The Central American and Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting is part of a process that ensures regional priorities are integrated into the action program of an EWI-led global conference on preventive action envisaged for late 2010. EWI, in partnership with the UNDP, will bring together the defense, development, and diplomacy communities, along with parliamentarians and civil society from the Central American and Caribbean Region, to find concrete recommendations that strengthen the role of regional organizations for preventive action.