Ministers, vice ministers and high authorities linked to development planning and public management in Latin America and the Caribbean will analyze the progress and challenges for the implementation of the new public service in the region, during the Seventeenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning and the Twenty-ninth meeting of the Board of Directors of the Regional Planning Council (CRP)which will take place from January 17 to 19 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
The “new public service” is an approach that aims to deepen democracy, by proposing a new relationship between the State and citizens. It puts people, their needs and opinions at the center of public policies, promoting collaborative leadership.
The Seventeenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held on Tuesday, January 17 and Wednesday, January 18, will be inaugurated by Héctor Alexander, Minister of Economy and Finance of Panama, in his capacity as President of the Regional Council of Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), and Raúl García-Buchaca, Deputy Executive Secretary for Administration and Analysis of Programs of ECLAC.
The meeting will have four panels where the authorities will discuss prospective as a tool to build innovative and participatory public policies, the open State and citizen participation at the center of the new public service, the role of innovation of public institutions to accelerate the full implementation of the Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the challenges of a new public service in the territory.
The Conference will also feature two complementary events that will take place on Tuesday, January 17. The first will address the mainstreaming of the gender perspective in planning, while the second will consist of the presentation of the book Patterns of economic development in the six Central American countries (1950-2018) prepared by the subregional headquarters of ECLAC in Mexico.
On Thursday, January 19, meanwhile, the XXIX Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) of ECLAC will be held.
During the intergovernmental meeting, ECLAC will present the report on ILPES activities since the XVIII meeting of the Regional Planning Council, held from October 19 to 21, 2021, and will inform the countries of its work program for the 2023. Preparations for the XIX Meeting of the Regional Planning Council to be held during 2023 will also be addressed.
The Regional Planning Council is the subsidiary body of ECLAC in charge of substantive guidance of ILPES activities, and is made up of the ministers or planning authorities of the member states of the United Nations regional commission.
The program of both meetings, as well as general information, is available on the special page of the meeting.
The official activities of the event can be followed virtually live through the page https://live.cepal.org/planning.
You can follow all the details of the meeting live on ECLAC’s social networks with the hashtags #planificaciónALC and #planningLAC.
What: Seventeenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and Twenty-ninth meeting of the Board of Directors of the ILPES Regional Planning Council (CRP).
When: Tuesday 17 to Thursday 19 January, 2023.
Who is it:
Inauguration of the Seventeenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean (Tuesday, January 17, 10:00 am Chile GMT -3):
- Héctor Alexander, Minister of Economy and Finance of Panama, in his capacity as President of the Regional Planning Council of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES)
- Raúl García-Buchaca, ECLAC Deputy Executive Secretary for Administration and Analysis of Programs.
Where: ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile. Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Santiago (Raúl Prebisch Room).
Also via virtual connection through https://live.cepal.org/planning
