Mexico: Seminar “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…

Seminar on the follow-up framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This seminar is held within the framework of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee.…

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

The agenda of the fifteenth meeting of the Executive Committee includes a review of the proposed activities of the working groups, and the adoption of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities of the Conference for 2016-2017. The meeting is preceded by seminar on the follow-up framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. Agreements and Report ▪ Report of the fifteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of SCA-ECLAC ▪ Agreements of the meeting Working documents Preliminary Programme LC/L.4167(CE.15/1)/Rev.2 Provisional agenda LC/L.4178(CE.15/2)…

Round Table on Principle 10 at the Brazilian Congress on Environmental Law

Exploring Innovation in Transactions & Financing in the Caribbean

<p>The workshop is co-organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in partnership with the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC). Its primary purpose is to provide 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.</p>…

Presentation of the recommendations of Peru's first Environmental Performance Review (ECLAC/OECD)

The recommendations of Peru's Environmental Performance Review, undertaken jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will be presented on 31 May 2016 at the headquarters of Ministry of the Environment of Peru. It is first time the country goes through this peer review in which the environmental policies and programmes are analized with a view to identify good practices and challenges and propose recommendations. The Minister of the Environment of Peru, Manuel Pulgar-V…

Committee on South-South Cooperation on the occasion of the thirty sixth session of ECLAC

Item 8 of the Annotated Provisional Agenda…

Industrial Ecology and Green Transformation

The goal of the meeting is to improve discussions about how the transformation of physical resources in modern society can contribute to address opportunities and challenges for sustainable development in Latin America. It also will contribute to strengthen an institutional network for the industrial ecology society.…

UNEA-2 Side Event: Regional Efforts to Enhance the Application of Principle 10 for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda

Thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The session is the most important event of each biennium for ECLAC. It provides a forum for the consideration of issues of importance for the economic and social development of the countries of the region and an opportunity to review the progress of the Commission’s activities and oversee its work.…

International Seminar: The Sustainable Development Goals and Building Futures for Latin America and the Caribbean

The International seminar Sustainable Development Goals and Building Futures for Latin America and the Caribbean will be held on the upcoming 18th and 19th of May in the mornings at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The seminar proposes the creation of a space where to reflect on the challenges of the future construction raised by the Sustainable Development Goals. During this event, the Third Planning for Development Sessions will be held, where selected papers related to medium and long term institutional processes will be presented. Those papers have had or may have a practical app…

Regional Policy Dialogue and Training Workshop: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the Caribbean

To date the technical work of the project has benefitted from inputs from Consultants, national energy policy makers, ECLAC specialists, and Regional Partners. It is anticipated that the technical and institutional resources of all of these partners would be applied in hosing this dialogue and training workshop.…

Twenty-sixth session Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Participants will take stock of the outcomes of the Caribbean Development Roundtable (CDR), and review the implementation of the work programme for the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean for the biennium 2018-2019.…

Fourth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable

This year’s Roundtable will explore possible options for debt relief for heavily indebted countries in the subregion.…

Fourth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation

The fourth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean was held in Santiago.…

Course and Regional Forum on Risk Management, Climate, and Sustainability in Public Investment Projects in Honduras

Within the scope of the project, The Economics of Climate Change in Central America and the Dominican Republic, launched by ECLAC from 2015 to 2017, and as a result of the dialogue between the Executive Secretariat of the Council of Treasury or Finance Ministers of Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (SE-COSEFIN) and ECLAC, the Executive Secretary of COSEFIN gave a presentation in meeting VI of the project’s Regional Technical Committee (CTR), a series of regional efforts was proposed to strengthen capabilities and analysis to increase the resilience of public investments in th…

Seminar Republic of Korea- CELAC "Exploring strategies for economic cooperation between Korea-Latin America and Caribbean”

Debate on Korean policies and foreign cooperation initiatives in the areas of innovation and skills development as key components within creative economy policies, as well as Korean policies and foreign cooperation initiatives in the areas of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) development and internationalization. Propose cooperation between the Republic of Korea and Latin America and the Caribbean in these areas.…

Third meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

The third meeting of the Negotiating Committee took place on 5 to 8 April 2016 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The purpose of this meeting was to resume negotiations on the substantive content of the regional agreement, using as a basis the second version of the text compiled by the Presiding Officers, which includes the language proposals sent by countries. …

Regional Capacity Building Workshops on Analysis and Dissemination of National Population and Housing Census Data

This project was implemented by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United States Census Bureau (USCB). Two workshops were organised for government statisticians from Caribbean countries and territories, a Regional Workshop on the Use of REDATAM for the Online Dissemination of Census Data and a Regional Capacity Building Workshop in Demographic Analysis and Population Projections.…

Workshop on public participation in environmental decision-making: trends, challenges and lessons learned

The workshop will have simultaneous interpretation from Spanish into English and viceversa. The programme and additional information are available at: http://negociacionp10.cepal.org/3/en/programme/workshop-public-particip……