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First Meeting of the Inter-AmericanOEA/Ser.W/XIII.7.1

Committee on Social DevelopmentCIDI/CIDES/ doc.1/04

April 5 – 6, 20048 March 2004

Santiago, ChileOriginal: Spanish

draft agenda

  1. Working Meeting for the Installation of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development (CIDES)[1]/

Sunday, April 4, afternoon

  1. Review of the Rules of Procedure
  2. Agreement on the election of officers
  3. Consideration of the use of resources from the Reserve Subfund of the Regular Fund
  4. Other business
  1. Official Meeting of CIDES

Monday, April 5, and Tuesday, April 6, 2004

  1. Installation of the Inter-American Committee on Social Development

Adoption of its Rules of Procedure (model rules of procedure)

Official election of officers

2.Inter-American Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination

  1. Analysis and discussion of the Inter-American Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination in the framework of the Democratic Charter, the Declaration of Margarita, the Declaration of Nuevo León, and other pertinent instruments. Experience of the international financial and technical bodies [ECLAC, IDB, SELA, PAHO, IICA, CDB, BCIE, World Bank, private sector (foundations and corporations, etc.)] and the inter-American committees.
  1. Financing mechanism for initiatives to promote social development:
  1. Within the Organization of American States
  2. Presentation of initiatives in collaboration with other institutions and agencies

3.Best practices: Cooperation strategies for the exchange of effective programs to combat poverty and promote social development

  1. The experiences of the Latin American and Caribbean Social Network. International Cooperation Mechanism amongst countries to overcome poverty; some examples
  2. National experiences in combating poverty with emphasis on the priorities expressed in the Declaration of Nuevo León and the Declaration of Margarita.
  1. Social inclusion (indigenous people, people with disabilities, gender equality)
  2. Nutrition (combating hunger)
  3. Migration and remittances
  4. Job creation and micro-enterprises, small and medium-size enterprises
  5. Use and support of new technologies to combat poverty
  1. Coordinated and integrated economic and social polices. The experiences of collaboration between UDSE and INDES/IDB in education programs and new proposals
  2. White Helmets

4.Experience of the inter-American committees in the area of social development and antipoverty projects: an intersectoral view. Possible areas of collaboration. (Presentations of the chairs of the inter-American committees involved with topics of a social nature: Inter-American Commission of Women, Inter-American Committee on Science and Technology, Inter-American Committee on Education, Inter-American Committee on Culture, Inter-American Telecommunication Commission, among others).

5.CIDES Work Plan, 2004-2005

6.Closing ceremony

[1].This will be an informal meeting solely for CIDES members and the OAS Secretariat.