Institutional framework
Within the Cuban institutional framework, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX) and the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) are responsible for coordinating population and development issues and serve as the political and technical counterparts to the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. These two institutions are responsible for the preparation and international representation of national processes related to the population and development agenda.
Through its Directorate for International Economic Organizations (DOEI) and, in the case of ONEI, through the Centre for Population and Development Studies, MINCEX co-chairs an ad hoc Population and Development Working Group (in operation since 2013), which serves as a follow-up mechanism and liaison with the Regional Conference on Population and Development and its secretariat, as well as for the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development and its implementation. Another of its functions is to coordinate and participate in the preparation of the country's Voluntary National Report.
Participation
The Commission for Attention to Demographic Dynamics is the institutional coordination mechanism responsible for the implementation and follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, established in 2012 and currently governed by Agreement No. 9358 of the Council of Ministers. It is a permanent mechanism chaired by the Prime Minister.
The Commission is composed of fifteen institutions, most of them ministries, together with the Institute of Information and Social Communication, the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) and the Centre for Demographic Studies of the University of Havana (academic sector).
A distinctive feature of the Commission is that it is supported by seven thematic subcommissions on: 1. Internal and international migration. 2. Fertility and mortality. 3. Ageing. 4. Labour resources. 5. Housing and human settlements. 6. Care systems. 7. Productive and technological responses to ageing.
Civil society organizations, including the Federation of Cuban Women and the Union of Young Communists, participate as permanent invitees to the Commission, together with other stakeholders such as the National Assembly of People's Power.
The information on Institutionality comes from the regional survey for the update of the Virtual Platform for the follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, implemented by the technical secretariat in 2023, as well as from the country's Voluntary National Report submitted by the country in 2023.