Central America Regional Trade

completed

This project will provide technical assistance / advisory services to the Governments of the region. IFC will provide advisory services for regulatory and technological reforms, which involve process redesigning, and harmonization, as well as the design, development and support in the implementation of a system to facilitate mutual recognition of sanitary registries in Central America. The work includes process mapping, identification of unnecessary requirements and redesign the process for sanitary registration for the first time and for online mutual recognition. A new regional system will be developed, using a 'cloud', where all countries will upload their files for sanitary registries for food and beverages. The digitization of files and access to updated information from the responsible agencies in each country will allow authorities to make the recognition of registration approved in another country in the region in a more accurate way and will confirm the status of the file, make updates and answer questions, among others, in a short time. For users, the implementation of an online module, with access to certain information, would allow them to track their process and properly manage their records. The system development will be phased in by modules simultaneously in the 4 countries, in order to test them, get early results, and demonstrate the benefits of a regional software The system would serve as base for adding other products´ registries in the future, such as agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals that would need to be systematized as well.