster Mitigation | |The proposed elements of a national disaster mitigation strategy |
| | |Strategy (NDMS) and the co-operative arrangements that would | |described here are based on the themes and key areas highlighted by |
| | |be needed for its implementation. | |the 1998 consultations. The results of these consultations were |
| | | | |instrumental in leading to the Government’s decision to work towards a|
| | |The Honourable Art Eggleton, Minister of National Defence, | |national disaster mitigation strategy. The proposed elements listed |
| | |announced on June 26, 2001, the launch of a series of | |below provide a focus for dialogue to help determine priorities and |
| | |consultations toward the development of a National Disaster | |activities for a NDMS. |
| | |Mitigation Strategy (NDMS). The Office is holding | | |
| | |consultations with other key stakeholders in the Winter and | |Leadership and Coordination - Decisions that affect societal capacity |
| | |Spring of 2002. | |to resist, respond to and recover from consequences of disaster are |
| | | | |made everyday, by many agencies. Disaster mitigation activities occur |
| | | | |at all levels of government, the private sector, non-government |
| | | | |organizations (NGOs) and communities. Co-ordination of disaster |
| | | | |mitigation activities is required among these interests to ensure an |
| | | | |integrated approach to managing mitigation. The 1998 consultations |
| | | | |highlighted support for Government of Canada leadership and |
| | | | |coordination regarding disaster mitigation. The Government of Canada’s|
| | | | |coordination of Y2K transition activities confirmed the value of |
| | | | |systematic coordination to deal with potential disruptions. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Partnership and Shared Responsibility - The 1998 consultations |
| | | | |reflected a consensus that disaster mitigation requires partnerships |
| | | | |and shared responsibilities. The multiplicity of players and expertise|
| | | | |required to address mitigation comprehensively continues to be |
| | | | |acknowledged. Partnerships among all levels of government, |
| | | | |professional groups and academia, and the private and voluntary |
| | | | |sectors are encouraged to develop consensus on disaster mitigation |
| | | | |matters. Partnering should ensure mitigative measures are implemented |
| | | | |in a coordinated and efficient way. Local participation and that of |
| | | | |other stakeholder groups in disaster mitigation is key to success. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment - To be effective, any |
| | | | |measures to reduce the impact of probable disasters should be taken |
| | | | |based on sound risk assessment and hazard identification. Conducting |
| | | | |risk assessments can be complex, but they are an essential |
| | | | |undertaking. Comprehensive approaches in this area involve historical |
| | | | |research, data gathering and scientific estimations about hazard |
| | | | |frequency, magnitude, damage potential, and vulnerability of |
| | | | |potentially affected peoples and communities. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Research, Information Dissemination, and Decision Support Systems - |
| | | | |Research provides useful knowledge and tools upon which disaster |
| | | | |mitigation decisions should be based (e.g., risk assessment |
| | | | |methodologies, land use practices, building engineering and best |
| | | | |practices). Current, accessible, coordinated, and complementary tools |
| | | | |will assist better-informed decision making on disaster mitigation. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Public Awareness, Training, and Education - A culture of prevention |
| | | | |and risk reduction could ultimately be achieved through sustained |
| | | | |public awareness, training, and education programs that encourage |
| | | | |governments, decision-makers and individuals to take into account the |
| | | | |evolving threat and risk environment and the importance of |
| | | | |implementing disaster mitigation measures. Before governments and |
| | | | |individuals can reduce their risk from hazards, they need to perceive |
| | | | |and understand the threats, associated risks, and the range of |
| | | | |contingencies for reducing the risk or impact. Education and awareness|
| | | | |programs should be multi-targeted and designed to reach the general |
| | | | |public, stakeholders, technical experts and decision-makers. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Incentives and Resources - There must be an incentive for disaster |
| | | | |mitigation if it is to become a consideration for all stakeholders. |
| | | | |Most mitigation implementation occurs at the local level and requires |
| | | | |up-front expenditures for benefits to be attained in the future. |
| | | | |However, any mitigation incentives should take into consideration the |
| | | | |necessity for broad based multi-level funding among all stakeholders. |
| | | | |Mitigation incentives and resources must be sensitive to all federal, |
| | | | |provincial, regional, and local concerns and flexible enough to fully |
| | | | |support the necessary mitigation activities. |
|Timeline: The results of the consultations will be |Timeline: The results of the consultations will be summarized |Timeline: The results of the consultations will be summarized| | |
|summarized and used to develop options for a proposed |and used to develop options for a proposed NDMS. The Government|and used to develop options for a proposed NDMS. The | | |
|NDMS. The Government of Canada will consider the |of Canada will consider the consultation results and options |Government of Canada will consider the consultation results | | |
|consultation results and options for a NDMS later this |for a NDMS later this year. |and options for a NDMS later this year. | | |
|year. | | | | |
Mandate: Establish information networks with the involvement of the Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction (IACNDR) and other relevant regional and international organizations to exchange scientific and technological knowledge and experiences; encourage further regional and subregional action to reduce risks and improve response to natural disasters; promote joint research and development technologies and contribute to strengthen coordination of national prevention and response agencies in natural disasters; to achieve this, draw on the work of ECLAC on the improvement, up-dating and implementation of its damage assessment methodology and continue to promote natural disaster mitigation and risk reduction awareness and preparedness;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Consider the creation of a hemispheric system for prevention and mitigation of disasters that would include, among others, a specialized database containing the best information available on the characteristics, experiences, strengths and weaknesses of national and regional agencies responsible for disaster prevention and mitigation and provide a new framework for technical cooperation and research aimed at creating a hemispheric culture of prevention and solidarity;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Adopt and support, as appropriate, initiatives aimed at promoting capacity building at all levels, such as the transfer and development of technology for prevention – risk reduction, awareness, preparedness, mitigation – and response to natural and other disasters, as well as for the rehabilitation of affected areas;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): CIDA | |CDN $500,000 | |
| |contributed $500,000 in 2001 to UNICEF to help children, their | | | |
| |families and communities to sustainably recuperate from the | | | |
| |impacts of the earthquake in Peru. This has been done by | | | |
| |promoting and protecting the rights of people, especially | | | |
| |children, adolescents and women in responding to the emergency | | | |
| |which has resulted from the earthquake and its aftershocks in | | | |
| |Southern Peru. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote mechanisms that incorporate risk management and risk reduction methods in public and private development investments;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Convene within a year a hemispheric meeting on disaster preparedness and mitigation with the support of the IACNDR and the participation of a wide range of government entities, regional and MDBs, private entities, NGOs and the research, scientific and technical communities, to discuss and develop cooperative efforts to facilitate implementation of Summit mandates on disaster management;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Request the IDB to undertake a feasibility study in partnership with the OAS, the World Bank, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and other relevant inter-American organizations, as well as the private sector, including insurance companies, on measures to reduce and/or pool risk in a manner that results in reduced premiums on catastrophic insurance, and mechanisms to facilitate contingent re-construction financing and the immediate release of funds to resolve urgent needs of the affected country; this study would examine the relationship between re-insurance and national and community disaster management capacities, as well as trends toward dis-investment and job losses in those economic sectors requiring costly catastrophic insurance coverage and the role such measures might play in this regard; share with the private sector experiences in the development and application of risk management tools such as risk transfer instruments, vulnerability assessment methodologies and risk reduction incentives for the private sector;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
9. Environmental Foundation for Sustainable Development
Environment and Natural Resources Management
Mandate: Welcome the outcomes and endorse the areas of cooperation identified at the recent hemispheric meeting of Ministers responsible for the Environment held in Montreal; Reaffirm our commitments to implement Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) to which we are party, including through enactment and effective enforcement of any necessary domestic laws, reiterating common and differentiated responsibilities as set forth in Principle 7 of the1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and taking into account the needs and concerns of small developing countries and noting, in this context, the recently concluded Global Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; also stress the need to build synergies among MEAs to enhance their effectiveness in implementation and to strengthen international cooperation;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | |Environemnt Canada: Canada to continue to work in the area of| | |
| | |implementing MEAs (e.g. EC continues to support | | |
| | |implementation of the convention on biodiversity, | | |
| | |particularly through implementing the work program for | | |
| | |agricultural biodiversity.) | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: Ongoing | | |
Mandate: Support the preparatory process for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development to review progress achieved in the implementation of the outcome of the UN Conference on Environment and Development, focusing on areas where further efforts are needed to implement Agenda 21 and explore ways to reinvigorate the global commitment to sustainable development;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | |- Environment Canada (EC) was one of three core departments | | |
| | |responsible for coordinating Canadian preparations and | | |
| | |presence at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. | | |
| | |- An active role was played in the negotiations at all of the| | |
| | |preparatory meetings (regional and global) including a major | | |
| | |presence at the Summit itself in Johannesburg. | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: completed | | |
Mandate: Request the OAS through its General Secretariat, in coordination with other agencies, to organize a meeting at the ministerial level before the end of 2001, to be held in Bolivia on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Summit of 1996, and present contributions to the Rio+10 Summit in 2002, recognizing that by its nature, sustainable development has long-term goals that require the countries of the Hemisphere to act in concert in this area;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Request the United Nations Environment Program (UNP) and PAHO to support the convening of a regional meeting between Ministers responsible for the Environment and Ministers of Health to take stock of progress achieved, to identify priority areas for renewed emphasis and cooperative initiatives, and to explore ways of moving forward in the Americas and globally, with a view to contributing to the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, recognizing the links between the environment and human health;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Environment Canada and Health Canada (working with | | | | |
|UNEP-ROLAC, UNEP-RONA and PAHO): On March 4-5, 2002, | | | | |
|Canada hosted, in Ottawa, a meeting of the Health and | | | | |
|Environment Ministers of the Americas (HEMA). This was| | | | |
|the first time that health and environment ministers of| | | | |
|the region met since the Pan American Conference on | | | | |
|Health, Environment and Sustainable Human Development | | | | |
|held in Washington D.C. in 1995 which resulted in the | | | | |
|Pan American Charter on Health and Environment in | | | | |
|Sustainable Human Development and the Regional Plan of | | | | |
|Action. | | | | |
|The objective of this meeting was to launch a new era | | | | |
|of cooperation among Health and Environment Ministers | | | | |
|in the region. A critical measure of success of this | | | | |
|meeting will be the creation of an effective follow-up | | | | |
|mechanism, comprising the necessary political and | | | | |
|technical support, so that the commitments made by | | | | |
|Ministers at HEMA to specific priority areas and goals,| | | | |
|are implemented as a shared agenda across the Americas,| | | | |
|supported by national action in each country. Canada, | | | | |
|working with the United Nations Environment Programme | | | | |
|(UNEP) and PAHO, is assisting in the creation of a Task| | | | |
|Force of senior level officials working in the areas of| | | | |
|health and environment, who will make proposals on a | | | | |
|follow up process to the HEMA Meeting | | | | |
|Timeline: completed |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Resolve, as parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to pursue its objectives in accordance with its provisions and to address the issue of climate change as a priority for action, working constructively through international processes in order to make the necessary progress to ensure a sound and effective response to climate change; recognize the vulnerabilities in all our countries, in particular of Small Island Developing States and low-lying coastal states, and the need to support the conduct of vulnerability assessments, the development and implementation of adaptation strategies, capacity building and technology transfer;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $314.9 million | |
| |- CIDA will contribute $200,000 to build policy and | | | |
| |institutional capacity in the Caribbean to address the | | | |
| |obligations and opportunities under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto | | | |
| |protocoll | | | |
| |- CIDA will provide up to $3.5 million over four years to a | | | |
| |Climate Change Adaptation Program in partnership with Global | | | |
| |Change Strategies International. The project aims at | | | |
| |strengthening and creating sustainable public and private | | | |
| |sector institutional capacities to respond to climate change in| | | |
| |the Caribbean region. | | | |
| |- CIDA's $596,000 Canada Climate Change Fund for the Americas | | | |
| |is a three-year program supporting projects which address the | | | |
| |causes and effects of climate change, promote sustainable | | | |
| |development and contribute to poverty reduction. Projects will | | | |
| |be directed towards greenhouse gas emissions reduction, carbon | | | |
| |sequestration in sinks, adaptation to the adverse effects of | | | |
| |climate change, and capacity building for organizations in the | | | |
| |region involved in climate change activities. | | | |
| |- CIDA's $2.5 million Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction in | | | |
| |Brazilian Industry project will help Brazilian industry and the| | | |
| |National Confederation of Industry meet the challenge of | | | |
| |climate change through energy management projects, technology | | | |
| |transfer and capacity building, resulting in reduced fuel | | | |
| |combustion in industrial facilities and a reduction of fossil | | | |
| |fuel based electricity consumption. | | | |
| |- The goal CIDA's $1.5 million Canada-Argentina Capacity | | | |
| |Building Initiative is to enhance Argentina's core capacity to | | | |
| |address the causes of climate change by building the capacity | | | |
| |of key stakeholders in the government, industry, and NGOs to | | | |
| |address the problem of climate change. | | | |
| |- CIDA's $2 million Capacity Building and Sustainable Waste | | | |
| |Management project is strengthening Argentina's capacity to | | | |
| |combat climate change through sustainable solid waste | | | |
| |management by building the capacity of public authorities, NGOs| | | |
| |and private sector stakeholders to curtail greenhouse gas | | | |
| |emissions from the solid waste management sector by | | | |
| |implementing sustainable practices and clean technology. | | | |
| |- CIDA's $4.8 million ARPEL (Asociación de Empresas de Petroles| | | |
| |y Gaz Natural en Latino América) Environment Project Phase III | | | |
| |is strengthening the efficiency of ARPEL member companies to | | | |
| |develop and implement environmental protection technologies. | | | |
| |The project focuses on initiatives relating to climate change, | | | |
| |social-environment and environmental health and safety | | | |
| |management in the Latin American oil and gas sector. sector. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2005 depending on the project. |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote the adoption, implementation and enforcement of national legislation, regulations, standards and policies that provide for high levels of environmental protection, recognizing the right of each country to set its own levels of environmental protection and, to this end, reinforce cooperative partnerships, placing particular emphasis on achieving cleaner air, enhancing access to safe water and sanitation services, and strengthening national and regional capacities for integrated water resources management and for waste management;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Health Canada: |CDN $28.8 million |Obstacles: |
|CIDA's $4.8 million OLADE (Organización Latino |- CIDA will contribute up to $1.36 million to assist Brazilian |The Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch promotes | |Health Canada's national health programs are a priority and the above |
