Transcript draft programme of work 2010-2011

DRAFT
PROGRAMME OF WORK
2010-2011
José Luis Machinea
Executive Secretary of ECLAC
Santo Domingo, 11 June 2008
CONTENTS
• Regional assessment 2003-2008 and challenges to
development in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Priorities for ECLAC in the future
• Strategy and working modalities
• Discussion on the draft programme of work 20102011
GLOBAL CONTEXT
2003-2008
• Record growth of world GDP and world trade in the past 30
and 25 years, respectively, have boosted regional expansion
• New geography of financial and trade flows: the importance of
China and Asia
• Increased international liquidity
– Downward pressure on country risk levels
• Economic cycle highly dependent on linkages between the
United States and China
CONTEXT OF LATIN AMERICA
AND THE CARIBBEAN
2003-2008
MAIN ECONOMIC ISSUES
• Period of strongest continuous growth in the past 40 years
– Significant subregional differences
– A 16% increase in per capita GDP between 2003 and 2007
– Cautious optimism with growth forecast to reach 4.7% in 2008
• Improved macroeconomic management and less vulnerability
to external shocks
• Higher, albeit lower-quality, investment levels and with a
downturn in inward FDI compared with the rest of the
developing world
• Specialization in less buoyant production sectors and limited
integration in international markets
CONTEXT OF LATIN AMERICA
AND THE CARIBBEAN
2003-2008
MAIN SOCIAL ISSUES
• A fall in relative and absolute poverty levels
• Creation of more and better-quality jobs
• Increase in life expectancy and reduction in child mortality
• Advances in gender equity in education
• Increase in international migration and internal migration flows
• Fragility of democratic institutions due to social tensions
• Decline in social cohesion
CONTEXT OF LATIN AMERICA
AND THE CARIBBEAN
2003-2008
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MAIN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
Advances in environmental management institutions
Generation of instruments and policies for economic and
environmental integration
Advances in water and sanitation
Degradation of natural heritage and biodiversity
Energy vulnerability
Increased vulnerability to natural disasters (Caribbean and
Central America)
Limited advances in integrating sustainability in sectoral
areas
RISKS AND CHALLENGES
GLOBAL CONTEXT
• High degree of uncertainty globally (volatility of international
financial markets)
• Sharp slowdown in the U.S. (slight recession, but one that
may be of long duration?)
• Slowdown in Europe and Japan
• Possible slowdown in China (although growth should
continue to be strong)
• Increase in the price of oil, other energy products and food
may generate further recessionary impacts
RISKS AND CHALLENGES
FOR LATIN AMERICA AND
THE CARIBBEAN
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• Differential impacts of the slowdown in the U.S.
• The challenges: to maintain an orderly macroeconomic
environment and cushion the impact of rising food prices on
the lowest-income sectors
– Avoid excessive currency appreciation
– Tackle rising inflation
– Avoid procyclical public spending
• Create better-quality investment opportunities
• Diversifying the production structure and adding value to
exports
RISKS AND CHALLENGES
FOR LATIN AMERICA
AND THE CARIBBEAN
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• Socio-economic inequalities
• High social vulnerability of the most marginalized sectors
• Need for greater investment in human capital, welfare and
social protection and in the quality of education
- Extent and efficiency of social spending
• Adapting to demographic changes and population ageing
• Need to strengthen social cohesion
RISKS AND CHALLENGES
FOR LATIN AMERICA
AND THE CARIBBEAN
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Improving the sustainable management of natural resources,
water and land use
Need for more sustainable urban management
Increasing energy efficiency and diversifying the energy
matrix
Need to adapt to climate change and to mitigate its economic
and social impacts
Improvement of regional infrastructure and competitiveness
Need to continue to improve environmental institutions and to
integrate the sustainable development perspective in public
policies
CONTENTS
• Regional assessment 2003-2008 and
challenges to development in Latin America
and the Caribbean
• Priorities for ECLAC in the future
• Strategy and working modalities
• Discussion on the draft programme of work
2010-2011
ECLAC PLANNING PROCESS
FOR 2010-2011
• General Assembly and ECOSOC mandates
• Development agenda of ECLAC member
States
• Collective process of reflection in organizational
units within ECLAC (“bottom-up approach”)
– Regional assessment
– Discussion of priorities
– Identification of cross-cutting issues
– What to do, how and with whom?
