ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
Inter-American Council for Integral Development
(CIDI)
SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS AND HIGH
AUTHORITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
July 8-9, 2010
Cali, Colombia
OEA/Ser.K/XLVIII.2
CIDI/REMDES/doc.11/10 rev.1
12 October 2010
Original: Spanish
FINAL REPORT
SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS AND HIGH AUTHORITIES
OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
CONTENTS
I.
BACKGROUND...................................................................................................................... 1
II.
PARTICIPANTS...................................................................................................................... 2
III.
PROCEEDINGS ...................................................................................................................... 2
A.
PREPARATORY SESSION ....................................................................................... 2
B.
FIRST PLENARY SESSION ..................................................................................... 4
C.
INAUGURAL SESSION ............................................................................................ 6
D.
FIRST PLENARY SESSION (Continuation)............................................................. 8
E.
SECOND PLENARY SESSION .............................................................................. 10
F.
THIRD PLENARY SESSION .................................................................................. 17
G.
FOURTH PLENARY SESSION .............................................................................. 21
H.
CLOSING SESSION ................................................................................................ 24
IV.
COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS AND HIGH
AUTHORITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF
THE INTER-AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES ..................................................................... 25
V.
APPENDIXES ....................................................................................................................... 29
i.
List of Documents ..................................................................................................... 31
ii.
List of Participants .................................................................................................... 37
iii.
Agenda ...................................................................................................................... 53
iv.
Annotated Agenda..................................................................................................... 55
v.
Schedule .................................................................................................................... 59
vi.
Vote of Thanks to the People and Government of the Republic of Colombia .......... 65
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FINAL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS
AND HIGH AUTHORITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
I.
BACKGROUND
The Second Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development in the
Framework of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) was held in Cali,
Colombia, from July 8 to 9, 2010, in response to the mandates received in the framework of the Fifth
Summit of the Americas and First Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development.
Prior thereto, the Third Regular Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Social
Development (CIDES) was held from April 6 to 7, 2010, at the headquarters of the Organization of
American States, in Washington, D.C. That meeting considered and approved the objectives,
methodology, and core topics to be addressed at the Second Meeting of Ministers and High
Authorities of Social Development.1/ The final report of that meeting is published on the Webpage of
the Department of Social Development and Employment (DSDE) of the OAS, which serves as
technical secretariat for the meeting and the ministerial process:
http://www.sedi.oas.org/ddse/english/cpo_desoc_cides_3reunion.asp
Under the central theme of “Strengthening and Providing Sustainability to Social Protection
Systems,” proposed by the host country and adopted by consensus of all the member states, the
following core topics were discussed and analyzed: (1) strengthening social protection systems as an
integral strategy for addressing the challenges of poverty, especially extreme poverty, inequality, and
inequity in Latin America and the Caribbean; (2) forging alliances as the most effective means for
confronting poverty, especially extreme povery, inequality, inequity, and vulnerability, between the
public sector and nongovernmental organizations, academia, the private sector, and community
organizations; (3) intersectoral challenges facing social development ministries and agencies with
regard to promoting employment and income generation, strengthening food security policies, as well
as risk management and reconstruction of communities in order to reduce the vulnerability of victims
of natural disasters. In addition, a context report was presented on the social policy response to the
effects of the crises in the Americas, as well as another on compliance with the mandates arising from
the First Ministerial Meeting, and the Inter-American Social Protection Network was presented as a
cooperation tool of that ministerial meeting.
The purpose of the ministerial was to foster an exchange of ideas and experiences on shaping
and implementing public policies designed to bring about a significant reduction in poverty and
inequity in the Hemisphere. The ministerial meeting adopted a “Communiqué of the Ministers and
High Authorities of Social Development,” which sets out guidelines and priorities for the 2010-2012
Work Plan of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development (CIDES) of the OAS.
1.
Article 3 of the Rules of Procedure of the CIDES provides that the functions of this body shall be,
inter alia: To follow up on the mandates of the Summits of the Americas; to advise on the preparation
and follow-up of CIDI Meetings of Ministers and High-level Officials in the area of Social
Development; and to identify priorities for information- and experience-exchange to combat and
overcome poverty.
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The List of Documents (Appendix i of this report) catalogues the documents that were
presented at the ministerial meeting. The report includes electronic links to the respective documents
in the available languages. All of the respective documents are also provided on the Webpage of the
Department of Social Development and Employment, which serves as technical secretariat for the
ministerial process, http://www.sedi.oas.org/ddse/english/cpo_desoc_2minist.asp.
II.
PARTICIPANTS
The list of participants was published as document CIDI/REMDES/doc.8/10 rev. 1, attached
as Appendix ii of this report. It should be noted that 20 ministers, vice ministers, or highest national
authorities for social development took part as heads of delegation, representing 28 member states of
the OAS.
Also in attendance were senior officials from 12 inter-American and international agencies,
including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the
World Food Program (WFP), the Andean Community, the Andean Development Corporation (CAF),
the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), the United
Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on
Agriculture (IICA).
Present as well were representatives of civil society organizations invited by the ministerial,
who were also included in the list of participants.
III.
PROCEEDINGS
In keeping with Article 24 of the Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American Council for
Integral Development, the meeting consisted of a preparatory session, an inaugural session, four
plenary sessions, and a closing session, as described below.
A.
PREPARATORY SESSION
In order to perform a final review of the materials and organization of the ministerial
meeting, a preparatory session, attended by all CIDES members, was held in Cali on July 7. The
ministerial was chaired by the Director General of the National Planning Department of Colombia, as
Chair of the Committee. At the preparatory session, a number of decisions were made and
agreements reached that are detailed below, and subsequently referred for formal approval at the first
plenary session of the ministerial meeting.
First, the Chair of the ministerial meeting thanked the OAS General Secretariat and the
Government of Colombia for having adopted methods of work with the least possible environmental
impacts. In this regard, the Chair announced to those in attendance that during these two and a half
days of sessions the delegations would have electronic access to all meeting documents, with a view
to avoiding, to the extent possible, the massive printing of documents. Accordingly, the work areas
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of each delegation were equipped with computers and monitors to facilitate real-time access to the
latest versions of all work documents.
Turning to the business of the preparatory session, the delegations received nominations to
occupy the Chair and Vice Chairs of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development for the
next two years. The incumbent officers, the National Planning Department of Colombia as Chair,
and the Ministers of Social Development of Panama and Trinidad and Tobago as First and Second
Vice Chairs, respectfully, would complete their terms within the framework of the ministerial
meeting to be held the following day. The Technical Secretariat reported that the following
candidacies had be received thus far: the Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation of
Brazil for Committee Chair; and the Secretariat of the Presidency of El Salvador, the Secretariat of
Social Development of Mexico, and the Ministry of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment, and
Rural and Urban Development of Barbados for the two Vice Chairs. Consequently, it was decided to
confirm the candidacies of Brazil and Barbados, and it was requested that El Salvador and Mexico
reach agreement as to which would occupy the remaining vice chair in representation of the region of
Central America and Mexico. These candidacies were to be formally confirmed in the framework of
the ministerial meeting, at such time as the new officers of CIDES were officially elected for the next
two-year term.
The Director General of the National Planning Department of Colombia, Esteban Piedrahita,
was elected by acclamation as Chair of the Second Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of
Social Development. The Minister of Planning of Chile and outgoing Chair of the previous
ministerial meeting, Felipe Kast, was elected Vice Chair. Furthermore, the Secretariat reported that
during the meeting of the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral
Development (CEPCIDI), held on June 25 in Washington, D.C., lots were drawn to determine the
order of precedence and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago prevailed.
It was decided to set the deadline for submission of new draft resolutions at 10:00 a.m. on
Thursday, July 8, and it was determined that the ministerial meeting should conclude at 5:00 p.m. on
Friday, July 9. The composition of the Style Committee was also determined as follows: Brazil for
Portuguese, Canada for French, the United States for English, and Chile for Spanish. The Style
Committee was to meet at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Finally, the delegations present reviewed the official documents of the ministerial meeting,
and adopted the draft agenda, annotated agenda, and schedule, ad referendum of the ministerial, to
begin the following day.
Next, the session considered the Draft Communiqué of the Second Meeting of Ministers and
High Authorities of Social Development, which was to be adopted at the end of the ministerial
meeting. The Secretariat explained the process of preparing the document, noting that Colombia had
provided a preliminary draft that was presented to the member states for their comments through June
25. The proposed changes to the document were essentially matters of form and style, and in keeping
with the core topics already approved for the ministerial meeting. Consequently, the Technical
Secretariat incorporated these changes to the document, which was the one presented at the
preparatory session.
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Following that clarification, the floor was opened to the delegations, which offered their
comments and new suggestions for the text. In this regard, the Technical Secretariat observed that
some of the suggestions offered were stylistic in nature, and could be incorporated immediately.
Another group of changes were of a substantive nature, whose texts, however, already existed in
other documents approved by the OAS, and could likewise be easily incorporated. Finally, it was
underscored that some of the proposed changes were of a substantive nature and would thus alter the
essence of the existing text. Consequently, the Chair called on the Technical Secretariat to
incorporate the suggested stylistic changes and proposed texts that had already been approved in
other forums, and to distribute the new version of the Communiqué the following morning for the
consideration of the delegations. In addition, it was decided that a document containing the new text
proposals that amounted to substantive changes would be distributed and negotiated in parallel over
the following two days of sessions, prior to approving the Draft Communiqué, within the framework
of the ministerial’s final plenary session.
In the absence of further business, the Chair adjourned the preparatory session and invited
the delegations to a tour of the downtown Cali historic district, followed by a welcome cocktail at the
city’s Cultural Center, hosted by the Office of the Mayor Cali.
B.
FIRST PLENARY SESSION
The first plenary session was held on the morning of Thursday, July 8. Mr. Glenn
Ramadharsingh, the Minister of the People and Social Development of Trinidad and Tobago,
provisionally chaired the session. Following adoption of the draft agenda, document
CIDI/REMDES/doc.2/10 rev. 2, the annotated agenda, CIDI/REMDES/doc.3/10 rev. 2, and the
schedule, CIDI/REMDES/doc.4/10 rev. 4 (included as Appendixes iii, iv, and v hereof), the Chair
noted that in the framework of the preparatory session held the previous day, Mr. Esteban Piedrahita,
the Director General of the National Planning Department of Colombia, had been elected by
acclamation as Chair of the ministerial meeting, and Mr. Felipe Kast Sommerhoff, the Minister of
Planning of Chile, as its Vice Chair.
Next, the Technical Secretariat read out the agreements reached at the preparatory session
regarding the deadline (end of the ministerial meeting) for the presentation of resolutions, the
composition of the Style Committee, and decisions concerning changes to the Draft Communiqué.
Following the formalization and approval of those agreements, the session proceeded to consider the
first core topic of the ministerial.
The social policy response to the effects of the crisis in the Americas and the Caribbean
The session then proceeded to its core work with a presentation on the current state of the
region, just as the first signs were emerging of a gradual recovery from the economic crisis unleashed
the previous year. The moderator for the panel was Mr. Martín Hopenhayn, Director of the Social
Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean
(ECLAC).
In his presentation, he noted the good health of the region in recent years, especially with
regard to increased levels of employment, a narrowing of the inequity gap (particularly over the past
year), declines in poverty and extreme poverty, and the rising trend in social investment, both in
absolute terms and as a percentage of GDP, thus underscoring the political will to invest in social
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sector spending. However, beginning in 2007 and 2008, a rise in the level of extreme poverty was
observed, despite the fact that poverty rates continue to decline, owing to increases in food prices
over that period. The impact of the crisis began to be felt late in 2008, when a drop in GDP and a
negative inflection point in growth were observed with respect to previous periods. Consequently,
modest increases in the levels of poverty and extreme poverty were observed in 2009. The social
impact of the crisis became evident in increased levels of unemployment (albeit not overly
significant), the brunt of which was felt in the informal economy. Moreover, a freeze on salary
increases was also observed. Mr. Hopenhayn explained that overall growth of 4.1 percent was
projected for the region, although the particular outlook in this regard varied by country. The
macroeconomic and fiscal health of the countries made it possible to implement anti-cyclic and
containment measures to respond to the crisis, thus strengthening social protection systems. In
contrast to past crises, the social costs of crisis at hand were not expected to be as severe or take as
long to recover, owing to the measures taken to address them, which have included, inter alia,
maintaining the level of social spending to strengthen assistance to vulnerable groups; increasing
food and education subsidies; activating a system of financing for small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs), as well as for microenterprises; investing in infrastructure programs to generate
growth and employment; promoting unemployment insurance programs; and expanding conditional
cash transfer programs. However, ECLAC pointed out that such measures would need to be tied to
industrial development and more equitable models in the medium- and long-term, so to prevent a
return to failed models. Accordingly, five core pillars of action were recommended: (1) reducing the
structural productivity gaps of the economically-active population through production activation and
convergence policies; (2) promoting non-cyclical macroeconomic policies to prevent economic
volatility from hindering social development (mitigating large-scale vulnerability via balanced
macroeconomic policies); (3) activating employment and regional mechanisms to close gaps in
employment quality and formalization, and regionally; (4) promoting a more active redistributive
government role in social protection systems, to prevent social segmentation and fragmentation in the
region; and (5) concluding a fiscal covenant with a more active state role. Mr. Hopenhayn noted the
region’s low tax burden, the fact that social spending does not have a redistributive or equalizing
effect, and the precarious state of income oversight, which all point to the need for a new fiscal
covenant.
Accordingly, he noted that ECLAC envisioned a new role for the State in the region: one that
would involve substituting compensatory social spending models with others of a redistributive
nature, especially in the areas of health, education, and the care of people with job-related and other
special needs; a role that would promote the transition from a cyclical to a counter-cyclical model,
with a view to containing social vulnerability derived from the crisis; from a passive to a more active
regulatory role in the marketplace; from a system of social protection stratified on the basis of an
individual’s capacity to pay to one based on rights and convergence in the quality of social benefits;
and toward a more equitable vision of gender with respect to balancing its roles between the economy
of care and remunerated work by gender.
Upon thanking Mr. Hopenhayn for his presentation, the Chair opened the floor to all the
delegations. It was pointed out that ECLAC approached the concept of equality from a right-based
perspective. Accordingly, equality would provide the regulatory framework and serve as a foundation
for social pacts offering more opportunities for the most disadvantaged, which in turn would make it
possible to achieve greater levels of equity. The delegates pointed out the debt risks to those countries
of the region that would take out loans to finance counter-cyclical policies, thereby forcing them to
carry out fiscal reforms, improve the allocation of public spending and their tax administration
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systems. Finally, the delegations noted that the objective was not only equality of opportunities, but
also of results. This report provides a contextual framework to guide the work and priorities to be
identified by the CIDES, and with a view to preparing its biennial Work Plan.
Following the presentations, a recess was called to proceed with the official inaugural of the
ministerial.
C.
INAUGURAL SESSION
The inaugural session was held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 8, 2010. Addresses were
given by the Director General of the National Planning Department of Colombia, Mr. Esteban
Piedrahita; the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Mr. Albert Ramdin; and the President of the
Republic of Colombia, Mr. Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
Mr. Piedrahita welcomed the delegations and special guests to Cali, and offered a special
word of thanks to Office of the Mayor of Cali and the OAS. He noted that the ministerial meeting
was being held at an especially propitious time, and would review the actions taken in the region in
order to contain the effects of the deep crisis gripping the Hemisphere between 2008 and 2009.
Among the steps taken—especially in his country—he noted the effort to undertake fiscal reform.
Colombia suffered a profound crisis during the 1990s, as the result of falling income, rising poverty,
increasing unemployment, and the loss of eight years of growth by the end of that decade. At the
time, the country was instituting cyclical policies that exacerbated the crisis and touched off yet
another crisis in its banking sector. From that experience, a number of lessons were learned with
respect to fiscal, financial, and social policy: banking regulation and financial reform measures were
implemented that prevented the vulnerability of that sector to the most recent crisis; efforts were
made to shore up macroeconomic stability to ensure continued progress in the social arena; state
agencies had been reorganized; and steps had been taken to ensure financing of government agencies.
Furthermore, the vulnerability of the most disadvantaged sectors was clearly evident in this new
period, and, in response, work began to build a new social protection network to remedy that
situation. Against this backdrop, Colombia launched its “Families in Action” [Familias en Acción]
program of conditional cash transfers, drawing on the examples of similar programs in the region,
such as those of Brazil and Mexico. Under the Uribe Administration, Families in Action was
transformed from its crisis response approach into a program for developing human capital, thereby
expanding coverage even during the crisis, and was currently part of the country’s vocational training
network, known as the Red Juntos network. Mr. Piedrahita listed a series of protection actions for the
poor. Moreover, a counter-cyclical policy was crafted in response to the most recent crisis, stepping
up investment in infrastructure and resulting in government growth on the order of 10 percent. The
country expanded social investment through greater coverage of social services; it bolstered financing
of SMEs, thus tripling the amount of credit; and provided housing subsidies that simultaneously
fueled growth in the construction industry, among others. This portfolio of policies allowed the
country to contain the crisis, as was evidenced in the fact that Colombia had no increase in poverty,
thereby making it possible to jumpstart the recovery process under more favorable conditions. The
challenge of the moment was to guarantee the continuity of those services, especially from the fiscal
standpoint, which is why it would be important to take stock of the experiences of other countries in
the region, both in terms of successes and challenges, that all—including Colombia—face in moving
forward with social policy.
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The Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Mr. Albert Ramdin greeted the delegates and
thanked the host country for its hospitality. He congratulated Colombia for its leadership in the social
agenda of the OAS, demonstrated through its role at the helm of the Inter-American Committee on
Social Development, and as the host of the ministerial meeting. Mr. Ramdin underscored the fact that
an additional 9 million people are living in poverty as a consequence of both the food and financial
crises, five million of which in extreme poverty. In this vein he added that a redoubling of social
sector efforts would be necessary, in that failing to do so would not only threaten to undo the
progress made thus far, but also the stability of democracies in the region—the most inequitable
worldwide. Moreover, the region had experienced the devastation of natural disasters that
exacerbated and thwarted efforts to care for the most disadvantaged segments of the population.
Nevertheless, the region had largely managed to contain the crisis of the previous year, especially
through safeguarding the democratic values established in the Hemisphere. The challenge, however,
was to ensure that these democratic systems would be able to provide opportunities for the
advancement of all of the region’s inhabitants, especially those on the margins of models of progress
and growth. A strong democratic State must be able to lead with an economy toward just and
equitable development, rooted in the principle of equality of opportunities. In the framework of the
Summit of the Americas, in 2009, the Heads of State and Government called on the forum to
strengthen social protection mechanisms, with a view to reducing inequity, the social gap, and
poverty. For this reason, Mr. Ramdin expressed his appreciation for the theme selected for the
ministerial meeting, which emphasized the importance of social protection and ensuring their
sustainability—even in times of crisis. He added that the issues that would be addressed by the
delegates over the following two days would indeed be relevant to contemporary social policies. At
the time, he noted, there was no question as to the viability of social protection systems, rather the
focus of debate centered on how to strengthen and make them more effective, and enhance their
tools. The results of those debates, he ventured, would enrich the content of the recently launched
Inter-American Social Protection Network. In parallel, discussions on the partnering of government
with other civil society groups would be essential to crafting effective social policy. He also noted
that the intersectoral challenges confronting the agencies attending the ministerial meeting would
likewise give rise to new challenges for promoting employment and income, advancing toward food
security, and caring for the populations devastated by natural disasters—especially in terms of the
social reconstruction of the afflicted communities. Mr. Ramdin concluded his address by renewing
the OAS’ commitment to these mandates and to the results of the ministerial’s two days of work,
noting that the issues considered at the ministerial meeting would be crucial to making decisive
progress on developing innovative social policies, and were in keeping with the demands for
advancing toward greater justice in democratic societies. In closing, he urged the wealthiest countries
of the region to uphold their commitments with their neighbors in need.
Finally, the President of the Republic of Colombia, Mr. Álvaro Uribe, welcomed the
delegates and thanked them for attending the ministerial. He proceeded to describe the history of
violence in Colombia and the social challenges confronting that country over the 200 years since
gaining its independence. He observed that although Colombia’s social capital had managed to
weather the crisis of violence, its effects had taken their toll in terms of investment, unemployment,
poverty, inequity, and the displacement and expulsion of Colombians abroad. The global crisis did
not take Colombia by surprise, as the country was able to draw on the fundamental lessons learned
from its own internal crises to help contain its effects. Mr. Uribe then described the pillars that had
supported his government in this regard, based both on building the confidence of the international
community and domestically. The pillars guiding this objective were as follows: security with
democratic freedoms and values; investment with brotherhood; and social policy—all interrelated
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and inextricable elements. Security and investment provided the means for achieving social cohesion,
which had contributed significantly to validating security and investment promotion policies. He
went on to note that Colombia waged war against terrorism by building confidence for investment
based on transparency and respect for citizens’ rights. Colombia promoted dialogue with local
communities and investors in order to create an effective investment policy. During Mr. Uribe’s
administration, the persecution, kidnappings, and murders of workers had been reduced substantially.
Moreover, he noted that Colombia had recently been removed from the ILO “black list” of countries
sanctioned by that organization for the persecution of workers. Among other achievements, he noted
that Colombia’s minimum wage had been rising, although other pending challenges had yet to be
addressed. Moreover, Mr. Uribe emphasized the fact that his country demands social coresponsibility from employers. He noted that the previous year, a slight decline in poverty and
improvement in Colombia’s Gini coefficient had been observed. He pointed out that the country’s
social policy emanated from its education policy. He said that investment depends on a dynamic
educational sector to fuel industrial innovation, and that education prepares the ground for security
and the building of democratic values. He pointed out that improvements had been made in services
for disadvantaged children, especially in the areas of education, nutrition, and health. Mr. Uribe
conceded that much work remained to be done for children under 6 years of age, and in this regard
mentioned that the building of infrastructure had presented a challenge, with a view to increasing
primary and secondary school coverage. Mr. Uribe noted that the purpose of the State is to serve the
community, and that his government had worked to reform and improve state services. Colombia
implemented tax reforms to buoy social services in the health and education sectors. Colombia also
strengthened and increased the coverage of the Families in Action program and the Red Juntos
network, to ensure that subsidies reach the most disadvantaged segments of the population. He
emphasized that Colombia’s social policy was structural in nature rather than welfare-based, the goal
of which was to reform income distribution and thus address the country’s high poverty level through
the Red Juntos network, as a targeted policy tool for those most in need of help. Accordingly, this
would ensure the flow of subsidies and access to all public services. Although significant progress
had been made in this regard, Mr. Uribe underscored that much remained to be done in terms of the
country’s social policies.
Following the addresses, the program of the first plenary session resumed.
D.
FIRST PLENARY SESSION (continuation)
Report on fulfillment of the mandates of the First Meeting of Ministers and High
Authorities of Social Development, and progress in the negotiation of the Social Charter of the
Americas
The Department of Social Development and Employment (DSDE) of the OAS, as Technical
Secretariat of the ministerial meeting, presented a report on the activities carried out in response to
the mandates received from the First Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social
Development, held in Reñaca. Mr. Francisco Pilotti, the Director of the DSDE, presented the Work
Plan of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development for the 2008-2010 term, which had
been prepared jointly with the officers of the Committee. That in-depth report was presented as
document CIDI/REMDES/doc.6/10. Those activities addressed the four core priorities approved by
the social development agencies in 2008: (i) the Inter-American Social Protection Network (RIPSO);
(ii) the intersectoral nature of active employment and income generation policies for vulnerable
populations; (iii) the nutritional dimension of social protection systems; and (iv) the institutionality of
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social policies. Mr. Pilotti began his presentation by noting that the Technical Secretariat and the
member states had been working together to enable the Heads of State and Government, meeting
