International Seminar

Latin America and the Caribbean:

Challenges before the Millennium Development Goals

 

June 10-11, 2002

IDB Headquaters, Washington, DC

 Organized by

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

The World Bank

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

 

This seminar was aimed at analyzing the region?s situation with respect to the Millennium Development Goals so as to identify a framework that will enable the countries to monitor their development goals, and to implement policies to attain them.

 Further information on the MDG can be found at http://www.undp.org/mdg/.

Available Documents

             ·         Agenda

              ·         List of Participants

              ·         Letter of Intent Between Sponsoring Organizations

Session 1. Millennium Development Goals - MDGs:

-        Thoughts on Approaches by Governments to the MDGs.

By Colin I.Bradford, Jr., Professor, American University

 

-        Millennium Declaration: Means of implementation and its indicators.

By Pedro Sáinz, Consultant, United Nations

 

-        Estrategia de desarrollo y generación de riqueza para los pobres (Spanish.)

By Mario Arana, Technical Secretary, Presidency of Nicaragua

 

-        Reaching the MDGs in Latin America.

By Norman Hicks, Chief of Poverty Unit, Network for the Reduction of Poverty and Economic Action, The World Bank

                                   

 

Session 2.   Analysis of Goals - Poverty and Hunger:

 

-        Meeting the Millennium Poverty Reduction Targets in Latin America

Francisco Ferreira, Professor, Pontificia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

-        Bolivia: Desafíos frente a los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio. (Spanish.)

By Jacques Trigo, Minister of Finance, Bolivia

 

 

Session 3. Analysis of Goals - Education:

 

-        Achieving Universal Primary Education by 2015: A New Policy and Financing Framework.

By Barbara Bruns, Principal Specialist in Education Reform, World Bank

 

-        Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODMs) (Spanish)

By Jeffrey Puryear, Director of the PREAL Program

 

-        Evaluación del Objetivo 2: Lograr la enseñanza primaria universal (Spanish.)

-        Primary Education in Latin America: The Unfinished Agenda.

            By Ernesto Schiefelbein, Consultant to the Education Unit, IDB

 

 Session 4. Analysis of Goals - Gender Equality:

 

-        Kristen Timothy, Senior Investigator, National Center for Research on  Women, USA

 

-        Sonia Montaño, Chief of the Women and Development Unit, ECLAC

 

-        Index of Fulfilled Commitments 1995- 2000: A Social Watch Instrument for Women.

-         General Index of Fulfilled Commitments: General Tables.

By Teresa Valdés, Coordinator of Gender Studies, FLACSO

 

-        Equidad de Género desde la Visión de las mujeres indígenas (Spanish)
by Myrna Cunningham, Rector of the University of the Autonomous Region of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, URACCAN

                                   

 Session 5. Analysis of Goals - Health:

 

-        Selected Communicable Diseases in LAC.

By Gabriel Schmunis, Consultant, Communicable Diseases, PAHO/WHO.

 

-        Maternal and Infant Health in LAC.

By Fernando Barros, Expert in Maternal and Infant Health, Latin American Center for Perinatology

 

-        HIV/AIDS & The Millennium Development Goals.

By Ernest Massiah, Health Specialist, (HIV/AIDS), Sustainable Development Department , IDB

 

-        Construyendo una Política Pública en Salud: SISTEMA AUGE. La transformación de la Salud de Chile (Spanish.)

-        La Salud como un Derecho Humano en Chile (Hernán Sandoval), (Spanish.)

By Antonio Infante, Commission for Health Reform, Chile

 

 

Session 6. Analysis of Goals - Environmental Sustainability:                                  

-        Alicia Bárcena, Director of the Environment and Human Settlements Division, ECLAC

 

-        Ricardo Sánchez, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Kaveh Zahedi, Evaluation and Early Warning Division, UNEP

 

-        Using Regional Energy and Global Environmental Markets to Achieve MDGs such as Environmental Sustainability, and Poverty Reduction.

René Castro, Consultant, UNDP

 

-        Establishing Linkages Between the Environment and Development Priorities for Attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Norbert Henninger, World Resources Institute

 

-        The Millennium Development Goals and the Environment.

Kirk Hamilton, Environment Department, The World Bank

 

 

Session 7.  Cooperation for Development to achieve the MDGs

 

-        External Finance and the Millennium Development Goals.

Shantayan Devarajan, Chief Economist, Vice-President of the Network of Human Development, The World Bank

 

-        Notes on MDGs and Co-operation for Development.

Marcel Massé, Executive Director for Canada, IDB

 

-        PARIS21 Initiative. 

Bahjat Achikbache, Senior Statistician, PARIS 21/OECD

 

 

Session 8. Institutional Capacity for Development Policies to achieve the MDGs

 

-        Institutional Capacity for Development Policy: some reflections
Moisés Pineda, Executive Director for Central America and Mexico, The Word Bank

 

-        Ciro de Falco, Manager of the Regional Operations Department 3, IDB

 

-        Roberto P. Korzeniewicz, Associate Professor, University of Maryland

 

-        Instituciones y gobernabilidad.
Maritza Izaguirre, President of the Directive Council, Compañía Siderúrgica del Orinoco - SIDOR, Venezuela

 

 

 

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