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17 Rooms Latin America: Final Report

September 6, 2023

Since 2022, Cepei has adapted the 17 Rooms initiative in Latin America, created by the Brookings Institution and the Rockefeller Foundation, aiming to move forward on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) accomplishment in the region. Actions that could be carried out in the short term were created through dialogue among all the different actors.

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17 Rooms-LA took place during the second half of 2022 and ended in early 2023. During that time, sixty participants from different countries and regional sectors collaborated to identify short- and medium-term actions towards achieving the SDGs. 

The analysis led Cepei to the conclusion that 17 Rooms-AL should prioritize the assimilation of the SDGs over their individual assessment. This laid the ground for the most important adjustment of the whole process; while keeping the 17 Rooms label and the attention on each goal as equally important, it was decided to bring participants together in four rooms focused on SDG subgroups. Three of them were single-minded around the three dimensions of sustainable development (social, economic, and environmental), and the fourth was centered on promoting enabling environments.

Principales hallazgos

For governments: It could be very useful to conduct a 17 Rooms-VNR aimed at defining multi-stakeholders concrete inputs during the preparation of national reviews on progress made on SDG implementation.

For UN Resident Coordinators: The process can facilitate the incorporation of the voices of non-governmental actors in their work, increasing the quality of their participation in national processes to promote sustainable development and facilitate the outreach of the UN development system to multiple national stakeholders.

For civil society, the private sector, and other non-governmental actors: The process provides a participatory and proven way to build a consensus at the national, subnational, and/or regional level on specific joint work priorities, fueling dialogue to identify shared problems and actions to address them.

Main Findings

For governments: It could be very useful to conduct a 17 Rooms-VNR aimed at defining multi-stakeholders concrete inputs during the preparation of national reviews on progress made on SDG implementation.

For UN Resident Coordinators: The process can facilitate the incorporation of the voices of non-governmental actors in their work, increasing the quality of their participation in national processes to promote sustainable development and facilitate the outreach of the UN development system to multiple national stakeholders.

For civil society, the private sector, and other non-governmental actors: The process provides a participatory and proven way to build a consensus at the national, subnational, and/or regional level on specific joint work priorities, fueling dialogue to identify shared problems and actions to address them.

About the author

Javier Surasky

Ph.D. in International Relations (La Plata National University, Argentina) Master in International Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action (International University of Andalucia). He has taught international cooperation courses at different postgraduate careers in Latin America and European universities.

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Javier Surasky

Ph.D. in International Relations (La Plata National University, Argentina) Master in International Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action (International University of Andalucia). He has taught international cooperation courses at different postgraduate careers in Latin America and European universities.

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