SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will meet here from Tuesday to analyze the challenges of international cooperation in shaping the new regional and global context.
The two-day second session of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will bring together representatives of the region’s countries, the United Nations system, as well as regional and international organizations.
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, will address the intergovernmental meeting that will also be attended by Dima Al-Khatib, Director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC); and Mateo Estremé, Director-General of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina, in his capacity as Chair of the First Meeting of the Conference.
ECLAC said that the meeting participants would engage in five-panel discussions addressing issues such as the quantification of South-South cooperation to mobilize funds for development, gender mainstreaming in international cooperation for growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, international collaboration in comprehensive management of risks and disasters; international cooperation and the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development to be held in Seville, Spain, June 30-July three this year.
In the run-up to the conference, the Forum on Gender Mainstreaming in International Cooperation for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean is taking place here on Monday.
This event brings together specialists to exchange experiences and proposals aimed at increasing cooperation and financing for achieving gender equality, as well as mainstreaming the gender perspective in cooperation policies and programs.
The Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean was established by resolution 752 and approved by member countries at the 36th session of ECLAC’s Committee of the Whole in December 2021.
Some of the objectives of this subsidiary body of ECLAC are to examine the experiences of South-South and triangular cooperation in Latin American and Caribbean countries and to make progress in evaluating them in conjunction with relevant subsidiary bodies that conduct studies in this field.
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