SANTIAGO, Chile, Caribbean ministers, and officials involved in development planning and public administration will join their counterparts from Latin America later this month to analyze the progress and challenges related to implementing the new public service in the region.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said that the three-day 17th Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning and the 29th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning of ILPES is scheduled to begin at its headquarters here on January 17.
ECLAC said that this” new public service” aims to deepen democracy by proposing a new relationship between the State and citizens. It puts people, their needs, and opinions at the center of public policy, thus strengthening collaborative leadership.
Panama’s Minister of Economy and Finance of Panama, Héctor Alexander, will chair the 17th Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean in his capacity as Chair of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES).
ECLAC said that the meeting will feature four-panel discussions exploring foresight as a tool for building innovative and participatory public policies, the open State and citizen participation at the heart of the new public service, the role of innovation in public institutions in accelerating the full implementation of the Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; and the challenges of a new public service in the territory.
The ministerial conference will also include two side events that will take place on Tuesday. The first will address gender mainstreaming in planning. In contrast, the second will consist of a presentation of the book, Economic Development Patterns in the Six Countries of Central America (1950-2018), produced by ECLAC’s subregional headquarters in Mexico.
ECLAC said it would present a report on Thursday during the ILPES meeting on the activities carried out by ILPES since the eighteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning, held on October 19-21, 2021, and it will unveil its program of work for 2023 to countries. Participants will also address preparations for the nineteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning, to be held in 2023.
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