|Americana de Energía) Energy Project will further |institutions to manage the water supply in the Northeast region|healthy and safe living, working and recreational |The net expenditures of the |stated activity is part of the Department's mandate. The |
|strengthen OLADE and its member countries in improving |of the country |environments; assesses and reduces health risks posed by |Department's Healthy Environments |implementation of new programs in specific response to Summit mandates|
|their energy-making policy capacity and addressing |- CIDA will contribute up to $5 million over five years to |environmental factors; regulates commercial and consumer |and Consumer Safety Service Line |and implementation at the hemispheric level is therefore dependent |
|sustainable energy development. The project goal is to |build on lessons of previous interventions and provide access |chemicals and products and promotes their safe use; regulates|in 2001-02 was $139.3 million, |upon receiving additional resources. |
|support the sustainable management of the environment |to water and sanitation services to approximately 20,000 people|tobacco and controlled substances and promotes initiatives to|representing 5.3% of the | |
|and natural resources in a manner that will contribute |in 50 communities in northern Honduras (Atlantida, Colon and |reduce or prevent harm; is responsible for measures to |Department's total net planned |Recommendations and best practices: |
|to poverty alleviation. |Yoro departments). Managed by Care Canada, this project will |prevent the entry and spread of quarantined diseases in |spending |Discuss positive outcomes, best practices as well as factors |
| |focus on community management approaches and promote capacity |Canada; coordinates and monitors the Sustainable Development | |contributing to the successful implementation of this mandate |
| |building of local municipalities. Both gender equality and the |Strategy. | |Improved worker health and safety; reduced exposure of Canadian |
| |environment will be strong cross-cutting themes. | | |travellers to health hazards; increased knowledge of pollutants and |
| |- CIDA's $5 million PRO-MESAS Water & Sanitation Fund in | | |climate change, and reduced exposure to toxic substances in the |
| |Honduras will finance activities identified by the PRO-MESAS | | |environment; reduced exposure of patients and the general public to |
| |Technical Advisors to meet the needs identified by the relevant| | |hazards related to chemical and environmental radiation; reduced |
| |Sector Tables or other appropriate fora based on the Honduran | | |exposure to hazards related to consumer products, commercial chemicals|
| |PRSP. | | |and biotechnology products; reduced use of tobacco products and other |
| |- CIDA's $1 million Building the Capacity of Chile's | | |substances. |
| |Transportation Sector for Sustainable Development project will | | | |
| |build Chile's capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and | | | |
| |promote involvement in the Clean Development Mechanism, | | | |
| |specifically in the transportation sector. | | | |
| |- The $5 million Environment Fund in Honduras will contribute | | | |
| |in fulfilling objectives identified by the relevant Sector | | | |
| |Tables (mainly "Ambiente y Gestion de Riesgos") or other | | | |
| |appropriate fora based on the Honduran PRSP. | | | |
| |- CIDA is supporting ($6.6M) a small towns pilot component of | | | |
| |the World Bank/ Government of Peru rural water sector program, | | | |
| |which includes a component that will focus on defining a | | | |
| |national water and sanitation program for small towns that may | | | |
| |eventually be the target of a World Bank sector loan in 3-4 | | | |
| |years. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2007 depending on the project. |Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of the | | |
| | |Department’s mandate. | | |
Mandate: Consult and coordinate domestically and regionally, as appropriate, with the aim of ensuring that economic, social and environmental policies are mutually supportive and contribute to sustainable development, building on existing initiatives undertaken by relevant regional and international organizations;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Environment Canada and Department of Foreign Affairs and | | | |
| |International Trade (DFAIT): | | | |
| |Canada proposes to address environmental considerations both | | | |
| |within the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and in a parallel | | | |
| |environmental cooperation agreement. A parallel environmental | | | |
| |agreement should include commitments by the Parties to ensure | | | |
| |open, transparent, equitable and effective environmental | | | |
| |management. The environmental cooperation agreement should also| | | |
| |have a developmental dimension. The Parties would develop | | | |
| |cooperative activities designed to strengthen environmental | | | |
| |management systems and institutions. | | | |
| |EC is working with DFAIT to ensure that this objective is met | | | |
| |within ongoing trade liberalization negotiations. | | | |
| |EC is supporting cooperation as part of the work programs of | | | |
| |the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation | | | |
| |(CEC) and Canada-Chile Environmental Cooperation Agreement | | | |
| |(ECA) | | | |
| |On April 23, 2001, Canada and Costa-Rica signed a free trade | | | |
| |agreement and two parallel accords on the environment and on | | | |
| |labor. The Canada-Costa Rica Agreement on Environmental | | | |
| |Co-operation. By signing these side agreements, Canada and | | | |
| |Costa Rica commit themselves to effectively enforcing their | | | |
| |environmental and labour laws. Costa Rica has recently | | | |
| |ratified the agreement. | | | |
| |EC to support any future work program stemming from | | | |
| |Canada/Costa Rica Environmental Cooperation Agreement (ECA) | | | |
| |At the Canada-Central America Summit in Guatemala in September | | | |
| |2000, Canada agreed to a request by the leaders of the Central | | | |
| |American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and | | | |
| |Nicaragua to begin free trade negotiations. Canada and the CA-4| | | |
| |countries also agreed to negotiate a parallel environmental | | | |
| |cooperation agreement. Negotiations are currently underway. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: ongoing |Timeline: | | |
| |Environment Canada and Department of Foreign Affairs and | | | |
| |International Trade (DFAIT): On April 23, 2001, Canada and | | | |
| |Costa-Rica signed a free trade agreement and two parallel | | | |
| |accords on the environment and on labor. The Canada-Costa Rica| | | |
| |Agreement on Environmental Co-operation. By signing these side| | | |
| |agreements, Canada and Costa Rica commit themselves to | | | |
| |effectively enforcing their environmental and labour laws. | | | |
| | | | | |
| |Canada addressed environmental considerations both within the | | | |
| |Free Trade Agreement and in the parallel environmental | | | |
| |cooperation agreement. The parallel environmental agreement | | | |
| |includes commitments by the Parties to ensure open, | | | |
| |transparent, equitable and effective environmental management. | | | |
| |The environmental cooperation agreement also has a | | | |
| |developmental dimension. The Parties will develop cooperative | | | |
| |activities designed to strengthen environmental management | | | |
| |systems and institutions. | | | |
| |Timeframe: The agreements were signed in April 2001. Canada has| | | |
| |taken all steps necessary for the entry into force of the | | | |
| |agreements. Costa Rica is expected to ratify the agreement | | | |
| |soon. | | | |
Mandate: Support initiatives such as the Hemispheric Round-table for Cleaner Production in furtherance of our efforts to promote partnerships among government, industry and civil society and advance, as appropriate, the Plans of Action and the Global Cleaner Production Information Network launched at the 2000 Montreal International Pollution Prevention Summit;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote and support implementation of priorities for action set out in the Bahia Declaration on Chemical Safety at the national level, particularly those aimed at increasing public access to information on toxic substances and at strengthening capacity in this area;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | |Health Canada: |The net expenditures of the |Obstacles: |
| | |The Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch promotes |Department's Healthy Environments |Health Canada's national health programs are a priority and the above |
| | |healthy and safe living, working and recreational |and Consumer Safety Service Line |stated activity is part of the Department's mandate. The |
| | |environments; assesses and reduces health risks posed by |in 2001-02 was $139.3 million, |implementation of new programs in specific response to Summit mandates|
| | |environmental factors; regulates commercial and consumer |representing 5.3% of the |and implementation at the hemispheric level is therefore dependent |
| | |chemicals and products and promotes their safe use; regulates|Department's total net planned |upon receiving additional resources. |
| | |tobacco and controlled substances and promotes initiatives to|spending | |
| | |reduce or prevent harm; is responsible for measures to | |Recommendations and best practices: |
| | |prevent the entry and spread of quarantined diseases in | |Discuss positive outcomes, best practices as well as factors |
| | |Canada; coordinates and monitors the Sustainable Development | |contributing to the successful implementation of this mandate |
| | |Strategy. | |Improved worker health and safety; reduced exposure of Canadian |
| | | | |travellers to health hazards; increased knowledge of pollutants and |
| | | | |climate change, and reduced exposure to toxic substances in the |
| | | | |environment; reduced exposure of patients and the general public to |
| | | | |hazards related to chemical and environmental radiation; reduced |
| | | | |exposure to hazards related to consumer products, commercial chemicals|
| | | | |and biotechnology products; reduced use of tobacco products and other |
| | | | |substances. |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of the | | |
| | |Department’s mandate. | | |
Mandate: Promote improved environmental management at the municipal level, including through information exchange among local communities, the development of environmentally sound technology and the promotion of partnerships to facilitate, as appropriate, technology transfer, capacity building, including the strengthening of local institutions and services, and support for initiatives such as the World Bank Clean Air Initiative and IDB programs in this area;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $6.5 million | |
| |- Canada will contribute $1.5 million for a 3 year project to | | | |
| |assist 9 municipalities in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile in | | | |
| |reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and | | | |
| |address municipal environmental concerns | | | |
| |- Canada's $5 million Building Learning Systems for Honduras | | | |
| |project will create learning systems that address knowledge | | | |
| |gaps and generate new knowledge for project and program | | | |
| |planning and implementation, with an emphasis on the activities| | | |
| |of the Environment and Natural Resource Management Sector. The | | | |
| |project will support dialogue that applies the knowledge and | | | |
| |perspectives of diverse stakeholders to significant development| | | |
| |problems. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2007 depending on the project |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Advance hemispheric conservation of plants, animals and ecosystems through, as appropriate: capacity building, expanding partnership networks and information sharing systems, including the Inter-American Biodiversity Network; cooperation in the fight against illegal trade in wildlife; strengthening of cooperation arrangements for terrestrial and marine natural protected areas, including adjacent border parks and important areas for shared species; support for regional ecosystem conservation mechanisms; the development of a hemispheric strategy to support the conservation of migratory wildlife throughout the Americas, with the active engagement of civil society; and the promotion the objectives and the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | |Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada: Canada is supportive of the| | |
| | |implementation of the Inter-American Biodiversity Information| | |
| | |Network (IABIN). | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: Ongoing | | |
Mandate: Promote the adoption of concrete and urgent actions towards the implementation of sustainable forest management; promote policies, practices, incentives and investment in support of sustainable forest management, building on existing hemispheric initiatives and cooperation, as well as support the UN Forum on Forests and its program of work;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada's $5 | |CDN $6.6 million | |
|Canada will support The Regional Model Forest Centre to|million PRO-MESAS Forestry Fund will finance activities | | | |
|contribute to the protection, conservation and |identified by the PRO-MESAS Technical Advisors which will meet | | | |
|sustainable use of forest resources in the Americas |the needs identified by the relevant Sector Tables or other | | | |
|through the application of the model forest concept. |appropriate fora based on the Honduran PRSP | | | |
|Timeline: 2002-2007 depending on the project |Timeline: 2002-2007 depending on the project |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Reaffirm our commitment to advancing environmental stewardship in the area of energy by advancing policies, practices, transference of and access to technologies, that are economically efficient and take the environmental impacts of energy development and use into account; and endorse and support the work of the Hemispheric Energy Initiative in this area;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |CDN $10.8 million | |
|Canada's $1.1 million Energy from Landfill Gas project | |- Canada will contribute up to $1.5 million over two years in| | |
|will assist the Americas in building the capacity to | |Honduras to support the elaboration of technical design and | | |
|undertake landfill gas recovery projects. | |financial feasibility studies of potentially energy | | |
| | |efficiency projects and the implementation of pilot projects | | |
| | |in of some of the most promising sub-sectors. Implementation | | |
| | |of projects designed under the program are expected to result| | |
| | |in important energy savings. | | |
| | |- Canada is supporting the Government of Bolivia to | | |
| | |strengthen the capacity of institutions responsible for | | |
| | |monitoring and regulating the hydrocarbon sector in order to | | |
| | |ensure technically and environmentally sustainable resource | | |
| | |development while maximizing benefits to Bolivia. | | |
|Timeline: 2001-2004 depending on the project |Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2004 depending on the project | | |
Mandate: Promote the development of environmentally sound exploitation and management of minerals and metals, recognizing the importance of the social and economic dimensions of the activities of the mining sector, and support the work of regional and international fora in this area;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Natural Resources Canada – Mineral and Metal Policy |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CIDA: CDN $5 million |Obstacles: |
|Branch: Canada has been a leader and active member of |CIDA will contribute up to $5 million over 5 years to improve | | |A lack of integration and communication between the ministries of |
|CAMMA, since 1995. Canada is currently a member of |sustainable management of -the mineral sector in Bolivia. | | |mining with other key ministries within national jurisdictions (i.e. |
|CAMMA’s Coordinating Committee, mandated to implement | | | |environment, health, foreign affairs) make it difficult for these |
|the action plan and decisions of mining ministers from |Timeline: 2001-2006 | | |other government departments to understand how mineral and metal |
|the 2001 VI CAMMA ministerial conference; | | | |development can be achieved under a sustainable development policy |
| |Natural Resources Canada: Mining, Minerals and Sustainable | | |framework, and how the benefits of development can achieved while |
|Canada is leading CAMMA’s International Working Group, |Development North America (MMSD NA): | | |adhering to environmental standards; |
|which has focussed on hemispheric consensus building on|In 2001 NRCan contributed $100,000 to support non-government, | |Funding for the Department of | |
|sustainable development for minerals and metals, |non-industry participation in the MMSD North American | |Natural Resources Canada’s |While current and future mining development implement mine closure |
|resulting in CAMMA’s support of the Quebec City Action |partnership, one of four regional projects established under | |participation in and hosting of |plans and take into account mine site reclamation in early planning, |
|Plan and Summit of the Americas Process, the World |the umbrella of the MMSD Global Project to assess the potential| |past Hemispheric ministerial-level|the legacy of some mining development, which has left environmental, |
|Summit on Sustainable Development and the Free Trade |contribution of the mining sector to sustainable development at| |CAMMA Conferences and various |social, and economic hardship, is a challenging issue that is not |
|Area of the Americas; |global, regional and local levels. | |workshops has been derived |easily addressed, i.e. orphaned and abandoned mines; |
| | | |primarily from a five-year CIDA | |
|Canada is leading CAMMA’s multi-stakeholder, |NRCan representatives participated in the following | |funded project, which will expire |There is a real need for technology transfer and training throughout |
|multi-country Mining and Communities Working Group. The|multi-stakeholder meetings dedicated to completion of the MMSD | |at the end of March 2003. |the region; |
|Group’s objectives are to consult with stakeholders and|NA work program: | | | |
|to study, develop, and implement guidelines for |Canadian Sub-Group Meeting to define the program of work for | | |A lack of funding for some CAMMA member governments, has meant their |
|community capacity building, community participation |the North American partnership (December 18-19, 2000); | | |inability to fully participate in CAMMA activities, thus compromising |
|and consultation, and building increased awareness and |North American Mining Sector Profile Roundtable (June 13-14, | | |the attainment of a better understanding of, the contribution to, and |
|understanding of the social, environmental and economic|2001); | | |the implementation of sustainable development policies as they apply |
|parameters of mining, minerals and metals. |Workshops on “Alternative Futures for the North American Mining| | |to mining, minerals and metals. |
| |and Minerals Industry” (September 5-7, 2001 & October 1-3, | | | |
|Canada is responsible for maintaining the CAMMA |2001); | | |Recommendations and best practices: |
