The Advisory Council working group met twice during 2020. At the first meeting, held on 1 June, it assessed the approval of new programmes in Honduras, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala with funds from reimbursements and the expansion of the Operational Plan of the multilateral portfolio managed together with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) with a regional Technical Cooperation: development of strategies to ensure water, sanitation and hygiene services in informal settlements.
The programmes of the Dominican Republic, Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala were pending approval pending modifications and further information requested by the working group and the completion of some proposed adjustments.
The second meeting of the Advisory Council’s working group was held on 12 June, at which the pending projects of the Dominican Republic, Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala were analysed. All the programmes were approved except for Peru’s proposal, which did not receive a favourable report, given the limited time available to work on it properly. In the case of Ecuador, the programme was approved, but the need to ensure the verification of the local counterpart was pointed out.
Following the positive report of the working group, five programmes in Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and El Salvador, for a total amount of €5,658,032, were submitted for consideration by the Executive Committee prior to authorisation by the Council of Ministers:
