The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will host on February 1-3 at its central headquarters in Santiago, Chile the third edition of the Regional Water Dialogues in Latin America and the Caribbean, a high-level ministerial event in preparation for the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, which will take place in March in New York.
The meeting – which will be held using a hybrid format (on-site and virtual) – aims to assess progress related to Sustainable Development Goal 6 (to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all) in the framework of the "Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, ‘Water for Sustainable Development,’ 2018-2028,” and to launch a Regional Water Action Agenda.
The event will be inaugurated on Wednesday, February 1 at 9 a.m. local time in Chile (GMT/UTC -3) by Maisa Rojas, Minister of the Environment of Chile; Mariana Mazzucato, Economist and Professor at University College London (UCL) (by video); Manuel Otero, Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA); Mario Lubetkin, Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); and José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC. Additional participants include Henk Ovink, Special Envoy of the Netherlands to the United Nations, and Pedro Arrojo, Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water.
The sessions of the Regional Water Dialogues 2023 will be oriented in line with the UN 2023 Water Conference’s themes: i) Water and climate; ii) Water and sustainable development; iii) Water, financing and health; iv) Water and regional and territorial cooperation; and v) Water, energy and food. High-level national authorities will participate in each of these sessions. In addition, there will be technical sessions to discuss water solutions at various scales to accelerate the achievement of SDG 6 under the water valuation initiative. During the Dialogues, ECLAC’s national capacity-building project in Latin America and the Caribbean, known as ROSA: Water Sustainability Network and Observatory, will be launched.
Members of the media are invited to participate in this event that will take place at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile (Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Santiago). Journalists must have their media credentials or IDs with them to gain entry.
Those interested in following the meeting virtually via Zoom can register at the following link:
https://cepal-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BQa5a_SsRaKYL6JEkQJWoA
In addition, the event will be transmitted online for the general public via https://live.cepal.org/dialogosagua/ and on the Commission’s social media accounts on Twitter (@cepal_onu) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu).
The full programme of the event and more information is available at this link.
What: Regional Water Dialogues in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023.
Who:
Inauguration (Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 9:00 a.m. local time in Chile – GMT/UTC -3):
• Maisa Rojas, Minister of the Environment of Chile.
• Mariana Mazzucato, Professor at University College London (UCL) (by video).
• Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA.
· Mario Lubetkin, Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean of FAO.
• José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC.
Special participation in a session on the global and regional context of water as a vector of development (Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 9:50 a.m. local time in Chile – GMT/UTC -3):
• Henk Ovink, Special Envoy of the Netherlands to the United Nations.
• Pedro Arrojo, Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water.
When: Wednesday, February 1 to Friday, February 3, 2023.
Where: ECLAC’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile (Av. Dag Hammarsköld 3477, Vitacura).
Virtual connection via the Zoom platform (prior registration required): https://cepal-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BQa5a_SsRaKYL6JEkQJWoA
Also at https://live.cepal.org/dialogosagua/ or on ECLAC’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@cepal/streams
For queries, contact ECLAC’s Public Information Unit in Santiago, Chile.
Email: prensa@cepal.org; Telephone: +562 2210 2040.
