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UNEP/LAC-IG.XVII/6Page 416. The Ministers considered the Provisional Agenda 3 and the AnnotatedProvisional Agenda and the Schedule of Sessions 4 proposed by the Secretariat, andadopted them after incorporating the modifications that were considered necessary.Agenda Item 3: Message from the Regional Forum of UNEP tothe Civil Society of Latin America17. Under this agenda item, the representative of Civil Society, Mr. Calvin James,read the recommendations that resulted from the Regional Meeting of the CivilSociety (Panama City, Panama, 30 th November to 1 st December 2009 5 ).18. The meeting welcomed these recommendations, and no further remarks weremade.Agenda Item 4: Regional Action Plan of the Latin American andCaribbean Initiative on Sustainable Development4.1. Proposed Regional Action Plan 2010-201119. The UNEP/ROLAC Director opened the session by providing backgroundinformation on the process that led to the development of the proposal for the2010-2011 Regional Action Plan 6 . She recalled that the Sixteenth Meeting of theForum of Ministers had adopted Decision 1 on Assessment of the Implementation ofthe Latin American and Caribbean Initiative on Sustainable Development (ILAC), inwhich it was decided to continue implementing the priority action areas of ILAC.These priority areas are: Climate Change; Biological Diversity; Management ofWater Resources; Vulnerability; Human Settlements and Sustainable Cities; SocialTopics including Health, Inequality and Poverty; Economic Affairs includingCompetitiveness, Trade, and Production and Consumption Patterns; andInstitutional Aspects. It was also decided to assess the lessons learned andchallenges posed by the implementation of the RAP and to prepare, during theintersessional period, a conceptual review of its structure and implementationmodalities, with a view toward evaluating the establishment of joint programs withthe agencies of the Inter-Agency Technical Committee (ITC), notwithstanding theactivities carried out by the agencies individually.20. In this regard, the UNEP/ROLAC Regional Director gave a rundown of thediscussions held during the intersessional period, at the Intersessional Meeting ofGovernment Experts of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America andthe Caribbean (Panama City, 20 th and 21 st October 2009 7 ). At this meeting,3 See document “Provisional Agenda” (UNEP/LAC- IG.XVII/1).4 See document “Annotated Provisional Agenda” (UNEP/LAC- IG.XVII/2).5 See the Final “Report of the Regional Civil Society Meeting” (UNEP/LAC-IGWG.XVII/Ref.8).6See document entitled “Proposal for the 2010-2011 Regional Action Plan (RAP) of the Forum of Ministers ofEnvironment of Latin America and the Caribbean” (UNEP/LAC-IGWG.XVII/5).7See document “Final Report on the Intersessional Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of LatinAmerica and the Caribbean”. Panama City, 20 and 21 October, 2009” (UNEP/LAC-IGWG.XVII/Ref.1).