Third edition of the Regional Water Dialogues in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held at ECLAC

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will host the third edition of the Regional Water Dialogues in Latin America and the Caribbean from February 1 to 3 at its headquarters in Santiago de Chile, a high-level ministerial event in preparation for the United Nations Water Conference 2023which will take place in March in New York.

The purpose of the meeting, which will be held in a hybrid format (face-to-face and virtual), is to evaluate the progress related to the Sustainable Development Goal SDG 6 (guarantee the availability of water and its sustainable management and sanitation for all) within the framework of the “Comprehensive mid-term review of the activities of the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Sustainable Development’ (2018-2028)”, and launch a Regional Agenda for Action for Water.

It will be inaugurated on Wednesday, February 1 at 09:00 am Chilean time (GMT/UTC -3) by Maisa Rojas, Minister of the Environment of Chile; Mariana Mazzucato, Economist and Professor at University College London (UCL) (by video); Manuel Otero, Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA); and José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC. In addition, it will have the participation of Henk Ovink, Special Envoy of the Netherlands to the United Nations; and Pedro Arrojo, Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water.

The sessions of the Regional Water Dialogues 2023 they will be oriented according to the thematic lines of the UN Water Conference 2023: i) Water and climate; ii) Water and sustainable development; iii) Water, financing and health iv) Water and regional and territorial cooperation; v) Water, energy and food. High-level national authorities will participate in each of them. Likewise, there will be technical sessions to discuss water solutions at various scales that will accelerate the achievement of SDG 6 hand in hand with the water valuation initiative. In addition, during the Dialogues, the ECLAC project for the construction of national capacities in Latin America and the Caribbean, ROSA: Red y Observatorio de Sostenibilidad del Agua, will be launched.

The media are invited to participate in this event that will be held at ECLAC Headquarters in Santiago, Chile (Av. Dag Hammarsköld 3477, Vitacura, Santiago). Journalists must carry their media credential or identity card to gain access to the venue.

Those interested in following the meeting virtually via Zoom can register at the following link:

https://cepal-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BQa5a_SsRaKYL6JEkQJWoA

In addition, it will be broadcast online for all audiences over the Internet through https://live.cepal.org/dialogosagua/ and on their social networks on Twitter (@cepal_onu) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu).

The complete program of the event and more information is available at this link.

What: Regional Water Dialogues in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023.

Who is it:

Inauguration (Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 09:00 am in Chile – GMT/UTC -3 hrs):

• Maisa Rojas, Minister of the Environment of Chile.

• Mariana Mazzucato, Professor University College London (UCL) (by video).

• Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA.

• José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC.

Special participation in the session on the global and regional context of water as a vector of development (Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 09:50 am in Chile – GMT/UTC -3 hrs):

• Henk Ovink, Special Envoy of the Netherlands to the United Nations.

• Pedro Arrojo, Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water.

When: Wednesday 1 to Friday 3 February 2023.

Where: ECLAC’s main headquarters in Santiago de Chile (Av. Dag Hammarsköld 3477, Vitacura).

Virtual connection through the Zoom platform (previous registration required): https://cepal-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BQa5a_SsRaKYL6JEkQJWoA

also through https://live.cepal.org/dialogosagua/ or from ECLAC’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@cepal/streams

For inquiries, contact ECLAC’s Public Information Unit in Santiago de Chile.

Email: [email protected]; phone: +562 2210 2040.