The Government today created the Agency for International Cooperation and White Helmets, a decentralized body that will operate within the scope of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, and will be responsible for advising and collaborating with public and private entities in relation to the requirements, processing and procedures necessary for the import and export of supplies in the form of donations and humanitarian aid.
Through the Decree 143 / 2022, published this Wednesday (23.03.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX) in the Official Gazette, the Government reports that the new agency "will coordinate the capacities of national, provincial, municipal and Autonomous City of Buenos Aires organizations and entities of civil society, the private sector and foundations to facilitate the aid that the Argentine Republic offers abroad, coordinating with the competent agencies, as well as advising and collaborating with the aforementioned entities in relation to the requirements, processing and procedures necessary for the import and export of supplies in the form of donations and humanitarian aid."
It also notes that another of its tasks will be “the implementation of national policies and strategies for the country's cooperation in development matters, as well as in the programming, allocation of resources, establishment and execution of management control methodologies and in the evaluation of the same.”
The text clarifies that the new organization will be managed by a President, with the rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador and with the hierarchy of Undersecretary (who will be appointed by the National Executive Branch).
On the other hand, the norm explains that, through Decree No. 1131, the Commission for the Fight against Hunger and Poverty was created in 1994, within the scope of the Presidency of the Nation, to promote the "White Helmets Initiative" of the United Nations, and to "combat the most extreme expressions of poverty, hunger, malnutrition and deficits in health, education and infrastructure."
And later it points out that for management reasons it is necessary to "strengthen the actions of international cooperation and the actions of the White Helmets Commission", which was transferred to the scope of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship by Decree 270 of the year 2000.
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