George Washington University recognizes Enrique García for his bet on the region's governance

Since 2001, in alliance with the Postgraduate School of Policy Management at GWU, CAF has promoted the Governance, Policy Management, and Public Management Program, with the objective of training public officials, technical teams, and leaders of the civil society whose work deals with governmental and local management issues, with a comprehensive and ethical vision of public policies, to start transformation processes and democratic social changes.

When receiving the award from Mark Kennedy, Director of the Postgraduate School of Policy Management at GWU, Garcia stated: "to have more efficient States we need public officials that have a strong commitment with their country, and who have the skills and technical knowledge to exercise their roles as facilitators between citizens and institutions. It is in this line that CAF, since 2001, has worked providing academic training for public officials in the region, with the academic support of the George Washington University". 

After expressing his gratitude for the recognition, he pointed out that institutional strengthening and quality require a strong development of capacities that enable the satisfaction of demands and efficient solution of development, governance, and equity problems that contemporary Latin American societies demand. 

The GWU award was delivered in the framework of the Executive Seminar on Policy Management organized by CAF and GWU, for which 12 graduates were selected from 286 valid applications received. 

Specifically, the objectives of the Governance, Policy Management, and Public Management Program are: to provide knowledge that helps improve the quality of the development and implementation of public policies; to analyze and work the complexity of the public reality through techniques that consider the different actors that participate in the decision making processes, their interests, positions, and possible strategies; and to promote, among the participants, a focus on citizen demands with proposals for change that are built in a participative manner and that include political, economic, and social feasibility.

From its development and until 2015, the Program has included 19,694 participants from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Currently, it is being implemented with the support of the following allied universities: Universidad de San Andrés and Universidad Católica de Córdoba (Argentina); Universidad del Valle (Bolivia); Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil); Universidad ICESI and Universidad del Rosario (Colombia); Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral and Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador); Universidad de Panama (Panama); Universidad de Columbia (Paraguay); Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru), and Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela).