Wed, Oct 28 2020

• SESSION 5
  Presentation of the report on the activities carried out by the Commission in 2019 and of the draft programme of work of the ECLAC system, 2022
  08:00 am to 08:30 am

  by Raúl García-Buchaca, Deputy Executive Secretary for Management and Programme Analysis of ECLAC

  Chair: Christian Guillermet Fernández, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica

  • Report on the activities of the Commission, 2019
  • Draft programme of work of the ECLAC system, 2022

• SESSION 5
  Statements by delegations
  08:30 am to 09:00 am
• SESSION 5
  Presentation of the report on the activities of the subsidiary bodies of ECLAC and the outcomes of other intergovernmental meetings organized by ECLAC since its thirty-seventh session
  09:00 am to 11:00 am

  • Report on the activities of the subsidiary bodies of ECLAC and the outcomes of other intergovernmental meetings since the thirty-seventh session

  • Statistical Conference of the Americas, chaired by Colombia
  • Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, chaired by Peru
  • Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), presented by the representative of the British Virgin Islands, in that country’s capacity as Vice Chair
  • Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by the representative of Argentina, in that country’s capacity as Vice Chair
  • Committee on South-South Cooperation, chaired by Costa Rica
  • Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), chaired by Uruguay
  • Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies, chaired by Costa Rica
  • Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, chaired by Colombia
  • Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean, chaired by Paraguay
  • Meeting of the countries signatory to the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, presented by Costa Rica
  • Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, chaired by Mexico

• High-level events
  11:00 am to 02:00 pm
• High-level event
  High-level event: Presentation of the study “Afrodescendientes y la matriz de la desigualdad social en América Latina: retos para la inclusión”
  11:00 am to 12:00 pm

  • Presentation of the study programme

  • Afrodescendientes y la matriz de la desigualdad social en América Latina: retos para la inclusión

  Alicia Bárcena - Afrodescendientes y la matriz de la desigualdad social en América Latina
• High-level event
  High-level event: “Older persons, human rights and social protection in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic”
  12:00 pm to 01:00 pm

  • Nota conceptual y programa - Evento de alto nivel 

  • COVID-19 y sus impactos en los derechos y la protección social de las personas mayores en la subregión

• Launching
  Launch of the book The environmental tragedy of Latin America and the Caribbean
  01:00 pm to 02:00 pm

  • The environmental tragedy of Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Book presentation program

• SESSION 6
  Presentations by civil society
  02:00 pm to 02:30 pm

  • Presentation of the document “Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil de América Latina y el Caribe ante el COVID-19: Impactos, recomendaciones y desafíos de los Estados”, prepared by the Lisaion Committee of the mechanism for civil society participation in the Sustainable Development Agenda and the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, given by Mabel Bianco, representative of the facilitating group of the mechanism 

  • Presentation of the document “Voces y propuestas de América Latina y el Caribe: Transformaciones para salir de la crisis”, by Iniciativa Social para América Latina y el Caribe (ISALC), given by Clara López Obregón and Marco Romero Silva, representatives of ISALC

  Mabel Bianco - Las Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil de América Latina y el Caribe ante el COVID-19
• SESSION 6
  Consideration and adoption of the resolutions of the Commission at its thirty-eighth session
  02:30 pm to 02:45 pm
• SESSION 6
  Closing session
  03:00 pm to 04:00 pm

  • Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations and Chair of the Group of 77 and China
  • Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC
  • Rodolfo Solano Quirós, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica
   

  Alicia Bárcena - Discurso de cierre del trigésimo octavo período de sesiones de la CEPAL (español)
  Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett - Closing session panel on the decade of action and financing for development (english)
  Rodolfo Solano Quirós - Intervención de Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto de Costa Rica
  Amina Mohammed - Intervention, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (english)