Mexico provided capacity building and technical assistance to Mesoamerican governments to help them monitor and evaluate their progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This included two sub-regional workshops on statistical capabilities and institutional coordination, five workshops on monitoring and assessment, and two on developing computing tools for national reporting platforms. The project also helped countries like Belize, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic establish institutions to monitor the MDGs and provided programming support and tools to implement national reporting platforms. Lessons learned include the need to simplify cooperation agreements and involve more stakeholders like civil society.

1. Mexico’s international
cooperation experience: The case
of the MDGs
Enrique Ordaz
World Data Forum 2017
Cape Town

2. Commitment of
Mexico’s Government
Cooperation with
Mesoamerican Governments
XII Summit of the Mechanism of Dialogue
and Agreement of Tuxtla 2011
Participants:
Capacity-building project for monitoring and
evaluation on the progress of the MDGs
• Mexico´s Committee on the MDGs
• UNDP
• Central American Integration System (SICA)

3. Capacity-building project
• Advice on processes and methodologies for the
construction of indicators
• Technical assistance for the implementation of
reporting platforms
• Integration of a regional network of experts

4. Processes and methodologies
• Two sub-regional workshops:
• Workshop on Strengthening Statistical Capabilities for
Monitoring the MDGs.
• Workshops on Institutional Coordination for Monitoring
of the MDGs.

5. Processes and methodologies
• Five workshops of technical assistance for monitoring
and assessment of the MDGs.
• Two workshops on programming and developing
computing tools for national platforms

6. Processes and methodologies
• Strengthening of working groups in the Region for Monitoring the MDGs:
 Belize: Creation of the Technical Working Group on MDGs.
 Costa Rica: Better coordination between the Ministry of National
Planning and the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses.
 Honduras: Creation of the Inter-Institutional Commission for the
Monitoring of the MDGs and the Post-2015 Agenda.
 Dominican Republic: Implementation of the MDG Information System.
 El Salvador: the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency of El Salvador
heads an MDG Follow-up Committee.

7. National Reporting Platforms
• Project resources were focused to encourage
participant countries to implement national
information systems.
• In some cases providing programs codes.
• Training and making available continuous technical
support.

8. Technical assistance for reporting platforms
Advances Belize
Costa
Rica
Dominican
Republic
Guatemala
Hondura
s
Nicaragua Panama El Salvador
Implementation of a National
Reporting Platform
Programming assistance
Tools transference
Advice on processes and
methodologies for
monitoring MDGs
Memorandum of
understanding
Goal met
Significant
advance in goal
In process of
compliance
No assistance
required

9. Regional Network of Experts
Structure
Coordination
Group
Monitoring and
Assessment
Group
ICT Group

10. Lessons Learned and Challenges
Recommendations:
1. Simplify processes to implement the Memorandum of Understanding
2. Involve other actors such as academic representatives and civil society
organizations.
3. Development of workshops with decision-makers.
4. Participation of SICA in decision-making and in the execution of the activities
offered.

11. Good Practices
1. The training on processes, strategies and methodologies for data
integration, indicator design and inter-institutional coordination.
2. The integration and strengthening of working groups that monitor the
MDGs.
3. The technical assistance provided for the implementation of national
platforms.
4. The strengthening the cooperation between INEGI and the statistical
offices.
5. The integration of an experts network on MDGs.

12. Thank you!