The Regional Meeting is organized by the Secretariat of the Agricultural Council Central American (SECAC) and PROCASUR with the support from the International Agriculture Development Fund (FIDA) and the Ministry of Agricultural Development of the Republic of Panama, in the Project framework: Young Leaders of Territorial Rural Development in the SICA region.

The purpose of the Meeting is to dialogue and agree on action measures within the strategic framework 2022-2230, to promote the inclusion of rural youth according to conditions and specific priorities of the countries of the region, with a view to achieving development programmes more relevant, inclusive and sustainable rural and territorial for rural youth, leaving no one behind.

The Regional Meeting will combine sessions of discussion on different related topics and field visits and exchange of experiences with outstanding experiences of rural youth supported by the Ministry of Agricultural Development of Panama (MIDA).

The results and recommendations of the Regional Meeting will feed the Strategy of Rural Youth for the SICA Region (2022-2030) and will contribute to the definition and adequacy of the lines of action, in link with learnings and national initiatives of rural development, in force at national level and which are supposed to be transversal to the way in which aims to expand and strengthen the transformative role of rural youth in development of the agricultural, rural and territorial sector in the countries of the SICA region.