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Twenty-ninth session of the Committee of the Whole

28 August 2014|Event

As Member States' deliberations on the post-2015 development agenda continue, there is an emerging consensus that strong monitoring and accountability will be crucial for the implementation of the new agenda. The President of the General Assembly of the United Nations convened an interactive dialogue in May 2014 to address "Elements for a monitoring and accountability framework for the post-2015 development agenda". In his letter of 13 June 2014 the Secretary-General of the United Nations requested the five regional commissions to hold consultations in this regard to facilitate discussion on the global process from the regional perspective.

Accordingly, the twenty-ninth session of the Committee of the Whole of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is convened by the Executive Secretary of the Commission and the Government of Peru, by virtue of resolution 687(XXXV) adopted by ECLAC and bearing in mind the need to identify instruments and modalities for follow-up and future evaluation of the post-2015 development agenda. In resolution 687(XXXV), ECLAC "Recognizes that the session of the Commission is an important forum for regional discussion for advancing the discussions on the regional vision with respect to the post-2015 development agenda and the sustainable development goals and requests the secretariat, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 67/290, to follow up, from a regional perspective, on the relevant issues of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the Economic and Social Council, within the framework of the Regional Implementation Forum on Sustainable Development, established pursuant to resolution 602(XXX), adopted in San Juan at the thirtieth session, and report on the matter at the next session."

The Committee of the Whole will be chaired by the Officers elected at the thirty-fifth session of ECLAC, held in Lima from 5 to 9 May 2014, as follows: Chair, Peru; Vice Chairs, El Salvador, Jamaica and Mexico; and Rapporteur, Ecuador.

PROVISIONAL AGENDA
1. Adoption of the agenda.
2. Methodology and institutional framework of ECLAC for evaluation and follow-up of the regional dimension and global challenges of development in the framework of the post-2015 development agenda.
3. Experiences, contributions and proposals of the United Nations Development Group-Latin America and the Caribbean (UNDG LAC) regarding national-level evaluation and follow-up of development in the framework of the post-2015 development agenda.
4. Contributions by civil society to the process of evaluation and follow-up of the regional dimension and global challenges of development on the basis of regional experiences.
5. Contributions of the private sector, the labour sector and the development financing sector to the process of evaluation and follow-up of the regional dimension and global challenges of development on the basis of regional experiences.
6. General reflections.
7. Comments and statements by delegations.

Preliminary programme (PDF, 487 Kb.)
Annotated provisional agenda (PDF, 496 Kb.)
Final report (PDF, 209 Kb.)

Practical information

REFERENCE DOCUMENTS:
Letter from the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the regional commissions (dated 13 June 2014)
Preliminary reflections on Latin America and the Caribbean in the post-2015 development agenda based on the trilogy of equality
Compacts for Equality. Towards a Sustainable Future (LC/G.2586(SES.35/3)).
Compacts for Equality. Towards a Sustainable Future - Summary (LC/G.2587 (SES.35/4))
Structural Change for Equality: An Integrated Approach to Development (LC/G.2524(SES.3))
Structural Change for Equality: An Integrated Approach to Development. Summary (LC/G.2525(SES.34/4))
Time for equality: closing gaps, opening trails (LC/G.2432(SES.33/3))
Summary. Time for equality: closing gaps, opening trails (LC/G.2433(SES.33/4))
Report on the activities of the subsidiary bodies of ECLAC, 2012-2013, and the outcomes of other intergovernmental meetings which report at the session (DDR/1)
The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective (LC/G.2331)
Millennium Development Goals 2006: a look at Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (LC/G.2352-P/I )
Millennium Development Goals. Progress towards the right to health in Latin America and the Caribbean (LC/G.2364/I )
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals with equality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress and challenges (LC/G.2460)
Milleniun Development Goals: Advances in Environmentally Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LC/G.2428-P)
Sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean: follow-up to the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015 and to Rio+20 (LC/G.2577)
Sustainable Development 20 Years on from the Earth Summit: Progress, gaps and strategic guidelines for Latin America and the Caribbean (LC/L.3346/Rev.1)
Handbook for Disaster Assessment (LC/L.3691)
Experiences, contributions and proposals of the United Nations Development Group - Latin America and the Caribbean (UNDG LAC) regarding evaluation and follow-up of the regional dimension of development in the framework of the post-2015 development agenda

PRESENTATIONS:
América Latina y el Caribe. Hacia una agenda de desarrollo post 2015 (presentation by ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, in Spanish)