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The general objectives are to update the situation regarding the measurement of internal, international migration and everyday mobility based on recent censuses and present recommendations for the next censuses round.…
The opening session of the forty-second meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean has been held with the participation of authorities of national machineries for the advancement of women from 15 countries in the region and representatives of 10 international agencies.…
The general objective is to interchange and share experiences, methodologies, procedures, needs and difficulties in the process of cartographic updating and make recommendations for the next 2010 census round.…
The general objective is to contribute to the inclusion of the ethnic approach in the 2010 census round processes through the participation of afro descendants and indigenous peoples. The specific objectives are to update the situation concerning the way countries of the region have included the identification of ethnic groups in population and housing censuses, to strengthen the participation and the inter-cultural dialogue in the census process, to establish agreements concerning the conceptual and operational aspects of the ethnic group identification criteria, to encourage a regional work …
At its eighth meeting, the Executive Committee will decide on the provisional agenda, the place and date of the fifth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC and the substantive issues to be discussed. The Executive Committee will have before it for discussion the proposed areas of work for the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities, 2009-2011. The Executive Committee also intends to hold a meeting with international bodies that carry out statistical activities in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a view to discussing and adopting mea…
Event held under the framework of the thirty-second session of ECLAC…
The thirty-second session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 9 to 13 June 2008. By resolution 631(XXXI), adopted at the thirty-first session of ECLAC (Montevideo, Uruguay, 20-24 March 2006), member States agreed that Santo Domingo would be the host city of the meeting. 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 development of the countries of the region and an opportunity to review the activities of the Commi…
The thirty-second session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 9 to 13 June 2008. By a resolution adopted at the thirty-first session (Montevideo, Uruguay, 20-24 March 2006) and subsequently approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolution 2006/40, the member States accepted the offer extended by the Dominican Republic to host the session. The meeting was held in accordance with the ECLAC calendar of conferences for the period 2006-2008. The session is the most important event of each biennium fo…
Brasilia, Brasil The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), jointly with the Government of Brazil, announce the second Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a society for all ages and rights-based social protection, to be held in Brasilia, Brazil, on 4-6 December 2007.l.…
At its seventh meeting, the Executive Committee had the opportunity to review the programmes of the working groups set up by Conference and take note of advances in their activities, and to consider the projects of the Programme on Regional Public Goods, which are significant achievements of the Biennial programme of regional and international cooperation 2007-2009 adopted by the Conference. The Executive Committee could also consider and promote the cooperation activities being carried out by the different international organizations in the region. …
One of the objectives of the meeting, organized by ECLAC, is to coordinate information efficiently between local sources and international institutions.…
En el marco del programa de cooperación GTZ-CEPAL denominado "Hacia una globalización sostenible y equitativa", cuyo objetivo es apoyar a los países miembros de la CEPAL en la aplicación de nuevos enfoques e instrumentos para la formulación, la implementación y la evaluación de políticas sectoriales integradas y concertadas entre las instancias estatales, para la promoción de un desarrollo económico se realizó el seminario "Public Policies for the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: the case of Biofuels" en la ciudad de Puerto España, Trinidad y Tobago. En esta oportunidad representant…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean convened the thirteenth Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) at its headquarters in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 23 and 24 August 2007. The meeting was attended by representatives of the following CDCC member countries: the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. The participating associate members were Netherlands Antilles and the United States Virgi…
The tenth 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 619(XXXI) and was held in Quito, Ecuador, from 6 to 9 August 2007.…
In Brasilia, Brazil two Intergovernmental Forums of the ILPES were realized, the CONFERENCE OF THE SECRETARIES AND CHIEFS OF PLANNING OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN who was established by the Governments Members for the exchange of experiences and of investigations on planning and management of the public policies and who carries out every four years and the REGIONAL ADVICE OF PLANNING that is the intergovernmental forum of orientation of the activities of the Institute. His ordinary meetings are every four years and Members are integrated by the Secretaries or Chiefs of Planning of 40 Gov…
In Brasilia, Brazil two Intergovernmental Forums of the ILPES were realized, the CONFERENCE OF THE SECRETARIES AND CHIEFS OF PLANNING OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN who was established by the Governments Members for the exchange of experiences and of investigations on planning and management of the public policies and who carries out every four years and the REGIONAL ADVICE OF PLANNING that is the intergovernmental forum of orientation of the activities of the Institute. His ordinary meetings are every four years and Members are integrated by the Secretaries or Chiefs of Planning of 40 Gov…
The Twenty-fourth session of the Committee of the Whole was held 5 June 2007 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. This Ad Hoc Committee allowed governments of its member states to meet between the official sessions of the Commission. On this occasion, ECLAC Member States considered the request submitted by the Republic of Korea for admission as a Member State of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Also at this meeting, ECLAC Executive Secretary José Luis Machinea presented a document prepared by ECLAC entitled " Social Cohesion: Inclusion and a sense of bel…