In spite of the fact that annual social investment in Peru has risen to an average of US$ 1.000 million, the limited efficacy of social programs in Peru generates an annual cost of approximately US$ 90 million plus the exclusion of at least 3,5 million children. To deal with this, this paper proposes the creation of a Social Inclusion Fund (FIS, for its initials in Spanish) based on the fusion of 49 social programs that annually spend S/. 2,52 billion from the budget.The FIS would benefit those who live in extreme poverty and its interventions would be defined according to social gaps analysis. Once these gaps are identified, they would provide an input into preparing –with civil society participation– a «road map» that facilitates the accomplishment of well-defined targets by 2011. This would encourage a results-based management that would permit closer collaboration with the priv...

In spite of the fact that annual social investment in Peru has risen to an average of US$ 1.000 million, the limited efficacy of social programs in Peru generates an annual cost of approximately US$ 90 million plus the exclusion of at least 3,5 million children. To deal with this, this paper proposes the creation of a Social Inclusion Fund (FIS, for its initials in Spanish) based on the fusion of 49 social programs that annually spend S/. 2,52 billion from the budget.The FIS would benefit those who live in extreme poverty and its interventions would be defined according to social gaps analysis. Once these gaps are identified, they would provide an input into preparing –with civil society participation– a «road map» that facilitates the accomplishment of well-defined targets by 2011. This would encourage a results-based management that would permit closer collaboration with the priv...

La limitada eficacia de los programas sociales en el Perú ha significado que por lo menos 3.5 millones de niños vivan excluidos de la inversión social. El documento propone la formación de un Fondo de Inclusión Social (FIS) que se crearía por Ley Orgánica sobre la base de la fusión de 49 programas sociales que absorben un total de S/. 2,610,988,821.10 anuales del Presupuesto General de la República. El FIS estaría conducido por un directorio de 7 miembros (4 nominados por el Poder Ejecutivo y 3 nominados por el Poder Legislativo) y 8 gerencias con un alto componente técnico. El esfuerzo institucional estaría orientado a alcanzar metas cuantitativas de mejora del capital humano y físico fundamentalmente de los pobres extremos. Dentro de ellas se encuentran, por ejemplo, en salud, la reducción de la tasa de morbilidad de 127 por cada 100 mil habitantes en 2006 a 98.2 por cada...