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Policy Hackathon on Model Provisions for Trade in Times of Crisis and Pandemic in Regional and other Trade Agreements

7 June - 22 July 2020 | Event (Other events)

This Policy Hackathon is organized as part of a United Nations Initiative on Model Provisions for Trade in Times of Crisis and Pandemic in Regional and other Trade Agreements, in collaboration with ARTNeT, WTO, CUTS and other organizations from civil society, academia and the private sector. In support of “building back better” after COVID-19, this Policy Hackathon aims to gather relevant inputs from all interested stakeholders from government, academia, civil society and private sector to support the development of provisions that could be included in regional and other trade and/or…

Latin American and the Caribbean Youth Regional Dialogue towards the United Nations High Level Political Forum in the context of COVID-19

26 May 2020, 06:55 - 08:55 | Event (Other events)

Young people have a central role to play in contributing innovative solutions to generate the ambitious transformation established in the 2030 Agenda and face the current global context. This webinar seeks to carry out the contributions of the youth from the Caribbean towards the United Nations High Level Political Forum 2020, as part of the preparatory process.…

Virtual event "The role of climate action in the recovery from the COVID 19 crisis"

22 May 2020, 10:00 - 12:00 | Event (Other events)

The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a complex scenario that demands a debate about the urge for accelerating job creation and economic growth strategies that help to alleviate the social impact of the crisis caused by the pandemic. However, an economic recovery, with the same environmental effects as the ones before the pandemic, would lead to deepening the climate crisis with long-term impacts. Based on this scenario, the Executive Secretary of ECLAC invites you to participate in the event "The role of climate action in the COVID 19 crisis recovery" to inform and analy…

Initiative on Model Provisions for Trade in Times of Crisis and Pandemic in Regional and other Trade Agreements

12 May 2020 | Event (Other events)

Following the raft of ad-hoc trade measures taken by countries in response to the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations ESCAP secretariat conducted a rapid review of bilateral and regional trade agreement (RTA) texts to see if they provided any guidance on what partners should do to ensure minimal disruption to trade and supply chains in such crises. As expected, RTAs include clauses in order to permit exception to the agreements in time of emergencies; but for the most part they do not feature provisions that could help deal with trade disruption in emergency or crisis situations. To address th…

Briefing of Ministers and High-Level Authorities of Machineries for the Advancement of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: The response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis from a gender perspective

8 April 2020, 07:00 - 15:00 | Event (Presiding officers)

In Latin America and the Caribbean, ministries and machineries for the advancement of women are designing and implementing initiatives and policies to address the gender dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Contingency plans and protocols are being implemented in several countries, aiming to cope with the saturation of health systems and social lockdown/isolation. At the meeting, an initial mapping will be presented of the initiatives announced to address gender dimensions in the responses to the pandemic in the Latin American and Caribbean countries. This mapping will be updated with the prog…

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