INTERNATIONALLY AGREED DEVELOPMENT
GOALS, INCLUDING THE MILLENNIUM
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• Pivotal elements of the
ECLAC work priorities
• Integrated into the
substantive contents of all
subprogrammes
• Regular monitoring of
progress towards their
fulfilment in the region
ECLAC PRIORITIES
IN 2010-2011
• Consolidating advances towards nominal and real
macroeconomic stability
• Improving integration into the international economy and
participating in global value chains
• Increasing the production potential and innovation
• Promoting a social covenant by strengthening equity and
social cohesion
• Refining policies for the sustainable management of natural
resources and adapting to climate change
• Strengthening public management
• Improving regional institutions, in particular those that deal
with global and transboundary issues
ECLAC PROGRAMME
STRUCTURE
Multidisciplinary vision of development
Macroeconomics
Integration in the
global economy
Productivity and
international
competitiveness
Environmental
performance
State
Modenization
Social
issues
Training
Repository of
statistics and
indicators
12 integrated subprogrammes
12 INTEGRATED
SUBPROGRAMMES
LINKAGES WITH THE
GLOBAL ECONOMY, INTEGRATION
AND REGIONAL COOPERATION
ECONOMIC
AGENDA
PRODUCTION AND INNOVATION
MACROECONOMIC POLICIES
AND GROWTH
Economic agenda: Linkages with
the global economy, integration and
regional cooperation
• Analysis of trade policies, the state of multilateral
negotiations and monitoring trade and financial flows
• Support for the integration and complementarity of bilateral
agreements with regional, hemispheric and multilateral
agreements
• Strengthening the capacity to negotiate, administer and
implement trade agreements
• Design of medium- and long-term export-development
strategies based on public-private alliances
• Analysis of the relationship between trade policy and other
areas of development (poverty, the environment etc.)
Economic agenda: Production
and innovation
• Reducing gaps in competitiveness between countries and
with the rest of the world
• Strengthening capacity and incentives for innovation and
incorporation of new technologies
• Fostering production chains to maximize value added and
competition in global markets
• Policies for the inclusion and modernization of micro and
MSMEs and densification of the production framework
• Improving the quality of investment and attracting foreign
investment in higher-value-added sectors
Economic agenda:
Macroeconomic policies and
growth
• Analysis of macroeconomic policies and follow-up of national,
regional and global developments
• Formulation of macroeconomic policies that will contribute to
growth in a framework of greater equity
– Formulation of countercyclical monetary and fiscal policies
– Development of labour institutions that promote quality employment
without neglecting competitiveness
– Improving national financial systems (institutions, access, costs, new
instruments)
– Fostering domestic saving and investment
• Financial architecture for development: improving global and
regional sources
12 INTEGRATED
SUBPROGRAMMES
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
EQUITY
SOCIAL
AGENDA
MAINSTREAMING THE GENDER
PERSPECTIVE IN REGIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Social agenda:
Social development and equity
• Development of a rights-based social covenant
• Design of policies that combine elements of the market, the
State and family and generate solidarity-based financing in
order to:
– Provide universal social protection
– Strengthen human capital formation
– Reduce exclusion and achieve greater social cohesion
• Design of more inclusive labour policies to ensure greater
employability and sustained growth with equity
• Strengthening social institutions and citizen participation
• Analysis of emerging social demands (youth, the care
economy)
Social agenda:
Mainstreaming the gender
perspective
• Mainstreaming the gender perspective in public policies
• Follow-up of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Quito
Consensus (2007)
• Deepening the analysis of emerging issues (time use,
unpaid work, violence against women)
• Establishing a gender parity observatory in Latin America
and the Caribbean
Social agenda:
Population and development
• Follow-up of the International Plan of Action on Population
and Development (Cairo), the Madrid International Plan of
Action on Ageing and the Ibero-American Forum on
Migration and Development
• Incorporation of sociodemographic variables in social
programming
• Strengthening policies and measures designed for
indigenous peoples and Afrodescendants
• Analysis of new perspectives on internal migration (territorial
mobility, inter-urban segregation, etc.)
12 INTEGRATED
SUBPROGRAMMES
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
AGENDA
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND
HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
NATURAL RESOURCES
AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Sustainability agenda:
Sustainable development and
human settlements
• Generation of information and indicators for assessing
sustainable development in the region
• Evaluation of environmental performance: enhancing
externalities and modelling policies
• Strengthening environmental institutions and the integration of
environmental sustainability criteria in policies relating to the
economy, urban management, land use and international trade
• Analysis of economic policy options for adapting to climate
change and mitigating its effects
• Follow-up to international and regional sustainable
development agreements (Mauritius Strategy, UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change, etc.)
