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Virtual Expert Group Meeting on Human Capital Formation in the Caribbean

11 November 2024, 07:00 - 09:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Labour productivity has been on a declining trend in the Caribbean. An examination of this trend revealed a growing concern of skills mismatch in the labour market. At the same time, youth unemployment is high in many countries, with young women and girls twice as likely not to be in education, employment or training. These are troubling signs for human capital formation at a time when Caribbean economies are experiencing low growth, and the global economy is becoming increasingly knowledge based.…

Side event "The Expansion of Social Registries to Advance the Implementation of Labour Inclusion Policies in the Face of a Reconfiguring Risk Structure"

1 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:30 | Event (Other events)

The side event will address the challenges for social registers to have up-to-date and timely information required to confront shocks, disasters and the impacts of the climate crisis, assuring access to universal social protection, specially, for population groups with higher levels of vulnerability. Special emphasis will be placed on information and indicators for social protection policies that foster labour inclusion strategies, thus ensuring the livelihoods of this group and strengthen their resilience strategies for future shocks. The event is organised in the framework of the ECLAC-BMZ/g…

Side event: launch of report "The cost of the double burden of malnutrition: main social and economic impacts in eight Latin American countries"

31 October 2024, 11:30 - 13:25 | Event (Other events)

Background In 2005, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) developed and applied the methodology for studying the Cost of Hunger with the aim of estimating the social and economic impact of malnutrition in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, and thereby informing governments and legislatures in LAC countries about the comprehensive impact of malnutrition on individuals, families and the economy of nations, in order to motivate public policies that allow for an effective response to this problem and guarantee the right to food of their pop…

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

31 October 2024, 06:00 - 15:30 | Event (Presiding officers)

The Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held in Bridgetown, Barbados, on October 31, 2024, in the framework of the XVI Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This meeting will bring together all the authorities from the Ministries or Secretariats of Social Development and their equivalents, and the outcomes will be recorded in a report that will be distributed to all member countries of ECLAC. The Presiding Officers el…

Education can’t wait: Enabling conditions and investment for a better future in Latin America and the Caribbean

24 September 2024, 13:00 - 15:00 | Event (Other events)

Be part of this event that brings together high authorities of the region to consolidate and mobilize a common position to ensure the enabling conditions and financing strategies that will allow for a sustainable transformation of public education, the achievement of the educational goals of the 2030 Agenda, and, with this, the advancement towards guaranteeing the human right to education for all.…

Virtual Training in Gender Statistics for Turks and Caicos Islands

17 - 18 September 2024 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The overall objective of this technical assistance is to improve the technical capacity of staff and management of the Department of Gender Affairs, the Department of Statistics, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Government of Turks and Caicos Islands to collect, analyze, utilize and disseminate sex-disaggregated data in accordance with international standards and best practices.…

Eighth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable

9 - 10 September 2024 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Confronting the challenges to resilient growth and sustainable development in the Caribbean: from dialogue to action post the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States…

“Social cohesion for inclusive social development in Latin America: monitoring, challenges and opportunities in an era of uncertainties"

27 June 2024, 10:30 - 12:00 | Event (Other events)

The central focus of the Fourth Regional Seminar on Social Development Social Protection and Inequality: Latin America and the Caribbean towards the Second World Summit for Social Development in 2025 is inequality. In this context, the objective of this parallel event is to open the discussion on the state of social cohesion in the region.…

Inequalities in early childhood: strategic and indispensable approaches to inclusive social development

26 June 2024, 09:40 - 11:30 | Event (Other events)

The event will bring together policymakers, experts, civil society representatives and international organizations to discuss the findings of the report “Confronting Inequality in Early Childhood - The footprints of the COVID-19 pandemic on new generations of children in Latin America and the Caribbean” and explore agendas and policies that will effectively mitigate the impacts of the pandemic and promote comprehensive early childhood development.…

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"

25 - 27 June 2024 | Event (Other events)

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

12 December 2023, 07:00 - 09:50 | Event (Other events)

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.…

The MonCom Seminar: Positioning the Caribbean in the knowledge economy: The role of data

1 - 2 November 2023 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

CDCC member countries and associate members will convene for the twenty-first meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee. This is preceded by the MonCom Seminar. This year's theme Positioning the Caribbean in the knowledge economy: The role of data…

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

3 - 5 October 2023 | Event (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)

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…

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