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Although Protected Natural Areas are subject to a number of factors that influence the achievement of their objective, little progress has been made by Conanp in conducting a comprehensive assessment of the conservation policy within them, that consider the following aspects: the design of its planning tool; the effectiveness of the activities earned out taking into account the use of fiscal budget for current expenditure and resources from annual applications to specific grant programs; as well as social consequences of the actions planned and carried out under the protected polygon and its area of influence. Based on these elements, this paper presents an evaluation exercise applied to the Management and Conservation Plan of Huatulco National Park (PNH), considering the period 2007-2012, as a means to make explicit the limitations, which in practice, faces the implementation of the conservation policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluative analysis of mechanisms of certification of the conditionalities in education and health. The Universal Child Allowance for Social Protection form Argentina. The Universal Child Allowance is the most important non-contributory social policy that transfers cash to children considered to be "vulnerable" in Argentina. This paper aims to analyze how the mechanisms of certification of the conditionalities in education and health work so as to evaluate it, since 600 thousand children are suspended each year because they do not prove the conditionalities. This research was triggered by a World Bank loan for 600 million dollars launched in 2016, one of whose objectives is to revise these mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The analysis on policy evaluation tends to emphasize the need to build technical capacity among officials and robust information systems. However, they have not put enough focus on the highly political nature of this process. This paper analyzes, through the Uruguayan case, a set of political and institutional dimensions associated with bureaucracy, civil society and their links with political parties in an attempt to contribute to the understanding about the consolidation of the monitoring and evaluation systems in the Latin American public administrations. Two main arguments are developed: on the one hand, the existence of factors associated with the country's institutional construction of the public sector influence the development of the evaluation system, and on the other, paradoxically, we ask if the good levels of transparency and confidence by citizens to the state reduce the incentives for evaluating public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a few years, it has radically changed the culture of evaluation among public servants. However, not all aspects that are related to this subject have advanced as well. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze the relevant moments in the "history" of the evaluation to government programs in Mexico, the items that -since the perspective of an evaluation team-constitute progress (although some are only partial) and setbacks (or very limited progress) and, in conclusion, what we consider that is necessary to be done. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]