within the framework of the Fifth Summit of the Americas, to make specific mention of the
establishment of the Inter-American Social Protection Network (the Network) as a tool for the
sharing of social protection experiences, and to underscore the importance of this second ministerial
meeting in Colombia. With respect to the Network, he noted that on hand for the formal launching of
the Network in September 2009 were the President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, the former president
of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, the Secretary of State of the United States, Hillary Clinton, the Mayor of
New York City, Michael Bloomberg, the Secretary General of the OAS, Miguel Insulza, as well as
many of the authorities attending the ministerial in Cali. The inspiration for Network drew on a
technical cooperation project between Chile and the Caribbean that DSDE had been carrying out
since 2007, as part of the “Puente in the Caribbean” horizontal cooperation initiative. Mr. Pilotti
described the activities carried out by this initiative over the period covered by the report, which
included, inter alia, knowledge transfer workshops, agreements with the World Bank for Internetbased continuing education modules, and the publication and dissemination of educational materials.
With regard to intersectoral cooperation, he mentioned that the topic of social protection was
introduced within the framework of the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor. In that
context, a first meeting on the topic was held in Cartagena, Colombia, which examined intersectoral
activities and included the participation of various ministries of social development and of labor. In
follow-up to that encounter, he noted that work was under way with the Brazilian Ministry of Labor
and Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation to organize a wider forum for the
sharing of experiences on social protection and labor in the second half of 2010. With respect to that
forum, ECLAC, the OAS, and the ILO were working together on a basic reference document to study
the labor aspects involved in the region’s conditional cash transfer programs. With regard to food
security, pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding concluded between the OAS and the World
Food Program (WFP), DSDE collaborated with the WFP on a study in Central America and the
Dominican Republic to examine the scope of social protection network nutritional components. The
final document of the study was presented to the delegations attending the ministerial meeting.
Secondly, Mr. Pilotti highlighted Colombia’s activities concerning knowledge transfers and nutrition
practices in the Caribbean Basin. Finally, with respect to the institutionality of social policy, he noted
that the World Bank published a book, on which the OAS collaborated, that examined how the social
benefits concept had been applied within the social policies of various countries of the region.
Although published in English, the book was being translated into Spanish and would be distributed
to all the delegates as soon as possible. With regard to the political processes of the ministerial, Mr.
Pilotti mentioned that at the Third Regular Meeting of CIDES, in April 2010, reports were presented
on the progress of that work and that the topics for the Cali agenda had been identified. He added that
financial contributions to CIDES during the period from Canada, Chile, China, and the United States
were used to carry out the activities presented. Mr. Pilotti concluded with a word of thanks for the
highest-level political support received for the ministerial meeting, and qualified it as among the most
significant achievements over the past two years of work, along with the launch of Inter-American
Social Protection Network as a mechanism for the sharing of knowledge in the region. With regard to
the preparations of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas, he commented on the progress made in
the negotiations of this instrument by the Joint Working Group of the Permanent Council and
CEPCIDI, noting that, to date, work on the operative part of that instrument is complete; the
preamble is almost complete; and work would soon begin to prepare its Draft Plan of Action.
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Following Mr. Pilotti’s address, the Chair of the meeting opened the floor to the delegations
in attendance. The delegations commented on the work of the CIDES, and called for greater
convergence among the relevant regional and subregional mechanisms, with a view to strengthening
their individual efforts through establishing joint priorities. To that end, the Technical Secretariat was
asked to follow up on the existing social agreements and priorities in those other agencies and
mechanisms. The delegations also requested that the process of advancing negotiations on the Social
Charter be included as a priority item in the meeting agendas of the ministerial, with a view to
promoting more active participation once the implementation phase of that instrument begins.
Following comments, a recess was called for lunch, and the matters pending were postponed
until the next plenary session.
E.
SECOND PLENARY SESSION
The second plenary session was held in the afternoon of Thursday, July 8, and included the
following panels:
Strengthening social protection systems as a comprehensive strategy for addressing the
challenges of poverty, especially extreme poverty, inequality, and inequity in Latin America
and the Caribbean through: consolidated beneficiary registry systems, evaluation, monitoring
mechanisms, and fiscal sustainability
At the last meeting of the CIDES, the delegations in attendance pointed out the three
principle challenges confronting social protection: sharing experiences on the makeup of
consolidated beneficiary registry systems for services provided by the State; evaluation and
monitoring mechanisms for those programs or strategies; and their fiscal sustainability. Each of those
topics was addressed in separate panels.
Ms. María Concepción Steta, Specialist on Social Protection of the World Bank, moderated
the panels dealing with consolidated beneficiary registry systems and social protection evaluation and
monitoring mechanisms. She introduced the panel topics, emphasizing the essential and strategic
nature of both tools in terms of shoring up the integrity of social protection systems and overcoming
the existing fragmentation between contributory and non-contributory systems. She noted that the
World Bank had recently published a study entitled “Achieving Effective Social Protection for All in
Latin America and the Caribbean: From Right to Reality,” which was distributed to the delegates.
She pointed out some advantages of consolidated beneficiary registry systems, which included their
ability to: limit investment to only a single identifier for each beneficiary; establish cutoff points for
entering and exiting specific programs of the system through a single targeted model; facilitate
effective identification of those who need services; and prevent patronage in the use of social
protection system services. With respect to monitoring and evaluation, Ms. Steta pointed out that
consolidated beneficiary registry systems would further the democratic process of social program
accountability, and provide reliable information that would allow for the adjustment of intervention
models over time.
Consolidated beneficary registry systems
Next, Mr. Gustavo A. Merino, Under Secretary of Prospective, Evaluation and Planning of
Mexico’s Secretariat of Social Development, shared his country’s experience on developing its
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registry systems, which included their consolidation as a means of doing away with need for different
registries for each individual program. The idea was to overhaul the existing beneficiary registry,
which provided only limited uses, with a view to transforming it into a social policy tool that would
facilitate operational planning and forecasting, evaluate the design of existing programs, and thereby
identify new needs. The system was based on a survey instrument whose data are processed using
statistical analysis software, with a view to calculating the various poverty-related aspects of each
household. The survey instrument facilitated articulation with the social protection network;
enhanced the comprehensive elements of social policy, by coordinating intervention programs that
targeted various subject matter areas and needs; and facilitated coordination with the social security
system, through employment, to support people working in the informal economy. He noted that the
instrument supports the multidimensional approach to social policy, making it possible to identify
needs over time, among regions, the necessary types of support, and so on, thereby improving
services for people both within and outside the system. It also made it possible to establish
intervention policies and their geographic radii of influence (e.g., the provision of child daycare
centers), and thus, redirect infrastructure projects to areas lacking such services. Moreover, that
information was shared with the different government agencies and offices working with household
socioeconomic data. He noted that given Mexico’s complex spatial dispersion and lack of a system of
national identification numbers for its citizens, the consolidated registry system had proven to be an
indispensible tool for the success of interventions and support for the poorest households.
Mr. Esteban Piedrahita, Director General of the National Planning Department (DNP) of
Colombia, presented his country’s experience. He emphasized the importance of targeted spending
given the situation of limited government resources, which Colombia enacted through Law No. 715.
That law provides for three stages of action: a multidimensional process for identifying poverty
among the population; selection of the cutoff points for entering and exiting a given program based
on the “System for Selecting Beneficiaries of Social Programs” (SISBEN) database; and finally, the
resource allocation stage carried out by budget executing agencies. The baseline identification of
poor families is cross-referenced with other databases in order to identify those really in need of
social services. The SISBEN database was established in 1995 and subsequently updated in 2003, to
coordinate the data supplied by the country’s mayoral offices, and for consideration at the national
level, by the DNP. Beginning in 2008, a third SISBEN survey was administered. That latest survey
data was being used by 22 state programs and eight government agencies, and efforts were then
under way to formalize and establish the institutional underpinnings for its use. In addition to
establishing income thresholds for determining family poverty status, the third survey went a step
further by adding vulnerability criteria. Mr. Piedrahita noted that the DNP was in charge of designing
the survey instruments and establishing the corresponding database; the ministries were responsible
for determining the cutoff points and applying the relevant subsidies; and local authorities were
tasked with administering the survey instruments and using the corresponding data for their own
programs. He noted that the Red Juntos network utilizes SISBEN data to channel resources to a target
population of approximately 1.5 million poor and displaced families, prioritizing access of those
households to state-funded programs. He pointed out that a new database, InfoJuntos, was developed
on the basis of data compiled by social workers known as “co-managers,” who visit households to
gather baseline data within the framework of the Red Juntos network. The InfoJuntos database
combines data from both SISBEN and the Central Registry for the Displaced Population (RUPD).
The hope in this regard was to make the information in InfoJuntos available for use by civil society
organizations and private firms working on social co-responsibility issues. Mr. Piedrahita concluded
his presentation by emphasizing Colombia’s interest in establishing a consolidated beneficiary
registry system as a means to better identify the poor and vulnerable segments of the population,
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guide the necessary adjustments to ensure relevant and fiscally efficient social policies, and help
improve the delivery of services.
Following these presentations, the moderator opened the floor to the delegates, who
commented on their country’s efforts to develop consolidated beneficiary registry systems at the
central level, as well as on combining and harmonizing the content of existing parallel databases as a
means for establishing information systems. One challenge mentioned in this regard, was how to
improve the targeted approach with those instruments. It was also noted that these kinds of forums
could help countries resolve issues such as how to supplement and harmonize data in consolidated
information systems—especially in view of the fact that the data platforms of different information
systems are not always compatible. Accordingly, it was noted that forums such as the ministerial
could develop inter-American mechanisms to ensure reliable, efficient, and timely information to
serve the population. To this end, it was noted that efforts would be needed to develop the requisite
regulatory framework to support those processes. Also mentioned was the importance of coordinating
diagnostic tools—e.g., household surveys—with targeted assistance and instruments, such as
consolidated beneficiary registry systems.
Next, the session turned to consider the presentations on evaluation and monitoring systems.
Evaluation and monitioring mechanisms
Mr. Patrick Todd, Minister of Economic Empowerment, Trade, Industry and Commerce of
Barbados, commented on his country’s model. He noted that his country’s outstanding tradition of
investment in social protection provided the basis of its sound performance with respect to the human
development index (HDI). One challenge he mentioned was the need for more targeted levels of
social investment. The battery of social protection and social assistance programs, both at the
government and civil society levels, responded to the demands of the population, yet were not always
effective in the face of negative exposure to economic hazards and natural disasters. Consequently,
ongoing evaluation and monitoring of those instruments would be necessary. Mr. Todd noted that his
government had undertaken initiatives to enhance its administrative mechanisms toward addressing
poverty reduction and improving program monitoring. He pointed out that Barbados was currently in
the process of compiling information through a joint study with the Caribbean Development Bank to
identify the needs of vulnerable populations. Moreover, Mr. Todd noted that the current government
was in the process of establishing a number of Constituency Councils that would give people a voice
in social policy, thereby allowing them to evaluate and monitor the political system and specific
programs.
Diego Dorado, Director of Public Policy Evaluation of the National Planning Department of
Colombia, presented his country’s evaluation and monitoring experience. He noted that the National
Evaluation and Results Management System (SINERGIA) had been established in 1994, with a view
to helping government maintain the course and improve its performance in terms of achieving
established public policy objectives. He noted that mission was based on three mainstays: (a)
Monitoring, for the purpose of providing timely information to facilitate corrective action in the short
term, based on relevant, low-cost indicators that were updated regularly and consistent with
institutional capacity, as well as on mechanisms to enhance the dissemination of information; (b)
Evaluation, aimed at verifying results and taking stock of lessons learned for current and future
policies through participatory strategies (these tasks were delegated to independent consultants); and
(c) Accountability, with a view to fostering dialogue between citizens and authorities on public
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policies. Mr. Dorado concluded his presentation noting the complimentary nature of public policy
evaluation and follow-up, emphasizing that the design of monitoring and evaluation systems should
focus on eliminating asymmetries of information (i.e., different stakeholders with different
information regarding the same policy), and discourage creativity in the design of indicators. He said
that an indicator that reveals little is better than a good indicator that shows nothing because it lacks
information. He noted that monitoring and evaluation systems entail expensive operating costs that
could be brought down by introducing routine practices, incentives, and greater transparency. He
further noted that system users make the best auditors of information: if information is not used,
nobody will know its usefulness.
After opening the floor to comments, the delegates shared their experiences with evaluation
and monitoring systems, both in terms of progress and challenges, especially with regard to data on
those beneficiaries who mange to successfully exit social programs. The delegates conceded the
importance of data tools as a means of improving social policy, such as those described in the two
panels. They pointed out that monitoring and evaluation tools can help measure social program
success, and likewise spoke to the need to adjust or eliminate those tools that fail to meet their
objectives, in the interest of improving the efficiency of government investment and resources.
After thanking the panelists for their presentations, the moderator brought the panels to a
close, noting that much remained to be shared, but that all the relevant issues would need to be
examined within the specific context of each country. Among other topics for cooperation, she
emphasized how monitoring and evaluation systems and consolidated beneficiary registry systems
had been working from an operational standpoint, how these systems had been legislated, how to go
about sharing data collection strategies, and also touched on the processes of standardizing targeting
models through household surveys, and the development of indicators. In closing, she noted that the
ministerial provided an excellent opportunity for sharing information on the topic.
Next, the session turned to the third panel on the fiscal sustainability of social protection
systems.
Fiscal sustainability
The moderator for this panel was Mr. Carlos Jorge Rodríguez, Technical Deputy Minister of
the Ministry of Social Protection of Colombia. He introduced the topic and noted the undeniable
challenges of fiscal sustainability, owing to the situation of scarce government resources.
Next, Mr. Pablino Cáceres, Minister of the Secretariat for Social Action of Paraguay,
delivered a presentation on the fiscal sustainability challenges confronting his country. He noted that
38 percent of the Paraguayan population lives in poverty, 20 percent of which in conditions of
extreme poverty—accounting for 218,000 households. He noted that the target set that year was to
provide assistance to at least 150,000 households and identify another 50,000 for future assistance.
The Secretariat provided a number of different conditional cash transfer programs based on coresponsibility, which provided assistance to some 113,000 families. The goal of these programs was
to develop the human capital of the households served. Mr. Cáceres conceded ongoing deficiencies in
the delivery of public services in some regions of the country, which is why his government had been
stepping up efforts to encourage families to improve compliance with co-responsibility expectations.
These programs seek to encourage closer government involvement with families and to improve its
capacity to respond to their needs. Accordingly, the focus of such assistance is multidimensional in
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scope, with a robust government presence to confront the challenges of deficient income, unmet basic
needs (e.g., housing conditions, registration of citizenship, education, health, nutrition, etc.), and the
lack of social and economic opportunities. While noting that Paraguay’s social protection network is
based on a strategy of integrated, coordinated, and consistent interventions over time, he did concede
some degree of political resistance to establishing a mechanism and legal framework that would
protect social programs and ensure their sustainability. No less worrisome was the fact that the
Secretariat Mr. Cáceres represents was established through executive decree and not—as had been
the case of other government ministries—by law, thus revealing the fragile state of the social sector
in terms of political will and its sustainability. Moreover, this resistance has hindered efforts to secure
its budget over time, which would enable it to become a permanent program of the State and not
merely a government initiative. Accordingly, he noted that the current government administration had
also been working to implement a personal income tax. Mr. Cáceres concluded his presentation by
pointing out the importance of the cooperation at the ministerial, with a view to taking stock of the
lessons learned from other experiences in this regard.
Ms. Carmen Nazario, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families of the Department of
Health and Human Services of the United States, delivered a presentation on a specific asset-building
program for families, designed to help them achieve economic independence, put them on a
sustainable path to exiting poverty, and wean them from dependence on government services. She
noted that income supports alone would likely not be enough to achieve that objective. After
mentioning several family assistance programs, including unemployment insurance and income tax
credits, she went on to discuss her government’s “Assets for Independence” (AFI) program. She
noted that the program is based on three objectives: providing families with financial literacy
education and training; increasing family access to banks and credit unions, to avoid the high costs
entailed in cash transactions; and offering families guidance on available credits, and how to lower
and take control over their debt. This support is provided through partnerships with NGOs, which
also help ensure the program’s financial sustainability over time. Ms. Nazario pointed out that the
government provides support though “individual development accounts” (IDAs) to help individuals
open special savings accounts for specific purposes, such as to pay for college, buy a home, or start
up a business, noting that the government provides matching amounts of up to US$8 for every $1
contribution made by the individual. She highlighted the fact that to date, IDAs had been used by
72,000 families resulting in accumulated savings of US$55 million, which had been used to buy
9,000 homes, finance the education of 7,000 individuals, and start up 6,000 small businesses. Ms.
Nazario concluded her presentation by noting that asset-building initiatives for individuals had
proven to be effective at alleviating poverty, and providing a path to financial independence and
sustainability of program participants. She also emphasized the importance of the Inter-American
Social Protection Network as a forum for sharing country experiences to that end.
Following the presentations, discussion focused on political will as an essential ingredient of
sustainable social programs. If families were to emerge from, and stay out of, poverty, assets and
human capital had to be generated. Some countries underscored the importance of tax reform to
facilitate compliance with universal policies based on full exercise of citizens' rights. In some
countries in the region, public expenditure on social programs, approved by parliament, was what
made social programs sustainable. In other cases, private enterprises had had to be nationalized or
capitalized in order to finance the programs. Some delegates, such as the representative of Jamaica,
highlighted the achievements of conditional cash transfer programs (in Jamaica's case, the Program
of Advancement through Health and Education - PATH) and success in sustaining such programs
over time and expanding their coverage to other segments of the population.
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Participants thanked the panelists and the moderator, and turned their attention to the next
item on the agenda.
Partnerships with nongovernmental organizations, academia, the private sector, and
community organizations as a more effective way for the public sector to confront poverty,
especially extreme poverty, inequity, inequality, and vulnerability
At this point during the session, discussion focused on the role of other social policy
stakeholders, in an effort to improve the efficiency of social program interventions and ensure their
benefits reach those who really need them.
Mr. Benito Baranda, Presidente of the América Solidaria Foundation, was invited to
moderate the panel. Mention was made of his organization’s work with volunteers from a number of
countries across the region, including Colombia, Chile, and Haiti. The moderator emphasized the
importance of overcoming poverty and promoting justice and equality in the Hemisphere, supported
and coordinated though government. He noted that the State was in a better position to facilitate
development opportuntity structures through partnerships with NGOs, the academic community, the
private sector, and community-based organizations.
Mr. Lauro Meléndez, Vice Minister of Social Development of Uruguay, delivered a
presentation on the topic. He described the current structure of his government and touched on those
state functions that cannot be delegated, such as promoting social cohesion, redistributing income and
wealth, strategic planning, and the design of strategies and programs—carried out in conjunction with
other stakeholders. He said that the focus of assistance in Uruguay followed a territorial approach and
centered on the family as the driving force of social protection networks, which were integrated at the
community level. He mentioned the fact that his country’s first socialist government formed the
Social Cabinet, under the Council of Ministers, as an advisory body for plans, programs, and social
projects related to the ministries comprising it, and to prepare the social expenditure budget. He noted
that the National Council on Social Policies also included the participation of state-owned
enterprises, in addition to line ministries, and specialized institutes. He went on to explain that at the
departmental level, the interagency boards (mesas territoriales) were tasked with ensuring the impact
of social policies locally, inasmuch as it is at that level that public policy was articulated in the
country. Mr. Meléndez pointed out that programs were in place to coordinate between all the
mentioned centralized and local bodies. In the view of his government, civil society not only
encompasses NGOs, but also unions, development organizations, cooperatives, neighborhood
associations, school parent groups, and volunteers. The partnership with civil society takes place
through social dialogue; encounters that provides opportunities for offering guidance as well as
generating proposals and recommendations concerning its areas of competence. In addition, the
partnership with civil society provides feedback to the three above-mentioned government
organizations. Moreover, he mentioned the Social Councils, explaining their role as social
participation forums at the territorial level, which promoted different vehicles of articulation as well
as the sharing of information between organized civil society and the State in each of the country’s
departments. He also said that the Social Councils provide opportunities to address the citizens’
demands for analysis, follow-up, and the formulation of recommendations on public policies
implemented throughout the country. He explained that the government was currently working to
convene the Departmental Assemblies, which provide citizens with the opportunity to bring forward
proposals and voice their demands, as well as offer input for the social agenda for the following year.
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In terms of the government’s relationship with the business sector, Mr. Meléndez indicated that good
business practices and corporate responsibility were taken into account as a component of the bidding
strategy, along with the establishment of financing agreements for selected social programs on the
government agenda, and collaboration aimed at improving employment conditions.
Finally, Mr. Jeffrey Lizardo, Adviser on Social Policy of the Secretariat of State for
Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic, gave the second presentation on
the topic, and commented on a specific experience concerning the relationship of the government
with civil society. He indicated that in response to the global financial crisis and its impact on that
country, the President of the Republic convened a meeting of all the country’s political, social, and
financial actors in January 2009, and called on them to participate in a Summit for National Unity
against the Global Economic Crisis. One of the goals of that summit was to coordinate policies and
actions aimed at neutralizing and/or mitigating the effects of the crisis. At the summit, work was
carried out to develop a short-term plan of action and a national development strategy for 2030,
which was then submitted to the Congress on August 16, 2010. Seven working groups were
established for that purpose—including one on social policy and employment—and working group
included broad participation of all relevant sectors. More than 200 NGOs participated in that effort,
including political parties, business associations, workers and professionals, as well as grassroots
civil society groups. In February 2009, the President of the Republic announced the establishment of
a committee that would follow up on and monitor the agreements reached in each of the working
groups. Mr. Lizardo noted that a mapping project of the government’s activities in follow up to the
agreements reached by each working group had proven to be an important response to the
recommendations. With regard to social policy and employment, he said that compliance with the
proposals had been linked to the protection of priority social spending, especially on education and
health, as well as the expansion of social protection in the country. Mr. Lizardo concluded his
presentation by highlighting the results of the summit as evidence that civil society, political parties,
entrepreneurs, and community organizations had much to offer in the way of innovative, effective,
and low-cost proposals within the framework of a participatory process, such as the one he described.
Next, the delegations were offered the floor. Mention was made of the government’s
proactive action in enlisting private-sector participation to achieve goals and objectives; and of the
families of the Red Juntos network of Colombia, through direct philanthropy, social responsibility
exercises, and a participatory negotiation strategy. It was noted that in recent years approximately
US$80 million had been channeled to the Juntos strategy. The delegates also commented on the
United States’ program of partnerships with indigenous communities of Native Americans and
Alaskan natives, which provided funding to promote independent investment projects in social,
economic, and cultural programs. Emphasis was placed on the need for government to be proactive in
convening civil society, and to establish a regulatory framework and clear objectives, requiring stable
social policies based on a mutual work plan.
Following the presentations, the Executive Secretary for Integral Development, Mr. Alfonso
Quiñonez, informed the delegations of the progress made that day on the negotiations of the Draft
Communiqué of Cali. The plenary session was then adjourned and the delegations were invited to a
welcome dinner hosted by the National Planning Department of Colombia.
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F.
THIRD PLENARY SESSION
The third plenary session was held on the morning of Friday, July 9, and was chaired by Mr.
Felipe Kast Sommerhoff, Minister of Planning of Chile, as Vice Chair of the Meeting. Before turning
to the core work of the session, an exchange of opinions continued with respect to the new proposals
of text presented for the Draft Communiqué of Cali, and an updated version of that instrument was
distributed in electronic format. The session included the following presentations:
Intersectoral challenges facing social development ministries and agencies
During the session, thought turned to the assumption that addressing extreme poverty would
require an integral approach. The session consisted of three different panels on the challenges of
coordinating efforts with other government sectors, with a view to establishing a coherent and
