UN General Assembly
2013

The Goal on coverage in terms of maternal health has been reached, and maternal and child mortality has decreased. Thanks to that economic growth we have been able to create vouchers for pregnant women and for children under 2 years of age, which has made possible a decrease in maternal and child mortality. Coverage in terms of potable water has increased. For example, we created a programme entitled “My water (more investment for water)”. I must thank the Andean Development Corporation and the Inter-American Development Bank for their contributions. With their funding we put together “My water” I and II, and we are now on the third programme, with $300,000 per municipality in rural areas. That has made it possible for us to provide some municipalities with 100 per cent coverage in terms of potable water. I have just come from a major event in the department of Santa Cruz, where I visited several municipalities. In two of them, the mayors — who are not from the party in power but from other parties — told me that