Seminar "Challenges in moving towards universal health in Chile: the role of Primary Health Care (PHC) and financial sustainability"

This seminar aims to discuss and reflect on the lessons learned and challenges faced in advancing towards universal health in Chile. It will focus on the centrality of the PHC strategy, and the challenges associated with financing the necessary reforms to the current health system.…

Fourth Regional Seminar on Social Development "Social Protection and Inequality: Latin America and the Caribbean towards the Second World Summit for Social Development of 2025"

The objective of this seminar, organized by the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is to promote reflection and dialogue to advance in the recognition, analysis of the characteristics and dimensioning of social inequality in the region. Therefore, it seeks to strengthen the design of public policies that allow progress in inclusive social development and thus progress in meeting the goals agreed by the countries in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.…

Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Launch PISA 2022

The objective of this hybrid event is to disseminate the results of the OECD's 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and promote their use to address the challenges that countries in the region face in relation to learning outcomes and to promote actions for an educational transformation to move towards inclusive and quality education.…

From Mining to the Electric Mobility Industry in Latin America: The Role of Parliaments in Seizing Opportunities and Addressing Challenges

The in-person event will take place at the Chile Pavilion located in the Blue Zone of COP 28, the specifics are: Chile Pavilion, Building 71, Zone B6, Opportunity Petal, COP28 Blue Zone. (3:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Dubai Local time, GMT+4)…

Promoting sustainable and inclusive development: Just transition perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean

The in-person event will take place at Parliamentary Pavilion (GLOBE International) - COP28, Blue Zone Building 88, Zone B7 / second floor (17:00-19:00pm, Dubai local time, GMT+4)…

The leading role of Latin American and Caribbean parliamentarians in building a new green and inclusive development model

Side Event of the OPCC at the Pavilion of Brazil at COP 28 (18:00-19:00pm, Dubai local time, GMT+4)…

Fifth session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Fifth session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean of ECLAC and the XV Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean of UNDP, will be held in person from 3 to 5 October 2023 at the headquarters of ECLAC in Santiago. The civil society will meet on 2 October, prior to the start of the official activities. Official activities of the meeting will include five panel discussions to address relevant issues in the field of social institutions identified as priorities in the document Institutional frameworks for social poli…

Parliamentary Summit on Climate Change and Just Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition (OPCC, from its acronym in Spanish) is an initiative carried out jointly by parliamentary leaders from various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), with the aim of constituting a shared information tool on the state of environmental legislation and parliamentary treatment in the region. The Summit represents an opportunity for dialogue among legislators from LAC with the objective to strengthen climate ambition in the region. The main objectives of the Summit include: Presentation of a joint statement that exp…

Parliamentary Summit on Climate Change and Just Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition (OPCC, from its acronym in Spanish) is an initiative carried out jointly by parliamentary leaders from various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), with the aim of constituting a shared information tool on the state of environmental legislation and parliamentary treatment in the region. The Summit represents an opportunity for dialogue among legislators from LAC with the objective to strengthen climate ambition in the region. The main objectives of the Summit include: Presentation o…

Climate Change Assessment Reports: Implications for a Just Transition in Latin America

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) of the United Nations, the Presidency of the Commission on Land and Territory, Natural Resources and the Environment of the Senate of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (CMA Bolivia) and the Presidency of the Commission on Environment of the Federal Senate of Brazil (CMA Brazil) hold the virtual event "Climate Change Assessment Reports: Implications for a Just Transition in Latin America", which will take place on 7 July from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Santiago de Chile time) in totally virtual format. The event takes place within th…

The IP Offices of the XXI Century and their Role in Promoting the Commercialization of Green Technologies

The workshop takes place within the scope of the project “Building a national and regional strategy for the development and adoption of sustainable technologies”, led by the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) in Brazil and implemented by the Economic Commission for America Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL) with support of the European Union through Euroclima+. In addition, the workshop builds on a series of actions that are in course in the context of a fruitful network coordinated by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Green in partnership with representa…

Workshop "Social policy tools and analysis of inequalities to confront the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and challenges for building universal, comprehensive and sustainable social protection systems"

This virtual workshop aims at contributing to capacity strengthening in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the development of social protection policies, within the framework of universal, comprehensive, and sustainable social protection systems that are sensitive to differences.…

Just transition: strategies for a sustainable recovery

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, or CEPAL for the acronym in Spanish and Portuguese) and the Environment Commission of the Brazilian Federal Senate co-organize the High-Level (online) Seminar “Just Transition: Strategies for a Sustainable Recovery” on Wednesday (30 June) from 11h to 12h30 (GMT-3). The seminar takes place within the context of the celebrations of the Month of the Environment “Green June” to discuss the relevance of environmental justice in the design of sustainable recovery strategies and policies. The unfolding of the COVID-19 …

Third Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Third Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean will be held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago on April 23, 2019, in the framework of the Third Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development. The Presiding Officers elected at the Second Regional Conference on Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Montevideo in October 2017, is constituted by Chair, Uruguay, and Vice-Chai…

Second meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Second Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean will be held in Panama City, within the framework of the Tenth Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Countries will analyze progress made towards the current mandate regarding the construction of a Regional Agenda for Inclusive Social Development. The results of the Second Meeting of the Presiding Officers will be documented in a report and will be distributed to all ECLAC member countries. Also, the presentation of the Observatory of …

First meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

ECLAC’s first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean was carried out jointly with the VIII Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean and was co-organized by the UNDP Regional Office for Latin America, the Vice-presidency of the Dominican Republic and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)…

Symposium on the Promotion of an inclusive and accountable public administration for sustainable development

Organized by the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia together with the Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)…

Intersessional meeting (virtual) of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean (Principle 10)

Latin American and Caribbean Regional Consultation on Financing for Development

During two days regional proposals were analyzed at ECLAC ahead of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which will take place in July in Addis Ababa.…

XIII Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Rolando Cordera, mexican professor of economics, entitled " Development yesterday and today: idea and utopia"