The eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development will take place from March 31-April 4, 2025 at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. 

Representatives of governments, the United Nations System, regional and international organizations, the private sector, academia and civil society will analyze progress and challenges for fulfilling the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean during the eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, to be chaired by Peru from March 31-April 4 at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

Ten years after the historic approval of the 2030 Agenda, this Forum will include a series of dialogues on global, regional, and national action.

During the global action dialogues (Tuesday, April 1), leading authorities from the United Nations and governments, along with civil society and other relevant actors, will exchange views on the global commitments expected to arise during the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (Seville, Spain, 2025), the Second World Summit for Social Development (Qatar, 2025) and the thirtieth United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Belem do Para, Brazil, 2025). There will also be a session on the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) and a session to review implementation of the Pact for the Future and its annexes, approved at the Summit of the Future in September 2024.

The regional action dialogues will begin on Wednesday, April 2 with the presentation of the eighth report on regional progress and challenges related to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin American and the Caribbean, entitled Latin America and the Caribbean in the Final Five Years of the 2030 Agenda: Steering Transformations to Accelerate Progress by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC Executive Secretary. 

Representatives from countries, civil society, the private sector, and academia will be able to share their experiences on how to accelerate the use of private and disaggregated data, as well as progress in implementing SDG 3: Health and Wellbeing, SDG 5: Gender Equality, SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth; SGD 14: Life below Water, and SDG 17: Partnership Goals (April 3 and 4).

The national action dialogues (April 4) will include two learning sessions, the first to exchange successful national experiences in accelerating achievement of the SDGs, and the second to share good practices and challenges in preparing the voluntary national reviews (VNRs) that countries present to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum in New York.

The eighth meeting of this intergovernmental summit will be inaugurated on Tuesday, April 1 at 8:30 a.m. Santiago, Chile time (GMT-3). In this session, Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs will also present the book Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Contributions from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on its 75th Anniversary.

The event will be preceded by a meeting of the mechanism for civil society participation and the Forum of Children, Adolescents, and Youth of Latin America and the Caribbean, both of which will be held Monday, March 31.

The meeting’s full programme is available on the website https://foroalc2030.cepal.org/2025/en/programme.

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What: Eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development.

When: Monday, March 31 to Friday, April 4, 2025.

Who: Representatives of governments, the United Nations System, international organizations, the private sector, academia, and civil society.

Where: ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile (Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura).

Virtual connection via various platforms:

• Meeting website: https://foroalc2030.cepal.org/2025/en 
• ECLAC’s website: https://www.cepal.org/en 
• Webpage for the live transmission: https://live.cepal.org/ 
• Official account on X: https://x.com/cepal_onu 

• Official account on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu  

   

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