Latin America and the Caribbean in the Final Five Years of the 2030 Agenda: Territorialization and the Role of Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) to Accelerate Progress Towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Teaser
HLPF 2025 Virtual Side Event
Within the framework of the High-Level Political Forum 2025, this side event organized by ECLAC will address the progress, challenges, and opportunities for accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean during its final five years. Building on the momentum for the territorialization of the SDGs and the development of Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs), concrete experiences will be analyzed and exchanges between local, national, and regional actors will be encouraged. In addition, the English version of ECLAC's virtual course on territorialization and VLRs will be officially launched.
Event information
Date
21 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:30Event type
Participation
GOAL OF THE WORKSHOP
The main goal of the event is to foster dialogue, exchange of best practices and peer learning on the opportunity of the process of territorialization and the elaboration of VLRs for strengthening intersectoral, multi-level, multi-stakeholder, and long-term governance in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean and accelerate the SDGs until 2030.
OUTCOMES
- Launch ECLAC’s new training course on the territorialization of the SDGs in Latin America and the Caribbean and the development of VLRs at the subnational level
- Showcase diverse best practices in the territorialization and VLR elaboration from the region of Latin America and the Caribbean, including Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
- Share good practices and experiences, as well as innovative approaches to overcome the challenges faced in the formulation and preparation of VLRs for implementing and monitoring the 2030 Agenda at the local level, and improve vertical integration at the local, national, regional, and global levels.
Practical information
📅 Date: Monday, July 21, 2025
🕐 Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (EST)
🌐 Format: Virtual
🔗 Platform: WEBEX
🔑 Registration required: Register here.
Meeting Number: 2306 290 7099
Meeting Password: HkVzJTn5J47
📣 Language: English (interpretation only via closed captions)
📋 Programme
Moderator: Mareike Eberz, Economic Affairs Officer, Office of the Executive Secretary, ECLAC
- 13:00 – 13:05 | Welcome and opening remarks
Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary, ECLAC - 13:05 – 13:15 | A global perspective on the VLR landscape with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean
Jurgen Gafke, Senior Programme Management Officer, Division for Sustainable Development Goals, UN DESA - 13:15 – 13:25 | Global launch of ECLAC’s training course on the territorialization of the SDGs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Valeria Torres, Head of the Public Management and Open Government Department, ILPES, ECLAC - 13:25 – 13:35 | Measuring SDG progress at the territorial level: ECLAC's approach to local data and statistics
Romain Zivy, Officer in charge, ECLAC office in Argentina - 13:35 – 13:45 | The development of the first VLR from the Caribbean – The experience of Saint Kitts and Nevis on its work in progress on localizing the SDGs
Hon. Mark Brantley, Premier of Nevis - 13:45 – 13:55 | Experience of developing a VLR in Aguascalientes, Mexico
Guillermo de la Torre Sifuentes, Secretary of Planning, Participation and Development, Aguascalientes, Mexico - 13:55 – 14:05 | The role of cities and VLRs and localization of the 2030 Agenda in Brazil
Lavito Bacarissa, Executive Secretary, National Commission for the SDGs (CNODS), General Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic, Brazil - 14:05 – 14:15 | SDG Municipalization Strategies in Brazil: Partnerships between Civil Society and Government in localizing the SDGs
Igor Pantoja, Representative of the Institute for Sustainable Cities in Brazil - 14:15 – 14:25 | Interactive dialogue between all participants
Sharing of best practices and lessons learned around the territorialization and VLR process - 14:25 – 14:30 | Final reflections and closing remarks
Javier Medina Vásquez, Deputy Executive Secretary, ECLAC
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Organizing institution
Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social (ILPES), CEPAL
- http://www.cepal.org/ilpes/
- (56-2) 2102507
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
- https://www.cepal.org
- 56 222100000
Contact
Bárbara Silva
- barbara.silva@un.org
- (56 2) 2210 2234