Tue, Mar 16 2021

• Official activities
  Opening ceremony
  08:00 am to 08:40 am

  Moderator: Adriana Bolaños Argueta, Minister ad interim for Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica

  • Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
  • Munir Akram, President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations in New York
  • Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Carlos Alvarado, President of the Republic of Costa Rica

  Adriana Bolaños Argueta
  Alicia Bárcena
  Munir Akram
  Amina J. Mohammed - Draft Remarks at the Opening ceremony
  Carlos Alvarado Quesada - Palabras del Presidente de la República de Costa Rica
• Official activities
  Cultural interlude: “Tambito” Banda de Conciertos de Cartago, Grupo artístico Biketso of Costa Rica
  08:40 am to 08:45 am
• Official activities
  Adoption of the agenda
  08:45 am to 08:50 am

  Adriana Bolaños Argueta, Minister ad interim for Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica

  Adriana Bolaños Argueta
• Official activities
  Presentation of the document “Building forward better: action to strengthen the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”
  08:50 am to 09:10 am

  Fourth report on regional progress and challenges in relation to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC

  Alicia Bárcena - Presentación - Construir un futuro mejor: acciones para fortalecer la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible
  Alicia Bárcena - Presentation - Building forward better: action to strengthen the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
• Official activities
  Comments on the report
  09:10 am to 09:40 am

  Moderator: Adriana Bolaños Argueta, Minister ad interim for Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica

  • John Agard, Director of the St. Augustine Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (STACIE) and Professor of Tropical Island Ecology in the Department of Life Sciences of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, and Co-Chair of the United Nations 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report task team
  • Luis Bértola, Professor of the Economic and Social History Programme in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the Republic of Uruguay

  Adriana Bolaños Argueta
  John Agard
  Luis Bértola
• Actividades oficiales
  Cultural interlude: “Viniando por mi país”, Banda de Conciertos de Cartago, Grupo artistico Biketso of Costa Rica
  09:40 am to 09:45 am
• Official activities
  Dialogue on a resilient and sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and achieving the 2030 Agenda
  09:45 am to 01:00 pm

  Moderator: María del Pilar Garrido, Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy of Costa Rica

  • Statements by ministers and high-level authorities of Latin America and the Caribbean (5 minutes per speaker, in alphabetical order of country name in Spanish)
  • Statements by ministers and high-level authorities of associate members of ECLAC (5 minutes per speaker, in alphabetical order of country in Spanish)
  • Slot for presentation by civil society

  Pilar Garrido Gonzalo
  Rodrigo Malmierca - Intervención del Ministro de MINCEX
• Recess
  01:00 pm to 02:00 pm
• Official activities
  Building forward better in the Caribbean post-COVID-19: critical issues to keep the 2030 Agenda in sight
  02:00 pm to 03:55 pm

  Moderator: Diane Quarless, Chief of the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean

  Opening remarks: Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, and Christian Guillermet-Fernández, Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica

  • Marsha K. Caddle, Minister of Economic Affairs and Investment of Barbados
  • Dean Jonas, Minister of Social Transformation and the Blue Economy of Antigua and Barbuda
  • Roshan Parasram, Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Kari Grenade, Macroeconomic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Planning, Economic Development and Physical Development of Grenada and Chairwoman of the Technical Working Group of the National Sustainable Development Plan 2035 
  • Andrew Lee, Acting Director-General of e-Learning Jamaica Co. Ltd.
  • Terry Ince, Founder and Convener of the CEDAW Committee of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Birgit Gerstenberg, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Belize and El Salvador

  Diane Quarless
  Alicia Bárcena
  Christian Guillermet-Fernández
  Roshan Parasram
  Andrew Lee – Bio
  Birgit Gerstenberg
• Official activities
  Statements by the delegations
  03:00 pm to 03:55 pm
• Actividades oficiales
  Cultural interlude: Bob Marley’s “Lively Up Yourself!” performed by The Hillside Vibration of Jamaica and Rice and Beans, Banda de Conciertos de Limón of Costa Rica
  03:55 pm to 04:00 pm
• Official activities
  Contribution of the United Nations system: Presentation of the 2020 system-wide results report of the United Nations development system in Latin America and the Caribbean
  04:00 pm to 05:00 pm

  By Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, and Luis Felipe López-Calva, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in their capacity as Vice-Chairs of the Regional Collaborative Platform for Latin America and the Caribbean

  Moderator: Christian Salazar, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Coordination Office

  Opening remarks: Christian Guillermet-Fernández, Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica

  Greeting by Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (by video message)

  Alicia Bárcena
  Luis Felipe López-Calva
  Christian Guillermet-Fernández
  Amina J. Mohammed