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Tue, Nov 07 2023

  • Opening session
    09:00 am to 10:00 am

    • Pável Isa, Minister of Economic Affairs, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic
    • Héctor Alexander, Minister of Economy and Finance of Panama, in his capacity as outgoing Chair of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES)
    • Mauricio Ramírez, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in the Dominican Republic
    • Raúl García-Buchaca, Deputy Executive Secretary for Management and Programme Analysis of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

  • Election of officers
    10:00 am to 10:15 am
  • Adoption of the agenda of the nineteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of ILPES
    10:15 am to 10:30 am
  • Presentation of the position paper entitled Foresight for development: Contributions to Forward-looking Territorial Governance, by Cielo Morales, Chief of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) of ECLAC
    11:00 am to 01:00 pm

    Comments by: Jordy Vilchez Astucuri, National Director for Foresight and Strategic Studies of the National Centre for Strategic Planning of Peru

    Statements by delegations

  • Break
    01:00 pm to 02:30 pm
  • Panel 1 - Foresight as a tool for improving territorial governance
    02:30 pm to 04:00 pm

    Eighteenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean

    Moderator: Carlos Sandoval, Senior Research Assistant at ILPES

    • Leany Barreiro de Sousa Lemos, Secretary of Planning, Ministry of Planning and Budget of Brazil
    • Wayne Henry, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Management of the Planning Institute of Jamaica
    • Graciela de la Luz Amaro Hernández, Director General of the Institute of Planning, Statistics and Geography of Guanajuato State (IPLANEG)
    • Jordy Vilchez Astucuri, National Director for Foresight and Strategic Studies of the National Centre for Strategic Planning of Peru

    Statements by delegations

  • Special event – Youth, leadership and the future of Latin America and the Caribbean
    04:30 pm to 06:00 pm

    Eighteenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean

    Round table 1 - Challenges for the young people of the region

    Moderator: María del Pilar Délano, Research Assistant at ILPES

    • Helen Fernández, Social movement leader, Guatemala • Carlos Carrasco, Líder de comunidades migrantes afrodescendientes, Venezuela
    • María Aguilar, Director, Climate Crisis and Sustainability Education, Eco House Global, Argentina
    • Kurba-Marie Questelles, Caribbean Coordinating Ambassador, One Young World, Trinidad and Tobago

    Round table 2 - Public policy, institutional frameworks and young people.

    Moderator: Alicia Williner, Senior Research Assistant at ILPES

    • Zulmit Rivera, Minister in the National Institute for Youth of Honduras
    • Rafael Féliz García, Minister of Youth, and Yamell Peña, Director of Planning and Development of the Ministry of Youth of the Dominican Republic
    • Gabriela Posso, Adviser to the President Youth of Colombia
    • Pedro Vellinho Corso Duval, International Adviser, National Youth Secretariat of Brazil

  • Reception hosted by the Government of the Dominican Republic
    07:00 pm to 07:30 pm

Wed, Nov 08 2023

  • Panel 2 – Governance for digital transformation in the context of open government
    09:00 am to 10:45 am

    Eighteenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean

    Moderator: Valeria Torres, Chief of the Public Management and Open Government Area of ILPES

    • Orlando Vega, Vice-Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Costa Rica
    • Carol Roach, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Bahamas (virtual)
    • Jairon Merchán, National Secretary of Planning of Ecuador
    • Edwin Rodríguez, Director of Digital Transformation of Government of the Government Office for Information and Communications Technologies (OGTIC) of the Dominican Republic
    • José Inostroza, Head of the Digital Government Division, Office of the Minister-Secretary General of the Office of the President of Chile.

    Statements by delegations

  • Panel 3 – National policies for territorial development: recent experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean
    11:30 am to 01:00 pm

    Eighteenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean

    Moderator: Luis Riffo, Senior Research Assistant at ILPES

    • Giuliana de Abreu Correa, Director of the Department of Information Management, Monitoring and Evaluation of Regional Development and Land-Use Planning Policies of the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development of Brazil
    • Domingo Matías, Vice-Minister for Land-Use Planning and Regional Development in the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic
    • Juan Pablo Sandoval, Technical Subdirector for Land-Use Planning of the National Planning Department (DNP) of Colombia
    • José Agustín Espino, Director of Territorial Development in the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Panama

    Statements by delegations

  • Break
    01:00 pm to 02:30 pm
  • Special event – Transformative recovery from disasters: building back better from an equality perspective
    02:30 pm to 04:00 pm

    Eighteenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean

    Round table 1. Difficulties, opportunities and challenges in building back better

    Moderator: Elena Díez Pinto, Senior Economics Affairs Officer, Chief of the Planning, Prospective and Territorial Development Area of ILPES

    • Mercedes Feliciano, Director of Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic
    • Claudia Urrutia, member of the Advisory Commission for Disaster Risk Reduction and Reconstruction of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development of Chile
    • Claudia Herrera, Executive Secretary of the Coordination Centre for Disaster Prevention in Central America and the Dominican Republic (CEPREDENAC)
    • Daniel Bermúdez, National Planning Department (DNP) of Colombia

    Round table 2. Comprehensive action in processes to build back better

    Moderator: Alicia Williner, Senior Research Assistant at ILPES

    • Héctor Becerril, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero México
    • Ana Gabriela Fernández, Director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Uruguay
    • Lourdes Meyreles, FLACSO, Dominican Republic

    Comments by: Adriana Campelo, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

Thu, Nov 09 2023

Sessions in Dominican Republic time | GMT-4

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