|website, used as an intra-member communications tool; a|Workshops on “Seven Questions to Sustainability: Assessing How | | |From the beginning of CAMMA, member countries adopted the Bruntland |
|direct link to member governments; and a source of |a Mine/Mineral Project or Operation Contributes to | | |definition of sustainable development, and over the past six years, |
|information and knowledge about CAMMA’s activities, |Sustainability” (October 11-13, 2001 & February 4-6, 2002); | | |have implemented policies that support this definition. These |
|Ministerial declarations, and workshop proceedings. |The North American Mining Dialogue (November 7-9, 2001); and, | | |policies relate to the environment; a focus on community participation|
| |Workshop to Review the MMSD Global Report (March 18-20, 2002). | | |and consultation; a greater understanding and partnering between |
|Timeline: Canada will continue to fulfill the mandate | | | |government, industry, and community; the safe use of minerals and |
|of the Quebec Summit Action Plan at the Hemispheric |Timelline: MMSD NA will be completed in Spring 2002. | | |metals; etc. |
|level through participation in CAMMA, which is a | | | | |
|permanent inter-governmental forum. |Natural Resources Canada – Mining and Mineral Sciences | | |CAMMA has realized Hemispheric consensus building in sustainable |
| |Laboratories: On October 1, 1998 the Government of Canada and | | |development, in its regional support for the Summit of the Americas |
| |the Government of Guyana signed a Memorandum of Understanding | | |process, and the Bolivia +5 process. |
| |for the Guyana Mining Environmental Capacity Development | | | |
| |Project (GENCAPD). | | |CAMMA members have committed to working with other international fora |
| | | | |on mining policy, in areas of mutual concern and opportunity and |
| |The project is designed to develop environmental expertise in | |CDN $3.75 million |increasingly CAMMA members are contributing to global sustainable |
| |several of the key institutions involved with the mining sector| | |development policy, such as for the World Summit on Sustainable |
| |in Guyana as well as developing a regulatory framework that | | |Development and the Free Trade Area of the Americas. |
| |will promote the sustainable development of Guyana’s mineral | | | |
| |resources. | | |CAMMA has increased networking and exchanges of technology and |
| | | | |information between the mining ministries in the Hemisphere, in areas |
| |This four-year, $3.75 million project, financed by CIDA focuses| | |such as mine closure and mine site reclamation; small-scale mining; |
| |on developing technical and managerial capacity within the key | | |mining and the environment; community capacity building and |
| |mining sector institutions of Guyana, including the Guyana | | |sustainable communities; the safe-use of minerals and metals, etc. |
| |Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), the Environmental | | | |
| |Protection Agency (EPA), and the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners| | | |
| |Association (GGDMA). The University of Guyana also plays an | | |Obstacles: |
| |important role in the project. | | |Limited time and financial resources have prevented the establishment |
| | | | |of an official link with Mexico, which has been detrimental to the |
| |The project focuses on three main areas including policy and | | |North American MMSD partnership due to the increasing |
| |regulation, monitoring and inspection, and operational capacity| | |inter-connectivity of Canadian, American and Mexican relations. A |
| |within industry. | | |meeting between MMSD coordinators of the North and South American |
| | | | |partnerships, and Canadian, American and Mexican government officials |
| |Timeline: Project in progress, expected completion in 2004. | | |on March 13, 2002 in Toronto will attempt to address this deficiency |
| | | | |and seek to identify opportunities to include Mexico in the work |
| | | | |started under MMSD. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Recommendations and best practices |
| | | | |Although the MMSD project will finish in Spring 2002, the North |
| | | | |American partnership is exploring ways and means to carry forward work|
| | | | |initiated in the series of workshops, “Seven Questions to |
| | | | |Sustainability: Assessing How a Mine/Mineral Project or Operation |
| | | | |Contributes to Sustainability”, including possible application of this|
| | | | |‘test of sustainability’ in one or more pilot projects. |
10. Agriculture Management and Rural Development
Mandate: Promote dialogue involving government ministers, parliamentarians and civil society, in particular organizations linked to rural areas as well as the scientific and academic communities, with the objective of promoting medium and long-term national strategies toward sustainable improvement in agriculture and rural life;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support national efforts to strengthen rural enterprises, in particular small- and medium-sized enterprises and promote, where appropriate, a favorable environment for agri-business; encourage, in a complementary manner, the training of small- and medium-sized rural entrepreneurs as well as the modernization of training institutions in this field;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $2 million | |
| |- Canada will contribute up to $500,000 to develop “Machet | | | |
| |Vet”, educational material in Creole on sustainable | | | |
| |agriculture, livestock production and forestry in Haiti | | | |
| |- CIDA is helping to increase agricultural production in | | | |
| |Paraguay through improvements to the country’s national grain | | | |
| |quality system as a way to improve the welfare of rural | | | |
| |producers. | | | |
| |- CIDA is supporting Paraguay to implement a system of norms | | | |
| |and quality standards in the agricultural sector in order to | | | |
| |increase the country's exports and contribute to a better | | | |
| |integration of the country in the international market economy.| | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2005 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Encourage the development of markets in the Hemisphere for goods obtained through the sustainable use of natural resources;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Strive to facilitate access to markets for those goods derived from alternative development programs implemented in countries engaged in the substitution of illicit crops;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Instruct the Ministers of Agriculture, during the next meeting of the Inter-American Board of Agriculture, to promote, in cooperation with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), joint action by all the actors of the agricultural sector to work towards the improvement of agricultural and rural life that enables the implementation of the Plans of Action of the Summits of the Americas;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
11. Labor and Employment
Mandate: In order to advance our commitment to create greater employment opportunities, improve the skills of workers and improve working conditions throughout the Hemisphere, we recognize the need to address, in the relevant hemispheric and international fora, issues of globalization related to employment and labor.
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Reaffirm the fundamental importance of the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor, welcome the progress made through its Plan of Action adopted in 1998, support the preparatory process for the Twelfth Conference in 2001 () and direct Ministers to build upon the Viña del Mar Declaration which focused on the social dimensions of globalization and the modernization of Labor Ministries, by collaborating in the examination of the labor dimension of the Summit of the Americas process, in order to identify areas of agreement and issues where further work needs to be done;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Human Resources Development Canada-Office for |Human Resources Development Canada-Office for Inter-American |Human Resources Development Canada, Office for Inter-American|Canada offered CDN $1.2 million |Obstacles: |
|Inter-American Labour Cooperation: Since the XII |Labour Cooperation: The first in a series of Technical |Labour Cooperation: From October 17 to 19, 2001, Canada |and the U.S. committed an |There is no ongoing funding to enbable the Conference process to move |
|Conference last October, several initiatives have been |Workshops, New Employment Relationships and the Digital Divide,|hosted the XII Inter-American Conference of Ministers of |unspecified. The financial |forward and to carry out the activities mandated in the Plan of |
|carried out by the Chair Protempore (Canada). The Chair|took place in Montreal, Canada from October 2-4, 2002; it |Labour (IACML) in Ottawa. Canada’s business and labour |commitments by Canada and the U.S.|Action. As a result, scheduled activities depend almost entirely on |
|and Vice-Chairs of both Working Groups as well as |explored new ways of responding to the challenges facing labour|organizations participated actively in the formulation of the|will help to move implementation |sources from the labour departments of Canada and the United States, |
|senior officials from Canada, Chile and Brazil |ministries today. The U.S will host a workshop on income |Conference Plan of Action and continue to be involved in the |process forward. In particular, |which are drawn from their operating budgets. The entrie process is at|
|(troika), and representatives of international |security systems, Unemployment Insurance Systems in the |implementation process. Some provincial governments attended |Canada’s funding will help provide|risk due to chronic lack of operating funds. The estimate $U.S. 1-2 |
|organizations met in Miami at the end of January to |Americas, November 14-15, 2002, inMiami. Brazil is scheduled to|the Conference as observers. The Canadian Labour Congress |translation and interpretation |million a year needed to move forward is extremelymmodest. The ongoing|
|develop an agenda for the implementation of the Ottawa |organize its workshop on the Impacts of Trade and Economic |is the new Chair of COSATE, the Trade Union Technical |services as well as the |problem of funding is the offshoot of a larger symptom; the disconnect|
|Plan of Action. This planning session established a |Integration on Labour in the Hemisphere, in Brasilia, March |Advisory Council to the Conference of Ministers of Labour and|transportation and accommodation |between Conference process and the collaboration of international |
|calendar of future meetings leading up to the XIII |27-28, 2003. A joint OAS/ILO workshop on Gender Issues and |as such has been participating in the activities of the two |costs to enable smaller countries |financial institutions such as the IDB. The ability to improve |
|IACML in Rio next October, and set the parameters for |Labour is being planned for either the end of 2002 or the |Working Groups created to advise Ministers of Labour. |and civil society groups to attend|governance in the area of labour administration requires facilitating |
|the Working Groups’ activities and the Technical |beginning of 2003. | |meetings and other Conference |ongoing cooperation and collaboration between governments and |
|Workshops. A number of member states indicated levels | | |events. |stakeholders to exchange information on best practices, siklls |
|of support to facilitate the implementation of the | | | |training, etc. Future technical cooperation through large scale loans |
|Ottawa Plan of Action. The first meeting of Working | | | |and grant applications would be substantially enhanced bythe |
|Groups 1 and 2 took place from April 8-11, 2002 in the | | | |collaboration of international finacial institutions. |
|Domincian Republic. The second and last meeting of both| | | | |
|Working Groups is scheduled for the end of March/early | | | | |
|April 2003 in Montevideo, Uruguay | | | |As Chair, Canada continues to seek the support and involvement by the |
| | | | |major stakeholders-government, business and labour organizations, |
| | | | |international and hemispheric institutions such as the ILO and the |
|The XII Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor| | | |Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in the implementation of the |
|took place in Ottawa, Canada, on October 17-19, 2001, | | | |Conference Plan of Action. This is an effective consultation mechanism|
|where the Ministers discussed the impact of the events | | | |initiated early in preparation for the Summit process. |
|of September 11 on the economic and social well-being | | | | |
|of working men and women of the hemisphere to the labor| | | | |
|and employment dimensions of the Summit process. A | | | | |
|Declaration and Plan of Action were also approved | | | | |
|Timeline: Canada is Chair the Inter-American Conference|Timeline: Canada will Chair the Inter-American Conference until|Timeline: Canada will Chair the Inter-American Conference | | |
|of Ministers of Labour until the next Conference in |the next Conference in Brazil in 2003, and as such, will be |until the next Conference in Brazil in 2003, and as such, | | |
|Brazil in 2003, and as such, will be responsible for |responsible for promoting and implementing the Conference Plan |will be responsible for promoting and implementing the | | |
|promoting and implementing the Plan of Action. A key |of Action as well as improving collaboration with key |Conference Plan of Action as well as improving collaboration | | |
|element of the Plan is to improve collaboration with |international institutions, namely the OAS, ILO, IDB, Economic |with key international institutions, namely the OAS, ILO, | | |
|key international institutions, namely the OAS, ILO, |Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the |IDB, Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean| | |
|IDB, Economic Commission for Latin American and the |Pan American Health organization (PAHO), the Caribbean |(ECLAC), the Pan American Health organization (PAHO), the | | |
|Caribbean (ECLAC), the Pan American Health organization|Development Bank and the World Bank. |Caribbean Development Bank and the World Bank. | | |
|(PAHO), the Caribbean Development Bank and the World | | | | |
|Bank. | | | | |
Mandate: Respect the International Labor Organization (ILO) Declaration on the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-Up, adopted in 1998, adopt and implement legislation and policies that provide for the effective application of core labor standards as recognized by the ILO and consider the ratification and implementation of fundamental ILO Conventions;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Human Resources Development Canada, Office for Inter-American | | | |
| |Labour Cooperation | | | |
| | | | | |
| |On April 23, 2001, Canada and Costa-Rica signed a free trade | | | |
| |agreement and two parallel accords on the environment and on | | | |
| |labour. By signing these side agreements, Canada and Costa | | | |
| |Rica commit themselves to effectively enforcing their | | | |
| |environmental and labour laws. | | | |
| | | | | |
| |Canada proposes to address labour considerations both within | | | |
| |the Free Trade Agreement and in the Canada-Costa Rica Agreement| | | |
| |on Labour Cooperation. This Agreement includes: | | | |
| |A general commitment that labour laws should embody and provide| | | |
| |protection for fundamental labour principles, particularly | | | |
| |those set out in the ILO Declaration; | | | |
| |Specific and enforceable obligations to effectively enforce | | | |
| |labour laws; | | | |
| |Mechanisms through which the public can raise concerns about | | | |
| |matters relevant to the agreement; | | | |
| |An independent and expeditious third-party review as a means of| | | |
| |dispute resolution; | | | |
| |Remedies (not based on trade sanctions or monetary fines) to | | | |
| |encourage fulfillment of obligations as a conclusion to dispute| | | |
| |resolution; and | | | |
| |International cooperation in support of the objectives of the | | | |
| |agreement. | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: The Agreement was signed in April 2001. It should |Timeline: | | |
| |enter into force in the fall of 2002. | | | |
Mandate: Consult and coordinate, domestically and regionally in the appropriate fora, with a view to contributing to raising the living standards and improving the working conditions of all people in the Americas; create a process for improved collaboration and coordination on the labor dimensions of the Summit of the Americas process between Labor Ministries and other appropriate ministries and key international institutions within the Americas that have a critical role to play in the improvement of labor conditions, in particular the OAS, the ILO, ECLAC, as well as the IDB and the World Bank;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Develop new mechanisms to increase the effectiveness of projects and other technical assistance designed to build the capacity of smaller economies and their institutions to effectively implement labor laws and standards and to foster equality of opportunity with respect to gender, among others, in strategies to promote employment, training, life-long learning and human resource development programs with the objective of promoting access to more and better employment in the new economy;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $350 000 | |
| |- Canada will contribute $350,000 to Guyana to provide vouchers| | | |
| |to be used by small and medium enterprises for training courses| | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2003 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Strengthen the capacity of the Ministers of Labor to develop and implement effective labor and labor market policies; collaborate with employers and labor organizations to develop and generate information on labor markets; participate in dialogue, tripartite consultations and dispute resolution strategies; and adopt ongoing strategies and programs as a core element for professional development in the labor market;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Continue to work towards the elimination of child labor, and as a priority, promote the hemispheric ratification and implementation of the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention, 1999 (No. 182), work to bring national laws, regulations and policies into conformity with this Convention, and take immediate action to eliminate the worst forms of child labor;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote and protect the rights of all workers, in particular those of working women, and take action to remove structural and legal barriers as well as stereotypical attitudes to gender equality at work, addressing, inter alia, gender bias in recruitment; working conditions; occupational discrimination and harassment; discrimination in social protection benefits; women’s occupational health and safety; and unequal career opportunities and pay;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Human Resources Development Canada, Office for |Human Resources Development Canada, Office for Inter-American |Human Resources Development Canada, Office for Inter-American|Canada will Chair the |Obstacles: |
