Biblioguias: Planning for development in the 60 years of ILPES: Regional Council for Planning

The Regional Council for Planning (RCP) is the subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) responsible for the substantive orientation of the activities of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES). It was established in 1975 as a Technical Committee by resolution 340 (AC.66) of the Eighth Special Meeting of the ECLAC Committee of the Whole. Composed of the ministers and other planning authorities of ECLAC member States, it was renamed the Regional Council for Planning in 1988. Its agreements are recorded in resolutions that are ratified at ECLAC sessions. Together with its Presiding Officers, who meet every two years, they constitute the main bodies for guidance and consultation in the conduct of ILPES work programmes, as well as for the evaluation of their results.

Within the framework of the activities of the Regional Council for Planning, the first Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean was organized in 1977 and has gradually become the main forum for Latin American and Caribbean planning agencies to exchange and analyse the status and progress of planning in the region and the obstacles to it.

For each RCP meeting, ILPES generates a position paper with the objective of framing the analytical discussions. These historical documents are presented below, organized by stage of the Institute's thinking up to the present day.

Explore the entire collection of RCP documents.

The decline of planning (1977 to 1990)

Papers presented at the First Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America (1977)

Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean | No. 1 | Caracas | 17-20 noviembre 1977.

Boletín de Planificación Vol. año 1, no. 1

Report of the First Conference of Latin American Ministers and Heads of Planning (1977)

Conference held in Caracas, 17-20 November 1977.

Documents presented at the II Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the III Meeting of the Technical Committee of ILPES, Lima, 15-18 November 1978 (1979)

Report of the Third Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the Fourth Meeting of the ILPES Technical Committee (1980)

Conference held in Guatemala, 26-29 november 1980. (E/CEPAL/ILPES/R.33)

Reflexiones sobre ciencia, tecnología y planificación: versión preliminar (1980)

Position paper presented to the III Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the IV Meeting of the Technical Committee of ILPES, Guatemala, Guatemala, 26-29 November 1980.

Planificación del desarrollo regional en América Latina (1980)

Estado de la planificación en América Latina y el Caribe (1981)

Rapporteur's Report IV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean,

Conference held in Buenos Aires May 9-10, 1983. (E/CEPAL/ILPES/CONF.4/L.7)

Planificación y la política económica y social en América Latina y el Caribe (1983)

Position paper presented to the IV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the V Meeting of the Technical Committee of ILPES, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 9-10 May 1983.

Planificación y desarrollo en el área del Caribe: antecedentes y perspectivas (1983)

Incorporación de la dimensión ambiental en la planificación (1983)

Informe V Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean (1985)

Conference held in Mexico City, 15-17 April 1985. (LC/IP/G.26 | LC/IP/L.16 (CM 5/5)/REV.1)

Síntesis: planificación y políticas públicas en 1982-1984 y perspectivas para la segunda mitad de la década (1985)

Position paper presented to the V Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the VI Meeting of the Technical Committee of ILPES, Mexico City, Mexico, 15-17 April 1985.

Cooperación e integración regional en la reactivación y en el desarrollo: El papel de la planificación (1987)

Position paper presented to the VI Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the VII Meeting of the Regional Planning Council of ILPES, Havana, Cuba, 23-26 March 1987 (25 years anniversary).

ILPES: "inserción externa, desarrollo y planificación" (1989)

Position paper presented to the VII Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the VIII Meeting of the Regional Planning Council of ILPES, Montevideo, Uruguay, 8-10 May 1989.

ILPES: "inserción externa, competitividad y crisis fiscal" (1989)

The strategic management of the State (1990 to 2000)

El vínculo Iberoamérica-Comunidad Europea: planes, políticas y estrategias de desarrollo: documento oficial (1992)

Position paper presented to the VIII Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the IX Meeting of the Regional Planning Council of ILPES, Madrid, Spain, 22-26 March 1992.

Reforma y modernización del Estado (1994)

Position paper presented at the IX Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and X Meeting of the Regional Planning Council of ILPES, Mexico City, Mexico, 20-22 July 1994.

X Conferencia de Ministros y Jefes de Planificación de América Latina y el Caribe y XI Reunión del Consejo Regional de Planificación del ILPES (1998)

Position paper presented to the X Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and X Meeting of the Regional Planning Council of ILPES (1998), Conference documents published in the Institute's Bulletin - ILPES No. 4, 1998. (LC/IP/G.119)

Planning for development with equality at the centre (2000 to 2015)

Guía para la discusión de la mesa redonda: planificación estratégica, reglas macrofiscales y descentralización (2002)

Position paper presented to the XI Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the XII Meeting of the Regional Council of Planning of ILPES, Madrid, Spain, 6 November 2002.

Economía y territorio en América Latina y el Caribe: desigualdades y políticas (2009)

Position paper presented to the XII Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the XIII Meeting of the Regional Council of Planning of ILPES, Brasilia, Brazil, 26-27 June 2007.

Planning for sustainable development (2015 to 2022)

Challenges and Future Development Planning

Resilient institutions for a transformative post-pandemic recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean: Inputs for discussion (2021)

XVIII Meeting of the ILPES Regional Planning Council, Virtual meeting, 19-21 October 2021

Planning for development in the 60 years of ILPES