Organization of American States Cooperation Plan

Results achieved as of the end of the project (July 2015) include: (1) over 160 electoral management officers from 22 countries have been trained on elections including training on women's participation in electoral bodies; six countries received technical assistance (Paraguay Grenada the Dominican Republic Honduras El Salvador and Guatemala) on how to transmit preliminary results legal reform and updating voter registries; (2) workshops for 125 people hosted by Costa Rica Guatemala and Honduras and their Medium and Small Enterprise (MSME) support institutions on how to implement tailored services to high impact MSMEs; a Small Business Development Center was created in El Salvador; 30 country guides were produced and technical assistance provided to 15 projects in key areas of effective public management such as access to public information in El Salvador improving access to civil identity documents in Guatemala Honduras Bolivia and the Caribbean and strengthening the women's ministry in Paraguay to improve process management and organizational development; (3) a gender-sensitive on-line train-the-trainers program on how to use the internet and social media for MSMEs provided to 300 MSME representatives (over 50% women) in Latin America; 184 government officials from Suriname the Bahamas Jamaica and Haiti were trained on trade innovation and Information and Communication Technologies; four workshops on Commercial Arbitration attended by 76 judges and 16 public officers in Costa Rica Chile Uruguay and Jamaica; 12 workshops for 278 representatives of MSMEs and government organised on how to adopt socially and environmentally responsible and gender sensitive business practices in Honduras Ecuador Mexico Costa Rica Colombia Argentina Uruguay Mexico and Panama; (4) new indicators were developed to monitor implementation of the Belem do Para Convention on the Prevention Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women and eight training co