Thu, Sep 04 2025

• Review of the document Latin America and the Caribbean 30 Years on from the First World Summit for Social Development: Towards a Global Pact for Inclusive Social Development (continued)
  09:00 am to 12:00 pm
• Panel 5. Emerging challenges for inclusive social development in Latin America and the Caribbean: labour inclusion and climate, demographic and technological change
  09:00 am to 11:00 am

  Moderator: Rodrigo Martínez, Senior Social Affairs Officer of the Social Development Division of ECLAC 

  •    Kirk Humphrey, Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs of Barbados
  •    Yorleni León, Minister of Human Development and Social Inclusion of Costa Rica
  •    Bertha Zapeta,Vice-Minister for Social Development in the Ministry of Social Development of Guatemala
  •    Gloria Reyes, General Director of the Social Development division of the Supérate programme of the Dominican Republic
  •    Vinicius Pinheiro, Regional Director, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Labour Organization (ILO) 

  Statements by delegations 

• Consideration and adoption of agreements
  11:00 am to 11:15 am
• Closing session
  11:15 am to 12:00 pm

  •    Wellington Dias, Minister of Social Development and Assistance, Family Affairs and the Fight against Hunger of Brazil
  •    Almudena Fernández, Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean of UNDP
  •    Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Chief of the Social Development Division of ECLAC