Authorities from the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean reaffirmed at this time the urgency of getting extra and higher planning, which might permit for strengthening governance and would articulate public plans and insurance policies within the brief, medium and long run, together with the distinct territorial scales and stakeholders, in the course of the inauguration of the Nineteenth Assembly of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Financial and Social Planning (ILPES) of the Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
This assembly – which is going down by means of Thursday, November 9 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – was inaugurated by Pável Isa, Minister of Financial Affairs, Planning and Growth of the Dominican Republic; Héctor Alexander, Minister of Financial system and Finance of Panama, in his capability as outgoing Chair of the Regional Council for Planning of ILPES; Mauricio Ramírez, United Nations Resident Coordinator within the Dominican Republic; and Raúl García-Buchaca, Deputy Government Secretary for Administration and Programme Evaluation of ECLAC, on behalf of José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Government Secretary.
Collaborating on this intergovernmental gathering are ministers, deputy ministers and high-level planning authorities from the area’s nations, together with representatives of civil society and United Nations organizations, who will analyze the progress and challenges associated to planning for growth in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In his inaugural speech, Pável Isa, Minister of Financial Affairs, Planning and Growth of the Dominican Republic, burdened the necessity for the Regional Council for Planning of ILPES to set itself up as a real community of nations that work together on an ongoing foundation.
“It ought to be a real community, with a relationship that doesn’t begin and cease at an annual assembly, however quite defines a program of labor for collective studying and strengthening within the framework of a shared agenda for capability constructing,” the Minister underlined.
Héctor Alexander, the Financial system and Finance Minister of Panama, in the meantime, emphasised that planning and public administration are elementary pillars that require the participation of all actors who can allow the articulation of efforts, initiatives and sources, which might end result in the neighborhood’s well-being.
Mauricio Ramírez, the United Nations Resident Coordinator within the Dominican Republic, pointed up Latin American and Caribbean nations’ dedication to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth.
“You may have been the architects of many clever selections and, on the identical time, have had the duty of going through intense and complicated challenges for guiding public insurance policies, primarily, when monetary restrictions and restricted fiscal area impose priorities that as a substitute of serving essentially the most weak populations and the territories which might be lagging essentially the most, should serve the debt or different priorities,” he affirmed.
On behalf of ECLAC’s Government Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the Deputy Government Secretary for Administration and Programme Evaluation of ECLAC, Raúl García-Buchaca, emphasised that the outcomes of the current SDG Summit, and the UN Secretary-Basic’s proposal to convene a Summit of the Future in September of subsequent yr, affirm that at this time greater than ever nations must strengthen their capacities for designing, managing and implementing state insurance policies with high-quality parameters that will make it doable to deal with with a way of urgency the financial, social and environmental challenges of the current, however with a forward-looking imaginative and prescient.
“We’re optimistic in regards to the area transferring in that route: 20 of 33 nations and greater than 65 territories have formulated long-term plans or methods with time frames starting from 2030 to 2050,” he acknowledged.
He warned that midway by means of the interval for reaching the 2030 Agenda, we’re nonetheless removed from being midway alongside the trail to reaching the Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs). It’s due to this fact essential, he burdened, to recalibrate public insurance policies to boost the extent of ambition and provides them a decisive impetus.
“We at ECLAC are proposing a imaginative and prescient concerning 14 sectors to drive progress that we imagine have the synergistic capability to advertise a number of SDGs concurrently. Clearly, the effectiveness of those efforts will rely on whether or not we’re in a position to forge partnerships by which a number of stakeholders take part to enhance the capacities of public governance, of multi-level establishments and of subnational actors in every nation, relying on its explicit circumstances,” he specified.
On the opening day of the Nineteenth Assembly of the Regional Council for Planning, the Director of ILPES, Cielo Morales, introduced a place paper entitled Foresight for Development: Contributions to Forward-looking Territorial Governance, which seeks to advertise reflection on foresight for growth and the significance of citizen deliberation within the possession of future eventualities.
“Foresight articulated with planning could be very highly effective, as a result of they always feed into one another and orient public insurance policies for motion by the State,” Cielo Morales affirmed.
The three-day occasion will function three panel discussions addressing foresight for growth as a software for enhancing territorial governance; governance for digital transformation within the context of open authorities; and nationwide insurance policies for territorial growth.
Within the framework of the assembly, two particular occasions will likely be held: one on youth, management and the way forward for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the opposite on transformative post-disaster restoration.
The Regional Council for Planning is the subsidiary physique of ECLAC in control of guiding the actions of ILPES. It’s made up of ministers and planning officers from the United Nations regional fee’s Member States.
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