|Inter-American Labour Cooperation: Since the Conference|Labour Cooperation: Preparation is underway to organize a |Labour Cooperation: From October 17 to 19, 2001, Canada |Inter-American Conference until |On shortcomings there is no ongoing funding to enable the conference |
|last October, several initiatives have been carried out|series of technical workshops: 1) Technical Workshop on Gender |hosted the XII Inter-American Conference of Ministers of |the next Conference in Brazil in |process to move forward and that as a result activities and meetings |
|by the Chair Protempore (Canada). The Chair and |Issues in December 9-10 2002; 2) Technical Workshop on the New|Labour (IACML) in Ottawa. Canada’s business and labour |2003, and as such, will be |and even interpretation services depend almost entirely on funds |
|Vice-Chairs of both Working Groups as well as senior |Economy and the Implications of Information Technology in |organizations participated actively in the formulation of the|responsible for promoting and |supplied by the labour departments of Canada and the US which are |
|officials from Canada, Chile and Brazil (troika), and |September 12-13, 2002 in Canada; 3) Technical Workshop on the |Conference Plan of Action and continue to be involved in the |implementing the Conference Plan |drawn down from their own operating budgets. The entire process is |
|representatives of international organizations met in |Effects of Economic and Trade Integration on Employment in the |implementation process. Some provincial governments attended |of Action as well as improving |at risk due to this lack of operating money, and the amount required |
|Miami at the end of January to develop an agenda for |Hemisphere, March 27-29, 2003 in Brasilia, Brazil. |the Conference as observers. The Canadian Labour Congress |collaboration with key |(estimated at 1 to 2 million US per year) is extremely modest. |
|the implementation of the Ottawa Plan of Action. This | |is the new Chair of COSATE the Trade Union Technical |international institutions, namely|This problem of operating funds for the Conference process (i.e. to |
|planning session established a calendar of future | |Advisory Council to the Inter-American Conference of |the OAS, ILO, IDB, Economic |carry out the action plans) represents a larger problem which is the |
|meetings taking us to Rio next year, and set the | |Ministers of Labour and as such will participate in the |Commission for Latin American and |disconnect between this entire process and the IDB and other funding |
|parameters for the Working Groups’ activities and the | |activities of the working groups created to advise Ministers |the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Pan |agencies. In fact the potential to improve governance in the labour |
|Technical Workshops. A number of member states | |of Labour. |American Health organization |area depends largely on enabling cooperation between governments to |
|indicated levels of support which they could supply to | | |(PAHO), the Caribbean Development |exchange best practices, provide training, etc etc. and thus to |
|facilitate our action plan. | | |Bank and the World Bank. |achieve better labour administration demands a close collaboration |
| | | | |between this conference of labour ministers and the funding agencies. |
|Invitations were issued to senior Labour officials of| | | |Future large scale loans or grant applications would also be |
|the countries of the hemisphere to participate in the | | | |substantially enhanced though this coordination. |
|upcoming meetings of Working Group 2 on April 8-9, and | | | | |
|Working Group 1 on April 10-11, 2002 in the Dominican | | | |Recommendations and best practices: |
|Republic. | | | |The active commitment of the Caribbean English-speaking countries, the|
| | | | |choice of St-Vincent and the Grenadines as Vice chair of Working Group|
|CLC as Chair of COSATE will participate in these | | | |2 provide critical impetus for reshaping the Inter-American Conference|
|meetings. Quebec's Labour Department will also send a | | | |of Ministers of Labour as a truly hemispheric forum. |
|representative as an observer. | | | | |
| | | | |As Chair, Canada continues to seek the support and involvement by the |
| | | | |major stakeholders-government, business and labour organizations, |
| | | | |international and hemispheric institutions such as the ILO and the |
| | | | |Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in the implementation of the |
| | | | |Conference Plan of Action. This is an effective consultation mechanism|
| | | | |initiated early in preparation for the Summit process. |
|Timeline: Canada will Chair the Inter-American |Timeline: Canada will Chair the Inter-American Conference until|Timeline: Canada will Chair the Inter-American Conference | | |
|Conference until the next Conference in Brazil in 2003,|the next Conference in Brazil in 2003, and as such, will be |until the next Conference in Brazil in 2003, and as such, | | |
|and as such, will be responsible for promoting and |responsible for promoting and implementing the Conference Plan |will be responsible for promoting and implementing the | | |
|implementing the Conference Plan of Action as well as |of Action as well as improving collaboration with key |Conference Plan of Action as well as improving collaboration | | |
|improving collaboration with key international |international institutions, namely the OAS, ILO, IDB, Economic |with key international institutions, namely the OAS, ILO, | | |
|institutions, namely the OAS, ILO, IDB, Economic |Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the |IDB, Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean| | |
|Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean |Pan American Health organization (PAHO), the Caribbean |(ECLAC), the Pan American Health organization (PAHO), the | | |
|(ECLAC), the Pan American Health organization (PAHO), |Development Bank and the World Bank. |Caribbean Development Bank and the World Bank. | | |
|the Caribbean Development Bank and the World Bank. | | | | |
12. Growth with Equity
Development Financing
Mandate: Acknowledge the need for development financing, including aid from bilateral donors and lending from the MDBs on appropriate terms, and commit to support our Finance Ministers and the MDBs in promoting policies to develop and maintain access to international capital markets to finance our sustainable development efforts, recognizing that debt servicing constitutes a major constraint on investment for many countries in the Hemisphere;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $19.2 million | |
|- Canada will contribute $2 million to the |- Canada will contribute up to $12.2 million over 6 years to a | | | |
|Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development |social development fund in for health and education in Haiti. | | | |
|of the OAS to help provide non- reimbursable technical |Projects will assist the most disadvantaged Haitians in areas | | | |
|cooperation to member States in areas such as social |such as health and nutrition, basic education and child | | | |
|development and education, democratic development, and |protection | | | |
|environment | | | | |
|- Canada will support a $5 million new programming | | | | |
|approaches program with the Inter-American Agency for | | | | |
|Cooperation and Development (IACD) of the OAS to | | | | |
|promote new approaches to programming and innovative | | | | |
|financial solutions by the IACD through the exchange of| | | | |
|relevant experiences and expertise between member | | | | |
|states. | | | | |
|Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2007 depending on the |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2007 depending on the project. |Timeline: | | |
|project. | | | | |
Enabling Economic Environment
Mandate: Design and implement, with the cooperation of the IDB, the World Bank, other donors, as appropriate, as well as the ILO, building upon the work begun in regional and sub-regional programs after the 1998 Santiago Summit of the Americas, legislation, policies and regulations that reduce startup costs, support the creation of new financial products for lower-income groups and youth, foster the development of credit unions, community finance institutions and supporting institutions such as credit bureaus and create conditions that encourage commercial banks and other appropriate financial institutions to broaden their client base to include more micro, small- and medium-sized enterprises and strengthen the capacities of micro, small- and medium-sized enterprise development agencies;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Provide and improve where necessary, both in rural and urban areas, access to quality information systems for micro, small- and medium-sized enterprises through the creation of non-discriminatory mechanisms with the cooperation of the IDB, the World Bank, other donors, as appropriate, as well as ECLAC, and establish programs aimed at promoting the use of computers and the Internet, based on public and private sector partnership, to gain greater access to information technology, to credit and markets and to instruments designed to assist them in all these areas;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support and encourage, with the cooperation of the IDB and other donors as appropriate, the formation of business incubators, associative networks, joint projects, national competitiveness programs, credit unions and complementary agreements among micro, small- and medium-sized enterprises as part of a broader strategy allowing them to share best practices, to improve access to information, credit and adequate marketing systems and to break prevailing situations of isolation;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $9 million | |
| |- Canada will contribute up to $1 million to foster local and | | | |
| |regional economic development in Bio-Bio (Argentina) and | | | |
| |Cordoba (Brazil) | | | |
| |- Canada will contribute $750,000 to strengthen the | | | |
| |cooperative movement in Mexico via improved cooperative | | | |
| |education program | | | |
| |- The $7 million Entrepreneurial Development of Cooperative | | | |
| |Federations Project supports Guatemala's two most | | | |
| |representative and successful agricultural federations to | | | |
| |better satisfy the needs of the grassroots cooperatives they | | | |
| |serve in agricultural production, processing and marketing. | | | |
| |- Canada is helping Paraguay with a $325,000 project to | | | |
| |strengthen business management and technical skills of small | | | |
| |and medium-sized enterprises as a way to foster equitable and | | | |
| |sustainable economic growth. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2009 depending on the project. |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Increase access to opportunities for sustainable entrepreneurship, productivity and employment among young people;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Improve, as appropriate, social safety nets at the national and regional levels to stabilize individual and household income and consumption by such means as stabilization funds, micro-credit schemes, crop insurance programs, job retraining and training in vocational, entrepreneurial and business skills, with the involvement of the MDBs and development agencies as well as non-governmental and community-based organizations and to establish regional networks to share best practices and experiences;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $600,000 | |
| |- Ccanada will contribute $600,000 for a project to develop | | | |
| |micro- enterprises in Nicaragua through the establishment of a | | | |
| |sustainable microenterprise loan program | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2004 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote, in cooperation with the CIM, IICA, other appropriate inter-American institutions and the World Bank, improved market access for disadvantaged entrepreneurs, particularly women, youth, persons with disabilities, indigenous and rural populations, by developing programs that generate local employment and provide training, retraining and life-long learning, particularly in new technologies, and affordable services in business management, product development, financing, production and quality control, marketing and the legal aspects of business; by establishing outreach programs to inform low-income and poor populations, particularly in rural and remote areas, of opportunities for market and technology access and by providing assistance, monitoring, mentoring , advisory and other support services to enable these groups to take advantage of such opportunities;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |CDN $5 million | |
| | |Canada is supporting four Latin American universities with $5| | |
| | |million to work together to build new cooperatives and to | | |
| | |help several existing ones in order to develop | | |
| | |entrepreneurship through local cooperatives. This project | | |
| | |will also train local teachers to teach communities how to | | |
| | |run their cooperatives by themselves. The partner | | |
| | |universities and cooperatives will create a network that will| | |
| | |enable them to exchange lessons learned and share their | | |
| | |expertise. | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2006 | | |
Migration
Mandate: Support initiatives designed to strengthen linkages among migrant communities abroad and their places of origin and promote cooperative mechanisms that simplify and speed up the transfer of migrant remittances and substantially reduce the costs of sending them;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support voluntary initiatives designed by communities or individuals for the use of funds in investment and productive projects benefitting the general welfare in communities of origin;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote the discussion of the migration phenomenon at the hemispheric level with due regard for its multi-dimensional nature and regional differences and, in so doing, consider the inclusion of the topic of migration in discussions on trade and economic integration;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support programs of cooperation in immigration procedures for cross-border labor markets and the migration of workers, both in countries of origin and destination, as a means to enhance economic growth in full cognizance of the role that cooperation in education and training can play in mitigating any adverse consequences of the movement of human capital from smaller and less developed states;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Strive to ensure that migrants have access to basic social services, consistent with each country's internal legal framework;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Create and harmonize statistical information systems and foster the sharing of information and best practices through the use of new information and communications technologies, with the aim of promoting the modernization of migration management;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Enhancing Social Stability and Mobility
Mandate: Continue and deepen progress toward implementation of the agenda for improving property registration established at the 1998 Santiago Summit of the Americas with particular emphasis on regularizing informal property rights, in accordance with national legislation, to ensure that all valid property rights are formally recognized, that disputes are resolved, and that modern legal frameworks to legitimize property records and encourage marketable property titles are adopted; and that these actions include the formulation of institutional, political and regulatory reforms that would facilitate the use of property registration as a mechanism to enable property owners to access credit and allow commercial banks and MDBs to expand their customer base among lower income sectors; promote greater cooperation and exchange of information and technology to modernize the systems of registry and cadastre in the Hemisphere, and also request multilateral and bilateral cooperation institutions to continue supporting and strengthening, in a complementary manner, their financial and technical assistance programs;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support, in cooperation with ECLAC and the World Bank, research at the hemispheric level to generate disaggregated data on the differential impact of economic policies and processes on women and men, rural and urban populations, indigenous and non-indigenous, and communities of high or low social mobility, and on their respective participation in economic growth;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote recognition of the social and economic contribution made by the unpaid work performed by women predominantly in the home, and consider providing innovative social safety nets in conformity with national law;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote greater recognition of the economic contribution of women's activities in the subsistence and informal sectors and provide, through the international and regional MDBs and the donor community, necessary assistance to communities participating in such activities, giving greater awareness at the national level to gender issues in macro-economic planning and policy-making;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Cooperate and promote dialogue on forced displacement, geared toward the improvement of the attention given to populations displaced by violence, taking into account the problems that these populations face; and harmonize national legislation in accordance with rules and standards of international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Convention of 1951;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Invite the IACHR and its Special Rapporteur on Internally Displaced Persons to continue to monitor and report on situations of forced displacement with a view to promoting durable solutions aimed at addressing the root causes of such phenomena;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
13. Education
Mandate: Entrust the OAS to organize, within the framework of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), a meeting of Ministers of Education in Uruguay, to be held before the end of 2001, with a mandate to:
• identify and set up appropriate hemispheric mechanisms to ensure the implementation of the education initiatives in this Plan of Action and to continue to promote actions on priorities identified in previous Summits based on a careful evaluation of our collective achievements in this area;
• establish time lines and benchmarks for follow-up on the implementation of our commitments in education;
• establish, in light of the fundamental importance of mobilizing resources to support sustained investment in education at all levels, a cooperative mechanism to promote the development of productive partnerships among governments and with regional and international organizations and the MDBs;
• promote the participation of and dialogue with relevant civil society organizations to strengthen partnerships between the public sector and other sectors of our societies in implementing this Plan of Action;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Formulate and implement policies, within the framework of a strategy for resolving social inequalities, to promote access to quality basic education for all, including early childhood and adult education, particularly to promote literacy, while providing for alternative methods that meet the needs of disadvantaged segments of the population or of those excluded from formal education systems, in particular girls, minorities, indigenous, and children with special education needs; share information and successful experiences in encouraging educational participation and addressing student retention within certain groups, especially boys -in particular in the Caribbean countries - whose drop-out rate at the secondary level is high in certain regions;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $10 million | |
