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