decisive social policy. Accordingly, at the last meeting of the CIDES, the delegates had identified
three vital areas of coordination in which the ministries and agencies of social development play an
important role, both in terms of their contributions through specific programs as well as coordinating
multisectoral efforts. In this regard, experiences were shared on promoting employment and income
generation among vulnerable populations, on strengthening food security policies, and, finally, on
addressing efforts to rebuild the social fabric in the wake of natural disasters.
Promoting employment and income generation
Mr. Santiago Levy, Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge of the Inter-American
Development Bank, moderated the first panel. Upon conceding the inherent difficulties in making
generalizations about the region, he pointed out that progress had been made in the protection of the
vulnerable population thanks to economic stability, greater certainty, and the implementation of
various social programs. On the topic of income generation and the quality of employment, he shared
his personal view the biggest obstacle for the region was the challenge of productive and formal
employment, which held the keys to permanently eradicating poverty. More specifically, he noted
that within social protection systems, the difficulty is how to combine programs that provide
immediate assistance with efforts to modernize the labor market as a means of providing more and
better jobs. He indicated that the enemy to conquer is the informal economy, with its low wages,
scant technological innovation, and meager economy of scale. The paradox in the region concerns its
vicious circle of labor informality and low productivity. Mr. Levy pointed to the excess of selfemployment and jobs generated by small, fragile, and unstable businesses. He indicated that the
answer is to move toward universal social protection systems, by means of extensive fiscal reforms
that would provide for the universal financing of those systems. The next challenge would be tax
reform to modify their financing, sustain social security, and pave the way for businesses to achieve
greater levels of productivity, labor formality, and quality jobs.
Mrs. Márcia Helena Carvalho Lopes, Minister of Social Development and Hunger
Alleviation of Brazil, delivered a presentation on her country’s experience. She noted that
intersectoral challenges and the social policies implemented are contingent on the vision and
perceptions of the State, society, and the responsibilities of each member country of the OAS in their
role as public agents. In this regard she mentioned the basic principles governing Brazil’s current
social policy: (a) establishment of a democratic, rights-based State that to implement universal
systems and ensure their financing, management, and social accountability; (b) universal access to
rights that break with the tradition of specific, fragmented, and sporadic social policies, and instead
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move toward a permanent and integrated plan of social policies, which would be applied to issues
involving employment and income; (c) structuring public policies on the basis of universal systems
that regulate, organize, order, and legislate new conceptions of interrelated social programs; (d)
coordinating and integrating the different dimensions of social needs; (e) working through an
intersectoral network as the foundation of a new culture to manage and overcome the implementation
of fragmented policies and promote dialogue on policies, in the present case, with respect to
employment, income and poverty, to guarantee that each, from its specific nature, ensures the
inclusion of all in its response to their needs; (f) integrated management with social participation
(social control), to include organized civil society, as well as trade associations, and local public
policy councils; (g) evaluation and monitoring systems; (h) appropriate information systems that are
compatible with the needs of integrated public policies; and (i) appropriate human resources policies
that are consistent with this new vision of social policy. Mrs. Carvalho Lopes noted that on the basis
of the aforementioned principles, her Ministry received a presidential mandate to develop an integral
and crosscutting strategy to include a set of policies and programs—in education, health, social
welfare, economic development, food and nutritional security, and employment and income—with
the objective of reducing poverty through development and income distribution. She noted that this
set of polices addressed the family, viewed as the main focus of social policy in her country. She
went on to explain that the tools used to implement this vision were brought together into a single
social protection system with a consolidated beneficiary registry, which includes, inter alia, the
following programs: Bolsa Família (conditional cash transfer program); employment and income;
adult literacy; eldercare; child labor eradication; electric energy rate reduction; and housing.
Mr. Glenn Ramadharsingh, the Minister of the People and Social Development of Trinidad
and Tobago, delivered the second presentation. He described the vision of his new government, based
on seven pillars. The first two, concern people-centered development and poverty eradication with
social justice. He noted that the goals included among the various pillars were in keeping with the
relevant Millennium Development Goals. By way of specific example, he explained that his country
experienced an increase in employment over the past decade, and that new challenges had emerged as
a result of the latest global crises. To meet those challenges, he said, would require coordination with
other relevant line ministries. In this sense, Mr. Ramadharsingh noted that a multisectoral committee
had been established to review those programs that address the challenges of poverty and provide
social assistance, with a view to offering recommendations on how to strengthen program synergies,
scope, and impact through integration and streamlining. Moreover, the committee had worked to
strengthen the economic prospects of people and reduce the number of the poor by two percentage
points each year. In this regard, he highlighted the positive impact of his government’s cooperation
activities with the OAS, within the framework of the “Puente in the Caribbean” horizontal
cooperation initiative, noting that the Chilean experience with that initiative had served as an
example for the retooling of his country’s conditional cash transfer program, as well as for the launch
of its Social Transformation and Empowerment Program Uplifting People or “Step Up.” He credited
those advances for making it possible for his Ministry to offer technical assistance to other countries
in the region, including Barbados and Santa Lucia.
Upon opening the session to dialogue, some of the delegations emphasized the importance of
the territorial concept for the implementation of integral social policy. That idea, it was observed, had
made it possible to assess the perceived needs of families. Accordingly, it was observed that a
strategic vision of state policy is of crucial importance, based on rights and social participation, with
a view to its integral implementation. Others commented on the importance of analyzing the
regulatory changes required for effective, intersectoral social policies, as well as institutional
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strengthening and the resources associated with such structural changes. Mention was made of the
fact that income generation and employment programs had included significant structural obstacles
that posed challenges to the formalization of labor. It was noted that that topic was considered to be
the next step for conditional cash transfer programs if people were to emerge from, and stay out of,
poverty. Within the context of the Inter-American Social Protection Network, calls were made to
analyze and gather more information on the afore-mentioned challenges, as well as to identify
successful practices in that regard. Moreover, it was observed that that would mean that the new
concept of social protection would necessarily require public officials with a multidisciplinary
background and training in order to address poverty. With respect to the universal coverage of social
programs, it was observed that it would be necessary to continue targeting specific populations within
the universal framework, and to continue giving thought to the matter. Delegations, such as those of
Uruguay and Paraguay, not only called for the inclusion of the integral approach within social
protection, but also for adopting the territorial perspective within public policies and social programs,
and within the work and deliberations of the ministerial and its follow-up mechanism, the InterAmerican Committee on Social Development. The delegations of the Caribbean countries
emphasized the need to conduct more in-depth analysis of what the intersectoral approach might
entail for their governments, given the political structure and scale of their population. Also noted
would be the need to give special consideration to the employment prospects of young people from
vulnerable populations. The moderator concluded by emphasizing that the challenge confronting the
ministerial meeting ought to be how social protection systems might contribute to changing the
modalities of employment as a core challenge of social policy. It was noted that a significant portion
of the population was employed, but as had been mentioned earlier, those jobs were precarious. Also
emphasized was the need for social protection systems to not only pursue self-employment or
entrepreneurship as a strategy of employability, but also offer other opportunities to promote greater
productivity.
Following a round of comments, the session broke for a recess. The work of the session
resumed after an update was given on the status of negotiations on the Draft Communiqué of Cali.
Following, the session turned to the next core topic.
Strengthening food security polices
The second topic identified as another of the challenges requiring coordinated action of the
social development ministries and agencies, together with other sectoral authorities, was the
formulation and implementation of food security policies. The moderator for this panel was Mr.
Francisco Espejo, Regional Officer of the World Food Program.
Mr. Espejo introduced the topic and emphasized the social, human, and economic costs of
hunger, indicating that the intersectoral approach was the best means of addressing this problem. To
this end, he noted the existence of 13 recommended actions, divided into three groups: changing
people’s behavior; increasing micronutrient intake; and ensuring the availability of supplemental and
therapeutic food sources. He noted, however, that such actions would require contextual
interventions, such as: improving the level of women’s education; encouraging access to universal
health care services; promoting an increase in the income of the poorest households; and
strengthening basic sanitation of the housing stock. To this end, more emphasis would need to be
placed on the nutritional component of social protection services. With respect to the last point, he
noted that it had been proven in a study coordinated by the WPF—in which the OAS contributed—
which analyzed the nutritional components of social protection programs in Central America and the
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Dominican Republic. The study also pointed to a lack of intersectoral coordination, especially in the
field. Mr. Espejo suggested that south-south cooperation, through the Inter-American Social
Protection Network, might prove to be a useful mechanism for learning about successful experiences
on those topics, and recommended that the delegates take into consideration the possibility of
including the nutritional security of vulnerable groups, along with the topic of food security.
Next, Mr. Hendrik Soerat Setrowidjojo, the Minister of Social Affairs and Housing of
Suriname, delivered his presentation. He noted the existence of a number of programs in his country
to guarantee food security, coordinated by different institutions and ministries. He proceeded to
explain in great detail those programs under the purview of his Ministry, but conceded that the
Ministry of Agriculture is the institution with the primary responsibility for addressing the challenges
of food security in his country. To that end, he commented on that institution’s strategy with respect
to a specific study it carried out, which became the basis of a strategy to develop and promote private
investment in the agricultural sector. He noted that his country had also worked to stimulate access to
credit, with a view to increasing food production within the framework of a sustainable strategy for
generating income for families. He noted, nevertheless, that some challenges remain, including:
insufficient production; inadequate income generation by the sector; and the growing global demand
for biofuels, which jeopardizes resources destined for food production.
Mrs. Patricia Alfaro, Director of External Cooperation Projects of the Ministry of Agriculture
and Livestock of El Salvador, commented on her country’s efforts to address food security. She
underscored her country’s high levels of chronic malnutrition, and noted that nutrition—and not
access to food—constituted the biggest challenge facing her country. She noted that the main
objective of her government’s Strategic Sectoral Plan was to stimulate family agriculture and the
supply system to ensure food security. Accordingly, she noted that her country was working to
support greater food production and productivity for rural families living in poverty, and to improve
infrastructure for food crop harvesting and warehousing. One component of the aforementioned plan
involved achieving food security for the population by increasing the availability of, and access to,
basic food staples. She pointed out that in 2009, the National Committee of Food and Nutritional
Security was established as the agency responsible for coordinating efforts to ensure food and
nutritional security. The Committee, she noted, is chaired by the Secretariat of Social Inclusion and
comprises the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, and
the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare. Moreover, the Committee receives technical
advisory support from the Ministry of Education and the Consumer Protection Bureau, among others.
She explained that the Committee’s functions include, inter alia, analysis of the leading causes of the
population’s food and nutritional insecurity; development of national policies, programs, and plans
based on an integral approach; and promoting intersectoral involvement, with a view to overcoming
those institutional and domestic obstacles hindering compliance with the right of access to food.
Following the presentations, the delegations underscored the need to give greater thought to
the topic within the framework of the ministerial meeting. It was underscored that food and
nutritional security should be addressed by means of a crosscutting public policy, as it both involves
and requires the support of other sectoral policies. Many of the countries presented their experiences
with intersectoral committees or commissions for addressing the problem, within the framework of
their national food and nutritional security plans. It was noted that those policies should incorporate
components of supply, production, distribution, and consumption if they were to achieve a truly
integral approach within the framework of social protection networks. With respect to the delivery of
services, the importance of coordination with regional authorities was emphasized, as well as with
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civil society partnerships. The moderator concluded by highlighting some general conclusions: many
countries have national food and nutritional security policies in place, which are linked to poverty
eradication strategies; interventions are available for targeting food access, production, and the
preparation of foods, and can be applied simultaneously. He also noted that such efforts could be
linked within the framework of school nutrition programs.
Following a round of comments, the session broke for lunch. Work on the next core topic
resumed within the framework of the fourth plenary session.
G.
FOURTH PLENARY SESSION
The fourth plenary session was held on the afternoon of Friday, July 9, and included the
following panels:
Intersectoral challenges facing social development ministries and agencies (continuation)
Risk management and social reconstruction to reduce the vulnerability of the victims of
natural disasters
The moderator of the panel was Mr. Louis Alexander, Senior Program Director of the Pan
American Development Foundation. He commented on his organization’s Disaster Management
Alliance program, whose objective was to strengthen public-private relations in nine countries of the
region to prepare for, and mitigate the effects of, natural disasters. He noted that coordination on
disasters is “the disaster after the disaster,” thus emphasizing the vital nature of preparation and
mitigation activities. He pointed out the existence of regional networks for managing disaster risk.
Regarding intersectoral coordination, he spoke to the challenge of management and leadership in the
response to natural disasters. Accordingly, he emphasized that government should take the lead role
in the response, together with backing, support, and follow-up of other sectors of the population, as
well as the international organizations, and other governments. Mr. Alexander also recommended
involving the private sector in such efforts, in view of the potential need for new jobs to rebuild
devastated areas.
Mr. Sylvester Quarless, the Minister of Social Development of Grenada, was in charge of the
first presentation. He mentioned that due to his country’s geographical location, it would always be
vulnerable to natural disasters, especially hurricanes. That fact, he noted, had consequences for
economic, investment, and political decision-making, particularly in regard to increasing his
country’s dependence on tourism and agriculture, and would thereby give rise to greater challenges
for the recovery of developing economies, such as Grenada. He pointed out that families with female
heads of household were the most vulnerable, in addition to older adults, especially in view of the
labor migration of men and young people to urban areas and abroad. He indicated that the country’s
National Emergency Advisory Council (NEAD) had been established in 1985, within the framework
of the Pan Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Project. Mr. Quarless mentioned that his country’s Prime
Minister coordinated the NEAD, and that the Council’s activities were carried out by a technical
secretariat. He explained that the mission of the NEAD was to mitigate the loss of life and property in
Grenada, through a coordinated plan of emergency preparedness and inter-agency communication,
both at the central and local levels. He pointed out that the NEAD identified the need for procedures
and polices supported by reliable information and trained personnel. He also noted that the NEAD’s
work was based on three components: institutional strengthening; awareness raising; and community
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participation; and strengthening cooperation activities with partners in other sectors. Moreover, his
country had developed a model of psychosocial assistance to address the needs of people suffering
from post-traumatic and emotional disorders, as a component part of the integral assistance strategy
developed by the NEAD. He noted his government’s current efforts to formalize this work plan
within the national legislative framework, and to develop manuals for the delivery of care. With
respect to challenges, Mr. Quarless touched on the need to improve the country’s information
systems, strengthen the model of integrated assistance, establish a volunteer program, and standardize
training modules. He noted that all these activities should be carried out in a collaborative framework
with the other Caribbean countries.
Next, Mr. Felipe Kast Sommerhoff, the Minister of Planning of Chile, shared with the
session his country’s experience regarding the recent earthquake in Chile. He noted that his country
set up an intersectoral emergency committee, under the coordination of the Ministry of Planning and
the Ministry of the Interior. He attributed the effectiveness of that committee’s work to three key
components: the availability of resource; the committee’s intersectoral nature and ability to enlist the
support of all the pertinent ministries; and the support received from the country’s armed forces. In
response to the disaster, coordinated assistance was carried pursuant to a three-phase action plan. The
first of these, carried out within the one month of the quake, was the declaration of a humanitarian
emergency to address immediate challenges (e.g., burying the dead, removing rubble, distributing
tents, providing potable water, and ensuring security). The second or “winter emergency” phase,
which lasted for a period of four months, consisted of providing shelter and minimum security,
offering psycho-social support services, rebuilding the health services network, creating emergency
jobs in the earthquake-affected areas, reestablishing the education system, and repairing
infrastructure. These efforts were undertaken in partnership with civil society and the private sector,
and were framed within the context of the “Village” project (Proyecto Aldea). Finally, the third and
last phase focused on the long-term reconstruction, expected to take on the order of four years.
Among the main lessons learned though this experience was the importance of the country’s
partnership with civil society. Civil society plays both a vital and irreplaceable role in the rebuilding
of the social fabric. The challenge involved coordinating efforts as well as the relief assistance
received. The second lesson was the importance of management, entailing a clear division of
responsibilities among the involved stakeholders. He noted that information is crucial to successful
interventions, as well as providing urgent care to those who most need it. This is a permanent
challenge requiring ongoing data collection support—even in times of emergency—to identify needs.
Equally important is the need for transparency in communicating the steps being taken to the entire
country, and in establishing clear goals. He noted that dealing with the quake had been a significant
challenge for his government. With regard to decentralization, he spoke to the importance of having
national authorities on hand in the affected areas to monitor rebuilding efforts, as well as garnering
the support of local authorities to help implement the relief strategy. Finally, on the topic of
incentives, he mentioned the need to continue abiding by the logic of the market with respect to the
procurement of reconstruction materials. Incentives, such as bonuses for the timely delivery of
purchases, were offered to suppliers as a means of preventing market distortions and abuses.
The delegates commented on the importance of coordination and preparedness in responding
as quickly as possible to emergency situations, such as the ones described in the presentations,
through efforts to strengthen government institutions and resources, but working in cooperation with
civil society organizations and the private sector.
Following a series of comments, Mr. Piedrahita steered the session to the next topic.
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The Inter-American Social Protection Network as a cooperation tool of the Meeting of
Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development
Mr. Francisco Pilotti, Director of the Department of Social Development and Employment of
the OAS delivered a presentation on the progress made to establish the Inter-American Social
Protection Network, mandated both by the ministers during the previous ministerial meeting, and by
the Summit of the Americas. The robust political support for, and keen interest taken in, this
mechanism revealed the need for it, as well as the timeliness of its content, given the current situation
in the region. The Network, he noted, would constitute a community of practice for the ministries and
national agencies of social development, in collaboration with the international organizations, the
private sector, and the academic community, with a view to promoting the sharing and transfer of
experiences and knowledge on social protection. In that sense, he noted, an agreement was signed
with the América Solidaria Foundation, within the framework of the ministerial meeting, whose
purpose was to coordinate efforts and work in areas of mutual interest. Mr. Pilotti proceeded to
present the activities, studies, and projects carried out during the Network’s launch phase, which got
under way in September 2009, as well as those programmed beginning in 2011, when the
consolidation phase of the mechanism would get under way in the region. During that phase, work
would be carried out to strengthen the Network’s virtual tools, such as its Webpage, as well as other
training activities. Based on the results of the first phase, cooperation exercises would be carried out
pursuant to country supply and demand. The CIDES would provide guidance, orientation, and
feedback on activities carried out within the Network’s framework. In 2012, when the next
ministerial meeting and Sixth Summit of the Americas are to be held, an accounting of its activities
would be given, with a view to renewing political commitments at the highest level.
During the ministerial dialogue, the delegates acknowledged the work of the OAS toward
establishing the Network. It was noted that the Network would provide a framework for identifying
innovative ways to alleviate poverty in each country. In addition to cooperation through the
conditional cash transfers that would be provided within the context of the Network, also mentioned
was the need to include cooperation on economic inclusion, food security, and monitoring and
evaluation. Others called for the systematization of publications on national social polices, including,
inter alia, the pertinent regulations of each country, methodologies, theories, and national
programming, as these would be of vital importance for the training of the ministries’ human
resources. Also noted was the importance of including mechanisms of coordination with other organs
of the OAS system, such as the Inter-American Children’s Institute. All in attendance acknowledged
the importance of strengthening the Network as a mechanism of cooperation that would also
stimulate innovation.
Adoption of the Agreements reached at the Second Meeting of Ministers and High
Authorities of Social Development
Designation of CIDES officers
Ambassador Alfonso Quiñónez, Executive Secretary for Integral Development of the OAS,
announced the agreement of the delegations to confirm the CIDES officers, since it was not necessary
to conduct an election. The Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation would occupy
the Chair. The first Vice Chair would be shared between the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency
of El Salvador, which would serve during the first year, and the Secretariat of Social Development of
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Mexico, during the second. The Ministry of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment, and Rural and
Urban Development of Barbados would occupy the second Vice Chair.
The Chair thanked the new officers and wished them success in their future endeavors. The
officers-elect expressed their thanks for the vote of confidence deposited in them, and pledged to
continue moving forward on the common social agenda of the region; to overcome any linguistic
challenges; and to always keep in mind the perspectives of all the regions represented. Finally, the
officers committed to put in practice and action all of the political commitments assumed at the
meeting.
Venue of the Third Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development
Furthermore, the Minister of Development and Hunger Alleviation of Brazil expressed her
country’s interest in hosting the Third Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social
Development, to be held in 2012. The Chair thanked her on behalf of the plenary for her offer.
Adoption of the Draft Communiqué of Cali
Next, the meeting considered the Draft Communiqué, which was adopted with the
amendments requested and negotiated among the delegates over the course of the two days of work.
The final document was approved by the delegates and registered as CIDI/REMDES/doc.5/10 rev. 5,
and is attached to the end of this report.
The delegation of Paraguay presented to the plenary for consideration a resolution of thanks
to the host country, emphasizing its commitment and the hospitality shown by the National Planning
Department and the Chancery of Colombia; as well as that of the local authorities in Cali. The
delegations voted unanimously to adopt the resolution and it was registered as document
CIDI/REMDES/RES.1/10
Immediately following, the participants proceeded to the closing session of the ministerial
meeting.
H.
CLOSING SESSION
The closing session was held on the afternoon of July 9, and included addresses by Mr.
Alfonso Quiñonez, Executive Secretary for Integral Development of the OAS; Mr. Esteban
Piedrahita, Director General of the National Planning Department of Colombia; and Mr. Francisco
Pilotti, Director of the Department of Social Development and Employment of the OAS. All in
attendance thanked the delegations for their active participation, as well as the representatives of the
international organizations, and special guests. The participants also expressed a word of thanks to
the teams of the host country and of the OAS who worked to organize the ministerial.
SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS AND HIGH
AUTHORITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
July 8-9, 2010
Cali, Colombia
OEA/Ser.K/XLVIII.2
CIDI/REMDES/doc.5/10 rev. 5
9 July 2010
Original: Spanish/English
COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS AND
HIGH AUTHORITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FRAMEWORK
OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT
OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
“Strengthening and sustaining social protection systems”
(Adopted during the Fourth Plenary Session, held on July 9, 2010)
THE MINISTERS AND HIGH AUTHORITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE
MEMBER STATES OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS), gathered in
Cali, Colombia, on July 8 and 9, 2010, for the Second Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of
Social Development in the framework of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development
(CIDI),
RECOGNIZING the central role of the State in the fight against poverty, inequity, inequality
and social exclusion;
BEARING IN MIND that, at the Fifth Summit of the Americas, with a view to strengthening
our efforts to reduce inequality and social disparities and to halve extreme poverty by the year 2015,
our Heads of State and of Government committed to exchanging information on policies,
experiences, programs and best practices. To that end they supported the establishment of the InterAmerican Social Protection Network in order to facilitate that exchange;
NOTING that social protection programs based on conditional cash transfers help to address
the challenges of poverty, we are also convinced that we must promote actions aimed at fostering
social mobility and lowering unemployment rates and inequity by generating conditions conducive to
the development of dignified and decent work opportunities and access to quality education and
health as two of the principal ingredients of social inclusion.
NOTING WITH CONCERN the human, economic, social and environmental impact of
recent disasters in the region, particularly the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, both for the regrettable
loss of life and for the devastating consequences these catastrophes have brought upon national
economies, local development and the social networks of the communities directly affected by them,
especially the poorest and the most vulnerable;
AWARE of the negative impact of crises on employment and poverty, as well as the
challenges this situation poses for national efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals,
especially with regard to the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger;
WE THE MINISTERS AND HIGH AUTHORITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT,
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ASSUME the commitment to strengthen our social protection strategies to minimize the
