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