Overall Efficacy Substantial Substantial Strengthen COLCIENCIAS’ capacity to promote human capital High High Efficacy for the knowledge economy, R&D and innovation Raise awareness of STI in the Modest Substantial Colombian society Efficiency Modest Modest Moderately Moderately Rating Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall outcome rating Rating value 4 4 Disbursement 40% 60% weight Weighted 1.6 2.4 4 value Moderately Final Rating Satisfactory 3.5 Overarching Themes, Outcomes and Impacts (a) Poverty Impacts, Gender Aspects, and Social Development A proactive effort was made to get the most vulnerable population involved in the STI activities financed by the Project. The proportion of beneficiaries from the regions Ondas with the highest concentration of indigenous and afro-Caribbean population out of total beneficiaries went up from 26 percent in 2010 to 31 percent in 2014. As of 2015, 7 percent of Project beneficiaries were children and adolescents from indigenous communities. The Social program did not explicitly target the most vulnerable population by design, but Appropriation de facto ended up focusing on rural communities, indigenous populations and other ethnic minorities. Similarly, the contest, open to the whole population, rewarded A Ciencia Cierta several proposals submitted by indigenous communities. Importantly, this program was also able to reach areas inflicted by Colombia’s armed conflict. Notably, these activities had the effect not only of empowering indigenous communities and increasing their awareness about the benefits from science and innovation, but they also offered a public platform to increase awareness in the Colombian society about indigenous culture and traditions, specific problems and resources. It was one the first examples in the region to explicitly recognize local community knowledge as an equally important contributor to address STI challenges. Many of the innovations developed under pilot programs had a clear focus on social development, focusing on topics such as health (the development of low-cost point-of-care diagnostic for tuberculosis; a prototype tool for evaluating motor rehabilitation of patients with neurological diseases; the use of DNA sequencing technology for the diagnosis of hereditary cardio diseases), environment protection (protection of hydro resources, biodiversity), social development of marginalized groups (a new model of agricultural production combined to social support to families previously employed in cocaine
Efficacy Overall Efficacy Substantial Substantial Strengthen COLCIENCIAS’ capacity to promote human capital for the knowledge economy, R&D and innovation High High Raise awareness of STI in the Colombian society Modest Substantial Efficiency Modest Modest Rating Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall outcome rating Rating value 4 4 Disbursement weight 40% 60% Weighted value 1.6 2.4 4 Final Rating Moderately Satisfactory 3.5 Overarching Themes, Outcomes and Impacts (a) Poverty Impacts, Gender Aspects, and Social Development A proactive effort was made to get the most vulnerable population involved in the STI activities financed by the Project. The proportion of Ondas beneficiaries from the regions with the highest concentration of indigenous and afro-Caribbean population out of total beneficiaries went up from 26 percent in 2010 to 31 percent in 2014. As of 2015, 7 percent of Project beneficiaries were children and adolescents from indigenous communities. The Social Appropriation program did not explicitly target the most vulnerable population by design, but de facto ended up focusing on rural communities, indigenous populations and other ethnic minorities. Similarly, the A Ciencia Cierta contest, open to the whole population, rewarded several proposals submitted by indigenous communities. Importantly, this program was also able to reach areas inflicted by Colombia’s armed conflict. Notably, these activities had the effect not only of empowering indigenous communities and increasing their awareness about the benefits from science and innovation, but they also offered a public platform to increase awareness in the Colombian society about indigenous culture and traditions, specific problems and resources. It was one the first examples in the region to explicitly recognize local community knowledge as an equally important contributor to address STI challenges. Many of the innovations developed under pilot programs had a clear focus on social development, focusing on topics such as health (the development of low-cost point-of-care diagnostic for tuberculosis; a prototype tool for evaluating motor rehabilitation of patients with neurological diseases; the use of DNA sequencing technology for the diagnosis of hereditary cardio diseases), environment protection (protection of hydro resources, biodiversity), social development of marginalized groups (a new model of agricultural production combined to social support to families previously employed in cocaine
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