Government representatives will address the challenges of transforming development planning along with current and new requests for training in the region, among other issues, at the Thirtieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP) of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), which will take place on November 27-28, 2024 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
The event will be inaugurated on Wednesday, November 27 at 9 a.m. local time in Chile (GMT-3) by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, and Pável Isa, the Minister of Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic, in its capacity as Chair of the Regional Council for Planning of ILPES.
Afterwards, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs will share the main conclusions of the position document prepared by ECLAC for its 40th session, entitled Development Traps in Latin America and the Caribbean: Vital Transformations and How to Manage Them.
Pável Isa, meanwhile, will present a document for the Presiding Officers’ consideration entitled Guidelines for the drafting of a regional agenda on governance of planning and public management for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The meeting will include two thematic panels, the presentation of reports on the activities of ILPES-ECLAC and its programme of work, and information on the preparations for the XX Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning, which is scheduled for the second half of 2025.
The Presiding Officers of the RCP of ILPES – made up of the Dominican Republic (as Chair), Brazil, Chile, Dominica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica and Peru – meets every two years to review progress on work and fulfillment of the agreements adopted by the Regional Council for Planning, which is the main intergovernmental body steering the activities of this Institute of ECLAC.
In this context, on Friday, November 29, the Seminar on Collaborative Governance as a Tool for Sustainable Development will be held, organized by ECLAC (through ILPES), the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), the Government Laboratory of Chile and Asuntos del Sur.
WHAT: Thirtieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP) of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES)
WHEN: Wednesday and Thursday, November 27-28.
WHO: Government representatives and planning specialists from Latin America and the Caribbean.
WHERE: ECLAC’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile (Av. Dag Hammarsköld 3477, Vitacura). Celso Furtado conference room.
The first day of the meeting of the Presiding Officers, along with the seminar on collaborative governance, will be streamed on this special site: https://live.cepal.org/CRP
