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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…

International Seminar "Inequalities in access to health: the centrality of Primary Health Care to advance towards universal health"

19 July 2023, 05:00 - 12:30 | Event (Other events)

The objective of this event, that will be held in a hybrid format, is to delve into the main obstacles and barriers that the population faces in access, as well as the Primary Health Care (PHC) strategy as a tool to achieve universal health, providing an opportunity to reflect with authorities and/or specialists from each country on the main challenges their health systems face in terms of universality and the lessons learned from systems with a consolidated strategy.…

Third Regional Seminar on Social Development "Promoting labour inclusion as a way to overcome inequalities and informality in Latin America and the Caribbean"

27 - 29 June 2023 | Event (Other events)

The objective of this third Regional Seminar on Social Development, which will be held in a hybrid format, is to reflect on the promotion of labour inclusion policies that allow progress towards the reduction of gaps with experts from the United Nations and multilateral organizations, academics, and labour policy decision-makers in the region. In addition, we hope to provide a space to discuss and share strategies and innovations proposed in the field of labour policies as integral parts of the transformative recovery with equality and sustainability in the region and to highlight successful e…

Sixth meeting - Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development - 2023

25 - 28 April 2023 | Event (Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development)

At the thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), held in Mexico City from 23 to 27 May 2016, the member States adopted resolution 700 (XXXVI), Mexico Resolution, which established the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development as a regional mechanism to follow up and review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its means of implementation, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The Economic and So…

Roundtable "Opportunities to move towards universal social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: the role of interregional dialogue"

14 March 2023, 07:00 - 09:30 | Event (Other events)

This online event is organized under the framework of two projects: “Social protection and vulnerability: universal social protection systems in Latin America” of the Facility for Development in Transition, financed by the European Union, and the ECLAC-BMZ/giz project “Transformative Reactivation: Overcoming the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean”. This event also contributes to the preparative works of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean to be held next October. Simultaneous interpretation spanish-english-spanish w…

Addressing coordination and data sharing challenges for better environment, climate change and disaster indicators

22 - 24 November 2022 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Statistics Division and the Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in collaboration with United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission, have been working together over the past year and a half at the country level to strengthen institutional and statistical capacities of selected Caribbean countries to better produce, disseminate and use environment, climate change and disaster indicators. Wo…

Expert Group Meeting: The importance of time-use surveys in guiding social policies

3 November 2022, 06:30 - 08:30 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean will convene a virtual expert group meeting on Thursday 3rd November 2022 to examine the importance of time-use surveys in guiding social policies.…

Social Policies Webinar n°1 "Education in times of pandemic. An opportunity to transform education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean"

27 October 2022, 08:00 - 09:20 | Event (Other events)

The Social Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) invites you to the launch of the document Education in times of pandemic. An opportunity to transform education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean . This publication proposes some measures aimed at transforming education systems by restructuring them to be resilient and inclusive and to integrate the learning from the pandemic.…

Second Regional Seminar on Social Development: "Social Security and the Protracted Crisis: An Opportunity to Combat Inequality in the Framework of a Welfare State in Latin America and the Caribbean"

30 August - 1 September 2022 | Event (Other events)

In the framework of collaboration with ILO and PAHO, and joint work with the German Cooperation and the European Union's Development Facility in Transition, ECLAC is organizing the Second Regional Seminar on Social Development, which this year aims to provide a space for dialogue and reflection on social security systems in the region. The seminar will focus on diagnoses, challenges and strategic orientations for reform and restructuring in pension and health systems in an uncertain context of recovery and the need to consolidate full guarantees for the exercise of social rights in the co…

International seminar Haiti: The challenges of implementing the National Policy for Social Protection and Promotion (PNPPS) in the light of Latin America and the Caribbean experiences

21 - 22 June 2022 | Event (Other events)

This event, which will be held in a hybrid format, will present the main axes of the National Policy for Social Promotion in Haiti and will analyze the challenges of its implementation in a context of exchange between Haitian officials, program operators in Haiti and experts and officials from Latin American and Caribbean countries.…

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