Expert meeting on agricultural insurance and comprehensive risk management in the SICA region

The expert meeting on agricultural insurance and comprehensive risk management in Central America and the Dominican Republic was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on June 5 and 6, 2018. The meeting aimed to analyze the current status of pre-requisites for the development and/or strengthening of traditional and parametric agricultural insurance in the countries; deepen the progress and lessons learned on agricultural insurance products indexed at the national, regional and international levels aimed at micro and small producers; and validate strategic lines for the development and stren…

The role of the entrepreneur in Latin American Integration

The Secretariat of the Andean Community (CAN) in coordination with the Chamber of Commerce of Lima is organizing the International Seminar: "The Role of the Entrepreneur in Latin American Integration" whose final objective is to open a space for entrepreneurs to express their concerns and proposals on regional integration. The event will cover topics such as the improvement of the Free Trade Zone from the business perspective; the facilitation of trade in customs matters; the elimination of non-tariff barriers in intra-CAN trade; and the advances and opportunities in land transport and th…

Committee on South-South Cooperation on the occasion of the Thirty-seventh session of ECLAC

Annual Seminar on National Accounts for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2018: Regional Implementation of the 2008 SNA and its relationship with other systems

Organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Lan America and the Caribbean and National Institute of Statistics and Census of Panama (INEC)…

Thirty-seventh session of ECLAC

El período de sesiones es la reunión bienal más importante de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL). Ofrece un foro que permite analizar temas relevantes para el desarrollo de los países de la región y examinar la marcha de las actividades de la Comisión.…

Second Technical Meeting of the International Comparison Program (ICP)

Organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and CARICOM…

Seminar-Workshop: Promoting the internationalization of women-led businesses

The seminar-workshop "Promoting the internationalization of women-led businesses", orgnized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), PROMPERU and the Ministry of the Woman and Vulnerable Populations of Peru, included presentations and discussions around the economic autonomy of women and the promotion of businesses led by women and their exports, among other themes. The one day seminar-workshop was designed to support the internationalization of female enterprise through the identification of opportunities and challenges in entering the i…

Launch of the ECLAC/CCJ book "Ensuring environmental access rights in the Caribbean: Analysis of selected case law"

Twenty-seventh session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Pursuant to resolution 358(XVI) of 1975, the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) was created as a permanent subsidiary body of the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean to promote development cooperation among Caribbean countries.…

Fifth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable

This year the Caribbean Development Roundtable (CDR) takes a frontal look at four major issues facing the region with a view to identifying workable solutions to address them successfully.…

Workshop for government officials and consultation with civil society on the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Costa Rica Forum on Data Roadmaps for Sustainable Development

The Forum aims to bring together stakeholders across sectors of the country, to discuss and define the way forward for the achievement of the formulation of a roadmap for the generation of data for sustainable development.…

Side Event: “Dialogue on the identification of data sources for SDG indicators in the Caribbean”

Organized by ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean…

Side Event - Regional agreement on access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean – A tool for addressing the Implementation Challenges of the 2030 Agenda

Organized by ECLAC, Governments of Chile and Costa Rica and Access Initiative…

Seventh Meeting of The Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation

The seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation of Latin America and the Caribbean was held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, in the framework of the second meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development.…

Second meeting - Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development - 2018

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 Social Council subsequently…

Seventh meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs)

The seventh meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs), is held from 9 to 12 April 2018 in Vienna, Austria. The meeting is hosted by The United Nations Statistics Division and The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). This new meeting includes an exclusive meeting of the Member States of the group during the first day (April 9), and a Plenary Session taking place during the following three days (10 - 12 April). During the plenary session, all countries, international and regional agencies and entities, and other sta…

RedIbero Meeting: Promoting Regional Value Chains

The meeting on "Promoting Regional Value Chains", organized by RedIbero together with PROCOMER and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), will bring together foreign trade promotion organizations from all over the region to analyze methods of analysis and strategies to create and join regional value chains. ECLAC will share its extensive experience in the analysis of regional value chains and will contribute to a better understanding of the related methodologies.…

49th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission

The Statistical Commission consists of 24 member countries of the United Nations, elected by the United Nations Economic and Social Council on the basis of an equitable geographical distribution. The term of office of members is four years.…

Seminar: Prospective Vision of Latin American and Caribbean Integration

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA) share an interest in supporting regional integration processes as relevant mechanisms for the economic and political development of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Permanent Secretariat of SELA and ECLAC promote research that broadens the knowledge of progress in the process of subregional integration mechanisms in different areas that are of interest to the region. For this reason they have co-organized a seminar for reflection …