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Fifteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of ILPES
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The Regional Council for Planning elects Presiding Officers, who meet regularly to review the progress of work and the fulfilment of agreements adopted with regard to training, technical cooperation and research, as well as diverse matters relating to the operation and administration of the Institute. The Presiding Officers serve as such until the following meeting of the Council, which then elects their successors for the next four-year period.
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Yachay, the Knowledge City in the province of Imbabura (Ecuador), was the host two regional meetings on planning for development on 18-19 November, 2015.
The XIV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean was hold at the Inniapolis Entrepreneurship Center on November 18.
On November 19, the XV Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning, a subsidiary body of ECLAC, will take place at the Yachay Tech University.
Thursday, 19 November
8.30 – 8.50 a.m. Opening of proceedings
• Sandra Naranjo, National Secretary of Planning and Development of Ecuador, in her capacity as Co-Chair of the Regional Council for Planning
• Ekaterina Parrilla, Secretary for Planning and Programming of the Office of the President of Guatemala, in her capacity as Co-Chair of the Regional Council for Planning
• Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
8.50 – 9 a.m. Adoption of the agenda
9 – 10 a.m. Report on the activities carried out by the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) since the fourteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning
• Presentation of the Report on the activities carried out by ILPES, 2014-2015, by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC
• Statements by senior planning officials
10 – 11.15 a.m. Review of the programme of work of ILPES 2016-2017
• Presentation of the programme of work of ILPES for 2016-2017, by Jorge Máttar, Chief of ILPES
• Statements by senior planning officials
11.15 a.m. – noon Strengthening and management of ILPES resources
• Management of ILPES resources, presented by Raúl García-Buchaca, Chief of the Programme Planning and Operations Division of ECLAC
• Statements by senior planning officials
Noon – 12.15 p.m. Consideration and adoption of resolutions
12.15 – 12.30 p.m. Closing session
• Jorge Máttar, Chief of ILPES
• Sandra Naranjo, National Secretary of Planning and Development of Ecuador
• Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC
12.30 – 1.30 p.m. Guided tour of Yachay, the City of Knowledge
1.30 p.m. Lunch
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