| |- Canada will contribute up to $5 million to UNICEF’s Jamaica | | | |
| |country program to give young children access to quality early | | | |
| |childhood services such as childhood education | | | |
| |-Canada will contribute $75,000 to a center for | | | |
| |mentally-challenged children in Peru. The Pedro José Triest | | | |
| |Center will provide education for 45 children, develop teaching| | | |
| |materials and organize a community kitchen for the students | | | |
| |- Canada's $5 million PRO-MESAS Education Fund in Honduras will| | | |
| |finance activities identified by the PRO-MESAS Technical | | | |
| |Advisors. Activities will meet the needs identified by the | | | |
| |relevant Sector Tables or other appropriate fora based on the | | | |
| |Honduran PRSP. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2007 depending on the project |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support and promote lifelong learning by:
• offering varied curricula based on the development of skills, knowledge, civic and democratic values;
• providing flexible service delivery mechanisms, including the use of information and communications technologies, to foster employability, personal growth and social commitment; and
• certifying skills acquired on the job
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Strengthen education systems by:
• encouraging the participation of all sectors of society in order to obtain a consensus on policies that are viable and that guarantee the appropriate and continuous distribution of resources;
• decentralizing their decision-making and promoting the participation of civil society, especially parents; and
• promoting transparent school management in the interest of securing an adequate and stable allocation of resources so that educational institutions can play a leading role as agents for change;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $10 million | |
| |Canada will contribute $5 million to strengthen local education| | | |
| |authorities in Piura, Peru | | | |
| | | | | |
| |Canada will contribute $5 million over four years to improve | | | |
| |basic education in the Artibonite region in Haiti, via | | | |
| |strengthened school governance and management | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2006 depending on the project. |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Enhance the performance of teachers by:
• improving their conditions of service; and
• raising the profile of the profession by providing, in addition to solid initial preparation, opportunities for ongoing professional development, and by designing accessible, flexible, dynamic and relevant training strategies using, among other means, new information and communications technologies;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada will | |CDN $5 million | |
| |contribute $5 million in the Artibonite region of Haiti in | | | |
| |order to create a Teacher Training Center and assist the Center| | | |
| |for Technical Studies to develop professional and technical | | | |
| |schools in the region. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2007 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support ongoing regional projects for comparable indicators and educational assessment resulting from the Santiago Summit, including cooperation initiatives based on performance assessment programs regarding educational processes and achievement, taking into consideration studies in pedagogy and assessment practices previously developed by countries; develop comparable indicators to assess the services provided by each country to people with special education needs and promote the exchange of information on policies, strategies and best practices in the Americas;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Strive to ensure that secondary education is more responsive to evolving labor market requirements by promoting the diversification of programs and experimentation with new, more flexible teaching methods with emphasis on science and technology, including the use of new information and communications technologies, and by supporting the establishment of mechanisms for the recognition and certification of acquired skills; and to this end, promote the exchange of information and best practices and support cooperation projects;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote more effective dialogue between society and institutions of higher education, and facilitate access for all to these institutions by balancing growing demand with higher quality standards and public funding with greater commitment from the private sector; support hemispheric cooperation for research in science and technology aimed at the solution of specific problems in the region and the transfer of knowledge;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support the mobility, between countries of the Hemisphere, of students, teachers and administrators at institutions of higher education and of teachers and administrators at the elementary and secondary levels, in order to provide them with new opportunities to take part in the new knowledge-based society, to increase their knowledge of other cultures and languages, and to enable them to access information on post-secondary studies and learning opportunities offered across the Hemisphere, through new or existing hemispheric networks, such as the educational Web site set up after the Santiago Summit; continue to support initiatives in this field such as those carried out by the IDB and the OAS;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote access by teachers, students and administrators to new information and communications technologies applied to education, through training geared toward new teaching approaches, support for development of networks and sustained strengthening of information clearinghouses, in order to reduce the knowledge gap and the digital divide within and between societies in the Hemisphere;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Science and Technology
Mandate: Promote the popularization of science and technology necessary to advance the establishment and consolidation of a scientific culture in the region; and stimulate the development of science and technology for regional connectivity through information and communications technologies essential for building knowledge-based societies;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support the development of high-level human capital for the development of science and technology research and innovation that would encourage the strengthening of the agricultural, industrial, commercial and business sectors as well as the sustainability of the environment;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote, with the support of existing cooperation mechanisms, the development of the regional program of science and technology indicators;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Endeavor to implement and follow up on the scientific and technological activities mentioned above, counting on the support of hemispheric cooperation and coordination mechanisms related to this field;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
14. Health
Health Sector Reform
Mandate: Reaffirm their commitment to an equity-oriented health sector reform process, emphasizing their concerns for essential public health functions, quality of care, equal access to health services and health coverage, especially in the fields of disease prevention and health promotion, and improving the use of resources and administration of health services; promote the continued use of scientifically validated, agreed-upon, common indicators for assessing effectiveness, equity and efficiency of health systems;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): CIDA |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Health Canada: |CDN $8.3 million |Obstacles: |
|will contribute $300,000 to the Pan American Health |- Canada's $5 million PRO-MESAS Health Fund in Honduras will |Health Canada (HC) is committed to providing publicly-funded | |Health Canada's national health programs are a priority and the above |
|Organization to provide Canadian expertise in the |finance activities identified by the Honduran PRO-MESAS |hospital and physician services consistent with the |The net expenditures of the |stated activity is part of the Department's mandate. The |
|region on, among others, health sector planning and |Technical Advisors which will meet the needs identified by the |principles of the Canada Health Act (CHA); undertakes various|Department’s Health Care Policy |implementation of new programs in specific response to Summit mandates|
|reform, and reproductive health |Honduran PRSP. |initiatives that strengthen the Canadian health care system; |Business line in 2001-2001 was CDN|and implementation at the hemispheric level is therefore dependent |
| |-Canada will contribute $3 million over two years to assist |and develops partnerships among Federal Provincial and |$295.2 million |upon receiving additional resources. |
|Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2004 depending on the |local health and education initiatives in Haiti such as |Territorial (FPT) governments, stakeholders and Canadian and | | |
|project. |supporting rural centers to combat sexually transmitted |international organisations. HC also hosted the Nov, 2001 | |Recommendations and best practices: |
| |diseases |OECD Conference, "Measuring Up: Improving Health Systems | |A leadership role in collaboration with provinces and territories, |
|Health Canada: | |Performance in OECD Countries. The Romanow Commission has | |health professionals, administrators and other key stakeholders, |
|Manage Health Canada's participation at key | |also been developed to carry out various studies and | |focussed on developing a shared vision for Canada's health system; |
|international meetings including the Pan American | |consultations on the current status of the health care system| |identify key priorities and approaches to achieve changes and improve |
|Health Organization (PAHO) Directing Council; input | |and offer suggestions for improvement in the future. | |timeliness of access, quality and integration of health services to |
|into the health agenda for the Summit of the Americas; | | | |better meet the needs of all Canadians. |
|share best practices with counterparts in other | | | | |
|countries in the Region; contribute to the Canadian | | | | |
|position on regional trade agreements such as NAFTA, | | | | |
|FTAA and bilaterals that may have an impact on health. | | | | |
|Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of|Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2007 depending on the project. |Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of the | | |
|the Deparment’s mandate | |Deparment’s mandate | | |
Mandate: Strengthen and promote development of domestic standards of practice, accreditation and licensing procedures, codes of ethics, and education and training programs for health personnel; improve the mix of health personnel in the provision of health services to better respond to national health priorities;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Health Canada: |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Health Canada: |CDN $1.9 million |Obstacles: |
|Manage Health Canada's participation at key |- Canada will contribute up to $1.9 million to establish a |Health Canada (HC) is committed to providing publicly-funded | |Health Canada's national health programs are a priority and the above |
|international meetings including the Pan American |graduate studies program in health services management at the |hospital and physician services consistent with the |The net expenditures of the |stated activity is part of the Department's mandate. The |
|Health Organization (PAHO) Directing Council; input |Université d’État d’Haiti |principles of the Canada Health Act (CHA); undertakes various|Department’s Health Care Policy |implementation of new programs in specific response to Summit mandates|
|into the health agenda for the Summit of the Americas; | |initiatives that strengthen the Canadian health care system; |Business line in 2001-2001 was CDN|and implementation at the hemispheric level is therefore dependent |
|share best practices with counterparts in other | |and develops partnerships among Federal Provincial and |$295.2 million |upon receiving additional resources. |
|countries in the Region; contribute to the Canadian | |Territorial (FPT) governments, stakeholders and Canadian and | | |
|position on regional trade agreements such as NAFTA, | |international organisations. HC also hosted the Nov, 2001 | |Recommendations and best practices: |
|FTAA and bilaterals that may have an impact on health. | |OECD Conference, "Measuring Up: Improving Health Systems | |A leadership role in collaboration with provinces and territories, |
| | |Performance in OECD Countries. The Romanow Commission has | |health professionals, administrators and other key stakeholders, |
| | |also been developed to carry out various studies and | |focussed on developing a shared vision for Canada's health system; |
| | |consultations on the current status of the health care system| |identify key priorities and approaches to achieve changes and improve |
| | |and offer suggestions for improvement in the future. | |timeliness of access, quality and integration of health services to |
| | | | |better meet the needs of all Canadians. |
|Timeline: Timeline: These are ongoing activities that |Timeline: 2001-2004 |Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of the | | |
|are part of the Deparment’s mandate | |Deparment’s mandate | | |
Mandate: Intensify efforts and share and promote best practices to:
• reduce maternal and infant morbidity and mortality;
• provide quality reproductive health care and services for women, men and adolescents; and
• carry out commitments made at the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development and its five-year follow-up in New York;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): CIDA |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Health Canada: |CDN $18.9 million |Obstacles: |
|will contribute up to $7 million over four years in |- Canada will contribute up to $982,000 in Brazil, Colombia, El|Health Canada's Population and Public Health activities | |Health Canada's national health programs are a priority and the above |
|Guatemala for reproductive health programming. |Salvador and Jamaica to reduce the incidence of teen pregnancy |include policies, programs and research relating to disease |The net expenditures of the |stated activities at the national level are part of the Department's |
|Implemented by the United Nations Population Fund |and improve sexual and reproductive health services |surveillance, prevention and control, health promotion, and |Department's Population and Public|mandate. The implementation of new programs in specific response to |
|(UNFPA), in partnership with the Ministry of Health and|- Canada will contribute up to $5 million in 2002 to improve |community action. Improved emergency preparedness and |Health Service Line in 2001-02 was|Summit mandates and implementation at the hemispheric level is |
|other relevant ministries, this project will address |sexual and reproductive health among the general adult |response strategies are another element of the work of this |$438.6 million, representing 16.6%|therefore dependent upon receiving additional resources. |
|the key constraints that have prevented the Health |population and the more "specialized need" group of adolescents|branch. There are also several programs on childhood |of the Department's total net | |
|Ministry from meeting the large unmet demand for |(15 to 19 years old) in Nicaragua. Implemented by the United |development, including the Community Action Program for |planned spending. |Recommendations and best practices: |
|reproductive health services. |Nations Population Fund (UNFAP), this project aims at providing|Children, the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program, Aboriginal | |Increased public awareness of methods to prevent and control chronic |
| |quality sexual and reproductive health care services to |Head Start, the Centres of Excellence for Children's | |diseases; improved responses to an aging population; improved health |
|Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2005 depending on the |approximately 30 under served municipalities. |Well-being, and the Early Childhood Development Initiative. | |for rural Canadians; prevention of family violence; promotion of |
|project. |- Canada's $5 million Community Health Care projects in |There is also the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child | |mental health and active lifestyles; effective relationships with |
| |Honduras and Nicaragua are strengthening the capacities of |Abuse and Neglect, released in Spring 2001, which responds to| |stakeholders; improved strategic policy; development of an FPT |
|Health Canada: |local Red Cross Societies to deliver primary health care |the Summit mandate on children in youth in section 18. | |agreement on an action plan on early Childhood Development (ECD); |
|Canada has provided some technical assistance upon |services to the most vulnerable groups. The projects aim to | | |immunization initiatives; control and support programs for STDs, |
|request on issues related to emergency preparedness at |improve maternal-child health, sexual and reproductive health, | | |HIV/AIDS; increased scientific knowledge of the risks to health of |
|the hemispheric level; additionally, HC has developed |prevent common diseases, improve nutrition, and deliver health | | |enteric pathogens. |
|several projects in coordination with PAHO, including a|education campaigns. | | | |
|Canada-Costa-Rica project on women's health policies; a|- Canada is supporting Argentina with $990,000 to respond | | | |
|project with St. Lucia on violence against women; the |effectively to the health needs of aboriginal and rural women | | | |
|Latin-American/Caribbean-Canada project on surveillance|in one of the poorest provinces of Argentina. The project aims | | | |
|of anti-microbial resistance; and the Mexico-Canada |to improve access to primary health care services for rural and| | | |
|project on healthy aging. |aboriginal women in the areas of health promotion, family | | | |
| |planning, pre and postnatal care, sexually transmitted disease | | | |
|A regional project between HC, CIDA and the |prevention, breast cancer prevention and parenting skills. | | | |
|Inter-American Children's Institute (IACI) is also | | | | |
|working to develop child-labour policies and | | | | |
|legislative models through various policy and advocacy | | | | |
|activities. | | | | |
|Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of|Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2005 depending on the project. |Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of the | | |
