Executive direction and management

ECLAC continued to play an important role in the public policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean, by raising emerging issues, which have since become firmly established on the regional policy agenda. It has put forward policy recommendations in substantive documents prepared for high-level regional meetings such as the twenty-fifth session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC (New York, United States of America, February 2009). Member States requested the ECLAC secretariat to collaborate in shaping a common regional position for the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development. On the basis of the mandates derived from these intergovernmental forums, ECLAC supported several regional summits, events and high-level meetings by providing analysis and policy proposals that helped to spark policy discussion on the most pressing issues facing the region. At the same time, it continued to work to address the many long-term structural challenges still pending.

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