Caribbean Forum on Population, Youth and Development

The Caribbean forum will contribute to creating synergies between youth policies and broader development frameworks, including the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, the SAMOA Pathway, the SDGs as well as sectoral plans at national level. It will give young people an opportunity to engage directly with public policy making and put youth perspectives at the centre of the social policy dialogue. Meeting participants will identify actions to ensure greater attention to youth issues, and youth participation, in sectoral policies and international development frameworks.…

Ninth ECLAC Seminar on Trade and Sustainability: International trade as a driver for sustainable development

This seminar will present a broad vision of the relationship between international trade and sustainable development, identifying those aspects in which the exchange of goods and services can complement the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The links will be reviewed considering the current state of compliance with the SDGs in Latin America, emphasizing both regulatory aspects, such as trade agreements, and business practices, particularly private sustainability standards. The way in which environmental and social sustainability is supported in global value chains and ho…

Side Event: Environmental democracy for sustainable societies

Organized by UN ECLAC in collaboration with Chile, Costa Rica, France, Italy, UN-ECE, UN ENVIRONMENT, and The Access Initiative in the margins of the 2018 High Level Political Forum of the United Nations July 11, 2018 (6:30pm – 8 pm) ECOSOC Chamber in the UN Conference Building, United Nations Headquarters, NY…

Fifth Meeting of the Council of Ministers on Environmental Sustainability of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

Regional workshop on legal frameworks for the production of official statistics

This meeting between the National Statistics Offices (NSOs) of Latin America and the Caribbean is proposed as a space for reflection and discussion about the state of the National Statistical Systems (NSS) of the region and the main challenges of the institutional framework and its legal frameworks, based on the exchange of experiences, processes and activities on statistical laws.…

Inter-regional Expert Group Meeting "Placing equality at the centre of the 2030 Agenda"

Inter-regional Expert Group Meeting "Placing equality at the centre of the 2030 Agenda"

Understanding and addressing inequality in all its forms is necessary to promote the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure that “no one is left behind” in the development process. However, many challenges still exist to foster knowledge on the multiple dimensions of inequality, improve its measurement and strengthen the design of public policies for equality and that consider a rights-based approach. This Inter-regional Expert Group Meeting marks the closing of the 9th Tranche United Nations Development Account project “Promoting Equality: Strengthening the Capacity of…

Workshop: Use of the Subregional Mercosur and South American Input Output Tables

The workshop is structured in four blocks. Throughout the three days, the fundamentals of input-output analysis will be explained, and the calculation of indicators related to value chains, integration and value added will be demonstrated to enable participants to conduct economic analyses based on input output tables. The computational programs used will be Excel and Stata. The workshop will be held at the Central Bank of Paraguay with the participation of officials of the MERCOSUR Secretariat and various public entities of Paraguay, including the Central Bank of Paraguay, Ministry …

Seminar: Analysis of Value Chains from the Mercosur Subregional Input Output Table

This seminar presented the methodology followed to assemble the 2005 Subregional South American Input Output Table (IOT), and the MERCOSUR Subregional IOT, 2005 and 2011 versions, as well as that of each corresponding national IOT. Likewise, ECLAC presented a set of results obtained from the MERCOSUR Subregional IOT, as well as methodological details that allow for the use of the South American and MERCOSUR IOTs as tools for economic analysis. The seminar was held at the Central Bank of Paraguay with the participation of officials of the MERCOSUR Secretariat and various public entiti…

XXVII Meeting of the Special Committee on Transport

The XXVI Meeting of the Special Committee for Transport of the ACS was held on June 14th, 2018 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Meeting was Chaired by Panama, Chair of the Committee for the period 2018-2019 with the presence of the Dra. June Soomer, General Secretary of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) an organization for consultation, cooperation and concerted action in trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters in the Greater Caribbean. The meeting was attended by ambassadors and officials of the embassies of the following countries: Antigua & Barbuda…

First meeting of the Statistical Coordination Group for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

On June 11 and 12, 2018, the first meeting of the Statistical Coordination Group for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The objective of this meeting is to move forward in the definition of a consensual version of a regional framework of SDG indicators based on the proposal presented by ECLAC at the Ninth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, held in Aguascalientes, Mexico in November 2017. See Note of the meeting…

Regional-Global TiVA Initiatives Workshop

Recent years have seen a significant take-up in international efforts to develop measures of Trade in Value Added, driven by growing demands for better, more comprehensive and more timely data on global value chains, their drivers and impacts. Examples of initiatives include OECD-WTO TiVA, Eurostat’s FIGARO, North American TiVA, APEC TIVA, WIOD, regional IO tables for Latin America coordinated by CEPAL, and many others. Bringing together all these TiVA initiatives, the second Regional-Global TiVA Workshop that took place on 7-8 June in Paris aimed to further develop and operationalise common …

Expert meeting on agricultural insurance and comprehensive risk management in the SICA region

The expert meeting on agricultural insurance and comprehensive risk management in Central America and the Dominican Republic was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on June 5 and 6, 2018. The meeting aimed to analyze the current status of pre-requisites for the development and/or strengthening of traditional and parametric agricultural insurance in the countries; deepen the progress and lessons learned on agricultural insurance products indexed at the national, regional and international levels aimed at micro and small producers; and validate strategic lines for the development and stren…

The role of the entrepreneur in Latin American Integration

The Secretariat of the Andean Community (CAN) in coordination with the Chamber of Commerce of Lima is organizing the International Seminar: "The Role of the Entrepreneur in Latin American Integration" whose final objective is to open a space for entrepreneurs to express their concerns and proposals on regional integration. The event will cover topics such as the improvement of the Free Trade Zone from the business perspective; the facilitation of trade in customs matters; the elimination of non-tariff barriers in intra-CAN trade; and the advances and opportunities in land transport and th…

Committee on South-South Cooperation on the occasion of the Thirty-seventh session of ECLAC

Annual Seminar on National Accounts for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2018: Regional Implementation of the 2008 SNA and its relationship with other systems

Organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Lan America and the Caribbean and National Institute of Statistics and Census of Panama (INEC)…

Second Technical Meeting of the International Comparison Program (ICP)

Organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and CARICOM…

Redatam workshop: Census data analysis and processing for the creation of sociodemographic indicators using Redatam

Emphasis will be made to the processing and analysis of information from population and housing censuses and household surveys with priority in the generation of indicators in the following areas: education vulnerability, estimation on habitat deficit, specification of target groups (third age, adolescents, indigenous population) and their socio-demographic characteristics, migration and UBN estimation. Redatam7 will be used. Date: From May 7th to 11th, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Place: The course will take place at ECLAC headquarters, CELADE-Population Division, Santiago, Chile. The co…

Thirty-seventh session of ECLAC

El período de sesiones es la reunión bienal más importante de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL). Ofrece un foro que permite analizar temas relevantes para el desarrollo de los países de la región y examinar la marcha de las actividades de la Comisión.…

Seminar-Workshop: Promoting the internationalization of women-led businesses

The seminar-workshop "Promoting the internationalization of women-led businesses", orgnized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), PROMPERU and the Ministry of the Woman and Vulnerable Populations of Peru, included presentations and discussions around the economic autonomy of women and the promotion of businesses led by women and their exports, among other themes. The one day seminar-workshop was designed to support the internationalization of female enterprise through the identification of opportunities and challenges in entering the i…