ASSESSMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DONOR COORDINATION IN EL SALVADOR ASSESSMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DONOR COORDINATION IN EL SALVADOR Submitted by: Randal Joy Thompson, PhD, Team Leader Gladys Soler, Communications Specialist Rosa Vargas, GIS Specialist Luis Castellanos, GIS Specialist USAID Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Initiative Calle Circunvalación #261 Colonia San Benito San Salvador, El Salvador Tel: (503) 2423-7486 Cover Page: CEO of Agro-América, Fernando Bolaños, leads panel discussion with Johanna Hill Dutriz, Managing Partner of Salvadoran Exports; Diego Foseco, independent journalist; and Claudia Salmerón, Executive Director of Leadership Initiative of Central America, at the Central America Donors Forum held in Panama in October 2017. Source: Agro-América (www. Agro-América.com). DISCLAIMER The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................. i METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................................................... i FINDINGS I MAIN FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ...................................... ii I.0 ASSESSMENT PURPOSE AND ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS ................................................... 1 1.1 ASSESSMENT PURPOSE ........................................................................................................... 1 I. 2 ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS ..................................................................................................... 1 2.0 ASSESSMENT BACKGROUND ...................................................................................................... 2 2.1 OVERALL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AND NEED FOR COOPERATION ......... 2 2.2 AID EFFECTIVENESS ................................................................................................................. 2 3.0 ASSESSMENT METHODS AND LIMITATIONS ......................................................................... 4 4.0 FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................................ 6 4.1 AQ 1: FORMAL OR INFORMAL INTERNATIONAL DONOR COORDINATION FRAMEWORKS IN EL SALVADOR .......................................................................... 6 4.2 AQ 2: REASONS FOR LACK OF DONOR COORDINATION ................................ 17 4.3 AQ 3: DONORS ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN ASSISTING EL SALVADOR WITH THE LINES OF ACTIONS OF A4P AND PESS ................................................... 17 4.4 AQ 4: PESS MUNICIPALITIES AND SECTORS IN WHICH DONORS ARE INVESTING RESOURCES AND WHERE THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR LEVERAGE WITH USAID ......................................................................................... 17 4.5 AQ 5: PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONS OF OTHER DONORS ABOUT CONDUCTING JOINT EVALUATIONS OF PROJECTS ................................. 28 4.6 AQ 6: ORGANIZATIONS, DONOR COUNTRIES, AND SSC COUNTRIES WORKING WITHIN A TRILATERAL COOPERATION FRAMEWORK IN EL SALVADOR ............................................................................................................ 28 5.0 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................................. 29 6.0 RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................................................................ 30 7.0 ANNEXES .......................................................................................................................................... 32 ANNEX A: REFERENCES AND REVIEW MATRIX OF DOCUMENTS............................ 33 ANNEX B: THE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION 2016 ASSESSMENT OF EL SALVADOR .............................. 40 ANNEX C: LIST OF KEY DONOR PROJECTS ....................................................................... 50 ANNEX D: MAPS OF KEY DONOR PROJECTS .................................................................... 83 ANNEX E: COMPARATIVE TABLE OF DONORS, SECTORS, AND MUNICIPALITIES ....................................................................................................................................... 118 TABLES Table 1: Summary of Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations .................................................. iii Table 2: Global Partnership Indicators and Their Measures ................................................................... 3 Table 3: Donors in the GOES National Councils ..................................................................................... 8 Table 4: Technical Secretaries of in the GOES National Councils ........................................................ 9 Table 5: AECID .............................................................................................................................................. 17 Table 6: GIZ .................................................................................................................................................... 18 Table 7: EU ...................................................................................................................................................... 18 Table 8: JICA ................................................................................................................................................... 19 Table 9: KOICA ............................................................................................................................................. 20 Table 10: Embassy of Taiwan ...................................................................................................................... 20 Table 11: USAID ............................................................................................................................................ 21 Table 12: Summary of Major Documents Reviewed ............................................................................. 35 Table 13: EU Projects in El Salvador ......................................................................................................... 51 Table 14: AECID Projects in El Salvador .................................................................................................. 57 Table 15: GIZ Projects in El Salvador ....................................................................................................... 61 Table 16: JICA Projects in El Salvador ...................................................................................................... 63 Table 17: Embassy of Taiwan Projects in El Salvador ............................................................................ 66 Table 18: KOICA Projects in El Salvador ................................................................................................. 68 Table 19 AICS Projects in El Salvador ...................................................................................................... 69 Table 20: UN Projects in El Salvador ........................................................................................................ 72 Table 21: USAID Projects in El Salvador .................................................................................................. 76 ACRONYMS Acronym Description A4P Alliance for the Prosperity in the Northern Triangle (acronym used by the U.S.) AAA Accra Agenda for Action AECID Spanish acronym for Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development) AICS Italian acronym for Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Svillupo (Italian Agency for Development Cooperation) AOR Agreement Officer’s Representative AQ Assessment Question AT Assessment Team CA Central America CDCS Country Development Cooperation Strategy CEN Strategy U.S. Strategy for Engagement in Central America CIPA Country Policy and Institutional Assessment CONAMYPE Spanish acronym for Comisión Nacional de la Micro y Pequeña Empresa (National Commission for Micro and Small Enterprises) COR Contracting Officer’s Representative CSO Civil Society Organization ESCA Spanish acronym for Estrategia de Seguridad de Centro América (Central American Security Strategy) EU European Union FAO Food and Agriculture Organization FOCAP Spanish acronym for Fondo Común de Apoyo Programático (FOCAP) al Programa Comunidades Solidarias [Common Fund for Program Support (FOCAP) for the Solidarity Communities Program] GIZ German acronym for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Corporation for International Cooperation) GOES Government of El Salvador IDB Inter-American Development Bank JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency KII Key Informant Interview KOICA Korea International Cooperation Agency Lux-Dev Luxembourg Development Cooperation Agency MINED Spanish acronym for Ministerio de Educación (Ministry of Education) MIREX Spanish acronym for Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) MOF Ministry of Finance NGO Non-governmental Organization OAS Organization of American States OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OVOP One Village One Product OXFAM Oxford Committee for Famine Relief PESS Spanish acronym for Plan El Salvador Seguro (Plan for a Secure El Salvador) PREVENIR Spanish acronym for Programa Regional- Prevención de la violencia juvenil en América Centr (Prevention