Traduction de «Centro-Américain » (Français → Anglais) :

This programme, cofinanced with France, involves a series of training and experience exchange schemes (regional and national) and preinvestment schemes (consultansy services, studies, surveys and detailed analyses) centred on the issue of food security in the region (i.e. in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama). The aim is to establish a regional framework for a food security policy and to identify concrete schemes to achieve this result in areas such as information, production , marketing, credit and research. - project entitled "Child survival in Central America". The aim here is to improve infant and mat ...[+++]ernity health policies in Central America, infant motality being particularly high in the region. The project, which the Community and Italy are cofinancing in roughly equal shares, will cost some 31 million dollars and be implemented with technical assistance from UNICEF. It consists essentially of training/information schemes, operating at all levels (advisory and programming staff, field managers and target population groups), and making available the necessary resources (medical equipment, medicines, transport equipment and vehicles).

Its aim is to contribute to the reduction of child mortality in Central America by improving health care for mothers and babies.

The meeting on 9 and 10 February in Guatemala-City will again be attended by the Foreign Ministers of the Community, of the five member countries of the Central American Common Market (CACM) (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua) and of the Contadora Group countries (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama).