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Side Event Presentation of the document “Education and the development of digital competences in Latin America and the Caribbean”

24 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Digital transformation is increasingly modifying people's daily lives and their opportunities in the productive, social and cultural world (Velázquez, Martínez and Palma, 2020). Artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, cloud data and platforms are among these digital technologies (Palma 2024), and their potential impacts are still being determined. Recent labour market analyses show the transformation and creation of new occupations, mainly related to the rise of the technology industry and information management tasks, as well as the elimination of certain types of jobs due to automatio…

Side Event "Side Event "Laying the Foundations for a Regional Proposal on the Multidimensional Measurement of Social Inequality”

24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most unequal regions in the world, not only in terms of income but also across multiple dimensions of well-being, such as education, health, employment, housing, and access to basic services. These inequalities tend to accumulate and reinforce each other, disproportionately affecting historically excluded groups such as women, indigenous peoples, people of African descent, and rural populations. ECLAC has conceptualised this reality through the 'matrix of social inequality', which highlights how different dimensions of well-being interact with stru…

Fifth Regional Seminar on Social Development

24 - 26 June 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

BACKGROUND Since the 1995 World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen, the global agenda on social development has advanced significantly, not only on a deeper understanding of challenges such as well-being, poverty, inequality, and discrimination, but also on a growing emphasis on upholding economic, social, and cultural rights. Within this evolving framework, the changes, ambition and commitment of countries have been notable. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Regional Agenda for Inclusive Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean stand as compelling exampl…

XXXVII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy

26 - 28 May 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The XXXVII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy is organized by the Executive Secretary of theEconomic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) through the EconomicDevelopment Division. It is sponsored by the Spanish Agency for International DevelopmentCooperation (AECID) and supported by the IDB Group, the Organization for Economic Cooperationand Development (OECD), the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).…

Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Antigua and Barbuda

26 - 30 May 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…

Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Grenada

19 - 23 May 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…

National training course in project proposal preparation and effective project implementation

19 - 23 May 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The overall objective of the training course is to strengthen the skills level of executives, senior management, and technical staff of the Government of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in project proposal preparation and effective project implementation. The course will enhance organizational capacity in project proposal development and implementation, ensuring effective and efficient project delivery with the ultimate purpose of improving the skills and processes of project proposal preparation and implementation within organizations, leading to higher project success …

Accelerator Session at the World Circular Economy Forum 2025

15 May 2025, 09:00 - 12:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The event "Measuring progress and promoting circularity through public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean" is organized by ECLAC, UNOSD, UN-DESA and IDB/BID Invest, with support of K-eco and the German Cooperation.…

Measuring what we waste - regional strategies and diagnostic tools for waste management and resource circularity in Latin America and the Caribbean

14 May 2025, 00:00 - 23:59 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This one-day session will convene national government representatives on waste and circular economy to improve national data collection, compare data quality challenges and discuss current certainty levels of regional data on waste and resource circularity. The session will provide an open discussion platform to assess national capacity gaps and needs on waste and resource circularity. The closed-door session will also provide a platform to define technical cooperation priorities with regional Member States towards developing a roadmap and future cooperation activ…

Regional Blue Talk: Latin America and the Caribbean On the Road to the Third United Nations Ocean Conference 2025 - Virtual Event

13 May 2025, 10:00 - 14:00 | Event (Other events)

The Regional Blue Talk is a preparatory dialogue space for the UNOC3, where experts, government representatives, and key stakeholders can identify regional and subregional priorities, specificities, and challenges, share experiences, and formulate recommendations that contribute to building a shared regional perspective.…

National capacity building workshops in cost benefit analysis

12 - 14 May 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The overall objective of the training is to strengthen the skills level of policymakers and technical officers of the Government of Grenada in cost-benefit analysis which will enhance their ability to design and implement data-informed policies and strategies for accelerating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and building a resilient economy.…

ECLAC-OECD Workshop Women in trade in Latin America and the Caribbean: Data availability and methodologies

8 May 2025, 09:00 - 17:30 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Women and men are affected differently by international trade and trade policies due to gender gaps, including disparities in participation in paid employment and entrepreneurship. To identify and estimate these differences, it is necessary to collect data that are disaggregated by gender. Specifically, gender-differentiated data is essential for analysing women’s participation in trade and is a key input into better, more granular policymaking. In recent years, there has been an international impetus to enhance data collection related to engagement in the trade of sub-groups within soci…

National capacity building workshops in statistical analysis

5 - 9 May 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The overall objective of the training is to strengthen the skills level of policymakers and technical officers of the Government of Grenada in statistical analysis which will enhance their ability to design and implement data-informed policies and strategies for accelerating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and building a resilient economy.…

Sixth meeting of the Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance

22 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 | Event (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)

The sixth meeting of the Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance will be held virtually on 22 April 2025, between 4:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Santiago, Chile time. The session is open to the public upon registration in Zoom. For more information, please visit the Sessions section of the Implementation and Compliance Support Committee website. …

International Seminar "Challenges of social registers and forms of payment of social protection programs in Haiti: opportunities to strengthen the capacities of MAST and SIMAST"

22 - 23 April 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Participate in this event that aims to contribute to this capacity-building by offering a space for exchange, learning, and technical capacity enhancement for MAST officials, its autonomous bodies, and state institutions involved in implementing the PNPPS. …

Caribbean Regional Breakout Session at the ECOSOC Youth Forum

16 April 2025, 11:30 - 13:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Caribbean Regional Breakout Session will provide a space to present the results of the youth regional preparatory consultations and local dialogues in the framework of the 14th ECOSOC Youth Forum and the 8th Forum of LAC Countries on Sustainable Development, providing an opportunity to promote and strengthen the dialogue with Member States and UN agencies, for a meaningful and inclusive children, youth and adolescent (CYA) participation in the acceleration of action towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.…

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