Morning

8:30 – 8:50 

INTRODUCTORY SESSION

• Ambassador Javier Paulinich, Permanent Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA)
• Ph. D. Selina Baños, Director-General for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Panama

8:50 – 10:40

SESSION I: INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION INITIATIVES FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: MULTILATERAL DONORS

Moderator: Javier Gordon Ruiz, Director (a.i.) of Relations for Integration and Cooperation of the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA)

• Leo Heileman, Director and Regional Representative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
• International Cooperation–supporting the implementation of the Sendai Framework for DRR. Sandra Amlag, Official of Regional Programmes for the Caribbean of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), Regional Office for the Americas.
• Sandra Bart, Legal Officer of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
• AECID: Cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish). Carlos Cano Corcuera, General Coordinator of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) in Panama.

Round of questions

10:40 – 11:00 

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 12:40

SESSION II: REGIONAL COOPERATION EXPERIENCES OR INITIATIVES OF COOPERATION AGENCIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Moderator: Ph. D. Selina Baños, Director-General for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Panama

• Panama’s experiences and initiatives of regional cooperation (Spanish). Ph. D. Selina Baños, Director-General for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Panama
• Brazilian international cooperation (Portugues). Celso Franca, Counselor of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC)
• AMEXCID’s experiences and initiatives of regional cooperation (Spanish). Noel González, Director-General for Planning of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID)
• International cooperation system in Guatemala (Spanish) Michelle Prieto, Deputy Secretary for International Cooperation of the Secretariat of Planning and Programming of the Presidency of the Republic of Guatemala (SEGEPLAN)

AN EUROPEAN VISION OF COOPERATION WITH THE REGION

• Ph. D. Giovanni Girolamo, Chargé d’Affaires of the Delegation of the European Union to Panama

Round of questions

12:40 – 13:00

CLOSING SESSION 

• Ph. D. Selina Baños, Director-General for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Panama
• Ambassador Javier Paulinich, Permanent Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA)

LUNCH

(*) To be confirmed