6 Quarter: April – June 2007

3. Carry out communication
campaigns to disseminate
information on the political
status of women and their
impact in politics in the
country.
Women’s Committee
discussed the mechanisms for
improving the quality of life of
women and formulating and for
implementing responsible,
gender sensitive policies. Epsy
Campbell’s participation was
financed by ADAM
Completed the final format of the
campaign’s website
www.masmujeresmaspolitica.org
Putumayo, and Cauca.
ADAM will support the editing
of texts and graphic design of
the training manual (proceso
formativo) used in formación
de formadoras.
Public Services Committee
Objectives:
- Implement the public policy on water and health by supporting the formulation and
implementation of departmental water sector plans, programs, and projects.
- Design, develop, and carry out technical assistance and management training programs
(including institutional, administrative, commercial, financial, technical, and operating
aspects) to modernize and strengthen public service providers, especially in small
municipalities and rural areas.
- Inform communities about water management practices.
The Public Services Committee was established in September of 2006.
Participants:
MAVDT, the Regulation Commission of Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation (CRA), Acción Social,
the Superintendent of Public Services (SSPD), DANSOCIAL, UNICEF, the Pan-American Health
Organization (OPS), and ADAM.
Municipalities included in the goal of Municipalities with Improved Services
Mocoa, Orito, Valle del Guamúez and Villagarzón (Putumayo); Guachucal, Potosí, Pupiales and
Tumaco (Nariño); Balboa, Buenos Aires, El Tambo, Morales, Silvia, Timbio, Totoró (Cauca); and
Algeciras, Colombia, Gigante, La Plata, Nátaga, Rivera and Rioblanco (Huila).
Accomplishments during Q6 Future activities in Q7
- On June 14, a Memorandum of
Understanding was signed between ARD and
the Household Public Services which seeks to
join efforts and cooperation in order to ensure
proper oversight and control over the laws and
administrative acts that affect the service
provider organizations in ADAM municipalities.
Within this framework, development and
control committees were created to assist
public service providers in registering, and
inputting information to the General Information
System and to oversee their compliance of the
improvement plans agreed with the
Superintendent of Public Services.
- ARD signed a MOU with DANSOCIAL to
promote creation of new public service
providers and develop a strengthening strategy
for existing local public service companies. To
support this MOU, ADAM hired a consultant in
- Contract with operators to design the water
usage plans in Tolima, Huila, Putumayo, and
Nariño.
- Organize workshops on the department’s water
usage plans in Cauca, Tolima, and Nariño
- Begin the training processes and provide
technical assistance to improve the technical,
management, financial and administrative
capacity of the 15 public service providers
included within the indicators of the goal
“Municipalities with strengthened public services
providers”.
- Perform the preliminary diagnosis and
complete the design of the public service
providers to be created in San Vicente and
Landazuri.
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