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Viewing cable 08QUITO754, Ecuador Buys in (Literally) to USAID Northern Border

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08QUITO754 2008-08-15 18:58 2011-05-02 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Quito
VZCZCXYZ0001
RR RUEHWEB

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ZNR UUUUU ZZH
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FM AMEMBASSY QUITO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 9255
INFO RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 7693
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 3959
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ AUG LIMA 2753
RUEHGL/AMCONSUL GUAYAQUIL 3739
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC
RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHDC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHINGTON DC
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC 2224
RHMFISS/HQ USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
RHMFISS/CDR USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
RHMFISS/DIRJIATF SOUTH J2
RHMFIUU/USSOUTHAF DAVIS MONTHAN AFB AZ
RUEAHQA/OSAF WASHDC
RUENAAA/SECNAV WASHDC
RUEADWD/SECARMY WASHDC
UNCLAS QUITO 000754 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
PASS TO PRM PONGONIS 
LAC/AA JOSE CARDENAS; LAC/SA JEFF BAKKEN; 
EGAT/EG MARY OTT; LAC/RSD KERRY BYRNES 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID ECON PREL PGOV EC
SUBJECT:  Ecuador Buys in (Literally) to USAID Northern Border 
Project 
 
1.  (U) Summary:  Security Minister Larrea confirmed that the GOE 
will match USAID funding for USAID's Northern Border Municipal 
Program.  Larrea pledged $6 million dollars for Plan Ecuador to 
match USAID's investment, and will work through USAID's contractor, 
the International Organization for Migration (IOM).  This represents 
a sharp reversal of the GOE's stance of a few months ago, when it 
asked USAID to cancel an agreement with IOM and transfer the funds 
directly to Plan Ecuador.  The reversal is due in part to changes in 
key GOE personnel, but also reflects the government's increasing 
recognition that it lacks the capacity to implement complex 
development or infrastructure projects.  End summary. 
 
2.  (U) In late July, Gustavo Larrea, Coordinating Minister for 
Internal and External Security, and Juan Martinez, Secretary of Plan 
Ecuador, met with USAID staff to review USAID's Northern Border 
project.  Reversing a GOE position that called for USAID to transfer 
resources to the GOE, the GOE representatives presented a new 
strategy to increase the GOE counterpart contribution to USAID's 
Northern Border Integrated Municipal Development Program.  Minister 
Larrea offered to fund an additional $6 million dollars for Plan 
Ecuador for the next fiscal year, to match USAID's $6 million, and 
mentioned his interest in  providing additional matching funds for 
the following three or four years.  Moreover, Minister Larrea 
proposed passing these funds to USAID's contract implementer, the 
International Organization for Migration (IOM), a 180 degree shift 
in position from the GOE's opposition to IOM's participation in the 
program a few months ago. 
 
Background on GOE's reversal on Northern Border Cooperation 
 
3.  (U) In 2007 the GOE's implementing arm of Ecuador's northern 
border development plan underwent multiple changes that threatened 
GOE buy-in to USAID's Northern Border Integrated Municipal 
Development Program (IMDP).  UDENOR, the GOE's Northern Border 
Development Unit, had been the GOE's counterpart agency for USAID's 
Northern Border program.  In early 2007, the UDENOR president 
resigned after the Correa administration took office.  His 
replacement was far less sympathetic towards USAID's program and 
objectives.  That official resigned in October 2007 just before 
UDENOR was abolished by a presidential decree.  UDENOR was replaced 
by the Plan Ecuador Secretariat, the GOE's new entity responsible 
for northern border development. 
 
4.  (U) Plan Ecuador's new Director began a series of communications 
with USAID stating that USAID should end its cooperative agreement 
with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and 
transfer assistance funds to the Plan Ecuador Secretariat so that 
the Secretariat could carry out its own contracting to implement 
infrastructure programs in the northern border region.  This was 
unacceptable to USAID for many reasons, so a protracted negotiation 
began between USAID and Plan Ecuador to maintain IMDP alive.  In the 
interim many northern border development activities were suspended. 
 
 
5.  (U) In January, USAID finally obtained the "green light" from 
Plan Ecuador to move forward with IMDP.  Then, unexpectedly, the 
Secretary of Plan Ecuador resigned in March 2008 and the Secretariat 
was transferred to the Coordinating Ministry of Internal and 
External Security.  In April, Juan Martinez was appointed as the new 
Secretary of Plan Ecuador.  That same month former U.S. Ambassador 
Jewell and Minister Larrea participated in two inaugurations of 
infrastructure activities in the northern province of Sucumbios. 
Since then, several more inaugurations have taken place that have 
included participation by GOE officials, which symbolize the GOE's 
interest in cooperation in northern border development and the 
resumption of normal project activities. 
 
6.  (SBU) Martinez brought a new vision for Plan Ecuador.  He 
understood that USAID's program had suffered from months of delays 
and, more importantly, that Plan Ecuador's implementing capacity was 
limited.  Demanding that USAID transfer its resources to the GOE 
with the expectation that Plan Ecuador would carry out the projects 
means delays in achieving the results that both the USG and GOE had 
committed to achieve.  Instead, Martinez has sought to strengthen 
Plan Ecuador's relationship with USAID by seeking synergies with 
USAID programs that could benefit the northern border population, 
such as the Agency's work to improve the standard of living of 
indigenous tribes that live in protected areas along the border. 
Minister Larrea, who has maintained a pragmatic relationship with 
the Embassy on a number of projects, evidently shares this 
perspective. 
 
7.  (SBU) Comment.  The initial reluctance of the Correa 
Administration to work with USAID's Northern Border project was, in 
large part, a reflection of the administration's ongoing 
reorganization and belief that the government should administer as 
much as possible.  The new position articulated by Minister Larrea 
reflects in part a renewed vote of confidence for USAID's and IOM's 
efforts.  But it also reflects a broader awareness within the Correa 
Administration that the government has limited administrative 
capacity, and as a result the administration is increasingly willing 
to work with other actors to implement its programs, including NGOs 
and the private sector. 
 
HODGES