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Programme

Thu, Oct 02 2025

Collection of credentials

08:00 am to 09:00 am
Opening session

09:00 am to 09:30 am

Opening session

• Márcio Luiz de Albuquerque Oliveira, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and the Budget of Brazil
• Martín Francos, Deputy Minister of Planning and Public Investment of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Dominican Republic, 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)
• Silvia Rucks, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations system in Brazil
• Javier Medina Vásquez, Deputy Executive Secretary a.i. of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Officer in Charge of ILPES
Election of officers and adoption of the agenda of the twentieth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of ILPES

09:30 am to 09:45 am

Election of officers and adoption of the agenda of the twentieth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of ILPES
Nineteenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean

09:45 am to 11:00 am
Nineteenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean

Presentation of the document Technical, operational, political and prospective (TOPP) capabilities for managing transformations: underpinnings of a new paradigm, by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC (virtual)

Comments by:
• Virgínia de Ângelis Oliveira de Paula, National Secretary for Planning, Ministry of Planning and the Budget of Brazil
• Michelle Muschett, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (virtual)
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Capacidades institucionales TOPP para la gestión de las transformaciones

José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Technical, operational, political and prospective (TOPP) capabilities for managing transformations
Coffee break

11:00 am to 11:30 am
Panel 1 – Institutions’ technical, operational, political and prospective (TOPP) capabilities for managing transformations

11:30 am to 01:30 pm

Moderator: Andrés Boeninger, Economic Affairs Officer of the Office of the Executive Secretary of ECLAC

• Luciana Mendes Santos Servo, President of the Institute of Applied Economic Research of Brazil
• Natalia Irene Molina Posso, Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia
• Wayne Henry, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Management of the Planning Institute of Jamaica
• Giofianni Peirano Torriani, President of the National Centre for Strategic Planning of Peru
• Rodolfo Sabonge, Director General of the Institute for Development Planning of Panama
• Rodrigo Arim, Director of the Planning and Budget Office of Uruguay

Saemaul Undong y la Metodología TOPP: Sinergias para la Transformación Productiva con Equidad en América Latina
Break

01:00 pm to 02:30 pm
Presentation of the draft regional agenda for planning and public management for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean, by the Chair of the Regional Council for Planning

02:30 pm to 03:15 pm
Panel 2 – Establishing an agenda for governance of planning and public management for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean

03:15 pm to 04:15 pm

Moderator: Miosotis Rivas Peña, Chief of the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean

• Presentation of the document entitled “Foundation for a regional agenda on governance of planning and public management: innovating to transform the future of Latin America and the Caribbean”, delivered by Javier Medina Vásquez, Deputy Executive Secretary a.i. of ECLAC and Officer in Charge of ILPES

Comments by:
• Flávia Duarte Nascimento, National Deputy Secretary for Planning of the National Planning Secretariat of Brazil
• Carlos Mendoza Alvarado, Secretary for Planning and Programming of the Office of the President of Guatemala
• Sherilita Dore-Tyson, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Sustainable Development of Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Rodrigo Lavanderos, Coordinator for Modernization of Chile
• Martín Francos, Deputy Minister of Planning and Public Investment, Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Dominican Republic

Bases para una Agenda Regional de Gobernanza de Planificacion y Gestion Publica
Coffee break

04:15 pm to 04:30 pm
Statements by delegations

04:30 pm to 06:00 pm

Fri, Oct 03 2025

Panel 3 – Cooperating to implement the agenda for governance of planning and public management for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean: transforming the future of the region

09:00 am to 10:30 am

Moderator: Javier Medina Vásquez, Deputy Executive Secretary a.i. of ECLAC and Officer in Charge of ILPES
(3 minutes per statement)

Luciana Mendes Santos Servo, President of the Institute of Applied Economic Research of Brazil
• João Vitor Domingues, General Coordinator of Institutional Relations of the National School of Public Administration of Brazil
• Livia Oliveira Sobota, National Secretary of Transparency and Access to Information of Brazil, in her capacity as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership
• Orlando Rojas, Executive Director of the Chilean Government Laboratory of the Ministry of Finance of Chile
• Elkin Velásquez, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat
• Moema Freire, policy specialist with the UNDP governability team for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Héctor Javier Guzmán, Secretary of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration
• Paulo Câmara, President of the Banco do Nordeste do Brasil
• José Luiz Rossi, Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Brazil
• Esteban Campero, Director of the Subregional Office for the Southern Cone of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) (virtual)
• Carmen de Diego Fonseca, Coordinator of Cooperation between Spain and the Southern Cone of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation
• Patricio Lloret, Advisor to the Secretary-General of the Latin American Centre for Development Administration
• Yolanda Martínez Mancilla, Manager of the Digital Development Practice for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank (video)
• María Cristina Cárdenas Peralta, Manager of Government Affairs for Latin America and the Caribbean, Coursera
Coffee break

10:30 am to 10:45 am
Report on the activities carried out by the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) since the nineteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning

10:45 am to 11:45 am

Presentation of the Report on the activities carried out by the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), 2024–2025, and of the Report on the status of the Regular System of Government Financing for the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), by Javier Medina Vásquez, Deputy Executive Secretary, a.i. of ECLAC and Officer in Charge of ILPES

Presentación informe de actividades ILPES 2025
Review of the programme of work of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), 2026

11:45 am to 12:15 pm

Presentation by Javier Medina Vásquez, Deputy Executive Secretary, a.i. of ECLAC and Officer in Charge of ILPES

Statements by delegations

Programa de trabajo 2026 - Subprograma 9: Planificación y Gestión Pública para el Desarrollo
Consideration and adoption of resolutions

12:15 pm to 12:30 pm

Closed session (for delegations only)
Closing session

12:30 pm to 01:00 pm