SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will host the third edition of the Regional Water Dialogues in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) from Tuesday.
The three-day high-level ministerial event is in preparation for the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, which will take place in March in New York.
The meeting, which will be held using a hybrid format -on-site and virtual – aims to assess progress related to Sustainable Development Goal 6, ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
It is being held within the framework of the “Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the objectives of the International Decade for Action, ‘Water for Sustainable Development,’ 2018-2028,” and to launch a Regional Water Action Agenda.
ECLAC said the sessions of the Regional Water Dialogues 2023 would be oriented in line with the UN 2023 Water Conference’s themes, namely Water and climate; Water and sustainable development; Water, financing and health; Water and regional and territorial cooperation; and Water, energy and food.
ECLAC said high-level national authorities would participate in each of these sessions. In addition, there will be technical sessions to discuss water solutions at various scales to accelerate the achievement of SDG 6 under the water valuation initiative.
During the Dialogues, ECLAC’s national capacity-building project in Latin America and the Caribbean, known as ROSA: Water Sustainability Network and Observatory, will be launched.
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