consequences of the crises and avoid, as much as possible, a fallback on the advances made in
reducing poverty; in order to move forward in this area, we must strengthen and consolidate the
institutions responsible for social policy and ensure the fiscal sustainability of social protection
programs. Those strategies shall be guided by the experiences of integrated development models in
which economic policies, productive development with employment generation, and protection and
social equity programs are central components of equal priority.
REAFFIRM that social protection is an integral approach comprised of various universal and
targeted policies and programs that seek to help individuals confront the various risks they face in
their lifespan; and that their specific design will be determined by the conditions, needs and decisions
of each member State; in that regard, we value the exchange of experiences, methodologies, results
and impact of social protection programs, such as conditional cash transfers and other intervention
strategies in the framework of social protection networks.
COMMIT to enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of social protection, inclusion and
poverty eradication programs and to promoting accountability and transparency mechanisms vis-à-vis
citizens; to achieve this goal, we will share our management accomplishments in this field including,
when appropriate, the implementation of single beneficiary registries, strengthening evaluation and
monitoring systems and budget procedures that ensure the fiscal sustainability of said programs, even
under adverse circumstances or crises.
REITERATE that poverty and inequality are multidimensional phenomena that require
intersectoral and coordinated interventions in the framework of a national social development
strategy. Therefore, we will continue to promote the implementation and strengthening of
governmental strategies that integrate the work of various ministries and public agencies to ensure
greater impact on the efforts being made to confront those challenges. Intersectoral coordination is
essential to broaden the impact of a diversity of social policy interventions, including the promotion
of employment and income generation, strengthening of food security policies, and prevention and
protection management for communities faced with risks and vulnerabilities as a result of disasters.
UNDERSCORE the need to strengthen coordination with inter-American, regional and
subregional integration agencies and mechanisms in order to advance our shared social policy
priorities.
UNDERSCORE ALSO the importance that the Inter-American Social Protection Network
join its cooperation efforts to other international mechanisms devoted to the analysis and diffusion of
social protection, including those belonging to the Inter-American and United Nations systems.
CALL on all sectors of society, including civil society, and non-governmental, academic,
private sector and community organizations, to collaborate in providing inputs to the design and
implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems of public policies that seek greater social
development in our societies; and to create strategic alliances between the State and the various social
groups to strengthen democracy and promote the actions needed, in a framework of shared
responsibility, to confront the challenges of poverty, especially extreme poverty, inequality and
vulnerability.
TAKE NOTE of the progress made in the negotiations on the Social Charter of the Americas
and its Plan of Action, an instrument conceived for the purpose of guiding the efforts of our States in
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the areas of social, economic and cultural development. We reiterate our support of its objectives,
which seek to offer all our citizens greater opportunities to benefit from sustainable development with
equity and social inclusion.
INSTRUCT the Inter-American Committee on Social Development (CIDES), with the
support of the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI) of the OAS, to consider the
following elements in its Work Plan 2010-2012:
1.
To strengthen the Inter-American Social Protection Network as a mechanism of
hemispheric cooperation in fighting poverty and inequity and to foster the transfer of
successful experiences and analyses of the main challenges confronting social
protection strategies.
2.
To continue implementing, within the framework of this Network, technical
cooperation in the Caribbean through the ¨Bridge Caribbean Program,¨ the results of
which are an example of partnership for development; and to report to all the
members of CIDES on the outcome of the sub-regional meeting on this matter to be
held in Barbados in 2010, with a view to seeking opportunities to facilitate the
implementation of this cooperation mechanism throughout the region.
3.
To support the government of Haiti, especially with regard to the reconstruction of
communities following the earthquake that devastated the country in January 2010,
making available the cooperation mechanisms of this forum to transfer the
knowledge and experiences relevant to the reconstruction process.
4.
To promote greater dialogue and more joint activities with all sectors of society,
including civil society, and non-governmental, academic, private sector and other
organizations, for the purpose of moving forward in the development of social
protection policies and programs that are more inclusive, participatory and subject to
greater accountability.
5.
To use existing mechanisms within the framework of the Inter-American Council for
Integral Development (CIDI) of the OAS, to strengthen intersectoral coordination in
the area of social policy. In this regard, promote the exchange of opinions and joint
projects with relevant Inter-American committees and forums on topics such as
promoting employment and income generation in vulnerable populations;
strengthening food security policies; addressing inequalities between women and
men; risk management; and reconstruction of communities in order to reduce the
vulnerability of victims of disasters.
6.
To contribute, upon request, to the drafting of the Social Charter of the Americas and
its Plan of Action.
7.
To collaborate, when appropriate, with the preparatory process for the Sixth Summit
of the Americas.
8.
To prepare a report on the execution of the Work Plan 2010-2012 to be presented at
the next Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development.
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WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK the Government of Brazil for its generous offer to host the
Third Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development in the framework of CIDI to
be held in 2012.
CIDI02962E01.DOC
IV. APPENDIXES
SEGUNDA REUNIÓN DE MINISTROS Y ALTAS
AUTORIDADES DE DESARROLLO SOCIAL
8-9 de julio de 2010
Cali, Colombia
OEA/Ser.K/XLVIII.2
CIDI/REMDES/doc.1/10
19 agosto 2010
Original: TEXTUAL
LISTA DE DOCUMENTOS REGISTRADOS POR LA SECRETARIA
Clasificación /Clasification
CIDI/REMDES/doc.1/10
CIDI02896
Título / Title
Idioma/ Language
Lista de documentos registrados por la Secretaría General
Textual
Temario
CIDI/REMDES/doc.2/10 rev. 2
CIDI02946
(Aprobado en la primera sesión plenaria celebrada el 8 de julio
de 2010)
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Temario Anotado
CIDI/REMDES/doc.3/10 rev. 2
CIDI02980
(Aprobado en la primera sesión plenaria celebrada el 8 de julio
de 2010)
Calendario
CIDI/REMDES/doc.4/10 rev. 4
CEPCD02461
(Aprobado en la primera sesión plenaria celebrada el 8 de julio
de 2010)
Comunicado de la Segunda Reunión de Ministros y Altas
Autoridades de Desarrollo Social en el ámbito del Consejo
Interamericano para el Desarrollo Integral
CIDI/REMDES/doc.5/10 rev. 5
CIDI02962
“Fortaleciendo y brindando sostenibilidad a los sistemas de
protección social”
(Aprobado durante la Cuarta Sesión Plenaria celebrada el 9 de
julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/doc.6/10
CIDI02922
CIDI/REMDES/doc.7/10
CIDI02947
Informe de Actividades 2008 – 2010 de la Comisión
Interamericana de Desarrollo Social (CIDES)
Propuesta de párrafos adicionales presentados por la
delegación de argentina al proyecto de comunicado E La
Segunda Reunión De Ministros y Altas Autoridades de
Desarrollo Social
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CIDI/REMDES/doc.8/10 rev. 1
Lista de Participantes / List of Participants
CIDI02959
(Versión final / final version)
CIDI/REMDES/doc.9/10
CIDI02949
Proyecto de resolución: Voto de Agradecimiento al Pueblo y
Gobierno de la República de Colombia
Textual
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(Presentada por la Delegación del Paraguay)
CIDI/REMDES/doc.10/10
CIDI02951
Propuesta de párrafos adicionales presentados por la
delegación de brasil al proyecto de comunicado e la segunda
reunión de ministros y altas autoridades de desarrollo social
CIDI/REMDES/doc.11/10
CIDI02982
Informe Final de la II Reunión y Altas Autoridades de
Desarrollo Social
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CIDI/REMDES/doc.11/10 rev.1
CIDI03050
Informe Final de la II Reunión y Altas Autoridades de
Desarrollo Social
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CIDI/REMDES/RES. 1/10
CIDI02963
Voto de Agradecimiento al Pueblo y Gobierno de la República
de Colombia
(Aprobada durante la Cuarta Sesión Plenaria celebrada el 9 de
julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.1/10
CIDI02887
Nota del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de El Salvador
presentando candidatura para la Vicepresidencia de la
Comisión Interamericana de Desarrollo Social (CIDES)
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CIDI/REMDES/INF.2/10
CIDI02909
Nota de la Misión Permanente de México Presentando
candidatura para la Vicepresidencia de la Comisión
interamericana de Desarrollo Social (CIDES)
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CIDI/REMDES/INF.3/10
CIDI02926
CIDI/REMDES/INF.4/10
CIDI02927
CIDI/REMDES/INF.5/10
CIDI02934
Nota de la Misión Permanente de Brasil presentando
candidatura para la Presidencia de la Comisión Interamericana
de Desarrollo Social (CIDES)
Note from the Permanent Mission of Barbados presenting its
candidacy for the Vice Presidency of the Inter-American
Committee on Social Development (CIDES)
Presentación del Señor Francisco Pilotti, Director del
Departamento de Desarrollo Social y Empleo de la
OEA sobre: El cumplimiento de mandatos de la Primera
Reunión de Ministros y Altas Autoridades de Desarrollo
Social y los avances en la negociación sobre la Carta Social de
las Américas
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(Realizada durante la primera sesión plenaria celebrada el 8 de
julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.6/10
CIDES00070
Presentación del Señor Pablino Cáceres, Ministro de la
Secretaría de Acción Social de Paraguay sobre: el
fortalecimiento de los sistemas de protección social como
estrategia integral para atender los desafíos de la pobreza, en
particular la pobreza extrema, la desigualdad y la inequidad a
través de la sostenibilidad fiscal
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julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.7/10
CIDI02935
Presentation of Mr. Hendrik Soerat Setrowidjojo, Minister of
Social Affairs and Housing of Suriname on: intersectoral
challenges facing social development ministries and agencies:
strengthening food security policies
(Delivered during the third plenary session held on July 9,
2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.8/10
CIDI02936
Presentation of Mr. Sylvester Quarless, Minister of Social
Development of Grenada on: Intersectoral challenges facing
social development ministries and agencies: risk management
and social reconstruction to reduce the vulnerability of victims
of natural disasters
(Delivered during the third plenary session held on July 9,
2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.9/10
CIDI02939
Presentation of Ms. Carmen Nazario, Assistant Secretary of
the Administration for Children and Families of the
Department of Human Services of the United States on:
strengthening social protection systems as an integral strategy
for addressing the challenges of extreme poverty and inequity
in Latin America and the Caribbean through fiscal
sustainability
(Delivered during the second plenary session held on July 8,
2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.10/10
CIDI02941
Welcoming Remarks by the Assistant Secretary General of the
Organization of American States, Ambassador Albert R.
Ramdin
(Delivered during the inaugural session held on July 8, 2010)
F
P
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CIDI/REMDES/INF.11/10
CIDI02942
Presentación del Señor Martín Hopenhayn, Director de la
División de Desarrollo Social de la Comisión Económica para
América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) sobre: la respuesta de la
política social a los efectos de las crisis en las Américas y el
Caribe
E
(Realizada durante la primera sesión plenaria celebrada el 8 de
julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.12/10
CIDI02943
Presentación del Señor Gustavo A. Merino, Subsecretario de
Prospectiva, Evaluación y Planeación de la Secretaria de
Desarrollo Social de México sobre: Fortalecimiento de los
sistemas de protección social como estrategia integral para
atender los desafíos de la pobreza, en particular la pobreza
extrema, la desigualdad y la inequidad en América Latina y el
Caribe a través de sistemas de registro único de beneficiarios
E
(Realizada durante la primera sesión plenaria celebrada el 8 de
julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.13/10
CIDI02944
Presentación del Señor Esteban Piedrahita Uribe, Director
General del Departamento Nacional de Planeación de
Colombia sobre: Fortalecimiento de los sistemas de protección
social como estrategia integral para atender los desafíos de la
pobreza, en particular la pobreza extrema, la desigualdad y la
inequidad en América Latina y el Caribe a través de sistemas E
de registro único de beneficiarios
(Realizada durante la primera sesión plenaria celebrada el 8 de
julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.14/10
CIDI02950
Presentación del Señor Lauro Meléndez, Viceministro de
Desarrollo Social de Uruguay sobre: las alianzas para
enfrentar de manera más efectiva la pobreza, en particular la
pobreza, extrema, la inequidad la desigualdad y la
vulnerabilidad desde el sector público con organizaciones no
gubernamentales, la academia, el sector privado y las
organizaciones comunitarias
E
(Realizada durante la segunda sesión plenaria celebrada el 8 de
julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.15/10
CIDI02952
Presentación del Señor Jeffrey Lizardo, Asesor de políticas
Sociales de la Secretaría de Estado de Planificación y
E
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Desarrollo de República Dominicana sobre: las alianzas para
enfrentar de manera más efectiva la pobreza, en particular la
pobreza, extrema, la inequidad la desigualdad y la
vulnerabilidad desde el sector público con organizaciones no
gubernamentales, la academia, el sector privado y las
organizaciones comunitarias
(Realizada durante la segunda sesión plenaria celebrada el 8 de
julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.16/10
CIDI02953
Presentation of Mr. Patrick Todd, Minister of State of the
Ministry of Economic Empowerment, Trade, Industry, and
Commerce of Barbados on: strengthening social protection
systems as an integral strategy for addressing the challenges of
extreme poverty and inequity in Latin America and the
Caribbean through evaluation and monitoring mechanisms
I
(Delivered during the first plenary session held on July 8,
2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.17/10
CIDI02958
Presentación de la señora Márcia Helena Carvalho Lopes,
Ministra de Desarrollo Social y Combate al Hambre de Brasil
sobre: desafíos intersectoriales de los ministerios y agencias de
desarrollo social: la promoción de empleo y generación de
ingresos
E
I
E
I
(Realizada durante la tercera sesión plenaria celebrada el 9 de
julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.18/10
CIDI02960
Presentación de la Señora Vilma Alfaro, Directora de
Proyectos y Cooperación Externa del Ministerio de
Agricultura y Ganadería de El Salvador sobre: desafíos
intersectoriales de los ministerios y agencias de desarrollo
social: el fortalecimiento de las políticas de seguridad
alimentaria
(Realizada durante la tercera sesión plenaria celebrada el 9 de
julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.19/10
CIDI02961
CIDI/REMDES/INF.20/10
CIDI02964
Presentación del señor Felipe Kast Sommerhoff, Ministro de
Planificación, Chile Sobre: Desafíos intersectoriales de los
ministerios y agencias de desarrollo social: el fortalecimiento
de las políticas de seguridad alimentaria
Realizada durante la tercera sesión plenaria celebrada el 9 de
julio de 2010)
Presentation of Mr. Glenn Ramadharsingh, Minister of the
People and Social Development of Trinidad and Tobago on:
intersectoral challenges facing social development ministries
E
I
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and agencies: strengthening food security policies
(Delivered during the third plenary session held on July 9,
2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.21/10
CIDI02965
Presentación del Señor Diego Dorado, Director de la
Dirección de Evaluación de Políticas Públicas, DNP, de
Colombia sobre: Fortalecimiento de los sistemas de protección
social como estrategia integral para atender los desafíos de la
pobreza, en particular la pobreza extrema, la desigualdad y la
inequidad en América Latina y el Caribe a través de
E
mecanismos de evaluación y monitoreo
(Realizada durante la primera sesión plenaria celebrada el 8 de
julio de 2010)
CIDI/REMDES/INF.22/10
CIDI02966
Presentación del Señor Francisco Pilotti, Director del
Departamento de Desarrollo Social y Empleo, OEA sobre: La
Red Interamericana de Protección Social como una
herramienta de cooperación del foro de Ministros y Altas
Autoridades de Desarrollo Social
(Realizada durante la cuarta sesión plenaria celebrada el 9 de
julio de 2010)
E
I
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SEGUNDA REUNIÓN DE MINISTROS Y ALTAS
AUTORIDADES DE DESARROLLO SOCIAL
8-9 de julio de 2010
Cali, Colombia
LISTA DE PARTICIPANTES / LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
OEA/Ser.K/KLVIII.2
CIDI/REMDES/doc.8/10 rev. 1
9 julio 2010
Original: TEXTUAL
ESTADOS MIEMBROS ANTE LA ORGANIZACIÓN DE LOS ESTADOS AMERICANOS/
MEMBER STATES TO THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Head of Delegation
Willmoth Daniel
Minister of Health, Social Transformation and Consumer Affairs
Ministry of Health, Social Transformation and Consumer Affairs
Representatives
Almira Henry
Director, Social Policy Unit
Ministry of Health, Social Transformation and Consumer Affairs
Chester Hughes
Advisor to Minister of Health, Social Transformation and Consumer Affairs
ARGENTINA
Jefe de Delegación
Antonio Deimundo Escobal
Embajador ante Colombia
BARBADOS
Head of Delegation
Patrick Todd
Minister of State
Ministry of Economic Affairs Empowerment, Innovation, Trade, Industry and Commerce
Representatives
Sonja Welch
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment, Urban and Rural Development
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Lee Rose
Director of the Bureau of Social Policy, Research and Policy
Ministry of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment, Urban and Rural Development
Ricardo T. L. Kellman
Alternate Representative
Permanent Mission to the OAS
BELIZE
Head of Delegation
Peter Martinez
Minister of Human Development and Social Transformation
Ministry of Human Development and Social Transformation
Representatives
Judith Alpuche
Chief Executive Officer
Ministry of Human Development and Social Transformation
BOLIVIA
Jefe de Delegación
Fernando Landa Casazola
Unidad de Análisis de Políticas Sociales y Económicas (UDAPE)
Ministerio de Planificación del Desarrollo
BRASIL
Jefe de Delegación
Márcia Helena Carvalho Lopes
Ministra do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome
Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome
Representantes
Gabriela Geraldes Bastos
Chefe da Assessoria Internacional
Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome -
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Andrés Luis Quaresma de Carvalho
Açor Técnico
Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome
Iara Cristina da Silva Alves
Asesora
Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome
CANADA
Head of Delegation
Joshua Tabah
Consejero Jefe de la División Técnica y Financiera
Embajada en Colombia
Representatives
Jean-François Courtois
Senior Policy Analyst, International Relations
Human Resources and Skills Development
CHILE
Jefe de Delegación
Felipe Kast Sommerhoff
Ministro de Planificación
Ministerio de Planificación
Representante
Pedro Pubill
Secretario Ejecutivo Sistemas de Protección Social
Ministerio de Planificación
Natalia Millan
Asesora de Gabinete
Ministerio de Planificación
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COLOMBIA
Jefe de Delegación
Esteban Piedrahita
Director General del Departamento Nacional de Planeación
Representantes
Carlos Jorge Rodríguez
Viceministro Técnico del Ministro de Protección Social
Carlos Ignacio Cuervo
Viceministro de Salud
Jorge Iván Ospina
Alcalde de Cali
Juan Carlos Abadía
Gobernador del Valle
Juan Carlos Uribe
Jefe de Protocolo y Relaciones Públicas
Gobernación del Valle
Luz Elena Ascárate Sinisterra
Secretaria de Desarrollo Social
Gobernación del Valle
Juan Mauricio Ramírez
Subdirector General
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
José Fernando Arias
Director de Desarrollo Social
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
Henry Pavón Gómez
Asesor de Comunicaciones
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
Claudia Alejandra Gelvez
Coordinadora Grupo de Proyectos Especiales
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
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María Carolina Salazar
Asesora de Dirección General
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
Laura Muñoz
Asesora Grupo de Proyectos Especiales
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
Francisco Boada
Asesora Grupo de Proyectos Especiales
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
Katherine González
Asesora Grupo de Proyectos Especiales
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
Ricardo Molina
Asesor Grupo de Proyectos Especiales
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
Juliana Vargas
Asesora Grupo de Proyectos Especiales
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
Gloria Elena Uribe
Secretaria Asesores de Despacho
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
Diego Molano
Consejero para la Acción Social y la Cooperación Internacional
Acción Social
Pablo Ariel Gómez
Director Programas Presidenciales
Acción Social
María Alejandra Mateus
Asesora de la Dirección de Cooperación Internacional
Acción Social
Germán Quiroga González
Coordinador Nacional JUNTOS
Acción Social
Juan Carlos Zorrilla
Asesor Área de Comunicaciones
Acción Social
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Alejandro Varela
Secretario de Salud Cali
Mariluz Zuluaga
Subsecretaria de Bienestar Social de Salud de la Alcaldía de Cali
Luis Alfredo Valenzuela
Asesor Políticas Públicas de la Alcaldía de Cali
Nohra Mondragón
Asesora Privada de la Alcaldía de Cali
Harol Caicedo
Asesor del Despacho, Relaciones Públicas de la Alcaldía de Cali
Juan Manuel Mejía
Subsecretario de Desarrollo Integral de la Alcaldía de Cali
Maritza Isaza
Coordinadora Secretaria de Salud Alcaldía de Cali
Nigeria Renteria
Secretaria General de la Alcaldía de Cali
Adriana Hurtado
Apoyo Asesor de Despacho, Alcaldía de Cali
Adriana Maldonado Ruiz
Coordinadora de Estados Unidos, Canadá y Cumbre de las Américas
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
Diana Carolina Moya Mancipe
Asesora Coordinación de Estados Unidos, Canadá y Cumbre de las Américas
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
COSTA RICA
Jefe de Delegación
Juan Manuel Cordero
Viceministro de Trabajo y Seguridad Social
Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social
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DOMINICA, COMMONWEALTH OF THE
Head of Delegation
Gloria Shillingford
Minister of Social Services, Community Development, Gender Affairs
Ministry of Social Services, Community Development, Gender Affairs
EL SALVADOR
Jefe de Delegación
Patricia Alfaro Mancia
Directora de Proyectos y Cooperación Externa
Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería
Representante
Justo Lourido Muñoz
Cónsul Honorario en Cali
GRENADA
Head of Delegation
Sylvester Quarless
Minister for Social Development
Ministry for Social Development
GUATEMALA
Jefe de Delegación
Ana María Méndez Chicas
Subsecretaria de Cooperación
Secretaría de Planificación de la Presidencia de la República
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GUYANA
Head of Delegation
Bayney Karran
Permanent Representative
Permanent Mission to the OAS
JAMAICA
Head of Delegation
Neville Gallimore
Mnister of State
Ministry of Labour and Social Security
MÉXICO
Jefe de Delegación
Gustavo Merino Juárez
Subsecretario de Prospectiva, Planeación y Evaluación
Secretaria de Desarrollo Social
Representante
Sergio Zapata Lozano
Encargado de Negocios a.i en Colombia
PANAMÁ
Jefe de Delegación
Mónica Johanna Guillén Cedeño
Secretaria Técnica del Gabinete Social
Ministerio de Desarrollo Social
Representante
Ella Uribe Oppliger
Asistente Técnica de la Secretaría Técnica del Gabinete Social
Ministerio de Desarrollo Social
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PARAGUAY
Jefe de Delegación
Pablino Cáceres Paredes
Ministro Secretario Ejecutivo
Secretaría de Acción Social de la Presidencia de la República
Representante
César Palacios
Director de Comunicación
Secretaría de Acción Social de la Presidencia de la República
Brígida Florentina Vera Bogarin
Jefa de Gestión y Articulación de la Dirección de Gabinete
Secretaría de Acción Social de la Presidencia de la República
José María González Ávila
Ministro de la Embajada en Colombia
PERÚ
Jefe de Delegación
Nidia Ruth Vilchez Yucra
Ministra de la Mujer y Desarrollo Social
Ministerio de la Mujer y Desarrollo Social
REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA
Jefe de Delegación
Jefrey Rafael Lizardo Ortiz
Asesor del Ministro de Economía
Ministerio de Economía, Planificación y Desarrollo
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
Head of Delegation
Sharon Rattan
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Social Services, Community Development, Culture & Gender Affairs
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SAINT LUCIA
Head of Delegation
Joachim Henry
Executive Director
Saint Lucia Social Investment Fund
SURINAME
Head of Delegation
Hendrik Soerat Setrowidjojo
Minister of Social Affairs and Public Housing
Ministry of Social Affairs and Public Housing
Representative
Marsiane Partowidjojo
Secretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Public Housing
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Head of Delegation
Glenn Ramadharsingh
Minister of the People and Social Development
Ministry of the People and Social Development
Representative
Terrance Jurawan
Deputy Permanent Secretary
Ministry of the People and Social Development
UNITED STATES
Head of Delegation
Carmen Rosa Lucca de Nazario
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human for Children and Families
Department of Health and Human Services
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Representatives
Frank Fuentes
Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families
Department of Health and Human Services
Jeffrey Scott Kelley
Director, Office of Public Affairs
Administration for Children and Families
Department of Health and Human Services
Yolanda Butler
Acting Director, Office of Community Services
Administration for Children and Families
Department of Health and Human Services
Sharee M, Freeman
Director, Office of Self Governance
Department of the Interior
David Silverman
Foreign Affairs Officer
Regional Economic Policy and Summit Coordination
Bureau of western Hemisphere Affairs
United States Department of State
Carla Menendez McManus
Alternate Representative to the OAS
Bureau of western Hemisphere Affairs
United States Department of State
Danny A. Santiago
Financial Manager, Office of Self Governance
Department of the Interior
URUGUAY
Jefe de Delegación
Lauro Juan Meléndez Cadiac
Subsecretario del Ministerio de Desarrollo Social
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Representante
Gustavo Pacheco Fariñas
Coordinador General de la Unidad de Asuntos Internacionales
Ministerio de Desarrollo Social
VENEZUELA
Jefe de Delegación
Carmen Luisa Velásquez de Visbal
Representante Alterna
Misión Permanente ante la OEA
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ORGANISMOS REGIONALES E INTERNACIONALES /
REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Banco Mundial./ World Bank
María Concepción Steta Gandara
Especialista en Protección Social
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo BID/ Inter-American Development Bank IDB
Santiago Levy
Vicepresidente de Sectores y Conocimiento
Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) /
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Martín Hopenhayn
Director de la División de Desarrollo Social
Comunidad Andina
Sandra Charris Rebellon
Responsable del Área de Asuntos Sociales
Fundación Panamericana de Desarrollo / Pan American Development Foundation
Louis Alexander
Director Principal de Proyectos
Fundación para la Superación de la Pobreza
Leonardo Moreno Núñez
Director Ejecutivo
Fundación América Solidaria
Benito Baranda
Presidente
Organización de la Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura/
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Jorge Sequeira
Director Oficina de Educación para América Latina y el Caribe
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Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) / Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Manuel Peña
Coordinador de la Alianza Panamericana por la Nutrición y el Desarrollo
Cecilia Acuña Díaz
Oficial del Área de Sistemas de Salud
Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para Agricultura (IICA) /Inter-American Institute for
Cooperation on Agrilculture (IICA)
Christopher Hansen
Representante en Colombia
Programa Mundial de Alimentos/ World Food Programme
Francisco Espejo
Senior Regional Programme Advisor
Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) / Internacional Labor Organization (ILO)
Fabio Bertranou
Oficina en Buenos Aires
Programa para las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo PNUD/ United Nations Development
Programme UNDP
Luz Stella Rodríguez Novoa
Coordinadora Nacional Proyecto Desarrollo Económico Incluyente
Caja de Compensación Familiar de Antioquia (COMFAMA)
Sofía Botero Uribe
Subdirectora de Cooperación Nacional e Internacional
Victoria Euse Giraldo
Profesional Cooperación Nacional
Alianzas de Mesas Redondas Panamericanas
Beatriz Lizarazu de Anzola
Directora en Colombia
Martha Castro de Dussan
Tesorera en Colombia
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Fundación Vida Grupo Ecológico Verde
Jhon James García Arana
Presidente y Representante Legal
Hernán Lauriano Munoz
Coordinador e Ideólogo
Instituto Internacional de Aprendizaje para la Cohesión Social (ODEMA)
Antonio Valle Tristán
Presidente
SECRETARÍA GENERAL DE LA ORGANIZACIÓN DE LOS ESTADOS AMERICANOS (OEA)
/ GENERAL SECRETARIAT OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS)
Alberto Ramdin
Secretario General Adjunto
Alfonso Quiñónez
Secretario Ejecutivo para el Desarrollo Integral
Francisco Pilotti
Director, Departamento de Desarrollo Social y Empleo
Rosana Martinelli
Especialista en Desarrollo Social
Departamento de Desarrollo Social y Empleo
Julie Nurse
Especialista en Desarrollo Social
Departamento de Desarrollo Social y Empleo
Alejandro Aristizábal Agudelo
Especialista de la Secretaría de Cumbres de las Américas OEA
CIDI02959T01.DOC
SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS AND HIGH
AUTHORITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
July 8-9, 2010
Cali, Colombia
OEA/Ser.K/XLVIII.2
CIDI/REMDES/doc.2/10 rev. 2
8 July 2010
Original: Spanish
AGENDA
“Strengthening and sustaining social protection systems”
(Approved during the first plenary session held on July 8, 2010)
9.
Contextual introductory session: the social policy response to the effects of the crises in the
Americas and the Caribbean
10.
Strengthening social protection systems as an integral strategy to address the challenges of
poverty, especially extreme poverty, inequality and inequity in Latin America and the
Caribbean through: single registry systems of beneficiaries, monitoring and evaluation
mechanisms, and fiscal sustainability
11.
Partnerships between the public sector and nongovernmental organizations, academia, the
private sector, and community organizations to more effectively confront poverty, especially
extreme poverty, inequality, inequity, and vulnerability
12.
Intersectoral challenges of social policies:



