[Completed] Security cooperation with Panama (SECOPA)
The action will provide strategic support to Panama's recent efforts to create a solid and permanent institutional framework for citizen security to address current security challenges. It will also focus on the creation of a permanent monitoring and evaluation system for the recently approved National Strategy for Citizen Security (ENSC), as well as on promoting greater effectiveness and accountability in its implementation. Within the framework of the ENSC, innovative actions in prevention, control and rehabilitation will be increased and improved. Based on the EU concept on security sector reform, the project will implement a balanced and human rights-based approach. Support to national security sector’s reform efforts in Panama will also be achieved by strengthening the prosecution services and improving the penitentiary system in line with human rights and international standards. This project will draw on the experience of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the expertise of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), where applicable.
The BID component has the following objectives:
- Support for the creation of a high-level administrative and institutional coordination structure for the promotion of the National Strategy for Citizen Security.
- The implementation of primary (public) and tertiary (minors in conflict with the law) prevention methods to combat violence, drug addiction and social exclusion.
- The reinforcement of the National Police service in community policing (new community police station in Samaria).
- Support the creation of 3 centers of integral attention to women victims of violence (INAMU) in the district of Panama (Clon, Panama City and San Miguelito).
Total cost: 21.700.000 EUR
EU contribution: 21.700.000 EUR
Duration: December 2013 - June 2023 (10 years)
Implementing agency: Inter-American Development Bank
Financing Instrument: Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI)
Beneficiary area: Panama
