Alicia Bárcena: Planning is Key to Implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

The new development paradigm proposed by the 2030 Agenda positions and reappraises planning as a means of implementation and demands a long-term vision, with coherent policies linked to budget periods, with the availability of timely and quality data and statistical information, and with transparent and participatory systems for monitoring, accountability and evaluation, Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today. The senior United Nations official participated in the event Policy Coherence: From the Global to the …