The Non-lending Technical Assistance(NLTA) to support policy dialogue and consensus building inEl Salvador was a just-in-time response to support theBank s re-engagement in the country in the context of atransition period characterized by: a) the politicaltransition process in the country including the presidentialand Congress pre-election and election periods and thechange of administration; b) the impact of the globaleconomic crisis hitting a highly vulnerable local economy;and c) the preparation of the Bank s Country PartnershipStrategy (CPS) aiming at re-engaging and reactivating aprogram in a country with minimum activity in the past fouryears. A country characterized with a highly polarizedpolitical system was going through a historic transitionperiod with a new government coming from the oppositionparty for the first time in 20 years. The transition thattook place in mid 2009 was also marked with the strong hitof the global economic crisis that impacted on the overallcountry s macroeconomic performance and seriously limitedthe capacity of the government to respond to urgent needs.Within this context the proposed NLTA was conceived toprovide support to the country policy dialogue byfacilitating the discussion of critical aspects in thecontext of the adverse economic and social situation.
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