Join us on Monday, March 31, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. (Washington, DC time) for the virtual event "The Role of Women in Healthy Eating: Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities for an Equitable Transformation of Food Systems," organized by the Inter-agency Food Systems Task Force for Latin America and the Caribbean. This is a side event within the eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, which will occur in Chile from March 31 to April 4, 2025.
Objectives:
- To promote the exchange of experiences among various stakeholders, advance women's rights to access healthy food, and promote the equitable transformation of food systems at the local level.
- Understand what strategies and policies are reducing hunger, poverty, and inequality in a regional context where poverty is expected to increase and where women are overrepresented in informal work and unemployment.
- Analyze the impact of the high cost of a healthy diet on household economies, especially in lower-income and single-parent households. This is due to its impact on income and the burden of caregiving, which falls primarily on women, especially those without access to public care services or with whom to redistribute that care within single-parent households, in urban, suburban, and rural areas.
- Emphasize the role of social protection systems in advancing women's rights, especially those facing multiple forms of discrimination, that promote caregiving systems and the alleviation of multiple burdens that affect their income and time poverty.
- Make visible successful programs and policies that strengthen the role of women's networks, organizations, and cooperatives in promoting community health, including those that promote environmental protection and access to land, water, and healthy food (rural, Indigenous, and Afro-descendant women, as well as human rights and land defenders, among others).
- Raise awareness about the importance of women's organizations and networks' leadership in all their diversity in the social and economic development of their communities, including their contribution to school feeding programs, public procurement, and advocacy for vulnerable groups (children and adolescents in all their diversity).
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
- DATE: Monday, March 31, 2025
- TIME: 12:00 p.m. (Washington, DC, or EST) [See the bottom of this page for times in other cities]
- LANGUAGES: Spanish and English with simultaneous translation.
- REGISTRATION: https://cepal-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LwEwpACbRoKQ3LPHDQ2khQ#/registration
CONTEXT
In 2016, the Member States of ECLAC approved Mexico City Resolution 700(XXXVI)1, which established the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development as a regional mechanism for the follow-up and review of the implementation and follow-up of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), their targets, their means of implementation, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development.
The Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development is State-led and open to the participation of all Latin American and Caribbean countries. The Forum is convened under the auspices of ECLAC and is guided by the principles established for all follow-up and review processes of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in September 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly. It involves States, the private sector, and civil society, as well as ECLAC's subsidiary bodies, development banks, other United Nations agencies, and regional integration blocs.
In consultation with the Government of Peru, in its capacity as Chair of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, the Eighth Meeting of the Forum will be held from March 31 to April 4, 2025, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in Santiago, Chile.
RELATED LINKS
More information about the forum here.
TIME IN OTHER CITIES
- 9:00 a.m. – Los Angeles, Vancouver.
- 10:00 a.m. – Belmopan, Guatemala City, Managua, Mexico City, San José (CR), San Salvador, Tegucigalpa.
- 11:00 a.m. – Bogotá, Panama City, Kingston, Lima.
- 12:00 a.m. – Bridgetown, Caracas, Georgetown, Havana, La Paz, Quito, Washington D.C., Port of Spain, Port-au-Prince, Nassau, Ottawa. San Juan, Santo Domingo.
- 1:00 p.m. – Asunción, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Brasilia, Montevideo, Paramaribo.
- 5:00 p.m. – Geneva, Madrid.
For other cities, check the local time using the following link.