Given the importance of the “XXXIII Meeting of International Cooperation Directors for Latin America and the Caribbean,” which SELA is co-organising with the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID), together with its rescheduling for 2026 and as a prelude to it, a webinar will be held entitled “Towards the XXXIII Meeting of International Cooperation Directors: opportunities and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean.”

On this occasion, various cooperation officials from the Latin American and Caribbean region will provide an overview of the activities and general work of their areas in line with South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC), allowing for the strengthening of capacities and procedures available in each of their countries and specialised organisations for measuring, assessing and evaluating cooperation, in line with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and national development programmes.

Through this project, the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA) aims to reiterate the importance of the Meeting of Cooperation Directors as a platform of excellence for encouraging the exchange of ideas, experiences and best practices in areas of relevance to the cooperation and development aid agenda for more than three decades. This has also enabled SELA to identify a multitude of contacts, thereby pinpointing the agencies and regional, subregional and national counterparts responsible for international cooperation policies.

Within the framework of the mandates of the Latin American Council and the tradition of more than three decades of the Meeting of International Cooperation Directors, SELA has maintained a space for technical and political coordination to debate, exchange and consolidate proposals for intra-regional and interregional cooperation. This track record constitutes the institutional basis for addressing, in this edition, the circular economy through South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC).

Member States have reaffirmed their interest in strengthening SSTC and, specifically, in linking it to the circular economy, a mandate set out by the Latin American Council (XLIX Regular Meeting, December 2023) and which guides SELA’s annual programme under the area of “Economic and Technical Cooperation.”

This effort is also aligned with the 2022-2025 Strategic Framework of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), which promotes SSTC policies, capacity building within the United Nations system, and the exchange of knowledge and technology for more resilient and sustainable development.

This meeting aims to raise awareness and strengthen capacities for regional and global development, as well as contribute to the debate on the promotion of instruments, mechanisms and procedures available in each country and specialised organisation for measuring, assessing and evaluating cooperation and how they align with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and national development programmes.

Similarly, the space will be conducive to reflection and analysis to promote activities related to SSTC, in order to implement programmes with greater efficiency and flexibility, in accordance with the demands of the countries.

The project aims to:

• Encourage the exchange of ideas, experiences and best practices in areas of relevance to the cooperation agenda.
• Disseminate and exchange best practices applicable to SSTC and circular economy projects.
• Identify institutional frameworks and guiding principles that, in line with national priorities and international commitments, contribute to accelerating the adoption of the circular economy.

• Identify institutional frameworks and guiding principles that, in line with national priorities and international commitments, contribute to accelerating the adoption of the circular economy.
• Increase applied knowledge about the approaches, advances and methods used by countries in circular economy policies and projects through SSTC, with the aim of converging towards homogeneous systems that allow for estimating the real scope and environmental, productive and social impacts in the region.
• Reiterate the importance of the Meeting of Directors as a platform of excellence for the development aid agenda for more than three decades.
• Conduct a comparative mapping and diagnosis of the governance frameworks and actions implemented by Member States in relation to the circular economy, taking as a reference their guiding principles applied to product design, production processes and consumption models, in order to identify areas of convergence, regulatory gaps and opportunities for technical cooperation within the framework of SSTC.

Date: 6 November 2025

Aimed at: Cooperation directors for LAC, cooperation agencies operating in LAC, specialists and researchers in the area of South-South and Triangular Cooperation and the circular economy.

Format: Virtual via Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CX8sNWJgScCgpSUPjrb8UQ

Language: Spanish