2013
THEME
Economic Development
OBJECTIVES
- To discuss the topics of food security, natural resources development, and connecting women’s rights to food security
- To develop recommendations for the hemisphere’s parliaments with the guidance of experts
WORKING GROUPS
1. Natural Resources Development
2. Food Security
Meeting of the Group of Women Parliamentarians: Connecting Women's Rights to Food Security
ARTICLES
- Vulnerability, Adaptation and Climate Change (Gleyse Peiter - Working Group 1)
- Natural Capital and Economic Growth: Policy Lessons from Costa Rica (Carlos Manuel Rodríguez - Working Group 1)
- The Current Consumption Model and its Impacts on Food Security (Xaviera Cabada Barrón - Working Group 2)
- The Importance of Food Security for Decision Making in the Fight Against Hunger (Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez - Working Group 2)
- The Political Commitment towards Food Security and Women's Rights: A Parliamentary Challenge (Guadalupe Valdez - Group of Women Parliamentarians)
- Strategies to Enhance Women's Leadership to Address Food and Nutrition Security Under a Changing Climate (Cristina Tirado - Group of Women Parliamentarians)
PRESENTATION
- Challenges to Realizing the Right to Food in the Hemisphere (Ricardo Rapallo - Keynote Speaker)
RECOMMENDATIONS
- Natural Resources Development
- Food Security
- Group of Women Parliamentarians: Connecting Women's Rights to Food Security
Declaration on the Arms Trade Treaty
Participation of Parliamentarians and Guest Speakers
OBJECTIVES*
- To increase dialogue among parliamentarians, building on the release of the OAS comprehensive report The Drug Problem in the Americas
- To discuss topics such as criminality, democracy, legislative agendas, the role of legislative institutions, and the importance of collaborative dialogue on these issues in the region
*This regional seminar is part of an ongoing project of the OAS: Strengthening the Capacities of Legislators from Central America, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. ParlAmericas is pleased to provide support for the project in the form of facilitating the participation of parliamentarians. For more information on the project, please read the September 2013 issue of our newsletter ParlAmericas Express.
PARLAMERICAS DELEGATION
ParlAmericas sponsored the participation of parliamentarians, including members of the Board of Directors. Secretary-Treasurer Germán Blanco spoke on the high-level panel “Drugs and collaborative dialogue between public authorities.”
Objectives of the meeting: to receive various updates from Board members and the International Secretariat staff; to approve the proposal for the next capacity-building workshop; to approve a funds acceptance policy; and to welcome the newly elected member countries to the Board of Directors.
THEME
Women in Power: Recent Changes in the Political Arena
OBJECTIVE
- To develop strategies for increasing the political participation and leadership of women in the Americas, and provide legislators with tools for passing laws that are reflective of women’s issues from the region
Session 1: Women Presidents of National Legislatures
Session 2: Leadership and Political Participation of Women of African Descent
Session 3: The Effects of Women's Participation in Politics
ARTICLES
- Political Participation and Leadership of Afro-Descendant Women (Beatriz Ramírez Abella - S2)
- Presentation (Beatriz Ramírez Abella - S2)
- Women’s Political Representation in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Latin America: A Preliminary Analysis (Cynthia Barrow Giles - S3)
- Presentation (Cynthia Barrow Giles - S3)
- Presentation (Maureen Clarke Clarke - keynote speaker) (in Spanish)
Objectives of the meeting: to consider and approve a Funding Strategy for the organization, and to finalize the drafting of the new Regulations of ParlAmericas.
Theme: How to Improve Oversight and Increase Collaboration
Objectives of the meeting: to offer a space where parliamentarians and experts in the subject matter can discuss the roles and actions of national legislatures with respect to extractive activities and to increase regional knowledge and best practices with regards to the extractive sector in South America, and possibilities of parliamentary cooperation.
Sessions
- S1. Parliamentary Roles: Legislation, Supervision and Representation
- S2. The Current State of the Right to Prior Consultation in South America
- S3. Types of Contracts, Tax Regime and Transparency
- S4. Managing Revenues from Extractive Activities
- S5. Superior or alternative models of development
Agenda (Spanish)
Presentations
- Extractive industries and transition post-extraction in Latin America (Carlos Monge - Introduction) (Spanish)
- Parliaments and extractive industries (Fernando Patzy - Introduction) (Spanish)
- The role of parliament with regard to extractive industries (Fernando Patzy - S1) (Spanish)
- Roles of parliament: legislation, supervision and representation (Manuel Briceño - S1) (Spanish)
- Current status of prior consultations in South America: the case of Colombia (Gloria Rodriguez - S2) (Spanish)
- Contracts, grants and tax regimes (Fernando Patzy - S3) (Spanish)
- Parliaments: strengthening governance and transparency in extractive industries (Lisa Bhansali - S3) (Spanish)
- Management of income derived from extractive industries (Carlos Monge - S4) (Spanish)
- Adjustments to the primary extractive export model (Carlos Monge - S5) (Spanish)
- Presentation of the Executive Power of the Gran Porte Mining Law Project (LMGP, as per its acronym in Spanish), Uruguay (Carlos Baráibar - S5) (Spanish)
- Transitions: post-extractivism and alternatives to extractivism in Peru (Alejandra Alayza - S5) (Spanish)
Participation of Parliamentarians and Guest Speakers (Spanish)
Report (Spanish)
Objectives of the meeting: to hear preparations for the upcoming Gathering of the Group of Women Parliamentarians and the Plenary Assembly, to approve the work plan and budget for the coming cycle, and to finalize the drafting of the new Regulations of ParlAmericas.
Immediately prior to the Board of Directors Meeting, the Standing Committee on Financing and Fundraising held a Special Session to which all Board members were invited.
Media Coverage (Spanish)