REQUEST FOR APPLICATION No. El Sal 596-06-A-004 Cooperative Agreement to achieve regional Integration of Environmental MattersCooperative Agreement • January 11th, 2008
Contract Type FiledJanuary 11th, 2008Taking into account the current situation of the Central American region in environmental matters and the new commercial challenges derived from CAFTA-DR, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has signed with General Secretariat of the Central American System for Integration (SG-SICA) a Strategic Objective Grant Agreement for its new program in Central America and Mexico, that corresponds to the Intermediate Result called “Economic Freedom: Open diversified Expanding Economies”. Since Central American Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD) is the active instance of SICA and the political referent in environmental matters, it assumes with this Agreement the responsibility of supporting the negotiations around the free trade agreement, for which it will coordinate and operativize a series of actions in different thematic components, such as: