INTEGRAL PLAN FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (IPSD)


It was decided at the Quirama Presidential Summit to incorporate a social dimension into the integration process and a mandate was handed down by the Presidents to the integration bodies to establish an Integral Plan for Social Development.   

This Integral Plan for Social Development (IPSD), which in some way summarizes the effort to bring the poor into closer proximity to the integration process and to fight poverty, exclusion and inequality, is already under way and constitutes a genuine effort to contribute to social cohesion. 

The adoption of this Community Decision is considered a landmark in the development of the social integration dimension of Andean integration because it will reinforce national policies to fight the poverty and social inequity that put the social cohesion and democratic governance of the Andean countries at risk and constitute an obstacle to the region’s integration and competitive participation in the world economy.    

Objectives:

  • Contribute, from the vantage point of the integration process, to the fight against poverty, exclusion and social inequity: maximize the social benefits of integration  
  • Make integration a process that is meaningful for the people living in the Andean countries
  • Enhance national social policies through the exchange of experiences and mutual learning
  • Contribute to the continuity of the Member Countries’ public policies
  • Foster the gradual construction of a Community social policy: advance the social dimension of the integration process  

Community social programs and projects

The social programs and projects encompass a wide array of initiatives, from the creation of forums and networks for the formulation of Community policies to specific action in border and depressed areas. 

Those programs and projects are broken down into the following lines of work

  • Socio-labor
  • Education and culture
  • Health
  • Rural development
  • Food security
  • Environment
  • Social development in border areas

Execution of the IPSD

The Andean Council of Ministers of Social Development (CADS), a Community body created through Decision 592 in July of this year during the Fifteenth Meeting of the Andean Council of Presidents, was mandated to execute the IPSD.  It was also asked to draw up a Plan of Action and to form national committees to guarantee the execution and follow-up of the projects in each of the Andean countries. 

As a result, the following bodies are responsible for the execution of the IPSD:

  • Andean Council of Ministers of Social Development (Decision 592)
  • National IPSD Committees (Decision 601)
  • Andean Network of NGOs and academic institutions (Decision 553)

The responsibilities for the lines of work are distributed as follows:

  • Bolivia: socio-labor, except for employment
  • Colombia: education and culture
  • Ecuador: rural development, food security for indigenous peoples, and harmonization of social indicators
  • Peru: environment and food security
  • Venezuela: health and employment