Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI)

End of project Results as of December 2010 include: The project created a multi-country multi-region network of NGOs press and other organizations advocating for continued progress toward freedom of expression. The e-Government Procurement program helped establish and operate the Inter- American Government Procurement Network to increase transparency efficacy and efficiency in government procurement operations such as a shortening of procurement cycles from months to weeks or days savings in the range of 6% to 17% and improvement in procurement operations of participating Micro and Small and Medium sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in the order of 5% to 15 %. The project also supported the private sector participation in OAS activities. For example a policy document with private sector recommendations on public-private work to promote competitiveness in the Americas was submitted to the US Department of Commerce in preparation for the Competitiveness Forum. It also provided support to specific disaster mitigation projects in Central America.