Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Caribbean Countries Call for Implementing Urgent Solutions to Support Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond
Alicia Bárcena Calls for Forging a Political, Social and Economic Compact, and a Fair, Inclusive and Progressive Social Contract
Authorities Recognize the Role of Official Statistics in the Development of Public Policies for Mitigating the Effects of COVID-19 and for the Post-Pandemic Reactivation
ECLAC Proposes Ensuring and Universalizing Connectivity and the Affordability of Digital Technologies to Tackle the Effects of COVID-19

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foto de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL.

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Alicia Bárcena: Latin America and the Caribbean’s Post-Pandemic Recovery Will Be Feminist, or It Will Not Be At All

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary participated in the fourth International Workshop on Women who Do and Inspire (Beijing+25), organized by Fundación Global of Argentina.

Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC's Executive Secretary, during her presentation.

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Geospatial Information is Essential for Managing the Response to the Pandemic Because it Allows Vulnerability to be Determined Using a Disaggregated View of the Territory

Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, gave a keynote address in the framework of the 7th Session of the UN-GGIM: Americas, where she stressed the importance of integrating statistical and geospatial information in the region.

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ECLAC and UNESCO Publish a Document Analyzing the Challenges for Education Engendered by the Pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean

The United Nations organizations launch a report revealing the consequences and measures taken by educational systems in the region in the face of the COVID-19 crisis while offering recommendations for managing the impact, outlining opportunities for learning and innovation.

Meeting of Finance Ministries of LAC (August 20)

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Finance Authorities Dialogued with ECLAC about Fiscal Policy Challenges in Mitigation of the Pandemic and the Subsequent Economic Reactivation

Ministers, Deputy Ministers and other high-level officials from 15 Latin American countries held a meeting with the Commission’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena.

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