SANTIAGO, Chile, Mar 4, CMC -Delegates from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will meet here at the end of the month analyse the progress and challenges for fulfilling the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda (SDA) in the LAC.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said that the March 31 to April 4 event will bring together representatives of governments, the United Nations system, regional and international organizations, the private sector, academia and civil society.
It said that the eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development will be be chaired by Peru and that 10 years after the historic approval of the 2030 Agenda, the forum will include a series of dialogues on global, regional, and national action.
During the global action dialogues on April 1, leading authorities from the United Nations and governments, along with civil society and other relevant actors, will exchange views on the global commitments expected to arise during the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development to be held in Spain this year, the Second World Summit for Social Development in Qatar in 2025 and the 30th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Brazil this year.
“There will also be a session on the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Agenda (1995) and a session to review implementation of the act for the Future and its annexes, approved at the Summit of the Future in September 2024.”
The regional action dialogues will begin on Wednesday, April 2 with the presentation of the eighth report on regional progress and challenges related to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin American and the Caribbean, entitled Latin America and the Caribbean in the Final Five Years of the 2030 Agenda: Steering Transformations to Accelerate Progress.
The document will be presented by ECLAC’s executive secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, and representatives from countries, civil society, the private sector, and academia will be able to share their experiences on how to accelerate the use of private and disaggregated data.
They will also discuss the progress in implementing GSD 3: Health and Wellbeing, SDG5, Gender Equality, SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 14: Life below Water and SDG 17: Partnership Goals.
The national action dialogues on April 4 will include two learning sessions. The first will exchange successful national experiences in accelerating achievement of the SDGs, and the second will be used to share good practices and challenges in preparing the voluntary national reviews (VNRs) that countries present to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum in New York.
During the meeting on April 1, Salazar-Xirinachs will also present the book ”Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Contributions from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)” at its 75th Anniversary.
The event will be preceded by a meeting of the mechanism for civil society participation and the Forum of Children, Adolescents, and Youth of Latin America and the Caribbean, both of which will be held on March 31.
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