ABSTRACT
The Committee comprises a government representative of each member state tasked with ensuring the implementation of decisions adopted by heads of state or the Council of Ministers, and with overseeing the activities of the General Secretariat. A Secretariat Commission oversees SICA's five pillars of regional co-operation: social integration, economic integration, democratic security, the comprehensive management of disaster risk and climate change, and strengthening regional institutions. In addition to those listed below, various technical or executive secretariat units support meetings of ministerial Councils, concerned, inter alia, with women, housing, health and finance. In December 2021 SE-COMSICA reported that collectively 42.3% of the population of SICA's member states had completed COVID-19 vaccination protocols. In early 2014 SICA, with other partners including the OAS and the Caribbean Tourism Organization, launched the Americas Sustainable Destinations initiative, with the aim of strengthening public-private partnerships to protect and to improve the lives of local people in selected destination areas.
