ECLAC launches a new research guide: Planning for development in the 60 years of ILPES

To commemorate its 60th anniversary, the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), with the support of ECLAC’s Hernán Santa Cruz Library, has prepared a new research guide which gives an account of the six decades of ILPES contributions to development planning in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

During its 60-year history, ILPES has undergone transformations that have been determined by the orientations of government policies and by Latin American and Caribbean development movements themselves, and that have influenced the evolution of the concept of planning, its practice and its institutions in the countries. During this time, ILPES has maintained a line of thought and work consistent with its history and membership in ECLAC, and the needs and demands of the countries of the region in this area.

In celebration of six decades of support to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean through permanent action in the time of thinking, advice and training in planning for development, the research guide exposes the most important publications and milestones. significant in this story.

Today, ILPES aims to support countries in the planning, design and implementation of plans and public policies that reduce structural gaps and inequalities to promote a more territorially balanced development style with robust citizen participation, with equality in the center and sustainability as an achievable goal.

The development planning biblioguide presents the most significant publications, milestones and training activities in the 60-year history of ILPES. Published in Spanish, English and Portuguese, this living resource for research and study systematizes the history of ILPES and development planning in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The biblioguide makes available to the interested community a synthetic and evolutionary narrative of ILPES, structured in stages that characterize the changes that have affected development planning in the countries of the region and the challenges for the future. For each stage, the priorities and strategic axes of ILPES are presented, entrusted by the Regional Planning Council, a subsidiary body of ECLAC in charge of the substantive orientation of ILPES activities.

The biblioguide addresses the origins and creation of ILPES and for each of the historical stages of the Institute includes a selection of notable publications and seminars. In addition, an evolution of the objectives, themes, structure and pedagogical approach of the training offer for planning and public management of ILPES is added.

The library also includes a direct link to the Regional Development Planning Observatory whose main objective is to support the countries of the region in strengthening their planning and public management processes, as well as to contribute to linking said processes with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in accordance with national realities and priorities and subnational organizations, through the generation of information and knowledge, the identification of good practices and the exchange of experiences.

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