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Committee on South-South Cooperation

05/07/2014 - 09:00 to 13:00

Room: 

Plenary room
9 – 9.10 a.m. Welcoming remarks by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
9.10 – 9.20 a.m. Election of officers and adoption of the agenda
9.20 – 9.40 a.m. Report on technical cooperation activities, by Raúl García Buchaca, Chief, Programme Planning and Operations Division of ECLAC
9.40 – 11 a.m.

Panel: International cooperation for equality, moderated by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC

Group 1:

  • Hege Araldsen, Ambassador of Norway in Chile
  • Jean-Paul Joulia, Head of Unit, Regional Programmes for Latin America and Caribbean of the European Commission
  • Christian Abstein, Regional Cooperation Adviser of the Embassy of Germany in Peru
  • Benedicte Bull, Professor at the University of Oslo

Group 2:

  • Moni Pizani, Regional Director for Latin America of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)
  • Michel Schlaifer, Regional Cooperation Adviser of France
  • Inmaculada Zamora, Coordinator of the EUROsociAL programme
  • Tarcila Rivera, Director of the Centre for Indigenous Cultures of Peru

Final comments on the panel and report on the study on structural gaps in Costa Rica, by Daniel Titleman, Chief of the Financing for Development Division of ECLAC

11 – 11.15 a.m. Coffe break
11.15 a.m.–13.00 p.m.

Report on follow-up to the agreements adopted by the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation during the period 2012-2013

  • Report on indicators of South-South cooperation, by Fernando Prada, consultant from the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI)