Representatives of government, international organizations and academia will participate from August 30 through September 1, 2022 in the Second Regional Seminar on Social Development, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the framework of collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and joint work with German Cooperation and the European Union's Facility for Development in Transition. The three-day seminar is entitled “Social Security and the Protracted Crisis: An Opportunity to Combat Inequality in the Framework of a Welfare State in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
This event seeks to serve as a space for dialogue and reflection on social security systems in the region, focusing on diagnoses, challenges and strategic orientations for reform and restructuring in pension and health systems, in an uncertain context of recovery from the crises triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to consolidate full guarantees for the exercise of social rights in the region’s countries.
The opening session will take place on Tuesday, August 30 at 2 p.m. local time in Chile (GMT-4) and will feature the participation of Mario Cimoli, Acting Executive Secretary of ECLAC; Fabio Bertranou, Director of the ILO Office for the Southern Cone of Latin America; Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO); Volker Oel, Commissioner for Latin America of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany; and Jutta Urpilainen, Commissioner for International Partnerships of the European Commission. Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director of ECLAC’s Social Development Division, will act as the moderator.
The seminar will include keynote presentations by Nicholas Barr, Professor at the London School of Economics; Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh; and Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London (UCL) and Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, among other specialists.
What: Second Regional Seminar on Social Development - Social Security and the Protracted Crisis: An Opportunity to Combat Inequality in the Framework of a Welfare State in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Who:
When: Tuesday and Wednesday, August 30-31, and Thursday, September 1, 2022.
Inaugurating the event (Tuesday, August 30, 2 p.m. local time in Chile, GMT-4):
Where: Virtual meeting
Transmission on the Zoom platform (https://cepal-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MJkxqPhxTTSN4G2cC6WTJQ) and online via ECLAC’s website (www.cepal.org) and at https://live.cepal.org/social/
