SOCIAL POLICIES
The CAN is carrying out a program to speed up implementation of the Integral Plan for Social Development (IPSD) and contribute to the gradual definition of an Andean Social Cohesion Strategy based on IPSD programs and projects (employment, health, education, rural development, food security, interculturality, the environment, and border development).
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SOCIAL PARTICIPATION
Citizen participation in the Andean integration process is manifested through the formulation and expression of opinions or viewpoints by the Andean Business and Labor Advisory Councils; the holding of meetings with the sub region’s youth; and the harmonizing of the interests of the CAN’s indigenous peoples and of consumers and municipalities.  
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MIGRATION AND ITS SOCIAL AND LABOR ASPECTS
The Andean Community has legislation together with its respective regulations to give order to the movement of Andean migrant workers across Community territory (Decision 545), without impairing their right to social security (Decision 583) and under suitable occupational safety and health conditions (Decision 584).
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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
The CAN intends to promote science, technology and innovation as a key element for meeting the social and productive demands of its Member Countries. It accordingly plans to expedite the definition of an Andean Technological Innovation Program and the identification of technological innovation centers and to further actions to facilitate coordination among international organizations, universities, research centers, scientific and technological networks and other institutions that produce and use science and technology in the subregion.
 
 
BORDER DEVELOPMENT
The Community Border Integration and Development Policy seeks to improve the people’s quality of life and to further develop their institutions within the Member Countries’ border areas. In this connection, a boost is being given to the economic development of the Border Integration Zones and actions are being taken to meet the need for sanitary infrastructure, education, labor training and environmental preservation and conservation.
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The Social Agenda of the Andean Integration Process:
Toward a Community Social Cohesion Strategy

Address by Ambassador Allan Wagner Tizón, Secretary General of the Andean Community, at the Seminar “Promoting Social Cohesion: the experiences of Europe and of Latin America and the Caribbean”
Brussels, March 27, 2006
   
Foreign Affairs Ministers approve Social Development Integrated Plan for the Andean Community
Lima, September 22, 2004
   
Decision 601
Integral Plan for Social Development