Report on the workshop to review progress in the preparation of the proposed indicators for regional monitoring of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development.

Mexico, in its capacity as Chair of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean and coordinator of the ad hoc working group for the preparation of a proposal on the indicators for regional follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, convened the Working Group to a workshop to review progress in the preparation of a proposal of indicators for the regional monitoring of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development. Along with the invitation, the Chair included a concept note prepared on the workshop, which indicated that its purpose was to review and discuss progress made on the preparation of a proposal on the indicators for regional follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development (see annex A1). It was also indicated that the outcomes of the workshop would be used as inputs for the technical secretariat to prepare the first draft of proposed indicators, which was to be completed by 11 July 2016.1 The concept note also described the preliminary proposal on the indicators for regional follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, which the Chair had requested ECLAC to prepare in order to facilitate and serve as an input for the work of the working group. That preliminary proposal was sent to the members of the working group on 7 April 2016, with the request that they convey any comments in writing by 25 May. The Chair also sent this document to a number of civil society organizations which had requested to join the working group and were admitted in accordance with the provisions on its composition set forth in resolution 1(II) adopted at the second session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, and consistently with these organizations’ participation in the working group. Lastly, the Chair’s concept note explained the organization of work, in which the members of the working group would take the lead in the discussion on the indicators included in each of the chapters of the preliminary proposal. The workshop was held in Mexico City on 8 and 9 June 2016 and was organized by the Government of Mexico through the National Council for Population, with the support of ECLAC (in its capacity as technical secretariat of the Conference) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).