Pursuant to the agreements adopted at the seventeenth and eighteenth meetings of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, held in October 2018 and March 2019, respectively, the Statistical Coordination Group for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean has been progressing with activities with a view to its objective of coordinating the preparation and implementation of regional indicators and capacity-building for this purpose, within the framework of follow-up to the Sustainable Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The second mandate, covering the period 2017–2019, of the member countries of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators and of the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came to an end during the first half of 2019.

Pursuant to the outcome of the eighteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, the regional representatives for the two-year period from 2019 to 2021 are:

Brazil, Colombia, Grenada, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago for the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators;

Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines for the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The Statistical Coordination Group for the 203 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean is composed of the regional representatives of these global bodies, so these new members will support the tasks to be carried out at the regional level, with two countries, Chile and Cuba, acting as observers and three regional bodies representing the data group of the inter-agency mechanism on sustainable development within the framework of the United Nations Development Group for Latin America and the Caribbean.