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Workshop to accelerate SDG implementation in the Caribbean

18 May 2017 - 13:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

ECLAC Caribbean is organizing a one-day workshop to accelerate SDG Implementation in the Caribbean as an avenue to discuss practical steps towards establishing national institutional frameworks for SDG implementation in the Caribbean.…

International Fair Trade Meeting in the Plurinational State of Bolivia

10 - 11 May 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The International Fair Trade Meeting for the Andean countries was held from May 10 to 11th, 2017 in La Paz, Bolivia (P.S. of) on the theme "Fair Trade: an alliance for sustainable development". More than 40 Fair Trade producer organizations from the host country, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and the Dominican Republic participated, as well as representatives of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation for Agriculture (IICA), and the Bolivian Ministry of Productive Development and Plural Economy. The mai…

Seminar on the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Food and Nutritional Security in Costa Rica

10 - 11 May 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Climate change is undermining food security and nutrition, maintaining persons in poverty and inequality traps, threatening forest and water resources, biodiversity, sanitation and water quality. This is why the results of the Paris Treaty are closely related to sustainable development goals (SDGs) of zero hunger, sustainable agriculture, health, wellness, and clean water (SDG 2, 3, 6). Likewise, the SDGs relevant to energy, economic growth, employment, industry and infrastructure, resilient cities and societies, and biodiversity (SDG 7, 8, 9, 11, 15) imply various measures that will contribut…

Digital Financial Services (DFS) Workshop

27 - 28 Apr 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The primary purpose and objective of this workshop is to continue providing Caribbean stakeholders from various sectors with interactive sessions along the theme of utilizing technology innovations towards the goal of improving financial transactions and financing arrangements…

First meeting - Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development - 2017

26 - 28 Apr 2017 | 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 Social Council subsequently…

Forum on Internet of Things (IOT): Smarter Living in the Caribbean

24 - 26 Apr 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The forum on “IOT” seeks to highlight the significance of IOT as a technological revolution that represents the future of computing and communications, and its development being dependent on dynamic technical innovation.…

Sixteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

3 - 6 Apr 2017 | Event (Commitees)

The agenda for the sixteenth meeting of the Executive Committee includes the review of progress in the implementation of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities of the Conference for 2016-2017 and Conference activities relating to the follow-up of the Sustainable Development Goals. On this occasion, the Executive Committee, was also hold a seminar on the follow up framework of the Sustainable Development Goals and a joint meeting of the member countries of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC and the members of the Regional Committee of the Un…

Regional Seminar on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals Indicators “Progress in the development of monitoring frameworks for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean”

3 - 4 Apr 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Jointly organized by ECLAC and the United Nations Statistics Division on the occasion of the XVI Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (SCA / ECLAC).…

Fourth Session UN-GGIM: Americas

3 - 5 Apr 2017 | Event (Commitees)

The Fourth Session of the United Nations Regional Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UNGGIM: Americas) was held within the framework of the Seminar on geospatial information for the social, environmental and economic development of the countries of the Americas and the Caribbean, in Santiago de Chile from April 3 to 5, 2017.…

Expert Meeting on Agricultural Insurance and Integrated Risk Management in Central America and the Domincan Republic

3 - 5 Apr 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Subregional Headquarters in Mexico of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Executive Secretariat of the Central American Agricultural Council (SE-CAC), Secretary General of the Central American Integration System (SG-SICA), Executive Secretariat of Agricultural Sectoral Planning of Costa Rica (SEPSA), and the Costa Rica Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock organized a seminar on agricultural insurance and comprehensive risk management in the subregion. Attendees included delegates from the Grupo Técnico de Cambio Climático y Gestión Integral de Riesgos (GTC…

Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Building

14 - 16 Mar 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The training course will focus on strengthening the capacity of member States in the assessment of the effects and impacts of disasters in the Caribbean in light of the 2030 development instruments.…

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