Tue, Oct 25 2022

• National Auditorium Terrace, fourth mezzanine
  High-level seminar. Panel 3 - Sectoral investment and strategies: drivers of sustainable development
  09:00 am to 10:30 am

  Moderator: Mercedes Marcó del Pont, Secretary for Strategic Affairs of Argentina
  • Carla Barnett, Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) (virtual)
  • Mario Lubetkin, Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Fernando Yanez, Undersecretary for Monitoring of the National Secretariat for Planning of Ecuador
  • Vanessa Gibson, Investment Climate Director of the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE)

  Carla Barnett - Presentation CARICOM / Presentación CARICOM (english)
  Fernando Yanez - Presentación del Subsecretario de Seguimiento de la Secretaría Nacional de Planificación del Ecuador
  Vanessa Gibson - Dispositivos Médicos en Costa Rica: Un caso de éxito (español)
• National Auditorium Terrace, fourth mezzanine
  Statements by delegations
  10:30 am to 11:30 am
• National Auditorium Terrace, fourth mezzanine
  High-level seminar. Panel 4 - International cooperation in the face of a new multilateralism
  11:30 am to 01:00 pm

  Moderator: Sabina Frederic, President of the Argentine Agency for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Assistance - White Helmets
  • Eva del Hoyo Barbolla, Director-General of Sustainable Development Policies at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain
  • Myriam Ferran, Deputy Director-General for International Partnerships of the European Commission
  • Rodrigo Malmierca, Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment of Cuba
  • Gloria Sandoval, Director-General for Project Execution Abroad of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID)
  • Enrique O’Farrill, Executive Director (a.i.) of the Chilean Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AGCID)
  • Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, Director of the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (virtual)

  Statements by delegations 

• National Auditorium Terrace, fourth mezzanine
  Presentation of the Report on the activities of the Commission, 2021, and of the Draft programme of work of the ECLAC system, 2024
  02:30 pm to 03:30 pm

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

  Raúl García-Buchaca - Informe de Actividades 2021 y Proyecto del Programa de Trabajo 2024 (español)
  Raúl García-Buchaca - Report on activities in 2021 anddraft programme of work for 2024 (english)
• National Auditorium Terrace, fourth mezzanine
  Statements by delegations
  03:30 pm to 04:00 pm
• National Auditorium Terrace, fourth mezzanine
  Report on the activities of the subsidiary bodies of ECLAC and the outcomes of other intergovernmental meetings organized by ECLAC since its thirty-eighth session
  04:00 pm to 06:00 pm

  Statements by delegations

  • Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies,
  presented by Daniel Filmus, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Argentina

  • Regional Council for Planning,
  presented by Luis Madera, Deputy Minister for Planning and Public Investment in the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic

  • Statistical Conference of the Americas,
  presented by Marco Lavagna, Director of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) of Argentina

  • Committee on South-South Cooperation,
  presented by Christian Guillermet-Fernández, Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica

  • Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC),
  presented by Albert Ramdin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Suriname

  • Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean,
  presented by Juan Carlos Portillo, Director-General for Planning and Evaluation of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare of Paraguay

  • Conference of the Parties to the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean,
  presented by Marcelo Cousillas, Head of the Legal Department of the Ministry of the Environment of Uruguay

  • Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean,
  presented by Antonia Orellana, Minister of Women’s Affairs and Gender Equity of Chile (virtual)

  • Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean,
  presented by Gabriela Lizzet Gallegos Delgado, Director of International Affairs of the Ministry of Telecommunications and the Information Society of Ecuador (virtual)

  • Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean,
  presented by Dean Jonas, Minister of Social Transformation, Human Resource Development and the Blue Economy of Antigua and Barbuda (virtual)

  • Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean,
  presented by Sergio Cusicanqui, Minister of Development Planning of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (virtual)

  Marco Lavagna - Informe de actividades de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas (español)
  Marcelo Cousillas - Informe de actividades de Acuerdo de Escazú (español)
  Dean Jonas - Informe de actividades de Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social (inglés)
• Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Argentina
  Side event: Launch of the policy document Transformational change in Latin America and the Caribbean: a mission-oriented approach
  06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

  By Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London (UCL)