IICA/JIA/Res.431(XIV-O/07) 27 July 2007 Original: Spanish
RESOLUTION N°. 431
IICA’S PARTICIPATION AS THE EXECUTING ARM FOR PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS OF THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (IDB)
The INTER-AMERICAN BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (IABA), at its Fourteenth Regular Meeting,
HAVING SEEN:
Document IICA/JIA/Doc.317(07), “Proposal for strengthening IICA’s participation as the executing technical arm for agricultural and rural development programs and projects within the framework of the new IDB policy: Opportunities for the Majority”,
CONSIDERING:
That the new IDB policy “Opportunities for the majority” is aimed at promoting innovative options to ensure that the benefits of economic growth effectively reach the majority of the population in the countries of the Americas;
That in the framework of that policy, the IDB has been promoting initiatives aimed at creating those new economic opportunities and improved access to goods and services for the majority by seeking to develop a broad base of entrepreneurship, improving basic services, extending the use of information and communication technologies to the masses, inter alia;
That the 2006-2010 Medium-term Plan of IICA establishes that the Institute is to provide cooperation to its Member States, especially in areas such as: (i) the promotion of trade and business competitiveness in the rural area; (ii) the development of rural communities based on a territorial approach, (iii) the promotion of agricultural health and food safety, (iv) the promotion of the sustainable management of natural resources and the environment; and (v) the promotion of the introduction of technology and innovation for the modernization of agriculture and rural development;
That IICA is prepared to work with the IDB in the framework of its new policy to generate opportunities for the majority in the rural area through a broad variety of modalities of technical cooperation, especially in the identification, preparation and
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execution of technical cooperation and investment projects and in the conduct of technical studies in their recognized spheres of experience, focusing those efforts on strategic activities that generate new opportunities for investment, employment and income generation; and
That any joint action undertaken by the IDB and IICA in the rural area in the framework of the institutional policy “Opportunities for the majority” will contribute to consolidating the Inter-American System and to providing increased technical support for the conduct of studies and the identification, preparation and execution of any projects financed by the Bank to promote agricultural and rural development in aid of the countries of the Americas,
RESOLVES:
1. To support the joint efforts in which the President of the IDB and the Director General of IICA have been engaged to increase the Institute’s role as a technical agency in conducting studies and identifying, preparing and executing technical cooperation and investment programs and projects in the area of agriculture and rural development, with financing from the Bank, especially those that correspond to the priority areas of IICA and that benefit small- and medium-scale producers and rural communities.
2. To charge the Chair of the IABA with approaching the President of the IDB and the members of the Board of Governors of the IDB directly, on behalf of the 34 Ministers of Agriculture of the Member States, to enlist support for the important work that IICA is called upon to accomplish in the agricultural and rural areas in support of implementation of that Bank’s institutional policy “Opportunities for the majority”.
3. To urge the Ministers of Agriculture to promote IICA in their respective countries as the partner of choice for the conduct of studies and for the identification, preparation and execution of any technical cooperation and investment programs and projects financed by the IDB in the priority areas of the Member States and, accordingly, to urge the Bank to consider the advisability of entrusting to IICA the execution of these tasks before having recourse to competitive bidding processes. 4. To instruct the Director General to submit to the Twenty-eighth Regular Meeting of
the Executive Committee a progress report on furthering ties and joint work between IICA and the IDB in the framework of the provisions of this resolution.
