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A panel of experts selected the experiences that will participate in Knowledge from the South

Panama City, April 4, 2012 - The Government of Panama, who is organizing the Regional South-South Cooperation (SSC) Fair Knowledge from the South with the support of the UN system, coordinated by UNDP, announced today the list of 33 experiences that will participate in the event. Twenty countries of Latin America and the Caribbean will be represented.

We tried to find a balance both geographically and thematically. The experiences chosen represent different stages of CSS, " said Manuel Garces, Deputy Director of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "The experienceschosen show the diversity, richness and quality of CSS initiatives to advance the social and sustainable development in the region," explained a member of the final advisory committee.

By subject area, 13 experiences of social programs and social protection systems (PS) 10 of Citizen Participation, Inclusion and Public Policy (PC) 4 about fiscal policies to promote equity and social investment (PF), and 6 environment and disaster risk reduction (MA) experiences were selected.

The jury, consisting of four thematic panels, with fourteen experts in each of the areas covered by the Fair and a final advisory committee that validated the decisions of the thematic panels, chose the finalists from a total of 69 experiences presented in the competition.

The names of the selected experiences are:

Selected Experiences: Knowledge from the South Fair-Regional Exchange of Solutions Panama- May 8 -10
  Country Name /subject  of experience Thematic Area Phase
1 ARGENTINA Quantification of Public Expenditure directed to Children (GPdN) in Haiti PF III
 		 PF III
2 ARGENTINA Strengthening the Ecuatorian System of Transplants through the training of health care workers in critical areas, exchange of experiences and mutual cooperation on issues of organ and tissue transplants PS III
3 BARBADOS A Bridge in the Caribbean: A Program of the Inter-American Network for Social Protection (IASPN) PS III
4 BARBADOS Caribbean Youth Entrepreneurship Development Knowledge Sharing and Exchange PS III
5 BELIZE Mesoamerican Fruit Cultivation Project (PROMEFRUT PC II
6 BRAZIL Literacy for Development in Sao Tome and Principe PC III
7 BRAZIL Cotton-4 Project MA III
8 BRAZIL Contribution to the development of policies and programs to prevent and eliminate the worst forms of child labor in Bolivia PS III
9 BOLIVIA Nutritional support for those living with AIDS /HIV PS I
10 CHILE Support to Reform of Mexican Criminal Justice System PC II
11 CHILE Centers for Early Childhood in Haiti PS III
12 CHILE Promoting self-employment for vulnerable rural youth in the Dominican Republic PF III
13 CHILE Ending Malnutrition of children in Paraguay PS III
14 COLOMBIA Opportunity Bank support for the implementation of public policy programs PF II
15 COSTA RICA Professionalism and technical expertise of the Municipal Bureau of Tourism for promoting the implementation of a self-sustainable model of tourism for the city of Jalapa and advice for the construction of a Municipal Tourist Center MA III
16 CUBA Literacy Program: : "Yo sí puedo" PC III
17 ECUADOR International Cooperation for Development Planning PC II
18 ECUADOR Forest Conservation Project Partner MA II
19 EL SALVADOR Creating funds to strengthen the export capacity of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises between the Republic of El Salvador and Guatemala. PC III
20 EL SALVADOR Improvement of the Technology and Construction of as well as a Broadcasting System for Earthquake resistant Social Housing -TAISHIN. MA III
21 GUATEMALA Support Open Space Generation Youth Violence in urban fringe areas of Guatemala. PS III
22 HONDURAS Riecken community libraries, changing lives in Central America PS I
23 MEXICO Specialization Course in Health Management for Older People ". PC II
24 NICARAGUA Accountability, participation, and Gender in the National Assembly of Nicaragua PC III
25 PARAGUAY Cross border technical cooperation program in aquaculture "Carpa" MA III
26 PARAGUAY Social Protection System in Pyahu Saso, for a fair and inclusive Paraguay (Paraguay Solidario) PS III
27 PANAMA Inter-American Judicial Facilitators Program PC III
28 PANAMA Seed production and cultivation of shellfish in the sea MA III
29 PERU Red Camelids PF I
30 PERU Capital Project: Opportunities for Financial Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean PS II
31 Dominican Republic Promotion of Chain Way in the Dominican Republic, with support from the National Center for Agricultural Health CENSA of Cuba PS I
32 URUGUAY Quality Management Program with Gender Equity. PS II
33 URUGUAY Program of services for exchange of Plan Ceibal with other countries for the introduction of the "model1a1" Technology in education. PC II