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).