The challenges faced by Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of inclusive and sustainable development require more and better productive policies. The region needs to transform its productive capacities, sophisticating and diversifying them to face the challenge of increasing productivity that in the last decade has been stagnant in most of the countries of the region.
Although in the international framework the policies for productive development (PDP) have once again gained legitimacy from the major plans promoted by China, the United States and Europe aimed at strengthening their strategic sectors, the region faces severe budgetary restrictions. and operational limits due to its fragile promotion institutions.
In this context, it is key to make efforts that point simultaneously in two directions: first, promote the participation of the actors of productive development (the public, private, academic, workers and civil society sectors), in the formulation and implementation of strategies that enjoy the broadest consensus and that are enriched and enhanced by the contribution of each one; and, secondly, adopt a territorial multi-level coordination approach that allows integrating the actions that are developed locally with those promoted by national actors.
The initiatives that ECLAC has called territorial productive articulation (cluster initiatives, business networks, local productive projects, supplier relations and programs for the development of productive chains) represent tangible examples of how to give life to these collective territorial efforts for development. productive.
This meeting, promoted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in collaboration with TCI Network, the Prefecture of the Province of Pichincha, the Conquito Economic Promotion Corporation and the Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito, will address the role of subnational governments in promoting territorial productive articulation initiatives, in order to enhance their participation in the productive development policies of each territory.
The IAPT are at the center of this meeting, which aims to explore the relationship between these initiatives and the productive development agendas promoted by subnational governments. There will be two lines of reflection: on the one hand, the contribution of the IAPT to the implementation of the territorial productive strategies of the communities in which they are located will be analyzed. On the other hand, the responsibilities, possibilities and means that subnational governments have to support IAPTs within the framework of their productive policies will be discussed.
The event will begin with a presentation by the director of the Productive and Business Development Division of ECLAC, Marco Llinás, in which the different cluster initiatives and other IAPT for the productive development of Latin America and the Caribbean will be presented. It will continue with a presentation by Adriana Melo, national secretary of Regional and Territorial Development Policies of the Ministry of Integration of Brazil, on the integration of IAPTs in a territorial productive transformation strategy and will share the experience of the “Rota APL” of Brazil.
Attendees will be able to participate in a round of debate on the different topics that will be presented on cluster initiatives and other IATPs in the region. Followed by the final presentation by the ECLAC economic affairs officer, Marco Dini, on the role of subnational governments in promoting cluster initiatives and other IAPTs.
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