Commitments to action to face the water challenges in LAC by the high-level authorities that participated in the 2023 Regional Water Dialogues

Representatives of the countries of the region met and approved the Regional Action Agenda for Water at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago last February 2023. This instrument of voluntary commitments outlines the areas of prioritization and necessary efforts to achieve a sustainable and inclusive water transition, as well as accelerating the achievement of SDG 6 in Latin America and the Caribbean. This result was subsequently broadcast as a single regional voice on the United Nations Water Conference 2023which took place in March 2023 in New York, the foregoing within the framework of the “Comprehensive mid-term review of the activities of the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development”. In this context, some of the highest-level authorities were interviewed by ECLAC to disseminate the national commitments that the various institutions are promoting.

Below, you can review the links to the interviews conducted:

Felix Ulloa, Vice President of El Salvador

Maisa Rojas, Minister of the Environment of Chile

Esteban Valenzuela, Minister of Agriculture of Chile

Pavel Isa Contreras, Minister of Economy, Planning and Development, Dominican Republic

Juan Carlos García, Minister of Public Works of Chile

Erwin Freddy Mamani, Vice Foreign Minister of Bolivia

Aníbal Pérez, Vice Minister of Water and Basic Sanitation, Colombia

Marissa Castro, General Director of Limits, Borders and International Waters, Bolivia

Liseth Hernández, Executive Secretary of the Trifinio Plan

Rodolfo Lacayo, National Water Authority, Nicaragua

We also share the vision and reflection of the Director of the Natural Resources Division, Dr. Jeannette Sánchez on the subject: