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Conference on International Trade and Gender Equality

17 - 19 Nov 2020 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Division of International Trade and Integration, and the Division of Gender Affairs of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in collaboration with public and development aid organizations, will organize three sessions to present different approaches on the link between international trade, gender gaps and the economic autonomy of women, as well as trade policies that can contribute to gender equality. Nov 17, 18 and 19 2020…

12 Nov 2020 - Financing in the face of the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19

12 Nov 2020 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This community of practice is an informal space for exchange among peers and sharing of good practices with regards to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in general and the Voluntary National Review (VNR) in particular. It also aims to provide a regular space for countries to communicate with regards to VNRs preparations. PARTICIPANTS TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO SESSION GOALS The goal of this session was to provide tools to the countries for the preparation of VNRs, on the issue of financing in the face of the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19.…

Expert Group Meeting: Statistical Disclosure Control for Caribbean Census Tables

10 Nov 2020 - 09:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Statistical disclosure control (SDC) is a topic of increasing interest to Caribbean statisticians and international development partners working in the subregion. ECLAC has carried out a study of statistical disclosure control methods for census tables which recommends select methods that could be applied to Caribbean census data.…

Energy Big Push: accelerating clean energy innovation in Brazil

23 Oct 2020 - 09:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL), the Brazilian Center for Strategic Studies and Management (CGEE), the Brazilian Energy Research Office (EPE) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) will host the webinar “Energy Big Push: accelerating clean energy innovation in Brazil” on 23 October 2020, from 10am to 12pm in Brasilia (GMT-3). Since early-2019, the Energy Big Push (EBP) Brazil has been a collaborative project aiming to support investments in innovation for a sustainable energy transition in the country. Led by CGEE, EPE, ECLAC/CEPAL an…

Fourth Regional-Global Trade in Value Added (TiVA) initiatives workshop.

22 - 23 Oct 2020 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Under virtual modality, and under the leadership of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the fourth working meeting of the different value-added trade initiatives (TIVA) was held as a follow-up to the development of the different initiatives. Delegates from different international organizations participated including the World Trade Organization, the United States Department of Commerce, the European Commission's Joint Research Center (EC-JRC), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), as well as the United Nations Regional Commissions for Africa (UNECA), Asia Pacific (ESC…

Participation of ECLAC in the “6th meeting of the Task Force on the Water-Food-Energy Nexus”

22 Oct 2020 - 08:00 | Event (Other events)

ECLAC participated in the “Sixth Meeting of the Working Group on the Water-Food-Energy Nexus”, within the framework of the Water Convention, to share the advances in the adoption of the Nexus approach in policies and programs of the Latin America and the Caribbean region and to highlight the need for greater cross-border cooperation in the management of bodies of water, which continues to be a pending challenge in the region.…

13 Oct 2020 - New Cycle of Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) 2021

13 Oct 2020 - 10:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This community of practice is an informal space for exchange among peers and sharing of good practices with regards to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in general and the Voluntary National Review (VNR) in particular. It also aims to provide a regular space for countries to communicate with regards to VNRs preparations. PARTICIPANTS ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, BAHAMAS, BELIZE, JAMAICA, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO SESSION GOALS The goal of this session was to welcome new Caribbean countries presenting their VNRs at the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) in 2021 (Antig…

Workshop on Leaving No One Behind in the Caribbean: Building resilience through universal social protection

6 - 7 Oct 2020 | Event (Other events)

The workshop is being jointly organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and Social Development Division, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC), leveraging the partners’ respective technical expertise. The overarching objective of the Subregional Workshop is to promote universal and comprehensive social protection systems in the Caribbean.…

Global Input-Output Tables: Tools for the analysis of the integration of Latin America with the world

5 - 6 Oct 2020 | Event (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)

In order to complete the existing multiregional input-output (MRIO) tables in Latin American and Asia Pacific, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), together with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), assembled Global Input-Output Tables. These include input-output tables previously developed by those institutions: The MRIO by the Asian Development Bank, and the South American I-O Table for 2005, as well as the input-output tables for Latin America and the Caribbean set up for the years 2011 and …

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