South-South Cooperation to Evaluate Public Policies and Programs in Latin America

These past years, a series of activities in resultsbased budgeting and evaluation in Latin America led to a collaboration between different Latin American institutions among which the Ministries of Planning of Uruguay, Colombia and Costa Rica and the Ministries of Finance of Peru and Paraguay. This collaboration is evaluation-oriented and aims at public policy improvement. This article provides an overview of the collaboration between these countries and looks at how it is linked to local evaluation supply and demand using the South-South cooperation model.