|the Department’s mandate. | |Department's mandate. | | |
Mandate: Develop processes to evaluate the efficacy of alternative health practices and medicinal products to ensure public safety and share this experience and knowledge with other countries in the Americas;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | |Health Canada: |The net expenditures of the |Obstacles: |
| | |Develop, implement and monitor policies, standards and |Department's Health Products and |Health Canada's national health programs are a priority and the above |
| | |programs relating to health determinants, benefits, and risks|Food Service Line in 2001-02 was |stated activity is part of the Department's mandate. The |
| | |associated with products, including alternative health |$144.3 million, representing 5.5% |implementation of new programs in specific response to Summit mandates|
| | |products, that are ingested or put into the human body; |of the Department's total net |and implementation at the hemispheric level is therefore dependent |
| | |protection of Canadians against risk factors related to |planned spending. |upon receiving additional resources. |
| | |health products and food; integrate management of health | | |
| | |determinants and risks with health products and food; better | |Recommendations and best practices: |
| | |inform Canadians about their health through promotion of | |Discuss positive outcomes, best practices as well as factors |
| | |health behaviours and provision of information and tools. | |contributing to the successful implementation of this mandate. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Effective and relevant assessment and management of health issues |
| | | | |related to food; more effective therapeutic products regulatory |
| | | | |program, including natural health products; greater control of |
| | | | |veterinary drug residues; consistent and integrated approach to policy|
| | | | |and regulation development and implementation; involvement of |
| | | | |consumers, the public and other stakeholders in consultations |
| | | | |regarding health products and food policies, programs, etc.; national |
| | | | |education strategy on the use of nutrition labelling as well as on |
| | | | |promotion of healthy weights. |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of the | | |
| | |Department's mandate. | | |
Communicable Diseases
Mandate: Commit, at the highest level, to combat HIV/AIDS and its consequences, recognizing that this disease is a major threat to the security of our people; in particular seek to increase resources for prevention, education and access to care and treatment as well as research; adopt a multi-sectoral and gender sensitive approach to education, to prevention and to controlling the spread of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) by developing participatory programs especially with high risk populations, and by fostering partnerships with civil society including the mass media, the business sector and voluntary organizations; promote the use of ongoing horizontal mechanisms of cooperation to secure the safety of blood; increase national access to treatment of HIV/AIDS-related illnesses through measures striving to ensure the provision and affordability of drugs, including reliable distribution and delivery systems and appropriate financing mechanisms consistent with national laws and international agreements acceded to; continue dialogue with the pharmaceutical industry and the private sector in general to encourage the availability of affordable antiretrovirals and other drugs for HIV/AIDS treatment, and promote strategies to facilitate the sharing of drug pricing information including, where appropriate, that available in national data banks; promote and protect the human rights of all persons living with HIV/AIDS, without gender or age discrimination; utilize the June 2001 UN General Assembly Special Session on AIDS as a platform to generate support for hemispheric and national HIV/AIDS programs;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $46.6 million | |
|CIDA will contribute $10 million over 6 years to the |- Canada will contribute $8.5 million to assist the | | | |
|Pan American Health Organization for the prevention and|English-speaking Caribbean countries to prevent and control | | | |
|control of communicable diseases in South America |HIV/AIDS, via strengthened national and regional surveillance | | | |
| |systems and improved service delivery | | | |
| |- Canada will contribute $8.1 million over 6 years to reduce | | | |
| |HIV/AIDS transmission Haiti and minimize its impact on affected| | | |
| |individuals and communities | | | |
| |- Canada will provide up to $20 million to support the | | | |
| |implementation of the Caribbean Regional Strategic Plan of | | | |
| |Action for HIV/AIDS. This project aims at reducing the spread | | | |
| |and impact of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean by strengthening the | | | |
| |capacity of regional organizations to address HIV/AIDS in the | | | |
| |region to ensure an effective, coordinated and multi-sectoral | | | |
| |response to the epidemic. | | | |
|Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2007 depending on the |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2007 depending on the project. |Timeline: | | |
|project. | | | | |
Mandate: Enhance programs at the hemispheric, national and local levels to prevent, control and treat communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, dengue, malaria and Chagas;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada will | |CDN $12.7 million | |
|Canada's $10.3 million Prevention and Control of |contribute $2.5 million to the Pan American Health Organization| | | |
|Communicable Disease project is contributing to the |to help reduce the morbidity and mortality rates related to | | | |
|prevention and control of those communicable diseases |communicable diseases in Haiti | | | |
|that cause the greatest burden of morbidity and | | | | |
|mortality in children, youth and adults in South | | | | |
|America, particularly diarrheal disease, acute | | | | |
|respiratory infections, sexually transmitted infections| | | | |
|(including HIV/AIDS), Chagas disease, and tuberculosis.| | | | |
|Timeline: 2001-2005 |Timeline: 2001-2002 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote healthy childhood development through: prenatal care, expanded immunization programs, control of respiratory and diarrheal diseases by conducting programs such as the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses, health education, physical fitness, access to safe and nutritious foods, and the promotion of breast-feeding;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | |Health Canada: |The net expenditures of the |Obstacles: |
| | |Develop, implement and monitor policies, standards and |Department's Health Products and |Health Canada's national health programs are a priority and the above |
| | |programs relating to health determinants, benefits, and risks|Food Service Line in 2001-02 was |stated activity is part of the Department's mandate. The |
| | |associated with products, including alternative health |$144.3 million, representing 5.5% |implementation of new programs in specific response to Summit mandates|
| | |products, that are ingested or put into the human body; |of the Department's total net |and implementation at the hemispheric level is therefore dependent |
| | |protection of Canadians against risk factors related to |planned spending. |upon receiving additional resources. |
| | |health products and food; integrate management of health | | |
| | |determinants and risks with health products and food; better | |Recommendations and best practices: |
| | |inform Canadians about their health through promotion of | |Discuss positive outcomes, best practices as well as factors |
| | |health behaviours and provision of information and tools. | |contributing to the successful implementation of this mandate. |
| | | | | |
| | | | |Effective and relevant assessment and management of health issues |
| | | | |related to food; more effective therapeutic products regulatory |
| | | | |program, including natural health products; greater control of |
| | | | |veterinary drug residues; consistent and integrated approach to policy|
| | | | |and regulation development and implementation; involvement of |
| | | | |consumers, the public and other stakeholders in consultations |
| | | | |regarding health products and food policies, programs, etc.; national |
| | | | |education strategy on the use of nutrition labelling as well as on |
| | | | |promotion of healthy weights. |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of the | | |
| | |Department's mandate. | | |
Non-Communicable Diseases
Mandate: Implement community-based health care, prevention and promotion programs to reduce health risks and non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and including hypertension, cancer, diabetes, mental illness as well as the impact of violence and accidents on health;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Participate actively in the negotiation of a proposed Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; develop and adopt policies and programs to reduce the consumption of tobacco products, especially as it affects children; share best practices and lessons learned in the development of programs designed to raise public awareness, particularly for adolescents, about the health risks associated with tobacco, alcohol and drugs;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | |Health Canada: |The net expenditures of the |Obstacles: |
| | |The Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch promotes |Department's Healthy Environments |Health Canada's national health programs are a priority and the above |
| | |healthy and safe living, working and recreational |and Consumer Safety Service Line |stated activity is part of the Department's mandate. The |
| | |environments; assesses and reduces health risks posed by |in 2001-02 was $139.3 million, |implementation of new programs in specific response to Summit mandates|
| | |environmental factors; regulates commercial and consumer |representing 5.3% of the |and implementation at the hemispheric level is therefore dependent |
| | |chemicals and products and promotes their safe use; regulates|Department's total net planned |upon receiving additional resources. |
| | |tobacco and controlled substances and promotes initiatives to|spending | |
| | |reduce or prevent harm; is responsible for measures to | |Recommendations and best practices: |
| | |prevent the entry and spread of quarantined diseases in | |Discuss positive outcomes, best practices as well as factors |
| | |Canada; coordinates and monitors the Sustainable Development | |contributing to the successful implementation of this mandate |
| | |Strategy. | |Improved worker health and safety; reduced exposure of Canadian |
| | | | |travellers to health hazards; increased knowledge of pollutants and |
| | | | |climate change, and reduced exposure to toxic substances in the |
| | | | |environment; reduced exposure of patients and the general public to |
| | | | |hazards related to chemical and environmental radiation; reduced |
| | | | |exposure to hazards related to consumer products, commercial chemicals|
| | | | |and biotechnology products; reduced use of tobacco products and other |
| | | | |substances. |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of the | | |
| | |Department’s mandate. | | |
Connectivity
Mandate: Provide sound, scientific and technical information to health workers and the public, utilizing innovations such as the Virtual Health Library of the Americas; encourage the use of tele-health as a means to connect remote populations and to provide health services and information to under-served groups, as a complement to the provision of existing health care services;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): |Health Canada: |CDN $8.9 million |Obstacles: |
| |- Canada intends to contribute up to $4 million for distance |Improve evidence based for decision-making and public | |Health Canada's national health programs are a priority and the above |
| |nursing education in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and |accountability; develop the creative use of modern |The net expenditures of the |stated activity is part of the Department's mandate. The |
| |Nicaragua. |information and communications technologies in the health |Department's Information and |implementation of new programs in specific response to Summit mandates|
| |- Canada's $4.9 million Health Information and STI Management |sector. |Knowledge Management in 2001-02 |and implementation at the hemispheric level is therefore dependent |
| |project in Guyana is strengthening the health information | |was $172.1 million, representing |upon receiving additional resources. |
| |system of the Ministry of Health; expanding and strengthening | |6.5% of the Department's total net| |
| |the management of curable sexually transmitted infections; and | |planned spending. |Recommendations and best practices: |
| |improving Guyana's national TB prevention and control program. | | |Expanded use of modern information technology in the health sector; |
| | | | |ability of Canadians to access reliable information to maintain and |
| | | | |improve their health; better integration of funding and conduct of |
| | | | |health research in Canada; improved linkages between research and |
| | | | |decision-making; improved quantitative evidence and analysis. |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2009 depending on the project |Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of the | | |
| | |Department's mandate. | | |
15. Gender Equality
Mandate: Endorse the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women's Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality approved at the First Meeting of Ministers or of the Highest Ranking Authorities Responsible for the Advancement of Women, held in April 2000, by the CIM; endorse as well the Regional Programme of Action for the Women in Latin America and the Caribbean 1995-2000 and the further actions and initiatives adopted at the Twenty-Third Special Session of the UN General Assembly (Beijing +5) to implement the Beijing Declaration and its Platform for Action; and integrate a gender perspective into the programs, actions and agendas of national and international events, to ensure that women's experiences and gender equality are an integral dimension of the design, implementation and evaluation of government and inter-American policies and programs in all spheres;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Strengthen national machineries and other government bodies responsible for the advancement of women and for the promotion and protection of the human rights of women; provide them with the necessary human and financial resources, including through exploring innovative funding schemes so that gender is integrated into all policies, programs and projects; and support both the fundamental role that women's organizations have played and will continue to play in advancing gender equality and the joint efforts between governments and the private sector which contribute to respect and understanding of the human rights of women;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada's $3 | |CDN$3 million | |
| |million Women's Empowerment Program in Guatemala will help | | | |
| |strengthen the Presidential Secretariat for Women and will | | | |
| |support the participation of civil society and government | | | |
| |institutions in the promotion and implementation of the | | | |
| |National Policy of Promotion and Development of Guatemalan | | | |
| |Women. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2002-2008 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote gender equity and equality and women's human rights by strengthening and fostering women's full and equal participation in political life in their countries and in decision-making at all levels;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $12.6 million | |
| |-Canada will provide $7.5 million over five years to continue | | | |
| |its gender equality program in the Commonwealth Caribbean. The | | | |
| |program will support activities in areas such as women’s | | | |
| |decision making, women’s rights, and women’s political | | | |
| |participation | | | |
| |-Canada will contribute up to $100,000 to Redepaz, a Colombian | | | |
| |NGO, to increase the participation and social leadership of | | | |
| |women in the peace process. The purpose of the project is to | | | |
| |overcome the exclusion of women from participation in the peace| | | |
| |process in order that they may bring a gender perspective to | | | |
| |discussions about the conflict and to its possible solution. | | | |
| |- CIDA's Gender Equality Funds in six South American countries | | | |
| |are contributing approximately $5 million to strengthening the | | | |
| |political participation of women in local decision making, | | | |
| |reducing gender discrimination in work, addressing violence | | | |
| |against women and support women and girls in the realization of| | | |
| |their full human rights, particularly for economically and | | | |
| |socially marginalized women. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ranging from 1999-2006 depending on the project. |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Reinforce the role of the CIM as the technical advisor to the Summit Implementation Review Group (SIRG) on all aspects of gender equity and equality and recognize the importance of the CIM in follow-up to relevant Summit recommendations; provide for an appropriate level of resources to the CIM to carry out its role as the principal hemispheric policy-generating forum for the advancement of the human rights of women and particularly of gender equality; promote the support and participation of the IDB, the World Bank and ECLAC in the implementation of and follow-up to this Plan of Action;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote the use of information and communications technologies as a mechanism to address inequalities between men and women and ensure women's equality of access to these new technologies and to the requisite training; to this end, ensure that government connectivity programs and programming at local, national and regional levels, integrate a gender perspective representative of the diversity of women within various groups, including indigenous peoples and rural and ethnic minorities;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Strengthen systems for collecting and processing statistical data disaggregated by sex, and adopt the use of gender indicators that will contribute to a baseline analysis of the status of women and to the implementation of public policies at the national and regional levels, and that make it possible to improve the monitoring and assessment of regional and international agreements;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
16. Indigenous Peoples
Mandate: We will work to insure that the input from the Indigenous Conclave of the Americas and the Indigenous Peoples Summit of the Americas is reflected in the implementation of the Summit of the Americas Declaration and Plan of Action. We support efforts towards early and successful conclusion of negotiations on the Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which will promote and protect their human rights and fundamental freedoms.
