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

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 economic and social development of the countries of the region and an opportunity to review the progress of the Commission’s activities and oversee its work.…

International Seminar: The Sustainable Development Goals and Building Futures for Latin America and the Caribbean

The International seminar Sustainable Development Goals and Building Futures for Latin America and the Caribbean will be held on the upcoming 18th and 19th of May in the mornings at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The seminar proposes the creation of a space where to reflect on the challenges of the future construction raised by the Sustainable Development Goals. During this event, the Third Planning for Development Sessions will be held, where selected papers related to medium and long term institutional processes will be presented. Those papers have had or may have a practical app…

Course and Regional Forum on Risk Management, Climate, and Sustainability in Public Investment Projects in Honduras

Within the scope of the project, The Economics of Climate Change in Central America and the Dominican Republic, launched by ECLAC from 2015 to 2017, and as a result of the dialogue between the Executive Secretariat of the Council of Treasury or Finance Ministers of Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (SE-COSEFIN) and ECLAC, the Executive Secretary of COSEFIN gave a presentation in meeting VI of the project’s Regional Technical Committee (CTR), a series of regional efforts was proposed to strengthen capabilities and analysis to increase the resilience of public investments in th…

Third meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

The third meeting of the Negotiating Committee took place on 5 to 8 April 2016 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The purpose of this meeting was to resume negotiations on the substantive content of the regional agreement, using as a basis the second version of the text compiled by the Presiding Officers, which includes the language proposals sent by countries. …

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

The Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was held their fifty-third meeting from 26 to 28 January 2016 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago.…

Inter-regional Expert Group meeting «Public policies for equality and the Agenda 2030»

This Inter-regional Expert Group meeting is carried out in the framework of two United Nations Development Account projects aimed at promoting public policies oriented towards greater socio-economic equality and strengthening the capacities of countries to conceptualize, design and implement such policies: the 8th Tranche project “Time for Equality: Strengthening the Institutional Framework of Social Policies” and the 9th Tranche project “Promoting Equality: Strengthening the Capacity of Select Developing Countries to Design and Implement Equality-oriented Public Policies and Programmes”.…

Substantive seminar: The data revolution and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: challenges and opportunities for national statistical institutes

Side-event of Eighth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC. Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with the support of German Cooperation.…

Second meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Principle 10)

The second meeting of the Negotiating Committee will take place on 27 to 29 October 2015 in Panama City. The purpose of this meeting is to negotiate the substantive content of the regional instrument. The negotiations will focus on the preamble and articles 1 to 10 of the preliminary document prepared by ECLAC at the request of countries, using as a basis the text compiled by the Presiding Officers, which includes the language proposals sent by countries by 31 August 2015.…

Intersessional meeting (virtual) of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean (Principle 10)

First Meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean (Principle 10)

Sixteenth extraordinary session of the Committe of the Whole

The sixteenth extraordinary session of the Committee of the Whole has been convened by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) pursuant to resolution 694(PLEN.30), adopted at the thirtieth session of the Committee of the Whole, held in New York on 19 and 20 March 2015. The aim of the session is to consider the draft resolution entitled “Forum of the Countries of Latin American and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development”.…

Thirtieth session of the Committee of the Whole

The thirtieth session of the Committee of the Whole has been convened by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Peru, pursuant to resolution 687(XXXV), adopted by ECLAC. In resolution 687(XXXV), ECLAC “recognizes that the session of the Commission is an important forum for regional discussion for advancing the discussions on the regional vision with respect to the post-2015 development agenda and the sustainable development goals and requests the secretariat, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 67/290, to …

Latin American and Caribbean Regional Consultation on Financing for Development

During two days regional proposals were analyzed at ECLAC ahead of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which will take place in July in Addis Ababa.…

Fifty-first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean held their fifty-first meeting from 17 to 19 November 2014 in Santiago.…

Fourth Meeting of the Focal Points appointed by the Governments of the Signatory Countries of the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

According to the Plan of Action to 2014, adopted in Guadalajara in April 2013, the objective of the meeting is to advance towards the creation of a regional instrument for the full implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration, determining in particular definitions on the nature and content of the regional instrument.…

Regional workshop on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers

The workshop had as its objectives to disseminate and exchange practices and knowledge on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers of OECD countries in Latin American and Caribbean and to raise awareness and understanding of this tool as an instrument to favour efficient, informed and inclusive environmental management considering national and regional initiatives and processes under way.…

Seventh Meetings of the Workings groups created in the Plan of Action to 2014 (Groups 1 and 2)

Seventh Meetings of the Workings groups created in the Plan of Action to 2014 (Groups 1 and 2)…

Sixth Virtual Meeting of the Working group on capacity-building and cooperation, created in the Plan of Action to 2014 (Group 1)

Sixth Virtual Meeting of the Working group on capacity-building and cooperation, created in the Plan of Action to 2014 (Group 1)…

Sixth Meeting of the Working group on rights of access and regional instrument (Group 2)

The objective of the group is to deepen knowledge on access rights with the outlook of proposing the nature and contents of a regional instrument.…

Workshop on the Principle 10 and the regional process

Workshop jointly organized by ECLAC, the Government of Uruguay, CAInfo and GAIA.…