Sustainability agenda:
Natural resources and
infrastructure
• Fostering sustainability of the pattern of resource-based
international integration
• Improving the provision of public services and promoting
modernization and integration of infrastructure
• Diversifying conventional and renewable energy sources in
forming energy matrices and markets (with emphasis on
energy efficiency, renewable energies and biofuels)
• Analysis of income from the exploitation of the natural
resource endowment and its possible uses
• Boosting the competitiveness of the logistical chain as a
central element of transport and infrastructure policies
12 INTEGRATED
SUBPROGRAMMES
TRAINING
STATISTICS
PLANNING OF PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION
STATISTICS AND ECONOMIC
PROJECTIONS
Training agenda
• ILPES, the training centre of the ECLAC system, organizes
international courses
• Priorities
– To consolidate institutions for economic and social planning
– To promote State modernization
• Diversification of thematic coverage of training programmes
– Budgetary and public investment policies
– Regional and local development
– New topics subject to demand from member countries (the care
economy, environmental and natural resource management, social
protection systems)
• Innovations (on-line courses and virtual networks)
Statistics and economic
projections
• Improving the coverage, quality and dissemination of
economic, social, demographic, environmental and subsidiary
account statistics
• Providing support to statistical systems in the region to
enable them to adopt new international standards: national
accounts, statistics and indicators
• Harmonizing statistical information: gradual convergence
towards the goal of regional excellence by sharing
experiences and best practices
• Monitoring advances towards the fulfilment of the Millennium
Development Goals
• Development and update of statistical methodologies (poverty
measurement, price comparability, etc.)
12 INTEGRATED
SUBPROGRAMMES
SUBREGIONAL ACTIVITIES
IN MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA
SUBREGIONAL
FOCUS
SUBREGIONAL ACTIVITIES
IN THE CARIBBEAN
4 NATIONAL OFFICES
1 LIAISON OFFICE
Activities for Mexico, Central
America, Cuba, Dominican
Republic and Haiti
• Perfecting the international integration model, support for the
subregional integration process and other integration
agreements
• Fostering export development strategies and production
linkages with greater value added
• Increasing job creation and improving job quality
• Analysis of migration flows and the impact of remittances
• Sustainable energy management, adapting to, and mitigating
the effects of, climate change
• Coordinating assessments of the socio-economic impact of
natural disasters and reducing vulnerability
Activities for the Caribbean
• Consolidating subregional integration processes and the
common development agenda (CARICOM – Caribbean Single
Market and Economy)
• Supporting the implementation of the programme of action for
small-island developing States and the follow-up of the
Mauritius Strategy (Regional Coordinating Mechanism)
• Enhancing economic, social and environmental statistics and
Millennium Development Goals follow-up indicators
The subregional issues derive also from the specialized
subprogrammes at ECLAC headquarters
CONTENTS
• Regional assessment 2003-2008 and
challenges to development in Latin America
and the Caribbean
• Priorities for ECLAC in the future
• Strategy and working modalities
• Discussion on the draft programme of work
2010-2011
COUNTERPARTS AND
BENEFICIARIES
• National counterparts:
– Ministries, sectoral agencies and central banks
– Subnational and local institutions
– Academic centres and universities
• International counterparts:
– International organizations and cooperation agencies
– Regional and subregional organizations
• Users
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Public policymakers and Government officials
Sectoral programme managers
Private sector
NGOs and civil society
• Beneficiaries: Latin American and Caribbean
countries
EXPECTED OUTCOMES OF
THE COMMISSION’S WORK
• Greater awareness and understanding in ECLAC Member
States of the key and emerging issues that affect their
development
• Strengthened capacity of counterparts in the countries of the
region to formulate, implement, monitor and evaluate policies
and instruments that contribute to development
• Greater coordination, sharing of experiences and best
practices among member countries on development issues
• Progress of countries in the region in the follow-up and
implementation of international plans of action emanating
from the main intergovernmental conferences, summits and
declarations
ECLAC ACTIVITIES
• Intergovernmental forum for regional
multisectoral dialogue
• Applied research and analysis of options
for the formulation of development policies
(with a multidimensional and integrated
vision)
• Provision of technical assistance and
cooperation geared to public policies
• Training courses and workshops for
building technical knowledge
ECLAC ACTIVITIES
(continued)
• Reliable source of comparable statistics and indicators
• Integrated follow-up to world summits on economic and
social issues and monitoring advances towards fulfilment of
plans of action and the agreed development goals
• Development of knowledge networks and sharing of
experiences and best practices
• Coordination of inter-agency studies conducted by United
Nations organizations in the region
WORKING MODALITIES
• Results-based management
– Ensuring transparency
– Optimizing efficiency, synergies in the use of
resources, the impact of sustainability
– Facilitating accountability
(strengthening monitoring and evaluation)
• Coordination with the rest of the United Nations system
represented in the region (“Delivering as One”)
• Building partnerships with international cooperation institutions
• Support for ECLAC member countries
THANK YOU
DISCUSSION ON
DRAFT
PROGRAMME
OF WORK OF
ECLAC
2010-2011