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The Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean held their forty-ninth meeting on 14 October 2013 in Santo Domingo.…
The objective of the group is to deepen knowledge on access rights with the outlook of proposing the nature and contents of a regional instrument.…
The objective of this group is to make a proposal to intensify regional and international cooperation with regard to training and financing needs and operations, both for the public sector and the public in general.…
The third meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean was held in Buenos Aires on 13 September 2013.…
By virtue of resolution 670 (XXXIV) of 2012, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean decided to convert the ECLAC Ad Hoc Committee on Population and Development into the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, and ratified all mandates expressed in Agreement 1 adopted by the Ad Hoc Committee at its last meeting that took place in Quito from 4 to 6 July 2012. The Ad Hoc Committee on Population and Development was established under the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Plan of Action on Population and Development in accordance…
First Virtual Meeting of the Working group on capacity-building and cooperation, created in the Plan of Action to 2014…
In the second meeting of focal points of the Declaration, held in Guadalajara, in April 2013, Costa Rica and Brazil were designated as coordinators of the group on rights of access and regional instrument. The objective of the group is to deepen knowledge on access rights with the outlook of proposing the nature and contents of a regional instrument.…
The sixteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the CDCC took place in Georgetown, Guyana on 11 July 2013. Representatives of thirteen member States of the CDCC attended the sixteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. …
The second meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean was held in San Salvador on 1 June 2013. . This had been elected at the thirty-fourth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The meeting was attended by representatives of the following countries, which had been appointed to serve as Presiding Officers: Brazil, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Peru and Uruguay.…
The twenty-seventh session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC was held on 28 and 29 May 2013 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Committee of the Whole is the subsidiary body of ECLAC which enables member Governments to meet between sessions of the Commission. On this occasion the Committe considered following agenda items: Economic and social overview of Latin America and the Caribbean and outlook for 2013. Strategic focus of ECLAC and impact on the programme of work 2014-2015. Report on the activities of the subsidiary bodies of ECLAC, 2012- 2013. Presentation of th…
At its twelfth meeting, the Executive Committee reviewed the implementation of the Biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities 2012-2013, adopted at the sixth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas by virtue of resolution 7 (VI), and the agreements adopted at its own eleventh meeting. The Executive Committee also examined the working groups’ progress in implementing their plans of action and received the report it had commissioned from the secretariat, which identified each group’s strengths and weaknesses and made recommendations on ways of improving…
The Government of Mexico, with the support of ECLAC, organized a regional consultation of civil society Performing the future we want in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards a Development Agenda post-2015 held on 17 to 19 April 2013.…
The second meeting of designated Focal Points by the Governments of the signatory countries of the Declaration on the implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean is to review and approve to Plan of Action adopted until 2014. This Plan includes the procedures for public participation in the process, the functions of the Board and the Technical Secretariat.…
Organized by UNCTAD/Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the World Trade Organization (WTO).…
The Fourth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean through the ECLAC-@LIS2 project -co-financed by the European Commission- as well as the Government of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, through their Electronic Government and Information Society Agency (AGESIC).…
This Regional Workshop, was organized by ECLAC, UNEP, UNITAR and WRI-TAI and was held on September 16-17, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The purpose of the workshop was to raise awareness, discuss and build capacity among countries in the region on Principle 10, the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Bali Guidelines.…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia supported by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) hosted a briefing and discussion session about the recent Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015 and to Rio+20 held from 5 to 9 March 2013 in Bogotá and chaired by the Government of Colombia.…
The Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to address the Caribbean Reality in the 21st Century held the 5-6 of March in the Red Conference Room of the Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel. The meeting focused on development goals, global and regional governance and the discussion, from a regional perspective, of agreements adopted in order to inform the ongoing global processes.…