Glossary
Definitions of commonly used IPRO terms

Social Programs 1 Social programs are government programs that are designed to fit the needs of a target population. They seek to facilitate the social and human development of citizens and are developed according to specific social goals and evaluation criteria. Rules of Operation 2 These are the rules and guidelines that precisely indicate how a program will operate. Rules of operation seek to ensure high levels of efficiency, efficacy, equality and transparency in social programming. Rules of operation should indicate: The program's target population: who they are, how they will obtain support and what type of support they will receive How the program will contribute to beneficiaries personal and community development. How citizens can ensure that public resources are being used as the program intended them to be used.   List of Beneficiaries 3 Official registry of all program beneficiaries.   Program Guidelines In addition to operational rules, social programs should also have a series of standards, criteria and regulations to ensure their successful implementation.   Co-Responsibility 4 Refers to the shared responsibility between program beneficiaries and the program operators that is required in order to implement a specific activity or program.   Institutional Coordination 5 Intergovernmental relationships between federal, state and municipal levels of government required for the successful development and execution of social policies and programs.   Budget 6 Refers to a program’s expenditures and income for a specific time period.   Financial Management 7 Financial management refers to: Budget management, including budget surpluses The authorization of budget transfers and adjustments he management of any additional financial resources   Logical Framework and/or Results-Based Framework The Logical Framework (Logframe) is a mechanism designed by the World Bank, which refers to a program's entire management cycle. It is a tool to facilitate effective program design, implementation and evaluation, which is based on international standards, methods and terminology. It seeks to promote collaboration and responsibility in social programs and encourages an objective-driven, client-centered program design. It is designed to improve the causal logic behind social programs to ensure that programs are based on a set of desired, strategic outcomes. Also, the framework seeks to ensure that the social program development process is filled with learning and growth. Lastly, the framework provides projects with program planning and strategy. A complete, detailed description of the Logical Framework can be found in the World Bank Logframe Handbook - A logical framework approach to project cycle management. The Logframe Handbook8.   Evaluations 9 Refer to the systematic application of social research methods to evaluate and measure program goals, design, implementation and social utility. Evaluators use social research methodology to analyze, evaluate and improve the ways in which social policies and programs are carried out by looking at the early stages of problem definition and program design in addition to the later stages of program development and implementation.   Social control mechanisms 10 Mechanisms used by program beneficiaries to ensure that program goals are being met and that assigned public resources are used effectively.    Citizen participation mechanisms (development, execution and evaluation) Refer to the ways in which the public sector interacts with society. Democratic governments are obligated to provide opportunities for diverse social actors to participate in the design, implementation and monitoring of social policy making.11 In Mexico, citizen participation in government activities has been a legal mandate for almost three decades. The federal public administration law mandates the participation of social groups in the creation of the National Development Plan and its related social programs. 12.    Web Address 13 A communication tool that allows individuals to interact with one another over the Internet. Addresses are unique; there cannot be duplicates because messages would become lost. There are 3 types of web addresses: computer based (domain names), individual addresses (email addresses) and resource addresses (websites).    URL 1 Secretary of Social Development (SEDESOL) www.sedesol.gob.mx 2 http://www.funcionpublica.gob.mx/scagp/dgorcs/reglas/index.htm 3 Article 5 of the Law for Social Development, section X. 4 Department of Participatory Studies Simon Bolivar University www.participa.com.ve 5 Secretary of Social Development (SEDESOL) www.sedesol.gob.mx 6 Department of Participatory Studies Simon Bolivar University www.participa.com.ve 7 Universidad Autónoma de México www.uam.mx 8 World Bank Logframe Handbook.http://www.coneval.gob.mx/contenido/eval_mon/1324.pdf 9 INAP, Universidad de Chile www.inap.uchile.cl 10 Citizen Manual http://www.sedesol.gob.mx/archivos/1/file/manual_ciudadano2008.pdf 11 Semarnat http://www.semarnat.gob.mx/participacionsocial/mecanismosdeparticipacion/Paginas/inicio.aspx 12 Plan Nacional de Desarrollo http://pnd.presidencia.gob.mx/indexab47.html?page=participacion-ciudadana-2 13 Wikipedia en español. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direcci%C3%B3n_de_Internet