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Item 8 of the Annotated Provisional Agenda
Event information
Date
Event type
The Committee on South-South Cooperation was held in the framework of the Thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), held in México, on 25 May 2016.
Room 1
Chair: Gina Casar, Executive Director of the Mexican Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AMEXCID)
3.30 – 3.50 p.m. Election of officers
- Remarks by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
- Welcome remarks and presentation of the action lines of the Committee on South-South Cooperation for the period 2016-2018 by Gina Casar, Executive Director of the Mexican Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AMEXCID), in her capacity as Chair of the Committee on South-South Cooperation
Adoption of the agenda
3.50 – 5.10 p.m. Panel: South-South cooperation and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Presentations:
- Jesús Manuel Gracia Aldaz, Secretary of State for Intenational Cooperation and for Ibero-America of Spain
- Norma Vidal Añaños, Vice-Minister for Social Benefits of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru
- Rolando Ocampo, President of the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas
- Ricardo Herrera Saldías, Director of the Chilean Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AGCID)
- Salvador Arriola, Director for International Cooperation of the IberoAmerican Secretariat (SEGIB)
- Christiane Bögemann-Hagedorn, Deputy Director General for Latin America at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany
Raúl García-Buchaca - Speech - Discussion and statements by delegations
5.10 – 5.20 p.m. Report on technical cooperation activities, by Raúl García Buchaca, Deputy Executive Secretary for Management and Programme Analysis of ECLAC
5.20 – 6.15 p.m. Statements by delegations
6.15 – 6.30 p.m. Consideration and adoption of resolutions
6.30 p.m. Closing session
7 - 7.30 p.m. Meeting of heads of delegation (Room 2)
8.30 p.m. Cultural activity organized by the Government of the United Mexican States
Practical information
Committee on South-South Cooperation: Provisional Agenda
Committee on South-South Cooperation: Annotated Provisional Agenda
Proposed action lines of the Committee on South-South Cooperation for the period 2016-2018. Note by the Secretariat
Report on the South-South cooperation activities carried out since the thirty-fifth session of ECLAC. Note by the secretariat
Annotated Provisional Agenda and Organization of the Thirty-Sixth Session
Report Technical Cooperation Activities Carried out by ECLAC System 2014-2015 Biennium
Report of the Thirty-Sixth Session
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