Fifty-Eighth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

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The 58th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women was held on January 22 and 23, 2019, in Santiago, Chile.

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Event type

Presiding officers

At their fifty-eighth meeting, the Presiding Officers was make progress with the preparations for the fourteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In addition,  the delegations exchanged views on the country reports on the implementation of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030 and its synergy with the review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+25), as well as the annotated index of the position document of the fourteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, among other matters.

The 58 Meeting was organized by ECLAC, as the Secretariat of the Regional Conference. 

The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean is a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and is the main regional intergovernmental forum on women's rights and gender equality within the United Nations system.

Programme of work

22 January 2019

Registration.

5am - 6am
22 January 2019

Opening of the fifty-eighth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

6am - 6am

Presentation(s)

Cielo Morales, Directora del Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social (ILPES) de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Janet Camilo, Ministra de la Mujer de la República Dominicana, en su calidad de Vicepresidenta de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe
Lara Blanco, Directora Regional Adjunta para las Américas y el Caribe de la Entidad de las Naciones Unidas para la Igualdad de Género y el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres (ONU-Mujeres)
Isabel Plá, Ministra de la Mujer y la Equidad de Género de Chile
22 January 2019

Report by the secretariat on activities carried out since the fifty-seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Santiago, 30 and 31 July 2018).

6am - 8am

Presentation(s)

Informe de la Secretaría sobre las actividades realizadas desde la 57ª Reunión de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe (Santiago, 30 y 31 de julio de 2018). Punto 2 del temario.
22 January 2019

Coffee break.

8am - 8am
22 January 2019

Report on the outcomes of the meetings of other subsidiary bodies of the ECLAC held since the fifty-seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

8am - 9am
22 January 2019

Lunch recess.

10am - 11am
22 January 2019

Reports by the countries:

11am - 1pm

Reports by the countries on the implementation of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030 and its synergy with the review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+25).

Presentation(s)

Intervenciones de los países.


22 January 2019

Coffee break.

1pm - 1pm
22 January 2019

Reports by the countries:

1pm - 3pm

Reports by the countries on the implementation of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030 and its synergy with the review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+25) (continued).

23 January 2019

Presentation of the annotated index of the position document of the fourteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Santiago, 4–8 November 2019).

6am - 8am
23 January 2019

Coffee break.

8am - 8am
23 January 2019

Lunch recess.

10am - 11am
23 January 2019

Closing session.

12pm - 12pm

Presentation(s)

Mario Castillo, Oficial Superior de Asuntos Económicos de la División de Asuntos de Género de la CEPAL
Janet Camilo, Ministra de la Mujer de la República Dominicana, en su calidad de Vicepresidenta de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe


Isabel Plá, Ministra de la Mujer y la Equidad de Género de Chile


Denis Lama, Jefa del Departamento de RR.EE. del Ministerio de la Mujer y la Equidad de Género de Chile
Marcela Eternod, Secretaria Ejecutiva del Instituo Nacional de las Mujeres (INMUJERES) de México, en su calidad de Vicepresidenta de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe.

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Organizing institution

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

  • https://www.cepal.org
  • 56 222100000

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