Promotion of employment and income generation
Strengthening food security policy
Risk management and social reconstruction to reduce the vulnerability of victims of
natural disasters
13.
The Inter-American Social Protection Network as a cooperation tool of the forum of
Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development
14.
Report on fulfillment of mandates of the First Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of
Social Development and on progress with negotiation of the Social Charter of the Americas
CIDI02946E01
SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS AND HIGH
AUTHORITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
July 8-9, 2010
Cali, Colombia
OEA/Ser.K/XLVIII.2
CIDI/REMDES/doc.3/10 rev. 2
8 July 2010
Original: Spanish
ANNOTATED AGENDA
“Strengthening Social Protection Systems and Rendering Them Sustainable”
(Approved during the first plenary session held on July 8, 2010)
I.
BACKGROUND
Pursuant to the mandate assigned to it by the First Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities
of Social Development, held in Chile in July 2008, the Inter-American Committee on Social
Development (CIDES)2/ held its Third Regular Meeting at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
and considered and approved the objectives, theme, and topics for the Second Meeting of Ministers
and High Authorities of Social Development, to be held in Cali, Colombia, on July 8 and 9, 2010.
This ministerial is also being held pursuant to the mandate of the Fifth Summit of the Americas, at
which the Heads of State and Government called upon the authorities gathered at that Summit to
exchange experiences and best practices in national social protection, inclusion, and poverty
eradication programs, with a view to identifying opportunities for increased multilateral cooperation
in the field of social development.
II.
OBJECTIVES
The proposed objectives for the ministerial meeting are:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
2
To analyze the current state and future outlook of social policy in the Hemisphere in
the aftermath of the latest crises;
To identify the principal challenges of ensuring that social protection systems are
sustainable, even in times of crisis;
To lay the foundations and establish core priorities for the drafting of the 2010–2012
Work Plan of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development;
To identify social protection issues, programs, and strategies for boosting
cooperation through, among others, the Inter-American Social Protection Network;
To elect the officers of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development for the
2010–2012 term; and
To provide input for the work and inter-sectoral analysis undertaken by the InterAmerican Council for Integral Development (CIDI).
. CIDES follows up on the mandates of the Summits of the Americas and agreements reached at the
Meetings of Minister and High Authorities of Social Development, identifies multilateral initiatives, and
contributes to the implementation of OAS policies on partnership for social development.
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III.
WORKING PROCEDURES
Prior to the start of the plenary sessions on July 8, the idea is to hold a preparatory session on
July 7 at which member states will have a chance to conduct a final review of all the details of the
Meeting, including the Draft Communiqué proposed by the host country.
The inaugural session will take place on the morning of July 8, with speeches by the highestlevel authorities of Colombia and the Organization of American States.
The plenary sessions will include reports on the work done to date within the framework of
the ministerial process and presentations on the economic and social context of the region. Work will
then begin on the substantive topics in the program, in accordance with the following procedure: an
international organization or agency will moderate each session and deliver a (5-minute) introduction
to the subject to be addressed; then two ministers will each give a (10-minute) presentation on
substantial aspects of the topic. Time will then be allowed for a ministerial dialogue. The session
will end with the moderator providing a summary of the issues dealt with.
IV.
PLENARY SESSIONS
1.
The social policy response to the effects of crisis in the Americas and the Caribbean
The core work of the Meeting will begin with a presentation on the current state of
the region, just as the first signs are emerging of a gradual recovery from the economic crisis
unleashed last year. This report will provide a setting within which to direct the work and
priorities established in CIDES and lay the groundwork for drafting its biennial Work Plan.
2.
Report on fulfillment of the mandates of the First Meeting of Ministers and High
Authorities of Social Development and progress in the negotiation of the Social
Charter of the Americas
The Technical Secretariat of the forum, that is to say, the OAS Department of Social
Development and Employment, will deliver an executive report on the activities carried out
in response to the mandates assigned by the First Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities
of Social Development, held in Reñaca, Chile. That report honors the commitment made in
the Communiqué issued in Reñaca, in which the authorities of the ministerial forum asked
CIDES to submit a report on implementation of the 2008 – 2010 Work Plan.
In response to said Communiqué, the Secretariat will also provide a brief on progress
made in the process of negotiating the Social Charter of the Americas and its Action Plan.
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3.
Strengthening social protection systems as a comprehensive strategy for addressing
the challenges of poverty, especially extreme poverty, inequality, and inequity in
Latin America and the Caribbean through: consolidated beneficiary registry
systems, evaluation, and monitoring mechanisms, and fiscal sustainability.
Following the Third Regular Meeting of CIDES, the delegations that attended it
concluded that it was essential to continue reflecting on ways to boost social protection
systems and ensure their sustainability, even in times of crisis. To that end, they underscored
at least three of the principal challenges facing those mechanisms for attending to
populations living in extreme poverty in line with that objective. Thus, the delegations will
share their experiences with setting up a consolidated registry of beneficiaries of State
services, mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating those programs or strategies, and their
fiscal sustainability.
4.
Partnerships with nongovernmental organizations, academia, the private sector, and
community organizations as a more effective way for the public sector to confront
poverty, especially extreme poverty, inequity, inequality, and vulnerability
Here the Meeting will ponder the role of other players involved in social policy.
Those attending will hear about the experiences that delegations have had in coordinating
work with NGOs, academia, the private sector, and community organizations. The purpose
of these partnerships is to make actions taken under social programs more effective and to
ensure that they reach those who need them.
5.
Inter-sectoral challenges of social policies: promoting employment and income
generation; strengthening food security policies; risk management and social
reconstruction to reduce the vulnerability of the victims of natural disasters
On the assumption that a comprehensive approach is required to deal with extreme
poverty, the delegations will engage in a dialogue about the challenges of coordinating
efforts with other government sectors. With that in mind, at the last CIDES meeting,
delegates pinpointed three areas in which coordination is vital and in which social
development ministries and agencies have an important part to play both in contributing with
specific programs and coordinating multi-sectoral efforts. Thus, delegations will hear about
the experiences of vulnerable populations with employment promotion and income
generation; about the strengthening of food security policies; and, finally, about rebuilding
the social fabric following natural disasters.
6.
The Inter-American Social Protection Network as a cooperation tool of the forum of
Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development
Pursuant to the Reñaca Communiqué, and in view of the support received from the
Heads of State and Government for the establishment of the Inter-American Social
Protection Network, the Technical Secretariat will report on progress with the consolidation
of this mechanism for cooperation and the exchange and transfer of experiences and best
practices with respect to social protection.
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7.
Adoption of the Agreements reached at the Second Meeting of Ministers and High
Authorities of Social Development
The delegations taking part in the Meeting will end its final plenary session with the
election of CIDES officers for 2010 – 2012. They will also hear applications from countries
wishing to host the Third Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development.
Finally, the delegates will adopt the Communiqué of Cali, which will provide details of the
guidelines and spheres of work to be reflected in the biennial Work Plan that CIDES will
work on following this ministerial meeting.
CIDI02980E01
SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS AND HIGH
AUTHORITIES ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
July 8-9, 2010
Cali, Colombia
OAS/Ser.K/XLVIII.2
CIDI/REMDES/doc. 4/10 rev. 4
8 July 2010
Original: Spanish
SCHEDULE
(Approved during the first plenary session held on July 8, 2010)
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Depart hotels for field trip
8:00 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.
FIELD TRIP: OFFICE OF MAYOR OF SANTIAGO DE CALI
8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Breakfast at City of Cali Zoo, hosted by Mayor Jorge Iván Ospina
9:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Presentation Cali Vision 2036, tour of Santiago de Cali Integrated
Mass Transit System – MIO – and tour of Siloé