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | |Indian and Northern Affairs Canada: Consistent with the |Normal operational and program |Obstacles: |
| |Partners: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade|Government of Canada’s goal of improving the quality of life |costs for Indian and Northern |Absence of Summit implementation funding. |
| |(DFAIT), Health Canada (HC) and the Canadian International |for all Canadians, the key objective of the Department of |Affairs Canada’s domestic | |
| |Development Agency (CIDA). |Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) is to create a |functions are provided through |Recommendations and best practices: |
| |Chile and Argentina |better quality of life for First Nations, Inuit and |Government of Canada departmental |Canada is demonstrating a leadership role in the hemisphere by |
| |In January, 2002, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), |Northerners. |parliamentary appropriations. |responding positively to interest from other countries in the |
| |working with Canadian Embassies and local partner institutions | |Continuation and expansion of |Canadian approach to indigenous issues, and by building collaborative |
| |in Chile and Argentina, conducted a series of seminars in Chile|The government’s commitment to this objective was reinforced |activities by INAC to implement |partnerships with other nations of the Americas for the mutual |
| |on Canadian indigenous policy approaches, and consulted with |by the Speech From the Throne on September 30, 2002 which |Summit mandates hemispherically |exchange of experiences, best practices and representatives by both |
| |governmental, indigenous and civil society representatives in |outlined a range of current priorities. Among other |cannot be assured without the |governments and indigenous communities. |
| |Chile and Argentina concerning development of institutional |commitments, "the government will take additional measures to|allocation of incremental funding | |
| |relationships and exchanges. In September, 2002 the |address the gap in life chances between Aboriginal and |for this purpose. | |
| |Under-Secretary of the Chilean Ministry of Planning and |non-Aboriginal children. It will put in place early childhood| | |
| |Cooperation visited Ottawa for discussions with the INAC Deputy|development programs for First Nations, expanding Aboriginal | | |
| |Minister and other officials of the department on |Headstart, improving parental supports and providing | | |
| |Canadian/Chilean approaches to indigenous education and |Aboriginal communities with the tools to address fetal | | |
| |economic development. Discussions were also held with officials|alcohol syndrome and its effects. The most enduring | | |
| |of DFAIT and CIDA. The Under-Secretary also visited the |contribution Canada can make to First Nations is to raise the| | |
| |Province of Saskatchewan for discussions with the provincial |standard of education on-reserve. The government will work | | |
| |government and First Nations institutions on education and |with the National Working Group on Education," recently | | |
| |economic development. Further collaborative activities are |established by the Minister of Indian Affairs, "to improve | | |
| |envisaged. |educational outcomes for First Nations children, and take | | |
| | |immediate steps to help First Nations children with special | | |
| |Mexico |learning needs. | | |
| |There has been a steady increase in bilateral relations between| | | |
| |Canada and Mexico on Indigenous issues following the Summit of |The government will promote entrepreneurial skills and job | | |
| |the Americas. In May 2001, an INAC-led delegation, headed by |creation among Aboriginal people by increasing support for | | |
| |former Associate Deputy Minister Dennis Wallace, visited Mexico|Aboriginal Business Canada. It will also tailor and target | | |
| |to discuss approaches to Indigenous issues in both countries |its training programs to help Aboriginal and Inuit people | | |
| |and to explore common areas for possible cooperation. The |participate in economic opportunities such as the development| | |
| |visit included a number of high-level meetings, including with |of Voisey Bay, northern gas pipelines and similar projects | | |
| |Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz, Head of the Presidential Office for the |throughout Canada. | | |
| |Development of Indigenous Peoples and with Marcos Matías, | | | |
| |former Director General of the Instituto Nacional Indigenista |In a number of cities, poverty is disproportionately | | |
| |(INI). Subsequently, Ms. Gálvez, during a visit to Ottawa in |concentrated among Aboriginal people. The government will | | |
| |late February 2002, met with Indian and Northern Affairs |work with interested provinces to expand on existing pilot | | |
| |Minister Robert Nault, as well as the INAC Associate Deputy |programs to meet the needs of Aboriginal people living in | | |
| |Minister and a number of other high-level government officials |cities. | | |
| |involved in Aboriginal affairs. | | | |
| | |The government will reintroduce legislation to strengthen | | |
| |Cooperation on a number of other fronts has also resulted. An |First Nations governance institutions to support democratic | | |
| |INAC executive has completed a one-year assignment with INI, |principles, transparency and public accountability, and | | |
| |and the arrangement has been renewed until March, 2003. As |provide the tools to improve the quality of public | | |
| |well, INAC, with input from INI, has during 2002 sponsored or |administration in First Nations communities. It will work | | |
| |welcomed a number of visits by Mexican officials and Indigenous|with these communities to build their capacity for economic | | |
| |community members to various locations in Canada to explore |and social development, and it will expand community-based | | |
| |Canadian approaches in such areas as education, land claims and|justice approaches, particularly for youth living on reserves| | |
| |fiscal systems. The Departments of Indian Affairs and Foreign |and Aboriginals in the North. The government will also work | | |
| |Affairs also provided exhibitions and performances of Canadian |with Aboriginal people to preserve and enhance Aboriginal | | |
| |indigenous art and culture for the Cervantino Festival in |languages and cultures | | |
| |Mexico | | | |
| | |The government will take further action to close the gap in | | |
| |Ecuador |health status between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians| | |
| |A senior official of INAC visited Ecuador in September, 2002 to|by putting in place a First Nations Health Promotion and | | |
| |participate in a conference and share Canadian experiences and |Disease Prevention strategy with a targeted immunization | | |
| |best practices on indigenous economic development, with a focus|program, and by working with its partners to improve health | | |
| |on the oil and gas sector. |care delivery | | |
| | |on-reserve." | | |
| |United States of America | | | |
| |Senior officials of the US Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and | | | |
| |INAC met in Ottawa in May, 2002 as part of ongoing exchanges | | | |
| |on policy and practices. This was followed by visits to the | | | |
| |United States in the period June - September, by the Secretary| | | |
| |of State for Indian Affairs and by INAC officials, to examine | | | |
| |approaches and exchange information on indigenous education and| | | |
| |legal issues. | | | |
| | | | | |
| |Brazil | | | |
| |Three members of Canada's Aboriginal Sports Circle participated| | | |
| |as observers in the V Jogos dos Povos Indigenos in Marapanim, | | | |
| |Brazil, September 14-21, 2002. The visit was a follow-up to | | | |
| |the visit of two Brazilian officials to the North American | | | |
| |Indigenous Games (NAIG) in Winnipeg in July of 2002. Additional| | | |
| |bilateral cooperative initiatives are under consideration. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ongoing |Timeline: Ongoing | | |
Mandate: Make their best efforts, in accordance with national legislation, to encourage donor agencies, the private sector, other governments, regional and international organizations as well as MDBs to support hemispheric and national conferences in order to exchange experiences among indigenous peoples and their organizations in implementing activities to promote their sustainable cultural, economic and social development, and in such other areas as may be identified by indigenous peoples;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade | | |Funding for this initiative was |Obstacles: |
|(DFAIT): | | |provided by various Government of |Lack of funding is an obstacle which will have to be addressed. |
|An Indigenous Action Summit will be held in Dominica | | |Canada Departments. Additional | |
|from February 25th to March 2nd, 2002. The conference | | |funds will be required to hold |Recommendations and best practices: |
|is supported by the Governments of Dominica and Canada | | |initiatives of this nature in the |Recommendations and best practices will be outcomes of this |
|and hosted by Four Worlds International of Canada and | | |future. |conference, which is being held from February 25-March 2, 2002. |
|the Carib Council of Dominica. The primary thrust of | | | | |
|the summit is to provide a “fourth way” for Indigenous | | | | |
|Peoples, beyond the three choices many now see for | | | | |
|their survival - giving up their Indigenous identity | | | | |
|and becoming part of the marginalised poor, accepting | | | | |
|poverty and powerlessness as their destiny, or using | | | | |
|violent and non-violent confrontation and resistance. | | | | |
|The fourth way consists of modelling collaborative | | | | |
|development initiatives designed to move Indigenous | | | | |
|populations toward greater levels of well-being, | | | | |
|prosperity and dignity, in partnership with their | | | | |
|respective governments, non-governmental organizations | | | | |
|and business communities. | | | | |
| | | | | |
|Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | | | | |
|Canada will contribute up to $100,000 TO support the | | | | |
|Indigenous Women's Summit of the Americas, December | | | | |
|1-4, 2002. | | | | |
| | | | | |
|Lead: Department of Foreign Affairs and International | | | | |
|Trade | | | | |
|Partner: Department of Indian, Northern Affairs Canada | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
|In September, 2002 Jaime Andrade Guenchocoy, Chile's | | | | |
|Deputy Minister of Planning, and the country's top | | | | |
|official responsible for aboriginal issues visited | | | | |
|Canada to partake in meetings in Ottawa and | | |Funding for this initiative was | |
|Saskatchewan and a conference in British Colombia. The| | |provided by Governments of Chile, | |
|main purpose of Mr. Andrade’s visit was to enquire | | |Saskatchewan and the Government of| |
|about Canadian indigenous policy approaches at both the| | |Canada through the Department of | |
|national and international level. Two priority areas | | |Foreign Affairs. Additional funds| |
|for Mr. Andrade included models of cooperation with | | |will be required to hold | |
|indigenous communities for forest development, | | |initiatives of this nature in the | |
|particularly joint ventures between the public and | | |future. | |
|private sectors, and international developments on | | | | |
|indigenous issues, namely the UN and inter-American | | | | |
|draft declarations and the Permanent Forum. | | | | |
|Timeline: The conference will be held in Dominica from |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
|February 25 to March 2, 2002. | | | | |
Mandate: Acknowledge the value that the world views, uses, customs and traditions of indigenous peoples can make to policies and programs related to the management of lands and natural resources, sustainable development and biodiversity; on this basis, develop corresponding strategies and methods to consider and respect indigenous peoples' cultural practices and protect their traditional knowledge in accordance with the principles and objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada will | |CDN $920,000 | |
| |contribute up to $920,000 to the World Bank for a two-year | | | |
| |project to empower Bolivian indigenous communities to become | | | |
| |active participants in a development of hydrocarbon resources | | | |
| |on traditional lands. It includes activities that will | | | |
| |beneficially enhance the capacity and knowledge of Bolivia | | | |
| |indigenous communities to participate in the economic | | | |
| |development of their country. It will also develop the | | | |
| |framework for promoting small scale gas use in rural | | | |
| |communities. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: Ranging from 2001-2003 depending on the project. |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Increase the availability and accessibility of educational services in consultation with indigenous peoples, especially women, children and youth, in accordance with their values, customs, traditions and organizational structures, by promoting linguistic and cultural diversity in education and training programs for indigenous communities; promote national and regional strategies for indigenous women, children and youth; similarly, encourage international exchange programs and public and private sector internships in order to promote equal opportunity, raise the average school-leaving age, maximize individual and collective achievement, and promote lifelong learning for all indigenous people;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada's |CDN $10 million | |
| | |$10 million Indigenous Peoples Partnership Program will | | |
| | |promote Indigenous development partnerships between Canada | | |
| | |and the Americas, encourage research in Indigenous knowledge,| | |
| | |and support Indigenous youth development. | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2005 | | |
Mandate: Promote and accommodate, as appropriate, the particular cultural, linguistic and developmental needs of indigenous peoples, in urban and rural contexts, into the development and implementation of educational initiatives and strategies, with special attention to building institutional capacity, connectivity and linkages, including through national focal points, with other indigenous peoples of the Hemisphere;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada will | |CDN $3 million | |
| |provide up to $3 million to support a social development | | | |
| |project with indigenous communities in the Prinzapolka region | | | |
| |(Nicaragua) to improve health and sanitation services. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2006 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote and enhance, in all sectors of society, and especially in the area of education, the understanding of the contribution made by indigenous peoples in shaping the national identity of the countries in which they live;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Develop strategies, measures, and mechanisms aimed at ensuring the effective participation of indigenous peoples in the design, implementation and evaluation of comprehensive health plans, policies, systems and programs that recognize the value of developing holistic communities that take into consideration cultural, economic and social realities and circumstances;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support the Health of Indigenous Peoples Initiative, promoted by PAHO, in assisting states and in consultation with indigenous peoples, to formulate integrated public policies and health systems that foster the health of indigenous peoples, in designing and implementing inter-cultural frameworks and models of care specifically aimed at addressing the health needs and priorities of these peoples, and in improving information collection, analysis and dissemination on the health and social conditions of these peoples, with particular emphasis on children;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | |Health Canada: |The net expenditures of the |Obstacles: |
| | |Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health Branch |Department's First Nations and |Health Canada's national health programs are a priority and the above |
| | |provides, community-based health promotion and prevention |Inuit Health Business Line in |stated activity is part of the Department's mandate. The |
| | |programs on-reserve and in Inuit communities; non-insured |2001-02 was $1.323 billion, |implementation of new programs in specific response to Summit mandates|
| | |health benefits to First Nations and Inuit people; primary |representing 50% of the |and implementation at the hemispheric level is therefore dependent |
| | |care and emergency services on-reserve in remote and isolated|Department's total net planned |upon receiving additional resources. |
| | |areas where to provincial services are readily available. |spending. | |
| | |Health Canada also participates in government policy | |Recommendations and best practices: |
| | |development on Aboriginal issues. | |Improvements in First Nations and Inuit peoples' health and reduction |
| | | | |in health inequalities; effective health care service delivery and |
| | | | |integration with provincial and territorial health services; improved |
| | | | |management and accountability in partnership with First Nations and |
| | | | |Inuit for health care services and the non-insured health benefits |
| | | | |program. |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of the | | |
| | |Department's mandate. | | |
Mandate: Reduce the digital, communications and information gaps between the national average and indigenous peoples and communities, through relevant connectivity and communications programs and projects that provide services in the fields of political, economic and social development, including the use of indigenous peoples information networks;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote the collection and publication of national statistics to generate information on the ethnic composition and socio-economic characteristics of indigenous populations in order to define and evaluate the most appropriate policies to address needs;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Support the process of reform of the Inter-American Indian Institute, based on extensive consultations among states and indigenous peoples of the Hemisphere, and further develop processes to ensure broad and full participation of indigenous peoples throughout the inter-American system, including in the discussions on the Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
17. Cultural Diversity
Mandate: Enhance partnerships and exchanges of information, including through the use of information and communications technologies, by holding a series of seminars among experts, government officials and representatives of civil society on the importance of the linguistic and cultural diversity of the Hemisphere to promote a better acceptance, understanding, appreciation and respect among the peoples of the region;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|As host of the Experts Seminar on Cultural Diversity |Canada will work with Mexico on issues related to the |Canada hosted the first hemispheric Experts Seminar on |Canada contributed $150K to | |
|which took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, the |contribution of cultural industries to economies and social |Cultural Diversity in Vancouver, British Columbia on March |organize the first hemispheric | |
|Canadian government initiated dialogue on cultural |development. |18-19, 2002. Canada will continue to be active in promoting |experts seminar of its kind. The | |
|issues in the Americas. Over 80 representatives from 27| |dialogue on cultural diversity and cultural policies at home |Department of Foreign Affairs and | |
|different countries throughout the hemisphere | |and throughout the hemisphere. |International Trade contributed | |
|participated in this seminar. The meeting enabled | | |15K to ensure the participation of| |
|experts to exchange, discuss and share perspectives on | | |civil society representatives | |
|the preservation and promotion of cultural diversity. | | |across the Americas. | |
|Two discussions were centred on Making Cultural Policy | | | | |
|a Key Component of Development Strategy and Fostering | | | | |
|National Cultural Policies in a Globalized Environment.| | | | |
|Experts also discussed a number of other issues | | | | |
|including: the effects of new information and | | | | |
|communications technologies; the role of cultural | | | | |
|industries; mechanisms to deepen hemispheric | | | | |
|cooperation on cultural policies and cultural | | | | |
|diversity; and the challenges facing smaller economies.| | | | |
|The most significant observation resulting from the | | | | |
|Experts Seminar was that the dialogue on cultural | | | | |
|diversity in the Americas must continue. | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: The Experts Seminar on Cultural Diversity was held | | |
| | |on March 18-19, 2002. | | |
Mandate: Encourage the convocation of a meeting at the ministerial or highest appropriate level, with the support of the CIDI, to discuss cultural diversity with a view to deepening hemispheric cooperation on this issue;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|The First meeting of Ministers of Culture of the | | |In Cartagena, Canada committed to | |
|Americas took place in Cartagena, Colombia, on July | | |contributing 30K for the creation | |
|11-13, 2002. As chair of the working group preparing | | |of of the Inter-American | |
|the conference and vice-chair of the Ministerial | | |Committee on Culture at the OAS. | |
|meeting, Canada played an active role in moving the | | |Canada will also contribute 20K | |
|cultural diversity agenda forward. Ministers of | | |for launching a feasibility study | |
|Culture or of Highest Ranking Authorities adopted a | | |on the establishment of an | |
|Declaration and Plan of Action, which among other key | | |Inter-American Cultural | |
|initiatives, calls for the establishment of an | | |Observatory. | |
|Inter-American Committee on Culture as well as a | | | | |
|feasability study on the establishment of an | | | | |
|Inter-American Cultural Policy Observatory. Canada will| | | | |
|continue to deepen its engagement with the OAS and | | | | |
|other member states to advance cultural diversity. | | | | |
|Timeline: The First Meeting of Culture in the Americas |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
|was held on July 12 - 13, 2002. | | | | |
