Caribbean Symposium on Mainstreaming the SDGs into National Development Planning

The ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean is convening a Caribbean Symposium on Mainstreaming the SDGs into National Development Planning as a platform to address sustainable development planning, implementation, and monitoring and reporting in the subregion, especially relating to the SDGs and the SAMOA Pathway.…

Development of a set of core indicators for monitoring implementation of Sustainable Development Goals and the SAMOA Pathway in Caribbean Small Island Developing States

Countries in the subregion are set to meet to identify a set of core indicators, from among the global indicators for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),which the Caribbean would regard as essential to produce.…

LEaders Activating Research Networks (LEARN) Workshop – Caribbean

Experts from the information and communication sectors recently participated in a workshop aimed at identifying and discussing common Research Data Management (RDM) issues that organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean are facing.…

Multidimensional Child Poverty Measurement

The workshop will help to institutionalize child sensitive national development through evidenced based policy processes.…

12th Biennial Congress and Caribbean Youth Environmental Summit

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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>…

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.…

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.…

Exploring solutions to the Caribbean debt challenge: Debt reduction through financing for climate adaptation swaps and a Caribbean Resilience Fund

The possibilities for integrating the twin imperatives of pursuing climate resilience and debt reduction, from a Caribbean perspective, will be considered at a side event during the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP21).…

Caribbean Conference on Ageing, Elder abuse and the Rights of Older Persons

The conference will bring together policy-makers and other experts from across the Caribbean to address common issues and challenges related to population ageing, elder abuse and the rights of older persons.…

Expert Group Meeting on Big Data

Hosted at ECLAC Caribbean’s headquarters on 24 August 2015, an expert group meeting will bring together representatives from the National Statistical Offices of the Caribbean region as well as other experts in information and communications technology to discuss Big data, its implications and uses.…

Launch of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2015

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch its Economic Survey of Latin American and Caribbean 2015.…

Seventeenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development Cooperation Committee

“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)…

Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean within the Post-2015 Development Agenda

ECLAC subregional headquarters will facilitate the consideration of Caribbean sustainable development goals (SDGs) at a technical meeting of key stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations and civil society.…