Jorge Iván Ospina, Mayor of Santiago de Cali
12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Luncheon hosted by
Restaurant
12:00 noon – 6:00 p.m.
Registration of participants (Registration Area of the Valle del
Pacífico Events Center)
2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
PREPARATORY SESSION
Mayor Jorge Iván Ospina. Simón Parrilla
Chair: Mr. Esteban Piedrahita, Director-General of the National
Planning Department of Colombia, Chair of CIDES
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Agreement on the election of officers of CIDES for the 2010–
2012 term
Receipt of nominations for the election of the officers of the
Second Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities on Social
Development
Agreement on the deadline for the presentation of draft
resolutions
Agreement on the duration of the meeting
Composition of the Style Committee
Final review of the official documents of the ministerial
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010 (continued)
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Draft Agenda and Annotated Agenda
Draft Schedule
Draft Communiqué of the Ministers and High Authorities on
Social Development
Tour of the Historic Town Center and welcome cocktails, hosted by
Mayor Jorge Iván Ospina
Thursday, July 8, 2010
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
INAUGURAL SESSION
 Welcome Remarks by:
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Mr. Esteban Piedrahita, Director General of the National
Planning Department of Colombia
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Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General of
the Organization of American States
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His Excellency Alvaro Uribe Vélez, President of the Republic of
Colombia
 Bicentenary Honors awarded by the Mayor of Santiago de Cali, Mr.
Jorge Iván Ospina, o His Excellency Álvaro Uribe Vélez, President
of the Republic of Colombia
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Official photograph with His Excellency the President of the Republic
of Colombia, the Ministers and High Authorities on Social
Development, and Heads of Delegation
9:15 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
BREAK
9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
FIRST PLENARY SESSION
9:30 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.
Adoption of the agreements of the Preparatory Session
9:40 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
The social policy response to the effects of the crises on the Americas
and the Caribbean

