Bravo to Dave Rivard!

We are thrilled that AAI’s Board member, Dave Rivard was named as the Executve Director of the Ministry of Design and Development in El Salvador.   Dave is working with a staff of 32 on projects affecting every Ministry and his work wth the CASA program will be a key aspect efforts throughout the country.

The team has already brought in substantial resources to El Salvador from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. This is the Decree in English:

DECREE No. 37

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR,

CONSIDERING:

1. That in accordance with article 168, Ordinals 1st and 15th of the Constitution of the Republic, are obligations and powers of the President of the Republic that fulfill and enforce the Constitution, as well as ensure the effective management and realization of public businesses”;
2. That in accordance with Article 101, Second Section of the same Constitution,“It is the obligation of the State to promote economic and social development, through the increased productivity and rational usage of resources, with the purpose to promote the various sectors of production and defend the interest of the consumers”;

III. That the 1st Constitution of the Republic, in its Article 86, first paragraph, states that, “The powers of the Government bodies are non-delegable, but they will collaborate with each other in the exercise of public functions”;

1. That, in compliance with the Administrative Procedures Law, it is necessary to stimulate the coordination of the different portfolios of the State, strengthen the organization of activities related to economic and social development, while aiming at it’s formation as a specialized development unit, for the optimization of resources, the effectiveness of new technologies, as well as to improve the relationship and cooperation of each State Institution, in accordance to the presidential holistic and transversal vision, in pursuit of integral development such as the basis for the design of the Nation.

THEREFORE, in use of its constitutional faculties, DECREE 37:  CREATION OF THE AGENCY OF DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN FOR THE NATION

Creation

Art. 1. The “Agency of Development and Design for the Nation” is created, hereinafter called “the Agenda”, as a specialized administrative unit, with functional and technical autonomy within the Presidency of the Republic, which will act under the direct guidelines of the President of the Republic.

Purpose of the Agency

Art. 2. The Agency will have the power to design, diagnose, plan, program, coordinate, monitor, measure, analyze and evaluate plans, programs and projects, transversal towards integral development, with a view to economic, human and natural, contextualized with the site, the place and the region, for which, it will consider thematerial and immaterial needs of women and men;

Likewise, ‘The Agency’ may direct and coordinate the processes of planning, articulation and compatibility of programs and projects (preparation, content and execution) towards axes ofCommunity, in coordination with the different agencies of the Public and Municipal Sector, in each case that the President determines.

Functions and Powers of the Agency

Art. 3. The Agency will be empowered to exercise the following functions and powers:

1. a) Conceptual; design and/or project, with a superior vision regarding plans, programs and projects towards economic, human and natural development, taking into account consideration of the site, the place and the region;
2. b) Diagnose, plan, program; to coordinate, follow up, measure, analyze, evaluate policies, plans, programs and projects for economic, social, urban, environmental, cultural and educational, in each case that the President determines;
3.  c) Direct and/or coordinate the planning, articulation and compatibility processes of themselves, taking care that the programs and projects that are generated keep congruence in its elaboration, content and execution, with the development plans dictated by the Government of the Republic of El Salvador, in coordination with different agencies of the Public and Municipal Sectors, in each case that the President determines;
4. d) Participate and/or coordinate in the process of design and formulation of public policies priority actions that the President determines that the different entities must carry out in state, in order to achieve its compatibility with the General Plan of the Government, seeking the optimization of resources and the simplification of functions;
5. e) Design, direct and/or promote relevant multisectoral and transversal programs for the strengthening of the economy, with sensitivity to the quality of life of the population and harmony with the environment, in each case that the President determines;
6. f) Design, direct and/or promote comprehensive plans for national productive development relevant that the President determines, from the perspective of quality of life and inclusive economic growth;
7. g) Design, direct and/or promote guidelines for multisectoral, transversal and comprehensive infrastructure necessary for national development in any area, as in the cases that the President determines, in coordination with the institutions corresponding;
8. h) Innovate systems, processes, products and/or services to improve “cooperation, integration, efficiency, effectiveness and inter-institutional articulation of plans, programsand projects” related to National Development, in cases that the President determines, in coordination with the corresponding institutions;
9. i) Promote the creative and cultural economy, considering knowledge, talent andthe identities present in our Republic, through the establishment of articulation strategies that promote the development of capacities of the people for effective coexistence in society and incorporation into the labor market, as well as facing the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution with impact on young people at risk and ‘entrepreneurs’ in the cases that the President determines, in coordination with the corresponding institutions;
10. j) Plan, schedule, coordinate execution, monitor, analyze and/or evaluate territorial economic development programs and projects with social inclusion relevant as the President determines, in a comprehensive manner between institutions of the · public sector and municipal communities, so that they generate inclusive growth and sources of employment;
11. k) Coordinate actions related to the formulation of the policy: in matters of scientific, technological and educational development research relevant, as President determines, in the short, medium and long term through correspondence with educational programs, in coordination with the corresponding Institutions in the cases that the President determines, in coordination with the corresponding institutions;
12. l) Coordinate, prioritize and assign, in consultation with the corresponding Ministries and Secretariats, the distribution of technical cooperation, fungible, not reimbursable goods that Governments, International Organizations and Entities or Foreigners grant to the State, in the cases that the President determines, in coordination with the corresponding institutions;
13. m) Create and modify its organizational structure, with the purpose of complying with the functions detailed here, in an agile and effective manner;
14. n) Assist in the development, coordination and monitoring of processes and structuring of agreements to facilitate the General Government Plan;
15. o) The director may approve any manuals for the application and development of this documents decree as necessary, for the fulfillment of its purposes, within its functions and competencies and;
16. p) Other powers or functions that are indicated by the legal system or which the President of the Republic expressly agrees to. The Agency will attend to high impact plans, programs and projects that, according to the  respective information systems available; show notable levels, as deputy executioner,  in case the President so orders.

Organization

Art. 4. The Agency will be headed by a director appointed by the President of the Republic.  For the fulfillment and achievement of the above attributions, the Agency will have at its disposal  provision for the immediate management of its own and independent budget, and will have the specialized personnel that is required, whose labor and legal regime will be subject to the applicable regulations.

Collaboration and coordination with other institutions

Art. 5. All institutions of the Executive body must collaborate with the Agency for the compliance with its functions and objectives. For such purposes, they must inform the Agency of matters related to the formulation and design of economic, social, and economic development policies  including urban, educational and cultural.

The Official Autonomous Institutions and local Governments will collaborate to the extent that their regulations allow it.

Validity

Art. 6. This decree will come into force from the day of its publication in the Díário Official. GIVEN IN THE PRESIDENTIAL HOUSE, in the city of San Salvador, on the twenty-eighth day of the month of September two thousand twenty-one.

The certificate was issued to Mr David Rivard in the Presidential House in San Salvador on October 14, 2022.

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