The fourth version of the Regional Water Dialogues in Latin America and the Caribbean might be going down March 11-13, 2024 within the capital of Costa Rica. The contributors will embrace the Vice President of Honduras, the International Minister of Costa Rica, ministers and deputy ministers, and greater than 100 different contributors from 18 nations within the area drawn from the private and non-private sectors, worldwide businesses, improvement banks, academia, and civil society. As well as, greater than 1000 folks have already signed as much as observe the occasion on-line in 30 nations on this area and different elements of the world.
Organized by the Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the assembly might be held in a hybrid format (in-person and digital) on the latter’s headquarters, in San José. The occasion supplies a high-level ministerial area for sharing technical experiences with a multi-actor strategy, to advertise good practices and advance the achievement of SDG 6 within the area, whose goal is to “guarantee the provision and sustainable administration of water and sanitation for all.” This 12 months, there might be a particular high-level session on water and agriculture, to hunt options which have a most affect on water assets, on condition that the agriculture sector is the most important client of water, accounting for greater than 70% of all water use.
At present, 164 million folks in Latin America and the Caribbean would not have entry to secure ingesting water and 336 million lack safely managed sanitation providers. Within the final three a long time, water-related emergencies accounted for 88% of all disasters that occurred within the area. This makes it important to advertise and pace up a sustainable, inclusive water transition that ensures the human proper to secure ingesting water and sanitation, eliminates water poverty, reduces overexploitation and conflicts over the usage of water, and serves as a lift to innovation and the round financial system.
The inaugural ceremony will happen on Monday, March 11 at 9:00 a.m. Costa Rica time (GMT-6). The audio system might be Doris Gutiérrez, the Vice President of Honduras, the nation that holds the Presidency professional tempore of CELAC; Arnoldo André Tinoco, International Minister of Costa Rica; José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Govt Secretary of ECLAC; and Manuel Otero, Director Common of IICA.
Over the three days, the work will give attention to the implementation of the Regional Action Agenda for Water accredited in 2023, to be able to i) analyze the progress made and challenges concerned in attaining SDG 6, and ii) spotlight profitable experiences and classes discovered for the achievement of that aim.
The occasion will embrace an area for discussing and analyzing the Abstract Regional Place Report in preparation for this 12 months’s tenth World Water Discussion board, which synthesizes the primary challenges and motion proposals for tackling the water challenges within the area.
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