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Martín Hopenhayn, Director, Social Development Division,
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC)
Ministerial dialogue
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Thursday, July 8, 2010 (continued)
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Report on compliance with the mandates of the First Meeting of
Ministers and High Authorities on Social Development and on
progress with negotiation of the Social Charter of the Americas

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Francisco Pilotti, Director, Department
Development and Employment, OAS
of
Social
Strengthening social protection systems as an integral strategy to
address the challenges of poverty, especially extreme poverty,
inequality, and inequity in Latin America and the Caribbean,
through:
Moderator: María Concepción Steta, Specialist on Social Protection,
World Bank
a.
Single registry systems for beneficiaries

Gustavo A. Merino, Under Secretary of Prospective,
Evaluation and Planning, Secretary of Social
Development, Mexico

Esteban Piedrahita Uribe, Director General of the
National Planning Department, Colombia
b.
Evaluation and monitoring mechanisms
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
Patrick Todd, Minister of State, Ministry of
Economic Affairs, Empowerment, Innovation,
Trade, Industry, and Commerce, Barbados
Diego Dorado, Director, Office of Evaluation of
Public Policies, DNP, Colombia
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Ministerial dialogue
12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
LUNCH (Manuelita Pavilion)
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
SECOND PLENARY SESSION
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Strengthening social protection systems as an integral strategy for
addressing the challenges of extreme poverty and inequity in Latin
America and the Caribbean, through: (continued)
Moderator: Carlos Jorge Rodríguez, Technical Deputy Minister of
Social Protection of Colombia
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Thursday, July 8, 2010 (continued)
Fiscal sustainability

