Social Promotion and Protection

III Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development

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April 6 – 7, 2010
Washington, DC

Prominent social development authorities from the Americas met at the Organization of American States (OAS) in the framework of the Inter- the Inter-American Committee on Social Development (CIDES) to initiate the preparations for the Second Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities on Social Development, to be held in Cali, Colombia, in July 8- 9, 2010.

Delegations from 29 member States participated at the meeting, many of them headed by ministers, secretaries and permanent secretaries. They agreed on the slogan for the Second Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development: “Strengthening and sustaining social protection systems”.

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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

•  Agreements of the III Meeting of CIDES

•  Report on CIDES activities, 2008 – 2010

•  Inputs on the themes for the Second Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development (Presented by Colombia in its capacity as host country)

•  List of Participants

•  Schedule of Activities

•  Agenda

•  Annotated Agenda


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PRESENTATIONS

The challenges of social policy in the framework of the global economic crisis

•  Inés Bustillo, Regional Director of the Washington Office, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Report of the Chair of CIDES

•  Juan Mauricio Ramírez, Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia - Chair of CIDES

Report of the Technical Secretariat of CIDES on fulfillment of the mandates of the First Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development

•  Francisco Pilotti, Director of the Department of Social Development and Employment, OAS

Presentation on the Second Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development: Proposed theme, working procedure, and logistic preparations

•  Juan Mauricio Ramírez, Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia - Chair of CIDES

•  Luz Stella Rodríguez, Coordinator of Special Projects, National Planning Department of Colombia

The Inter-American Social Protection Network

•  Antonia Popplewell, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social Development, Trinidad and Tobago

•  Clarisse Pawironadi-Dasi, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social Affairs and Housing, Suriname

•  Rosita Snagg, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of National Mobilization, Social Development, Youth and Sports, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

•  Jorge M Claro, Advisor, Ministry of Planning, Chile

The intersectoral approach to employment policies and income generation for vulnerable populations

•  Luz Stella Rodríguez, Coordinator of Special Projects, National Planning Department of Colombia

•  Aline Ribeiro Dantas de Teixeira Soares, Special Advisor, of the Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger, Brazil

The nutritional dimension of social protection systems

•  Angela Céspedes, Regional Adviser, World Food Programme

•  Karin Slowing, Presidencial Secretary for Planning and Programming of Guatemala

•  Carolina Ávalos, Adviser and Coordinator of the Universal Social Protection System, Presidential Technical Secretariat, El Salvador

The institutionality of social policies

•  María Caridad Ortiz, Director of Social Policy Management. Ministry for Coordination of Development, Ecuador

•  Gustavo Pacheco, General Coordinator of the Unit for International Affairs, Ministry of Social Development, Uruguay

Strengthening risk management and social reconstruction to reduce the vulnerability of victims of natural disasters

•  Almuena Suárez Fernández, Assistant General Director of International Relations, Ministry of Social Development, Mexico

•  Velda Joseph, Assistant Director of Social Development, Ministry of Social Transformation, Santa Lucia

Promotion of public - private partnerships to promote development and fight poverty

•  Lynne Fry, JobsCorps Educational Specialists, Department of Labor, United States

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REFERENCE DOCUMENTS

•  CIDES Work Plan

•  CIDES Rules of Procedure

•  Report of the I Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development

•  Final Report of the II CIDES Meeting

•  Social Protection Network Study in Central Americana and Dominica Republic, World Food Program
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LOGISTIC INFORMATION

• Information Bulletin

• Registration Form


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PHOTO GALLERY

•  Photos of the Meeting (Coming soon)


For more information, please contact the technical secretariat of the meeting,  rmartinelli@oas.org