Laura Ramborger, Undersecretary of Planning and Social Policies; Juan Pablo Bonino, Undersecretary of Children, Adolescence and Family; the lawyer Fabricio Eduardo Santos, legal and technical coordinator; Ana Paula Paulucci, general Director of Planning and Evaluation of Social Policies; Emiliano Moreno, general director of the elderly; Iván Poggio, national Director of Disability; and Rodrigo Lofval, general director of Children, Adolescence and Family.
Laura Ramborger, in her exhibition against deputies and deputies, explained the work that has been carrying out her area around the design and application of public policy monitoring and evaluation systems, with axis in the “Provida” plan, one of the most comprehensive programs promoted by the provincial government.
“To start talking about a topic that is not as common as monitoring and evaluation, we want to tell you that from the Undersecretariat we have designed a system that allows us to analyze, correct and readjust our policies,” Ramborger introduced.
During his exhibition, he stressed that the Pro Vida program, which he defined as “the Pampas Families Plan,” encompasses an extensive age spectrum, “from early childhood to older people.”
“We work from a Pro Life Provincial Bureau that establishes agreements, defines which components we are going to monitor and on what programs. In all cases, the work is done with local teams, because our programs are decentralized and each community has its particularities,” he said.
In relation to the tools used, the Undersecretary remarked the importance of the Pilquén system, specifically developed to systematize data, measure indicators and inform the decision making. “Pilquén has served us for many issues, has adapted modules for each program. It is an agile tool that allows us to make decisions adjusted to reality,” he explained.
In addition, he emphasized the need for empirical evidence in the decision -making process: “We work with complex populations and contexts that are not always expected. Therefore, monitoring and evaluation are almost everyday supplies in public execution.”
In another passage, he recalled how the analysis of food indicators resulted in the creation of the RAFLE program, extraordinary focused food reinforcement, aimed at ensuring that resources effectively reach the most vulnerable sectors: “We saw that we were not arriving with the food assistance programs, and from that reading Rafle was born.”
In the round of questions, he was consulted by the agreement signed with the UNLPAM.
“The IBS is a new indicator, and it is correct that someone monitors it, in this case the National University of La Pampa. We are talking about a social information methodology. In this case, we do feel that we need a look of outside because it is completely new in what we are moving forward,” Ramborger replied.
In turn, he remarked that an external control audit for the programs that are in the orbit of the Ministry does not believe. “I don’t think they are a tool to be able to rethink some policies. The province already has mechanisms for that function,” he said. He added: “The external audits we have had come to the wrong, at least those we have experienced. And they are also very expensive,” said the Undersecretary.
Subsequently, the Undersecretary of Children, Adolescence and Family, Juan Pablo Bonino, warned about the emptying of national public policies aimed at childhood and highlighted the sustained effort of the province to maintain an active presence in the territory.
“It must be noted that at the national level 28 programs were discharged,” he said. Within that framework, he explained that the only current national program is the National Early Childhood Plan, although without execution: “It is still in force because it was not repealed, but without decentralization or decrease in funds.”
Bonino said that the National Secretariat of Children, Adolescents and Family, Governing Body in Public Policies of the Sector, “is absolutely emptied.”
“If anyone goes to Buenos Aires, I invite you to approach. It is a secretariat that we build for 30 years with all of us who work in childhood, and today is absolutely paralyzed,” he added.
In turn, he acknowledged failures in everyday work at the local level, but defended the task of the technical teams: “Sometimes there are actions that fail because we work with people. We do not work with chemical formulas.”
And he highlighted the permanent commitment of the staff: “It is not easy to be 7 days a week, 24 hours pending a phone, leaving, running to try to solve an urgent situation.”
Finally, Bonino stressed the non -supportive approach of the area: “If there is any scope in which the partisan legal issue was never used to make differences, it is in the Undersecretariat. We work with people with complex problems. They need an answer and we try to give it in the best way. Sometimes it goes well, and in those cases it does not transcend.”
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