By means of a statement, the international entity specified that in its programming this lot would be delivered from the last week of March.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) confirmed on Tuesday through a statement that it has supported the contracting of “a batch of 46,422 computers, valued at US $ 13,525,049.70, including shipping and insurance costs, funded by funds. of the government of El Salvador ”.
These computers have been delivered to students of the public education network since Monday, following a press conference where the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele; the Minister of Education, Carla Hananía de Varela; and the Minister of Innovation, Vladimir Hándal.
In his speech handing out laptops to students, President Bukele said on Monday that the government has invested $ 450 million in the purchase of this technology equipment, despite the fact that Minister Hananía de Varela had said in the past that computers would be donated by the government. United Nations enter the country.
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Last Tuesday, the minister qualified her earlier words and explained via Twitter that “if I say we didn’t buy it, it’s because we did it through the UN, with GOES money. Why did we do it this way? For transparency and for all the additional benefits that this brings us ”.
The official data provided by the government states that there will be 1.2 million computers, which will be distributed to a similar number of students across the country, including the approximately 50,000 people who make up the public network’s teaching staff.
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The UNDP statement specifies that this batch of 46,422 computers would be delivered “in a staggered fashion from the last week of March 2021,” and not just the week before the elections, where the government could remove a political split in these supplies for the population.
The UN body adds that “the procurement process was conducted in accordance with UNDP procurement policies and procedures, ensuring the principles of: good value for money; impartiality, effective competition, integrity and transparency ”.
As announced by the Minister of Education, the first students to receive the computers will be the second and third grade of the secondary school. Likewise, Minister Hándal said they will give them a tablet from early childhood to fourth grade and a computer from fourth grade to high school.
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