Mandate: Create an environment to foster awareness and understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity of countries in the Americas, through a variety of means, including the use of new communications technologies as well as the Internet; support, by means of broad collaboration, new media projects which promote inter-cultural dialogue through the production and distribution of cultural products created for television, film, the recording industry, the publishing industry and the electronic media; enrich the diversity of cultural content of these industries, inter alia through the preservation and restoration of cultural property and through the return of illegally acquired cultural property in accordance with our international obligations;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|The Declaration and Plan of Action of Cartagena | |The Canadian Cultural Observatory was created in July, 2001 |Canada committed 20K for launching| |
|endorsed a commitment to undertake a feasibility study | |to develop and manage a collaborative, web-based information |a feasibility study on the | |
|on the possibility of an Inter-American Cultural Policy| |service on the evolving state of culture in Canada. The goal |establishment of an Inter-American| |
|Observatory. This Observatory would seek to bring | |of the Observatory is to promote effective decision-making in|Cultural Observatory at the OAS. | |
|existing Observatories together with academia, cultural| |the cultural field through improved access to information and| | |
|institutions and foundations, and other research bodies| |knowledge sharing opportunities for professionals and | | |
|to facilitate the exchange of information and | |cultural stakeholders. Expected clientele include: cultural | | |
|expertise. Canada strongly supports this study and | |planners and managers; researchers and students; policy | | |
|intends to work closely with member states to advance | |analysts and makers; and media workers and advocates. | | |
|this initiative quickly. | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: ongoing | | |
Mandate: Promote social cohesion, mutual respect and development by:
• recognizing the contribution of physical education and fair, drug-free sport; and
• supporting initiatives which: preserve and enhance traditional and indigenous sport, strengthen the role of women in sport, and increase opportunities for children and youth, persons with disabilities and minorities to participate in and benefit from sport and other physical activities;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Commit to active cooperation among diverse institutions, at both the national and international levels, to eradicate the illicit traffic in cultural property further to the 1970 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property; also, promote joint action with civil society organizations to implement and support policies, plans and programs that will strengthen and promote research, recovery, study, conservation, maintenance, restoration, access to and appreciation of cultural heritage and cultural property through proper care, preservation and use;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
18. Children and Youth
Mandate: Implement and support the commitments contained in the Agenda for War-Affected Children agreed to by 132 states at the International Conference on War-Affected Children held in Winnipeg, Canada, in September 2000, including fostering the active participation of children and adolescents in policy, dialogue and programming for children and adolescents affected by armed conflict and also encouraging the establishment of a network for them; consider additional ways to monitor, report on and advocate the protection, rights and welfare of children affected by armed conflict in the Hemisphere in conjunction with the IACHR's Rapporteur for Children's Rights;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): | |CDN $3.5 million | |
| |-Canada is providing $2.5 million for increased access to | | | |
| |education, peacebuilding, and leadership skills to displaced | | | |
| |children in three of the most affected areas of Colombia. | | | |
| |- Canada’s $1 million Conflict Resolution for Adolescents | | | |
| |project will improve Colombian capacity to address some of the | | | |
| |key causes and intensifiers of violence among adolescents. By | | | |
| |providing education that empowers children and adolescents to | | | |
| |prevent and resolve conflicts, the project aims to stop the | | | |
| |spread of violence and to reduce the recruitment of adolescents| | | |
| |into the conflict. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2002-2006 depending on the project |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote actions to establish, strengthen and implement public policies to ensure the well-being and integral development of children and adolescents, and promote the convening of conferences, seminars and other national or multilateral activities dedicated to children and adolescents, especially throughout 2001 in the context of the Inter-American Year of the Child and the Adolescent;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Ensure that every child in conflict with the law is treated in a manner consistent with his/her best interests, in accordance with our obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other relevant international human rights instruments, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; bear in mind the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice; and provide training opportunities, as appropriate, including gender-sensitivity and human rights instruction, to those involved in the administration of justice;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Identify, share and promote best practices and approaches, particularly community-based approaches aimed at supporting families, meeting the needs of children and adolescents at risk and protecting them from physical or mental abuse, injury or violence, discrimination, neglect, maltreatment, and exploitation, including sexual abuse, commercial exploitation and the worst forms of child labor as expressed in ILO Convention 182; in accordance with national legislation, develop national policies and models for rehabilitation or judicial systems for minors, incorporating initiatives for crime prevention, safeguarding the due process of law, and allowing access to institutions and programs for rehabilitation and reintegration of child and adolescent offenders into society and their families;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Health Canada: | |Health Canada: |The net expenditures of the |Obstacles: |
|Canada has provided some technical assistance upon | |Health Canada's Population and Public Health activities |Department's Population and Public|Health Canada's national health programs are a priority and the above |
|request on issues related to emergency preparedness at | |include policies, programs and research relating to disease |Health Service Line in 2001-02 was|stated activities at the national level are part of the Department's |
|the hemispheric level; additionally, HC has developed | |surveillance, prevention and control, health promotion, and |$438.6 million, representing 16.6%|mandate. The implementation of new programs in specific response to |
|several projects in coordination with PAHO, including a| |community action. Improved emergency preparedness and |of the Department's total net |Summit mandates and implementation at the hemispheric level is |
|Canada-Costa-Rica project on women's health policies; a| |response strategies are another element of the work of this |planned spending. |therefore dependent upon receiving additional resources. |
|project with St. Lucia on violence against women; the | |branch. There are also several programs on childhood | | |
|Latin-American/Caribbean-Canada project on surveillance| |development, including the Community Action Program for | |Recommendations and best practices: |
|of anti-microbial resistance; and the Mexico-Canada | |Children, the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program, Aboriginal | |Increased public awareness of methods to prevent and control chronic |
|project on healthy aging. | |Head Start, the Centres of Excellence for Children's | |diseases; improved responses to an aging population; improved health |
| | |Well-being, and the Early Childhood Development Initiative. | |for rural Canadians; prevention of family violence; promotion of |
| | |There is also the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child | |mental health and active lifestyles; effective relationships with |
| | |Abuse and Neglect, released in Spring 2001, which responds to| |stakeholders; improved strategic policy; development of an FPT |
| | |the Summit mandate on children in youth in section 18. | |agreement on an action plan on early Childhood Development (ECD); |
| | | | |immunization initiatives; control and support programs for STDs, |
| | | | |HIV/AIDS; increased scientific knowledge of the risks to health of |
| | | | |enteric pathogens. |
|Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of|Timeline: |Timeline: These are ongoing activities that are part of the | | |
|the Department's mandate. | |Department's mandate. | | |
Mandate: Endorse and seek cooperative means to advance the recommendations contained in the Kingston Consensus of the Fifth Ministerial Meeting on Children and Social Policy, held in Jamaica in October 2000, which represents the region's contribution to the UN Special Session for Children to be held in September 2001;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| |Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA): Canada will | |CDN $3 million | |
| |provide up to $3 million over five years to a Sexual and | | | |
| |Reproductive Health Services to the Adolescents in Guatemala | | | |
| |project. CIDA's contribution will support UNICEF and the | | | |
| |Government's efforts to make the rights of adolescents and | | | |
| |youth to reproductive health effective in Guatemala. It will | | | |
| |make use of the national public health system and participating| | | |
| |NGOs to strengthen the delivery and quality of adolescent | | | |
| |sexual and reproductive health services including AIDS | | | |
| |prevention. | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: 2001-2006 |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Encourage cooperation to reduce cases of international abduction of children by one of their parents; consider signing and ratifying, ratifying, or acceding to, as soon as possible and as the case may be, The Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, The Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Inter-country Adoption, and the 1989 Inter-American Convention on the International Return of Children; and comply with their obligations under these Conventions in order to prevent and remedy cases of international parental child abduction;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: In order to protect and promote children's rights, develop and implement inter-sectoral policies and programs, which may include the promotion of civil registration of all children, and allocate appropriate resources to undertake these tasks; establish and support cooperation amongst states as well as with civil society and young people to ensure effective implementation and monitoring of children's rights, including country-appropriate indicators of the health, development, and well-being of children, and through sharing best practices on reporting through national reports by States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
| | | | | |
|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
Mandate: Promote consultation, participation and representation of young people in all matters affecting them by providing access to reliable information and opportunities for them to express their views and contribute to discussions in local, national, regional and international fora and events;
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Rural Secretariat: | | | | |
|The International workshop on rural youth leadership | | | | |
|development was held at the University of Guelph Alfred| | | | |
|College, October 28-31, 2001, gathering thirty rural | | | | |
|youth, 21-30 years old, from all regions of Canada and | | | | |
|ten rural youth from Chile (3), Costa-Rica (3) and | | | | |
|Mexico (4). | | | | |
| | | | | |
|The $85,000 activity is the result of a partnership | | | | |
|between the promoters Union des cultivateurs | | | | |
|francophones ontariens and the Alfred College of the | | | | |
|University of Guelph, and the Inter-American Institute | | | | |
|for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), the Rural | | | | |
|Secretariat, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canadian| | | | |
|Heritage and Farm Credit Canada. | | | | |
| | | | | |
|The objectives were to develop leadership amongst | | | | |
|French speaking rural youth; to develop networking | | | | |
|between francophone communities; and to familiarize | | | | |
|rural youth with international trade in the Americas. | | | | |
| | | | | |
|Activities included visits of local rural enterprises; | | | | |
|the Great Globalization Game with the participation of | | | | |
|some fifty local residents and students from the | | | | |
|College; and activities meant to enhance leadership | | | | |
|qualities of participants (strengths and weaknesses, | | | | |
|lessons learned, tools to reinforce leadership in rural| | | | |
|communities, etc.). | | | | |
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|The very successful event has been an opportunity for | | | | |
|rural youth to exchange information and experience on | | | | |
|rural development and international trade, to initiate | | | | |
|a network of rural young leaders and promote rural | | | | |
|youth leadership across America. | | | | |
|Timeline: A second workshop is planned to be held in |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
|Latin America in 2002. | | | | |
Mandate: Reinforce the role of PAHO, the IACI, and the IACHR as technical advisors to the SIRG, on all aspects of children's issues, and recognize the importance of these institutions in follow-up of relevant Summit recommendations.
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
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|Timeline: |Timeline: |Timeline: | | |
19. Connectivity
Mandate: Support implementation of "Connecting the Americas" (Statement on Connectivity) by promoting partnerships, knowledge sharing and capacity building to help identify, adapt and implement the innovative application of ICTs in the Americas. The ICA mandate is to help support the development of domestic and regional connectivity strategies; adapt and implement proven models; and promote the exchange of information and expertise.
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Lead: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) |Lead: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) |Lead: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) |Canada granted $20 million to | |
|Partners: The Institute for Connectivity in the |Partners: The Institute for Connectivity in the Americas (ICA) |Partners: The Institute for Connectivity in the Americas |establish the Institute for | |
|Americas (ICA) will work with partners in Canada |will work with partnerships involving governments of the |(ICA) will work with partnerships involving governments of |Connectivity in the Americas | |
|(particularly CIDA and Industry Canada) governments of |hemisphere, partner institutions (in particular: OAS, IDB and |the hemisphere, partner institutions (in particular: OAS, IDB|(ICA). | |
|the hemisphere, partner institutions (in particular: |WB), community organizations, educational institutions, |and WB), community organizations, educational institutions, |As partnering and co-funding is | |
|OAS, IDB and WB), community organizations, educational |associations, not-for-profit organizations, and public/private |associations, not-for-profit organizations, and |essential for the establishment | |
|institutions, associations, not-for-profit |partnerships: |public/private partnerships: |and sustainability of ICA, its | |
|organizations, and public/private partnerships: |The ICA is currently in the process of planning and executing a|The ICA is conceived as four-year program. The first three |management will actively seek to | |
|A Hemispheric Advisory Board has been selected and has |series of forums and virtual discussion groups for each |years are an incubating period where year four will be |establish partnerships with other | |
|begun meeting twice a year. The first meeting was held |sub-region (Central America and Mexico, Southern Cone, Andean |dedicated to reporting to the Summit of the Americas process |governments, multilateral and | |
|in Washington D.C in early May, and the next one will |Region and the Caribbean). In March 2002, the first ICA seminar|and concluding discussions with hemispheric partners in order|regional institutions, including | |
|take place in November 21-22, 2002, in Ottawa. Members|took place in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the IADB |to ensure that ICA becomes an independent entity. The |the Organization of American | |
|of the Board include digital pioneers active in ICT for|in Fortaleza, Brazil, spanning the Southern Cone region |Institute is currently setting up its organizational |States, the Inter-American | |
|development in the Americas, representing the private |(Mercosur, Chile and Bolivia). The second regional event will |structure and developing its strategic plan, in addition to |Development Bank, the World Bank, | |
|sector, government, non-government organizations, |be focused on the Caribbean region, towards the creation of a |collaborating with partners to implement the “Agenda for |sub-regional development banks, as| |
|educational institutions, and civil society in the |regional strategy for ICT development. The event is being |Connectivity in the Americas and Plan of Action of Quito” |well as foundations and others in | |
|hemisphere. The OAS, the IDB and the World Bank are |coordinated in conjunction with the ITU, and will take place on| |the private sector and civil | |
|also represented in the Board. Canada is also leading |October 28-30, 2002, in Barbados. Each of the regional events | |society. | |
|an initiative begun by CITEL to develop an "Agenda for |is being planned and followed up with the support of virtual | | | |
|Connectivity in the Americas" and accompanying action |discussion groups. These on-line workspaces are created to | | | |
|plan, to provide guidance to governments of the |support virtual interaction, discussion, and exchange of | | | |
|hemisphere and partner institutions to develop their |knowledge and information on different aspects of the | | | |
|own plans as directed in the Quebec City Action Plan. |Information Society in the Americas. The ICA will also develop | | | |
| |a network of affiliates within each sub-region. | | | |
|Timeline: Canada plans to "incubate" the Institute and |Timeline: Canada plans to "incubate" the Institute and to help |Timeline: Canada plans to "incubate" the Institute and to | | |
|to help it grow and develop as a fully sustainable |it grow and develop as a fully sustainable hemispheric |help it grow and develop as a fully sustainable hemispheric | | |
|hemispheric institution within the Americas by 2004. |institution within the Americas by 2004. |institution within the Americas by 2004. | | |
Mandate: Support implementation of "Connecting the Americas" (Statement on Connectivity) by creating an information exchange network to facilitate the exchange of information with respect to mutual legal assistance in permitting a better access and knowledge of the Justice systems throughout the Americas and to increase and improve the exchange of information and expertise on criminal Justice in the Americas.
|Actions – Hemispheric Level |Actions – Regional Level |Actions – National Level |Funding |Obstacles and/or Best Practices and/or Special Needs |
|Lead: Department of Foreign Affairs and International |Lead: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, |Lead: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, |Justice Canada has spent 75, 000$ | |
|Trade, Justice Canada |Justice Canada |Justice Canada |per year in the last two years to | |
|Partners: Argentina, The Bahamas, El Salvador and the |Partners: Argentina, The Bahamas, El Salvador and the OAS |Partners: Argentina, The Bahamas, El Salvador and the OAS |support such initiative. | |
|OAS Department of Legal Cooperation and Information |Department of Legal Cooperation and Information |Department of Legal Cooperation and Information |As partnering and co-funding is | |
| | | |essential for the establishment | |
|A working group is made of the four countries and OAS |A hemispheric process of consultations through a survey has |Justice Canada has taken the responsibility to lead and |and sustainability of ICA, its | |
|members. They are meeting when needed. Since REMJA III|been produced and analysed. We know that some countries have |support this project for another full year. We are continuing|management will actively seek to | |
|they have met 5 times on a formal basis and several |indicated clear connectivity needs and technical support needs.|to lead the group in order to extend to all countries of the |establish partnerships with other | |
|time on informal bases. |Without financial help Justice will be unable to extend to |Americas the said network, to incorporate more useful |governments, multilateral and | |
|REMJA IV also recommended that Justice Canada works |those countries a private web site. |information, to explore the possibility of a secure private |regional institutions, including | |
|with the Justice Studies Centre of the Americas in | |network for Government use only, to consider various useful |the Organization of American | |
|order to make this network work efficiently. | |alternatives for expanding the network, to analyse the |States, the Inter-American | |
| | |challenges that all OAS member States have to encounter with |Development Bank, the World Bank, | |
| | |regard to the network. We will also host a meeting of Central|sub-regional development banks, as| |
| | |authorities and other experts in order to built an action |well as foundations and others in | |
| | |plan to improve mutual legal assistance in the Americas. |the private sector and civil | |
| | | |society. | |
|Timeline: Justice Canada with Partners plan in the next|Timeline: Justice Canada with Partners plan in the next fiscal |Timeline: Justice Canada with Partners plan in the next | | |
|fiscal year to extend the network to all countries of |year to extend the network to all countries of the Americas and|fiscal year to extend the network to all countries of the | | |
|the Americas and to host a meeting and built an action |to host a meeting and built an action plan for Mutual legal |Americas and to host a meeting and built an action plan for | | |
|plan for Mutual legal assistance needs in the Americas.|assistance needs in the Americas. |Mutual legal assistance needs in the Americas. | | |
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