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).