MESOAMERICAN NETWORK ON THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS INFORMATION BULLETIN JULY-DECEMBER 2013 Technical assistance workshops were conducted in Belize
Nicaragua signed Memorandum of Understanding with the INEGI
In order to contribute to strengthening the processes, methodologies and strategies employed by Belize for monitoring the MDGs, the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, taught two workshops from 25 to 29 November, for officials from various institutions, convened by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development and the Statistical Institute, with support from the Central Information Technology Office and the UNDP representation.
The National Institute of Information for Development of Nicaragua signed a MoU with the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico, it also presented a detailed description of the technical assistance required for the implementation of tools, processes and methodologies monitoring of indicators.
2013 Progress Report on MDGs in Mexico On 6 December 2013, the new image of the Information System on the MDGs and the Progress Report on MDGs in Mexico were presented. The head of the Secretariat of Social Development, Rosario Robles Berlanga, highlighted the contribution of the MDGs as a roadmap for national public policy in the quest to build a more just society and acknowledged the work done by the Specialized Technical Committee in preparing the reporting. www.objetivosdedesarrollodelmilenio.org.mx
Technical assistance to Costa Rica concludes The Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy and the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Costa Rica have agreed strategies to strengthen interagency coordination for the development of future Progress Reports on MDG, and will implement a module on their own websites to inform about the advances.
Dominican Republic creates an information system on MDG The Dominican Information System on MDG began operation, It was developed by the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development and the National Bureau of Statistics. You can browse the site from http://odm.gov.do to know the efforts that country to achieve the MDG.
Institutional Capacity Building of Mesoamerican governments for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals