Draft first regional report on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development

<strong>Draft</strong> <strong>first</strong> <strong>regional</strong> <strong>report</strong> on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development
Summary
Objectives
This draft <strong>report</strong> seeks to give an account of progress in the implementation of the priority measures of the
Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development in the region, as well as the differences between
countries in terms of the degree of implementation. By highlighting relevant national experiences, it also seeks
to facilitate the exchange of good practices among countries so that they can benefit from each other in their
efforts to advance the implementation of the actions of the Montevideo Consensus.
Executive summary
At the special meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in
Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Santiago in November 2017, the countries of the region renewed their
commitment to implementing and monitoring the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development,
and recognized the contribution of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America
and the Caribbean to the global follow-up to the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development beyond 2014. 1
They also recognized the contribution of national and <strong>regional</strong> monitoring of the Montevideo Consensus to the
follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in accordance with resolution 700(XXXVI),
adopted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at its thirty-sixth session. 2
At that meeting, the Presiding Officers requested the secretariat, in collaboration with the United Nations
Population Fund, to prepare the draft <strong>first</strong> <strong>regional</strong> <strong>report</strong> on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus
on Population and Development 3 for consideration by the third session of the Regional Conference on Population
and Development to be held in Lima in the third quarter of 2018, and for the <strong>report</strong> to be the <strong>regional</strong> contribution
to the global review and appraisal of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population
and Development beyond 2014, to be undertaken in 2019 at the fifty-second session of the United Nations
Commission on Population and Development. 4
The draft <strong>report</strong> was prepared by the secretariat, with the support of UNFPA, on the basis of information
from official sources, such as national population censuses and national surveys, national <strong>report</strong>s submitted
by countries, governments’ voluntary presentations at the special meeting of the Presiding Officers of the
Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, country information
systematized and compiled by ECLAC, databases of United Nations system agencies, the Global Sustainable
Development Goals Indicators Database, voluntary national reviews on the implementation of the SDGs and a
comprehensive literature from livelihood documentation produced by ECLAC and the United Nations system,
as well as academic and research documents of civil society on the various topics. 5
This executive summary presents the main findings, conclusions and recommendations set forth in
each of the sections of the draft <strong>first</strong> <strong>regional</strong> <strong>report</strong> on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus
on Population and Development.
1
See [online] https://crpd.cepal.org/1e/sites/crpd1e/files/17-01123_mdp-e_agreements.pdf.
2
Ibid., para. 2.
3
Ibid., para. 13. The <strong>report</strong> was to be based on the national progress <strong>report</strong>s on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development
submitted by the countries and taking into account the <strong>report</strong> of the special meeting of the Presiding Officers and the list of indicators contained in the Final <strong>report</strong>
of the ad hoc working group for the preparation of a proposal on the indicators for <strong>regional</strong> follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development
(LC/MDP-E/3), endorsed at the special meeting.
4
Ibid., para. 6.
5
Paragraph 12 of the agreements of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference stipulates that “the countries that decide to submit their national progress
<strong>report</strong>s on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development do so before 31 March 2018, so that the <strong>report</strong>s can be taken into
consideration in the preparation of the draft <strong>first</strong> <strong>regional</strong> <strong>report</strong> on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development”. It should
be noted that at the time of writing of the draft <strong>regional</strong> <strong>report</strong> (17 April 2018), the voluntary national reviews of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Suriname and Uruguay had been received for editorial review. Some
additional information taken from national <strong>report</strong>s received while the document was being edited, such as that of Mexico, was also included.
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