Pablino Cáceres, Minister, Secretary for Social
Action, Paraguay

Carmen
Nazario,
Assistant
Secretary,
Administration for the Administration of Children
and Families, Department of Human Services,
United States
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Ministerial dialogue
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
BREAK
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Partnerships for more effectively addressing extreme poverty,
inequality, and vulnerability from the public sector with
nongovernmental organizations, academia, the private sector and
community organizations
Moderator: Benito Baranda, President, America Solidaria
Foundation

Lauro Meléndez, Vice minister of Social Development,
Uruguay

Jeffrey Lizardo, Advisor on Social Policies, Secretary of
State on Planning and Development, Dominican Republic
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Ministerial dialogue
7:00 p.m.
DINNER hosted by the Director General of the National Planning
Department, Mr. Esteban Piedrahita Uribe (Hacienda Guabinas)
Friday, July 9, 2010
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
THIRD PLENARY SESSION
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Intersectoral challenges facing social development ministries and
agencies
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Friday, July 9, 2010 (continued)
a.
Promotion of employment and income generation
Moderator: Santiago Levy, Vice President of Sectors and
Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Márcia Helena Carvalho Lopes, Minister of Social
Development, Brazil

Glenn Ramadharsingh, Minister of the People and
Social Development, Trinidad and Tobago
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Ministerial dialogue
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
b.
Strengthening food security policies
Moderator: Francisco Espejo, Regional Officer, World Food
Programme (WFP)

Hendrik Soerat Setrowidjojo, Minister of Social
Affairs and Housing, Suriname

Vilma Alfaro, Director of Projects and External
Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, El Salvador
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Ministerial Dialogue
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
BREAK
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Intersectoral challenges facing social development ministries and
agencies (continued)
c.
Risk management and social reconstruction to reduce the
vulnerability of victims of natural disasters
Moderator: Louis Alexander, Principal Director of Projects,
Pan-American Development Fundation (PADF)

Felipe Kast Sommerhoff, Minister of Planning,
Chile

Sylvester Quarless, Minister of Social Development,
Grenada
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 pm.
Ministerial dialogue
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
LUNCH (Manuelita Pavilion)
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Friday, July 9, 2010 (continued)
2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
FOURTH PLENARY SESSION
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
The Inter-American Social Protection Network as a cooperation tool
of the Forum of Ministers and High Authorities on Social
Development

Francisco Pilotti, Director, Department
Development and Employment, OAS
of
Social
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Ministerial dialogue
3:00: p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Adoption of the agreements of the Second Meeting of Ministers and
High Authorities on Social Development

Election of the officers of the Inter-American Committee of
Social Development (CIDES) for the 2010-2012 term

Date and place of the Third Meeting of Ministers and High
Authorities on Social Development

Adoption of the Communiqué of the Ministers and High
Authorities on Social Development
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
BREAK
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
CLOSING SESSION
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
CEPCD02461E01
SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS AND HIGH
AUTHORITIES OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
July 8-9, 2010
Cali, Colombia
OEA/Ser.K/XLVIII.2
CIDI/REMDES/RES.1/10
9 July 2010
Original: Spanish
CIDI/REMDES/RES.1/10
VOTE OF THANKS TO THE PEOPLE AND
GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA
(Adopted during the Fourth Plenary Session, held on July 9, 2010)
THE SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS AND HIGH AUTHORITIES OF SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT,
CONSIDERING:
That thanks to the hospitality of the people and Government of Colombia, the Second
Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development in the Framework of CIDI was
held in the city of Santiago de Cali on July 8 and 9, 2010; and
That at the Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development, the Heads of
Delegation had numerous opportunities to engage in fruitful dialogue and to share experiences on the
subject of ¨Strengthening and Sustaining Social Protection Systems¨,
RESÖLVES:
1.
To express its gratitude to the people and Government of Colombia, and especially
the City of Santiago de Cali, for their warm and generous hospitality and their contribution to the
success of the Second Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development.
2.
To commend and congratulate the Director of the National Department of Planning
of Colombia, Mr. Esteban Piedrahita Uribe, for his outstanding performance as President of the
Second Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development.
3.
To also thank the staff of the National Department of Planning, the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Colombia, and the Office of the Mayor of the City of Santiago de Cali, whose
professionalism, dedication and efficiency contributed to the success of the Second Meeting of
Ministers and High Authorities of Social Development.
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