THE OECD AND BRAZIL
Leading OECD work with Latin America and the Caribbean Launched at the OECD’s 2016 Ministerial Council Meeting, the OECD Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Programme (LACRP) aims to support LAC countries advance their reform agenda through four key priorities: increasing productivity, advancing social inclusion, and strengthening institutions and governance, while ensuring Environmental Sustainability. LACRP activities bring and adapt the OECD comparable statistics, policy dialogue, policy assessment, and policy advice to the region, thereby facilitating the broader participation of LAC countries in OECD work and their access to OECD expertise. The LACRP responds to the region’s growing interest for better policies and structural reforms to ensure a strong, inclusive and sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2019, Brazil has co-chaired the LACRP, together with Mexico, and lead the discussions of the Steering Group to provide strategic guidance to Programme activities. It consists of OECD members, the European Union, 11 nonOECD LAC countries1 and ten International Organisations2. Brazil also participates in a number of LACRP activities, including the OECD LAC Regional Policy Networks related to competition, corporate governance, state-owned enterprises, fiscal affairs, regulation, investment, open government, budgeting, migration and development. On 23-24 June 2022, the 2022 Ministerial Summit on Productivity will take place in Brasilia, Brazil, closing the 2019-2022 cycle and opening the 2022-2025 cycle. The event will discuss how the pandemic has significantly affected Global Value Chains with an important reconfiguration of trade patterns and discuss how to optimise the strength
and quality of recovery in the region by focusing on the human side of productivity and ways in which to promote a sustainable integration in the international economy. It will gather senior officials from OECD and LAC countries, International Organisations, private sector and civil society representatives, to discuss strategies and actions to boost a productive, human-centred and sustainable integration of the LAC region into the world economy in the aftermath of COVID-19. “I would like to highlight the role of Brazil as Co-Chair, alongside Mexico, of the OECDLAC Regional Programme. Thanks to this collaboration, we have witnessed how Brazil has not only committed to domestic reform but also to disseminate OECD standards across the region.” Sybel Galván Gómez, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OECD
“Since its request for accession, Brazil has intensified its participation in the OECD, in line with its Key Participant Status. We have been present in basically all Committee level meetings, raised the status and substance of participation in different OECD bodies, becoming, for instance, an “associate” in the Competition Policy Committee. We have now adhered to around 40% of OECD “acquis” on the basis of a careful internal coordination work. Time to move!” Carlos Marcio Cozendey, Ambassador of Brazil to the OECD
1. As established in C(2016)1/FINAL, the LACRP Steering Group is open to representatives from LAC partner countries preferably, but not limited to, those already members of the OECD Development Centre. Non-OECD LAC Members of the Development Centre are Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. Honduras, not being a member of DEV, requested through a letter and was accepted as member of the Steering Group. 2. ECLAC, World Bank, ILO, IADB, SEGIB, SELA, CAF, OAS, EU-LAC Foundation, FLACSO THE OECD AND BRAZIL . 11
