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Returning to Costa Rica in 1987, Figueres was named Director of International Cooperation in the Ministry of Planning.[55] There she designed and directed the negotiation of comprehensive financial and technical cooperation programs with eight European countries (total investment US$90 million), and supervised the evaluation of all national technical and financial assistance requests. A year later she was made Chief of Staff to the Minister of Agriculture.[56] She supervised the execution of 22 national programs involving training, credit and marketing[57] (credit portfolio US$200 million). She reorganized the Minister's Bureau for greater teamwork and productivity, and designed coordination strategies among three major public institutions in the sector, eliminating duplications of services and contradictions in policy. |