CIDES 2009- 2010 Work Plan
           
The Inter-American Committee of Social Development (CIDES) has its biannual Work Plan, which responds to the mandates received from the Ministers and High Level Authorities of Social Development, which met in July 2008, in Reñaca, Chile. The substantive themes identified by these authorities will be geared towards reflecting on the response to the regional and global context, especially in the light of the current economic crisis. This will ensure relevance and effectiveness of the activities to be developed within this Plan. In that sense, the Committee will focus its work on: the institutionality of social policy, inter-American cooperation to promote effective social protection strategies; overcoming hunger and children malnutrition and the promotion of employment and income generation as a cross-cutting concern of social policy.

This Plan was initially drafted by the three authorities of CIDES, who met in Bogota on January 29, 2009 for this purpose. Carolina Rentería, former Director of National Planning of Colombia was present in her capacity as chair of CIDES. She was accompanied by the vice chairs of the Committee: María del Carmen Roquebert, Minister of Social Development of Panama, and Antonia Popplewell Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Development of Trinidad and Tobago. The resulting proposal was then circulated among all member States for their comments and final review.

The Department of Social Development and Employment, in its capacity as Technical Secretariat of CIDES, will support the authorities in the execution of this Work Plan.

II Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development

The Second Meeting of the Inter-American Committee of Social Development (CIDES) was held on October 23 – 24 2007, at the OAS General Secretariat Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

The results of the Meeting are presented below:

•  Documents of the Meeting
•  Welcome Remarks
•  Presentations from the International Organizations
•  National Presentations
•  Support Documents
•  Logistic Information
•  Press

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Documents of the Meeting

•  Agenda
- Versão em Português
- Version Française

•  Schedule
- Versão em Português
- Version Française

•  List of Participants

•  Report of the CIDES's activities
- Chair of CIDES
- Technical Secretariat of CIDES

•  The First Meeting of Ministers and High-Level Authorities of Social Development: proposed theme, methodology, and logistical arrangements

•  Note from the Permanent Mission of Panama requesting inclusion of a topic for the First Meeting of Minsiters and High Level Authorities of Social Development

•  Agreements
- Versão em Português
- Version Française

•  Final Report
- Versão em Português
- Version Française

•  Lista de Documentos

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Welcome Remarks

•  Ambassador Abigail Castro de Pérez, Chair of the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI)

•  Ambassador Albert Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States

•  Gonzalo Arenas, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Planning of Chile – Chair of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development (CIDES)

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Presentations from the International Organizations

•  Report on progress toward the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Inés Bustillo, Director, Washington Regional Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

•  Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Gustavo Márquez, Principal Labor Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

•  Equity in the Americas
- Bernardo Kliksberg, Main Advisor for the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

•  Social inclusion and social guarantees. Report on the research project coordinated by the World Bank
- Andrew Norton, Lead Specialist on Social Development, World Bank

•  Inter-American cooperation on policies and programs to combat poverty
- Francisco Pilotti, Deputy Executive Secretary for Integral Development and Director of the Department of Social Development and Employment of the OAS – Technical Secretariat of CIDES

•  The First Meeting of Ministers and High-Level Authorities of Social Development in the framework of the Summit of the Americas process and its link with civil society
- Cristóbal Dupouy, Summits Secretariat

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National Presentations

•  New institutionalization of social policy: the role of Ministries of Social Development and other organizations with similar functions; challenges of inter-sectoral coordination
- Nathalie Cely, Minister of Social Development Coordination, Ecuador
- Ruth Blackman, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social Transformation, Barbados
- María Roquebert, Minister of Social Development, Panama
- Ambassador Osmar Chohfi, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the OAS, Brazil

•  Social policy, decentralization, territory, and local government
- Louise Galarneau, Director of International Affairs, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, Canada

•  Programmatic innovations for more effective social protection: evaluation of conditional cash transfer programs
- Luz Stella Rodríguez Novoa, Advisor, Office of the Director, National Planning Office, Colombia
- Dennis Williams, Chief Technical Officer, Ministry of Social Development, Trinidad and Tobago
- Jorge Coarasa Bustamante, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Social Development, México

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Support Documents

•  CIDES Rules of Procedure

•  Final Report I CIDES

•  Increasing Social Inclusion through Social Guarantees

•  Outsiders? The Changing Patterns of Social Exclusion in Latina America and the Caribbean
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•  What does it mean to live in Latin America , the most unequal region of the World? The case of public health

•  Social Cohesion. Inclusion and a sense of belonging in Latin America and the Caribbean

•  The Millennium Development Goals: a Latin American and Caribbean perspective


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Logistic Information

•  Information Bulletin

•  Registration Form

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Press

•  Inter-American Committee to study impact of social policies in the Hemisphere

•  Second Meeting of the Inter-American Committee of Social Development

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