LEARN Workshop on Research Data Implementation of policies and strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Fourth LEARN Workshop on Research Data will be hosted by ECLAC in Santiago, Chile on 27 October 2016. This event, titled “Implementation of policies and strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean”, is aimed at providing participants with an opportunity to learn about Latin American experiences in Research Data Management, including policy development and implementation.…

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

The meeting of the Presiding Officers was held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on October 25th, 2016, prior to the XIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.…

Ecuador: Promoting financial inclusion via development banks’ innovation policies

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) organized a technical workshop with the aim to promote financial inclusion through development bank financial innovation policies. The workshop is part of ECLAC’s Financial Inclusion of SMEs and Development Bank Financial Innovation Policies project whose aim is to analyze the state of financial inclusion in a number of Latin American countries . The final objective of the project is to identify and promote development of a spectrum of financial instruments which allow development banks to foster financial inclusio…

Thirteenth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The thirteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was convened by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in compliance with ECLAC resolution 699(XXXVI), and was held in Montevideo, from 25 to 28 October 2016.…

Twenty-third meeting of the Specialized Agencies and Other United Nations System Organizations on the Advancement of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Twenty-third meeting of the Specialized Agencies and Other United Nations System Organizations on the Advancement of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held on October 25th, 2016, in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay.…

International Seminar "Labour intermediation: a tool to enhance the impact of job training"

The objective of this international seminar, organised jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Chile’s National Training and Employment Service (SENCE), is to disseminate and discuss strategies and international experiences on the management of institutional change for the implementation and governance of public employment services. This seminar is carried out in the framework of the activities of the cooperation project between the ECLAC and the Norwegian Government, “Vocational Education and Training for Greater Equality in Latin America and the Car…

Regional training workshop on the development of REDATAM applications for the dissemination of population and housing census data

The overall objective of this regional workshop is to train statisticians, experts in statistical computing, and IT specialists from Suriname, Guyana and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the use of the REDATAM software for web dissemination of census and survey data.…

Colombia: Technical Workshop – Financial Inclusion of SMEs and Development Banks

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) organized a technical workshop with the aim to promote financial inclusion through development bank financial innovation policies. The workshop is part of ECLAC’s Financial Inclusion of SMEs and Development Bank Financial Innovation Policies project whose aim is to analyze the state of financial inclusion in a number of Latin American countries . The final objective of the project is to identify and promote development of a spectrum of financial instruments which allow development banks to foster financial inclusio…

Third Session of UN-GGIM: Americas

The Third Session of the Regional Committee of United Nations on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM: Americas) was held in Mexico City from 5-6 October 2016.…

Third meeting Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

The third meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago from 4 to 6 October 2016. The purpose of the meeting, among others, is to analyze and adopt the proposed format for national progress reports on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development as well as to review the progress report of the ad hoc working group for the preparation of a proposal on the indicators for regional follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Devel…

Twenty-sixth Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Latin America and the Caribbean

Regional workshop: Strengthening the technical capacity of public finance managers in selected Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

The workshop will improve the capacity of public finance managers to manage fiscal outcomes that will enhance economic growth.…

Latin American Conference: Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics

Co-organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). With the support of CARICOM and Eurostat.…

Second Session of the Conference on Science, Innovation and ICTs of ECLAC

The Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies was established as a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), by virtue of resolution 672(XXXIV), adopted by the Commission at its thirty-fourth session. One main objective of the Conference is to promote the development and improvement of national policies on science, technology and innovation and those related to the progress of the information and knowledge society, bearing in mind the recommendations made by the specialized agencies and other relevant organiz…

Evaluation of the project 'Sustainable Energy in the Caribbean: Reducing the Carbon Footprint in the Caribbean through the Promotion of Energy Efficiency and the Use of Renewable Energy Technologies'

The project entitled “Sustainable Energy in the Caribbean: Reducing the Carbon Footprint in the Caribbean through the Promotion of Energy Efficiency (EE) and the Use of Renewable Energy (RE) Technologies” seeks to strengthen the capacity of Caribbean countries in the areas of energy efficiency and renewable energy. The high-level meeting in Port of Spain will be jointly convened by ECLAC Caribbean and GIZ to assess the impact of this project, implemented from 1 July 2014 to 30 September 2016.…

APEC Public Private Dialogue on Regional and Global Value Chains in Latin America and the Caribbean

the Study on Enhancement of Integration of Regional Value Chains in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (CTI 08/2015T) / the Study on the Improving the Investment Climate for GVCs Development…

Substantive issues: Seminar on the use of administrative records for statistical purposes

High-level Regional Dialogue on the Governance of Natural Resources and Infrastructure

Part of the Governance Week for Natural Resources and Infrastructure…

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

Preparatory meeting of the XIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean with Caribbean countries

The preparatory meeting of the XIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean with Caribbean countries is convened In accordance with the agreement of the fifthly-third meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was held in Santiago, Chile on 26-29 January 2016.…