II Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development

The Second Meeting of the Inter-American Committee of Social Development (CIDES) was held on October 23 – 24 2007, at the OAS General Secretariat Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

The results of the Meeting are presented below:

•  Documents of the Meeting
•  Welcome Remarks
•  Presentations from the International Organizations
•  National Presentations
•  Support Documents
•  Logistic Information
•  Press

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Documents of the Meeting

•  Agenda
- Versão em Português
- Version Française

•  Schedule
- Versão em Português
- Version Française

•  List of Participants

•  Report of the CIDES's activities
- Chair of CIDES
- Technical Secretariat of CIDES

•  The First Meeting of Ministers and High-Level Authorities of Social Development: proposed theme, methodology, and logistical arrangements

•  Note from the Permanent Mission of Panama requesting inclusion of a topic for the First Meeting of Minsiters and High Level Authorities of Social Development

•  Agreements
- Versão em Português
- Version Française

•  Final Report
- Versão em Português
- Version Française

•  Lista de Documentos

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Welcome Remarks

•  Ambassador Abigail Castro de Pérez, Chair of the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI)

•  Ambassador Albert Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States

•  Gonzalo Arenas, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Planning of Chile – Chair of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development (CIDES)

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Presentations from the International Organizations

•  Report on progress toward the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Inés Bustillo, Director, Washington Regional Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

•  Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Gustavo Márquez, Principal Labor Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

•  Equity in the Americas
- Bernardo Kliksberg, Main Advisor for the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

•  Social inclusion and social guarantees. Report on the research project coordinated by the World Bank
- Andrew Norton, Lead Specialist on Social Development, World Bank

•  Inter-American cooperation on policies and programs to combat poverty
- Francisco Pilotti, Deputy Executive Secretary for Integral Development and Director of the Department of Social Development and Employment of the OAS – Technical Secretariat of CIDES

•  The First Meeting of Ministers and High-Level Authorities of Social Development in the framework of the Summit of the Americas process and its link with civil society
- Cristóbal Dupouy, Summits Secretariat

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National Presentations

•  New institutionalization of social policy: the role of Ministries of Social Development and other organizations with similar functions; challenges of inter-sectoral coordination
- Nathalie Cely, Minister of Social Development Coordination, Ecuador
- Ruth Blackman, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social Transformation, Barbados
- María Roquebert, Minister of Social Development, Panama
- Ambassador Osmar Chohfi, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the OAS, Brazil

•  Social policy, decentralization, territory, and local government
- Louise Galarneau, Director of International Affairs, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, Canada

•  Programmatic innovations for more effective social protection: evaluation of conditional cash transfer programs
- Luz Stella Rodríguez Novoa, Advisor, Office of the Director, National Planning Office, Colombia
- Dennis Williams, Chief Technical Officer, Ministry of Social Development, Trinidad and Tobago
- Jorge Coarasa Bustamante, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Social Development, México

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Support Documents

•  CIDES Rules of Procedure

•  Final Report I CIDES

•  Increasing Social Inclusion through Social Guarantees

•  Outsiders? The Changing Patterns of Social Exclusion in Latina America and the Caribbean
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•  What does it mean to live in Latin America , the most unequal region of the World? The case of public health

•  Social Cohesion. Inclusion and a sense of belonging in Latin America and the Caribbean

•  The Millennium Development Goals: a Latin American and Caribbean perspective


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Logistic Information

•  Information Bulletin

•  Registration Form

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Press

•  Inter-American Committee to study impact of social policies in the Hemisphere

•  Second Meeting of the Inter-American Committee of Social Development