SENPLADES requested the support of EUROsociAL, programme funded by the European Union, for evaluation of the Deconcentration of Citizen Security Services Programme. This programme has a budget of nearly 1.8 billion USD to be executed over six years (2012-2017). Its area of intervention covers the country's 24 provinces, and the beneficiary population is the people of Ecuador as a whole.

In Ecuador, the SENPLADES is responsible for monitoring and evaluation of compliance with the National Development Plan, and since 2012 it has been coordinating the formation of the National Evaluation System. In January 2014 it created the Directorate of Public Policy Evaluation and implemented the new official process for planning and execution of the Annual Evaluation Plan (PAEV).

The Programme is consistent with Objective 6 of the National Plan for Well-Being, which is to consolidate the transformation of justice and strengthen overall security with strict respect for human rights, and Policy 6.5 on preventing and controlling ordinary and organised crime. Its objective is to bring security services closer to citizens through deconcentration of these services. To do this, division of the territory into districts and circuits in which police units operate is being considered, seeking a new structure for these in the community. 

The objectives of the technical assistance are a design review of the evaluation and work methodology, and adaptation of the evaluation approach, taking into account the regional context and similar evaluations in Latin America.
This technical assistance is being provided in the context of a regional process of strengthening the national evaluation systems of five Latin American countries (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay) and of a series of requests from the countries that EUROsociAL has been responding to in this area. 

This activity is part of the Plan-Budget Link action of the Public Finance area of the EUROsociAL Programme, financed by the European Union, coordinated by the FIIAPP.