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Improving coordination between social protection and rural productive development in Latin America

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2021): december 2020 - june 2021
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2021.60564

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The experiences of coordination between cash transfer programs and other productive, economic or financial inclusion programs have expanded since the 1990s. This document explores institutional arrangements that can improve the coordination mechanisms and, in this way, the results of the programs. It is based on an institutional analysis carried out on programs in Mexico, Colombia and Peru between 2017 and 2019, which aimed to examine the institutional mechanisms by which social protection and rural productive development programs are effectively coordinate with each other. The main lessons learned from the study are: i) a good design is not solved only with political will, if technical capacities of the teams and institutional inertias derived from the organizational culture are not also addressed; ii) there are technical mechanisms that can help to generate incentives and promote articulation, such as budgeting, targeting and defining the target population; iii) when these issues are not resolved, they can lead to implementation problems. However, many problems derived from design are solved in implementation, which highlights the importance of vertical coordination mechanisms and local actors’ participation.

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Social protection, Productive development, Policy coordination

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Fernández Gatica, M. I., & Aguirre, T. (2021). Improving coordination between social protection and rural productive development in Latin America. Journal Studies of Public Policy, 7(1), 16–28. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2021.60564
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Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
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