
- Year: 2021
- Budget: 23,000,000.00 €
- Location: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain
- Sector: Resilience, Peace, Security
- Partner: Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas (FIIAPP), International Criminal Police Organization
To contribute to an effective programming and implementation of the interventions in the security-development nexus sector by improving the performance of El PacCTO programme, especially in terms of linkages between its components, efficiency and sustainability, and gather lessons for designing future related programmes in the security-development nexus.
Our work and approach
Latin America faces severe violence and organized crime despite recent economic growth. Challenges like education system shortcomings, institutional weaknesses, poverty, and inequality exacerbate insecurity. Repressive and preventive security policies have been ineffective, leading to high violence perception and overcrowded prisons. The EL PAcCTO program, funded by the EU, aims to enhance the rule of law and citizen security by improving police, judicial, and penitentiary systems through international cooperation. The program includes three main interventions to support law enforcement, judicial cooperation, and INTERPOL's efforts against organized crime.
Results and Insights
Lessons learned and recommendations from the analysis oriented towards establishment of intra-program coordination measures and synergies from the start, focusing on joint activities; proposals on how to designe effective monitoring systems for interventions and programs from the onset; how to enhance Program alignment with Decision-level characteristics; how to evaluate the complexity versus cost and specific interventions' added value and address frequent local partner staff turnover; how to combine hybrid management and implementation methods and how to develop sustainability plans and risk matrices from inception phase and keep them updated throughout programme implementation.