Wed, Aug 19 2026

• Presentation of the document Impacts of Demographic Change in Latin America and the Caribbean: Public Policy Challenges and Options
  09:00 am to 09:45 am

  By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, and Simone Cecchini, Chief of the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE)-Population Division of ECLAC

  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Presentación del documento
  Simone Cecchini - Presentation of the document
• Presentations by governments on national progress, challenges, good practices and current priorities in implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development
  09:45 am to 12:30 pm
• Reports on activities carried out in 2024–2026 and outlook for 2026–2028
  12:30 pm to 01:00 pm

  • Report of the secretariat, presented by Zulma Sosa, Coordinator of the Population and Development Area of CELADE-Population Division of ECLAC and Fabiana Del Popolo, Chief of the Demography and Population Information Area of CELADE-Population Division of ECLAC
  • Report of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), presented by Paula Narváez, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of UNFPA

  Zulma Sosa - Informe de actividades del CELADE
  Fabiana Del Popolo - Report on the activities of CELADE
  Paula Narváez Ojeda - Informe del UNFPA
• Panel 1: Decline in fertility: public policy, rights and sustainable development
  03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

  Moderator: Sabrina Juran, Regional Technical Adviser, Population and Development, of the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office of UNFPA
  •    Leonel Briozzo, Under-Secretary for Public Health of Uruguay 
  •    Gaynel Diana Curry, Chair of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
  •    Wanda Cabella, Professor of the Population Studies Programme in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the Republic of Uruguay 
  •    Verónica Azpiroz Cleñan, Coordinator, Tejido de Profesionales Indígenas en Argentina 
  •    Sabrina Pachón, Director General of Corporación Polimorfas (Colombia) 

• Statements by delegations
  04:30 pm to 06:00 pm