The Secretariat for Central American Social Integration (SISCA) and the team of experts from the European Union EUROsociAL+ Programme held a meeting to follow up on the mandate of the SICA Council for Social Integration, and to make progress regarding the formulation of a post-COVID-19 plan which aims to support the Region’s recovery.
On Monday, 24 August, SISCA met with the EUROsociAL+ programme’s team of experts, selected to support the preparation process for the Recovery, Social Reconstruction and Resilience Plan for Central America and the Dominican Republic.
The Plan responds to the Council for Social Integration’s mandate which, in its Second Special Declaration (United for the recovery and social reconstruction of the SICA region) was launched in the midst of the health emergency and lays down the lines which SISCA is to follow, with assistance from EUROsociAL+ and United Nations specialised agencies, to develop a regional level initiative which supports the efforts that each SICA country is carrying out to further the global promise not to leave anyone behind.
The Plan’s objective is to articulate the public sector responses regarding social, labour and human settlement problems of SICA member countries and provide them with a regional integration perspective, in the post-COVID social and economic reactivation phases. The Plan will be made up of a defined set of strategic projects drawn up for three areas of intervention: (i) social protection, employment and employability; (ii) human settlements; and (iii) urban development. Each project will bring together transformative actions to provide broad and articulated responses to priorities that will be identified in a regional consultation process.
