Ninth Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Aldo Ferrer entitled: "Development and Globalization: Prebisch's Approach Today"

Ninth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

The ninth meeting of the Executive Committee will be concerned with follow-up to the implementation of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities, 2009- 2011, resolution 6 (V) adopted by the Statistical Conference of the Americas at its fifth meeting. In particular, at its ninth meeting, the Executive Committee will have a mandate to review and approve the programmes of work of the working groups for the period 2010-2011. It will also have the opportunity to review forthcoming goals and tasks related to major international statistical cooperation activities, su…

Twenty-third session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Expert Group Meeting on knowledge management for development: towards a practical approach for the Caribbean

The aims of the meeting were to increase awareness of knowledge management as a tool for development, and advance discussions towards a practical knowledge management approach for the Caribbean subregion. It offered participating countries and institutions the opportunity to share their views on: (a) A background document prepared as the basis for deliberations by ECLAC (b) The role of indigenous knowledge in participatory approaches for sustainable development (c) Country and institutional experiences on knowledge management for development (d) The challenges and way forward towards a knowled…

Fourteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development And Cooperation Committee

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean convened the fourteenth Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) at its headquarters in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 8 September 2007. The meeting was attended by representatives of the following CDCC member countries: Belize, Cuba, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. The participating associate member was the United States Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands attended in an observer capa…

Substantive issues: Seminar on the 2010 census round

Esta reuni'on se realiza bajo el marco de la Quinta reunión de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la CEPAL…

Seminar on the development of national statistical systems: recent experiences, learning and assessment

This meeting is held under the framework of the Fifth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC…

Fifth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

Forty-third meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and Caribbean

The meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was held in Trinidad and Tobago by the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs. At this, their forty-third meeting, the Presiding Officers examined the main challenges identified by member countries as part of the preparatory process for the eleventh session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, scheduled to be held in Brasilia in 2010. The member countries and observers attending the meeting also had the opportunity to take stock …

VIII Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Fernando Savater Martín entitled: "A Historical Look at ECLAC in its Era"

Twenty-fifth session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC

The Twenty-fifth session of the Committee of the Whole was held 9 February 2009 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City (ECOSOC Chamber). This Ad Hoc Committee allowed governments of its member states to meet between the official sessions of the Commission. On this occasion, ECLAC Member States considered the following topics: Outlook and prospects for Latin America and Caribbean in light of the crisis of 2008-2009 Priority tasks for ECLAC in providing support to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean during the crisis This meeting was headed by ECLAC Exec…

First Training Course on Information Society Measurement in the Caribbean

The First Training Course on Information Society Measurement in the Caribbean workshop is organized by the United Nations Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), as part of the activities of its project Observatory for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (OSILAC), under the framework of the actions of the Statistical Conference of the Americas and the Partnership on Measuring ICT for development, particularly with the support of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), who will d…

Seminar-Workshop "2010 Census Round: the internal, international migration and other patterns of territorial mobility"

The general objectives are to update the situation regarding the measurement of internal, international migration and everyday mobility based on recent censuses and present recommendations for the next censuses round.…

Forty-second meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The opening session of the forty-second meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean has been held with the participation of authorities of national machineries for the advancement of women from 15 countries in the region and representatives of 10 international agencies.…

Regional Workshop: "Census Cartography in Latin America for the 2010 census round"

The general objective is to interchange and share experiences, methodologies, procedures, needs and difficulties in the process of cartographic updating and make recommendations for the next 2010 census round.…

Seminar-workshop "The 2010 Census and the Inclusion of an Ethnic Approach"

The general objective is to contribute to the inclusion of the ethnic approach in the 2010 census round processes through the participation of afro descendants and indigenous peoples. The specific objectives are to update the situation concerning the way countries of the region have included the identification of ethnic groups in population and housing censuses, to strengthen the participation and the inter-cultural dialogue in the census process, to establish agreements concerning the conceptual and operational aspects of the ethnic group identification criteria, to encourage a regional work …

Eighth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

At its eighth meeting, the Executive Committee will decide on the provisional agenda, the place and date of the fifth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC and the substantive issues to be discussed. The Executive Committee will have before it for discussion the proposed areas of work for the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities, 2009-2011. The Executive Committee also intends to hold a meeting with international bodies that carry out statistical activities in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a view to discussing and adopting mea…

Meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Population and Development of the thirty-second session of ECLAC

Event held under the framework of the thirty-second session of ECLAC…

Thirty-second session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The thirty-second session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 9 to 13 June 2008. By resolution 631(XXXI), adopted at the thirty-first session of ECLAC (Montevideo, Uruguay, 20-24 March 2006), member States agreed that Santo Domingo would be the host city of the meeting. The session is the most important event of each biennium for ECLAC. It provides a forum for the consideration of issues of importance for the development of the countries of the region and an opportunity to review the activities of the Commi…

Committee on South-South Cooperation on the occasion of the thirty-second session of ECLAC

The thirty-second session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 9 to 13 June 2008. By a resolution adopted at the thirty-first session (Montevideo, Uruguay, 20-24 March 2006) and subsequently approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolution 2006/40, the member States accepted the offer extended by the Dominican Republic to host the session. The meeting was held in accordance with the ECLAC calendar of conferences for the period 2006-2008. The session is the most important event of each biennium fo…