Find in this section a brief description of the ongoing project work of the British Embassy in Buenos Aires.

Reducing bureaucracy for new investments

Implementing agency: Dirección General de Atención al Inversor, Ministerio de Desarrollo Económico Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Purpose: Improving the investment climate in the City of Buenos Aires by facilitating the establishment and expansion of investments in the City.
Website: www.invertir.buenosaires.gov.ar

G-20 Observatory

Implementing agency: FLACSO Argentina, Área de Relaciones Internacionales
Purpose: To monitor, hold accountable, and influence Argentinean policies that can ensure coherence with G20 trade pledges meant to support international cooperation in the current global crisis.
Related news:

• G-20: ¿cómo le fue a Argentina? (Clarín, 30/09/09, in Spanish)
• Resistiendo los embates. Argentina con su lugar en el G-20 (El Cronista, in Spanish)

Overcoming barriers to investment and financing in Argentina

Implementing Agency: CENIT and CEDES
Project purpose: Government implements or modifies policies with the aim of lifting the barriers to investment and improve access to long term credit in Argentina which are mainly associated with excessive fiscal pressure, lack of financial deepening and weak appropriability conditions of investors’ returns

Democratisation of Budget Cycle

Implementing Agency: Participacion Ciudadana
Project purpose: To improve the effectiveness on the formulation and management of the public budget in Tierra del Fuego and Rio Negro.
Related news:

• Santa Cruz es la peor en transparencia pública (Clarín, 3/07/09, Spanish)
• Premian a escuelas que educan para la inclusión social (La Nación, 15/10/09, in Spanish)

Whistle Blowing and Asset Recovery

Implementing Agency: Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ)
Project purpose: To bolster the incentives for corruption control, increase the amount of corruption reporting appropriate State organisms, and achieve the incorporation of new anti-corruption investigative mechanisms by these state actors
Blog: http://sincorrupcion.wordpress.com/
Related news: Corruption is winning the battle (article published in Spanish in Perfil newspaper on 4/10/09)

Promoting Regional Exports (Finished)

Implementing Agency: Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC)
The purpose of the project is twofold: i) to propose specific reforms to improve the quality and coordination of policies implemented by national agencies dedicated to export promotion, and ii) to improve the strategic planning process related to export promotion of one Argentine province
News and publications:

• Cazadores de mercados (PDF)
• Americas Quarterly review of Cazadores de Mercados (Word, 135KB)

Strengthening the National Audits Office (Finished)

Implementing Agency: National Audits Office (AGN /NAO)
Project purpose: To enable the audit staff of the Auditoría General de la Nación to carry out high quality, timely and cost effective VFM (performance) audits.

Strengthening the Anticorruption Office (Finished)

Implementing Agency: Anticorruption Office (AO)
Project purpose: To strengthen the key Argentine government agency engaged in fighting state corruption, by training officials and informing the public of their role and responsibilities in fighting corruption.    
Specific Objectives:

1. Strengthening of the communicational delivery of the Office
2. Consolidation of the distance learning (e-learning) program on ethics for public officials
3. Integration of ""education of values"" elements in the official education curricula for the National Education System.

Project results: Presentación de resultados del Proyecto PNUD ARG/05/013: "Fortalecimiento Institucional de la Oficina Anticorrupción" (PDF, in Spanish)

Monitoring Public Spending in Education (Finished)

Implementing Agency: Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC)
Project purpose: To underpin a recent political initiative to increase education spending with transparent, efficient and effective allocation of sizeable public funds. To build capacity in key institutions responsible for distribution of resources on education. To promote public participation in monitoring the use of the resources and the successful fulfilment of commitments made by national and provincial governments.