This report will be submitted to the fifteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), to be held in Yachay (Ecuador) on 19 November 2015. The report outlines the activities carried out by ILPES in 2014-2015, pursuant to the programme of work of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) adopted at the thirty-fourth session of the Commission in San Salvador in 2012.

To implement the programme of work, the ministers and authorities responsible for planning set out strategic guidelines at the fourteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning, held in Brasilia, in November 2013, and at the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth meetings of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning, held in La Antigua (Guatemala), in June 2014, and in Santiago, in August 2015, respectively. The Council is invited to examine this 2014-2015 activities report at its fifteenth meeting and to submit its findings for consideration at the thirty-sixth session of ECLAC, to be held in Mexico, in May 2016.