SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The sixth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development will take place later this month to review the progress and challenges related to implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said April 25-government representatives would attend 28, the United Nations System, international organizations, the private sector, academia, and civil society.
The Regional Forum, which has been held annually since 2017, aims to provide those responsible for implementing the 2030 Agenda in countries with a space conducive to peer learning through a set of interactive sessions in which, by discussing experiences and shared goals, they can identify good practices, enabling the Forum’s member countries to offer recommendations and present them to the United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
The HLPF is the global mechanism for follow-up on the 2030 Agenda, and it meets each year in July in New York under the auspices of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
This sixth intergovernmental meeting will be inaugurated on Wednesday. It will be preceded on Tuesday by a meeting of the mechanism for civil society participation in the Sustainable Development Agenda and in the Forum and by a gathering of the Regional Collaborative Platform for Latin America and the Caribbean.
In the framework of the Forum, ECLAC’s executive director, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, will present a document entitled “Halfway to 2030 in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress and Recommendations for Acceleration”.
ECLAC said the meeting contemplates statements by Latin American and Caribbean country representatives at two sessions entitled “Accelerating the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels” and “Strategies to advance implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean.”
In addition, five-panel discussions have been organized in which the Forum’s member countries and other actors will be able to present and share their experiences and challenges about implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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