WHAT: Fourth Regional Seminar on Social Development “Social protection and inequality: Latin America and the Caribbean towards the Second World Summit on Social Development in 2025”
Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the meeting will take place from June 25 to 27, 2024, in a hybrid format, with the participation of high government authorities, academics and specialists from organizations international.
The event, which will be inaugurated on Tuesday the 25th at 9:30 Chilean time (GMT-4) at the ECLAC headquarters in Chile, is organized in a series of panels that seek to contribute to the characterization and dimensioning of inequality in the different areas of social protection. Therefore, topics such as social stratification will be addressed; health inequality; the measurement of educational inequality; pension systems; labor inclusion, and the challenges associated with the construction of a social inequality index in the region.
The regional seminar also includes three keynote talks by Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director of the Health Equity Institute at University College London, and François Bourguignon, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics.
Likewise, a special intervention is planned by Paula Narváez, President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations, on the path towards the Second World Summit on Social Development to be held in 2025.
The program also highlights the presentation of the book Non-contributory pension systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: advancing solidarity with sustainability, edited by Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director of the Social Development Division of ECLAC, and Claudia Robles, Social Affairs Officer in the same Division.
Finally, within the framework of the Fourth Regional Seminar on Social Development, two other parallel events will be held, the first on “Inequalities in early childhood: strategic and indispensable approaches for inclusive social development” and the second on “Social cohesion for inclusive social development.” in Latin America: monitoring, challenges and opportunities in a context of uncertainties.
The objective of the regional seminar is to advance the recognition, analysis and evaluation of social inequality in the region, on the way to the Second World Summit on Social Development, in order to strengthen the design of public policies for inclusive social development to meet the Goals of Sustainable Development of the 2030 Agenda and those included in the Regional Agenda for Inclusive Social Development (ARSDI).
WHO IS IT:
- José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC.
- Laura Oroz Ulibarri, Director in the Directorate of Cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
- Ximena Andión, Mexico and Central America Program Officer of the Ford Foundation.
- Government authorities, academics and specialists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay, among other countries.
WHEN: Tuesday, June 25 to Thursday, June 27, 2024.
WHERE:
ECLAC Headquarters, Santiago, Chile (Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura), Raúl Prebisch Room.
Record: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHLd-rdgkemQZf0DDI8WjRaikMpqjostVbDtJHXSuUYNjqHw/viewform
Zoom Platform: https://cepal-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2kfWd-g4RsyIIiY2bahx9Q#/registration
Special broadcast site: http://live.cepal.org/SRDS4
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