Objectives:
• To demonstrate why it is critical and economically sound to invest in CSSP, including the progressive realisation of Universal Child Benefits and shock-responsive social protection.
• To amplify UN Secretary-General’s recent call to action to ground recovery efforts in human rights and the principles underpinning Agenda 2030, including the pledge to Leave No One Behind.
• To provide a vital opportunity to share and interrogate new thinking on CSSP in the LAC region, and the role it can play in a sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19, including its role in achieving the SDs in close collaboration with governments.
•  Provide good practices from at least three countries in the region on initiatives carried out to support economic resilience through social protection responses to COVID-19 and investments in social protection systems in the longer term.

Programme
2:00-2:02pm   Initial opening
Words from the moderator to open the event

2:02-2:14 pm   Welcoming session
• Victoria Ward, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of Save the Children
• Jean Gough, UNICEF Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director of the Social Development Division, ECLAC
• Joao Helder Diniz, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean World Vision - MMI LAC

2:14-3:22 pm   Child-sensitive social protection: lessons learned and reflections on Covid19

• What do children and adolescents expect from their governments for a sustainable and resilient recovery from Covid-19? From theory to practice
• Rebecca, REDDNyAs, El Salvador
• Marta, youth leader from Colombia

• The experience of Peru and the "Cuna Más" National Program
• Ms. Fanny Montellanos, Deputy Minister of Social Benefits, Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS), Peru.

• The experience of Guatemala and the participation of children and adolescents in the Voluntary National Review process (VNRs)
Ramona Aracely De León Rodas, Director of Public Management for Development, Secretariat of Planning and Programming of the PresidencySEGEPLAN-Guatemala

• Presentation of good practices on child-sensitive social protection and recovery from Covid-19
• Claudia Alejandra Gélvez, Director of Early Childhood of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF)
• Andrea Suárez, Deputy Director of Early Childhood, Ministry of Education, Colombia

• Towards the construction of a social protection floor that is sensitive to children
• Blanquita Honorato, Under-Secretary of Children, Ministry of Social Development and Family, Chile

• The experience of Paraguay on child-sensitive social protection
• Carmen Ubaldi, Head of the Office of the Executive Management, Social Cabinet Technical Unit, Paraguay

Reflections and recommendations
• Claudia Robles Farias, ECLAC
• Claudio Santibañez, UNICEF
• Yolande Wright, Save the Children
• Patricia Horna, MMI LAC

3:22-3:26pm   Call to action
Children and adolescents call to action in favor of childsensitive social protection
•Marta, youth leader from Colombia
•Rebecca, REDDNyAs, El Salvador

3:29-3:30pm   Farewell to the event
Closing remarks by the moderator