Thu, Aug 20 2026

• Panel 2: Ageing and long-term care: challenges and opportunities related to gender-sensitive public policies
  09:00 am to 10:30 am

  Moderator: Ana Güezmes García, Chief of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC
  • Ix-Chel Poot, Executive Director of the National Council on Ageing of Belize
  • Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga, Deputy Head of the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) of Cuba
  • Gabriela Rodríguez, Technical Secretary of the National Population Council (CONAPO) of Mexico
  • Diego Aguilar, Regional Director for the Americas of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI)
  • Ericka Álvarez, President of Alianza Latinoamericana de Mujeres con Discapacidad (ALAMUD) 

• Statements by delegations
  10:30 am to 11:00 am
• Panel 3: Intergenerational solidarity: ensuring rights from childhood to old age
  11:00 am to 12:30 pm

  Moderator: Juan Martín Fernández, National Director of Data Transfer and Analysis of the Ministry of Social Development of Uruguay
  • Deidra Coy, Director of Human and Community Development at the Planning Institute of Jamaica
  • Fernando Filgueira, Representative of UNFPA in Uruguay
  • Alexandre Pupo, Secretary-General of the International Youth Organization for Ibero-America (OIJ)
  • Piedad Urdinola, Associate Professor at the School of Economics, National University of Colombia
  • Vicenta Camusso Pintos, President of the Institute for Afrodescendent Studies, Research and Development of Uruguay

• Statements by delegations
  12:30 pm to 01:00 pm
• Panel 4: Public policies in response to demographic change
  02:30 pm to 04:00 pm

  Moderator: Pablo Salazar, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations system in Costa Rica
  • Carlos Mendoza Alvarado, Secretary of Planning and Programming of the Office of the President of Guatemala
  • Laís Abramo, National Secretary for Care and Family in the Ministry of Social Development and Assistance, Family Affairs and the Fight against Hunger of Brazil
  • Martín Francos Rodríguez, Deputy Minister of Planning and Public Investment in the Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Dominican Republic
  • Rodrigo Arim, Director of the Planning and Budget Office of Uruguay 
  • Mariana Iacono, Institutional Communications Officer of the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW)
  • Paula Narváez, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of UNFPA 

• Statements by delegations
  04:00 pm to 04:30 pm
• Consideration and adoption of agreements
  04:30 pm to 04:45 pm
• Closing session
  05:00 pm to 05:45 pm

  •    Luis F. Yáñez, Secretario de la Comisión de la CEPAL
  •    Hugo González , Director Regional Adjunto para América Latina y el Caribe del UNFPA 
  •    Rodrigo Arim, Director de Planeamiento y Presupuesto de la Presidencia del Uruguay, país que ejerce la Presidencia de la Conferencia Regional sobre Población y Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe

  Luis Fidel Yáñez - Palabras de clausura
• Cultural event
  06:00 pm to 07:00 pm