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ECLAC Hosts Regional Conference on Population and Development
ORANJESTAD - At (UNFPA). The delegates cludes measures monitoring of the Consen- International Plan of Ac-
the end of the also agreed that, based on the integration sus. These indicators should tion on Ageing, requested
second session on the operational guide, of the population be precise, comparable, ECLAC to continue facili-
of the Regional the countries would define with sustainable concrete and aligned with tating the process of ex-
Conference lines of action, goals, terms development and those that emerge from the amination and evaluation
on Population and indicators and would on the areas of process related to the 2030 of applying this Plan, ad-
and Develop- draw up national reports childhood, adoles- Agenda on Sustainable opted in 2002, as well as
ment held in the regarding the implemen- cence and youth, Development and the fol- the San José Charter on
City of Mexico, tation of the Consensus, ageing, sexual low-up of the International the rights of older persons in
Latin American which would be present- and reproductive Conference on Population Latin America and the Ca-
and Carib- ed and revised during the health, gender and Development Program ribbean, approved in 2012.
bean countries third session of the Regional equality, migra- of Action after 2014. ECLAC will carry out this
agreed on Operational Conference, to take place tion, territorial inequality, in- To this end, the Confer- work through the provision
Guide for the implemen- as agreed in El Salvador digenous peoples and Af- ence called for the use of of technical consultancy to
tation of the Montevideo in 2017. The Montevideo ro-descendants. After the national official data in the the countries in the region
Consensus as a voluntary Consensus, adopted in Uru- first revision of the launch- creation, preparation and that request it to carry out
technical instrument of as- guay in the Conference’s ing at a national level in analysis of the indicators their national examina-
sistance for the compliance first session, is the most im- 2017, a regional evaluation to be used in the follow-up tion and evaluation during
of the priority measures on portant inter-governmental will be carried out during of the implementation of 2016; the organization of
population contained in agreement in the region the Regional Conference’s the Montevideo Consensus the Fourth Regional Inter-
the document adopted in regarding population and fourth session, in 2019, with and appealed the coun- governmental Conference
2013. The meeting, held development, and in- the goal of identifying gaps tries to carry out the neces- on Ageing in Latin America
from October 6-9 –attend- and challenges in common sary efforts to improve date and the Caribbean in 2017,
ed by representatives from and to propose regional sources and to encourage which will be held in Para-
governments, international strategies to strengthen the gathering of national guay; and the preparation
organizations and civil soci- the implementation of the statistics, among other of a regional report based
ety- was organized by the Consensus. In order to do means, through technical on these activities as a con-
Government of Mexico and this, a work group will be assistance. At the same tribution for the world ex-
the Economic Commission created to prepare a revi- time, the Regional Confer- amination and evaluation
for Latin America and the sion and specification pro- ence, which acts as the of the Madrid International
Caribbean (ECLAC), with posal of the Operational inter-governmental organ Plan of Action in 2018.
the support of the United Guide’s indicators that will in charge of the regional More information at http://
Nations Population Fund be used for the regional follow-up of the Madrid crpd.cepal.org/es.q
