¡It's official! Daniel Noboa finalizes mergers of ministries and eliminates Woman, Environment, and Culture

Quito.- The President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, signed the seven decrees that advance the Administrative Efficiency Plan that seeks to merge and transfer the functions of the ministries and institutions announced on July 24th. "Move forward steadily to simplify the state apparatus, modernize processes in the public sector, and guarantee the proper use of the country's resources. All plans, programs, projects, and citizen services will continue to operate with complete normality and without interruptions," says the statement issued by the Presidency of the South American country.

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The decrees issued provide for the merger by absorption into the Ministry of Government, of the Ministry of Women and Human Rights. Likewise, the merger into the Ministry of Education of institutions such as the Ministry of Culture and Heritage; the Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation and the Ministry of Sports. The new institution will be called the Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture. The Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion merges with the Technical Secretariat of Ecuador Grows Without Child Malnutrition and is renamed the Ministry of Human Development. The Ministry of Transportation and Other Public Works absorbs the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, and the Secretariat of Public-Private Investments. The new name will be Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation (MIT). Despite the protest of environmentalists and other social groups, Noboa signed the decree for the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition to merge with the Ministry of Energy and Mines, to be renamed the Ministry of Environment and Energy. On the other hand, the Ministry of Tourism merges with the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments and Fisheries, to be called the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade and Investments. The Vice Ministry of Aquaculture and Fisheries was transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock.

President Noboa's efficiency plan, whose slogan is "The new Ecuador", includes the dismissal of 5,000 employees.