Technical virtual meeting "Challenges and needs of the Ministries of Social Development in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic"

Date

08-04-2020

Place

Description

The focus of this meeting revolved around the challenge of ensuring that measures and programmes designed to tackle the pandemic reach the people that they intend to help, and also about the need for technical assistance between countries. Among the main difficulties faced were keeping complete registries of the target populations of each programme, the pressure over social services, the need to work on a long term framework in order to deal with the economic effects to come, and the development of strategies to speed up the delivery of resources, among others. Also, several countries voiced the importance of learning from each others experiences, especially in relation to population registries, so they can incorporate vulnerable and hard-to-reach groups (elderly, migrants, indigenous peoples, women, etc) to the benefits of social protection. Finally, ECLAC informed that it will be enabling instances of interaction to promote the exchange of experiences among member countries, such as the Observatory on COVID-19.

Participant Institutions

Ministerio de Desarrollo Social

Participant Institutions

Ministerio de la Ciudadanía del Brasil

Participant Institutions

Ministerio de Desarrollo Social y de la Familia

Participant Institutions

Departamento Administrativo de Prosperidad Social

Participant Institutions

Ministerio de Desarrollo Humano e Inclusión Social

Participant Institutions

Ministerio de Inclusión Económica y Social