Caribbean Youth Dialogues 2025 in preparation of the ECOSOC Youth Forum

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the…

Regional seminar on innovations in the population and housing census of the 2020 Round looking towards the 2030 Round

This is a side event of the twenty-third meeting of the Executive Committee of the SCA-ECLAC. The objective of the seminar is to share innovations from the 2020 census round and lessons learned from the perspective of directors of national statistical offices. It seeks to contribute to the planning of the 2030 census round, enhancing lessons learned and capacities acquired in light of the results and challenges.…

First meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Santiago, 19 de junio de 2024…

Inter-regional expert meeting on the measurement of South-South cooperation

The inter-regional expert meeting will strengthen South-South cooperation, enhancing its global visibility by leveraging recent developments. It will host high-level debates on integrating and measuring South-South cooperation in future agendas, amplify the global South's voice and introduce a UN project for pilot studies and training on measurement methods.…

Thirty-Seventh Session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC

First session of the Regional Conference on South South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Regional Conference was established by virtue of resolution 752(PLEN.36) adopted by the member States of ECLAC at the thirty-sixth session of its Committee of the Whole in December 2021. In that meeting member States approved the renaming of the Committee on South-South Cooperation as the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean.…

JRC/ESTAT – ECLAC Collaboration on FIGARO ACT II

Meeting of the JRC/ESTAT - ECLAC will discuss the collaboration on FIGARO ACT II. FIGARO tables are a new statistical product for economic modelling. Since 2021, they are produced annually, linking national accounts with data on business, trade and jobs for EU Member States and 18 main EU trading partners; a ‘rest of the world’ region completes the FIGARO tables. Date: 30 - 31 March 2023 Location: Seville, Spain Chair: José Manuel Rueda Cantuche Short Agenda: a) FIGARO framework and ECLAC IOTs b) Data collection and transformation process c) Main challenges and problems of assembling…

Thirty-Sixth Session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC

El trigésimo sexto período de sesiones del Comité Plenario ha sido convocado por la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y el Gobierno de Costa Rica, en su calidad de Presidente del Comité Plenario de la CEPAL.…

Water dialogues in Latin America and the Caribbean to accelerate SDG 6

More than 3000 people from different social, economic, and environmental sectors in the region registered for the virtual event co-organized by ECLAC, UNESCO IHP, CONAGUA and the Federal Government of Germany, to exchange information on how to speed up the completion of SDG 6.…

ECLAC participates in the XIV Meeting of National Committees and Focal Points of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Program for Latin America and the Caribbean (IHP-LAC)

The UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Program for Latin America and the Caribbean (IHP-LAC) organized the event that took place virtually from April 26 to 29, 2021. This instance convened the Presidents of the National Committees and Focal Points of the PHI-LAC, with the objective to evaluate the results achieved since the last meeting and planning future activities. Silvia Saravia Matus, Economic Affairs Officer of the Natural Resources Division of ECLAC, participated in the session on cooperation with other United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and non-governmental or…

Second High-Level China-Latin America Investment and Cooperation Forum

The Second High-Level China-Latin America Investment and Cooperation Forum, organized jointly by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China, will be held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile on October 16, 2019.…

Dialogue Series for the Latin American and Caribbean Region

The High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation is an independent, expert commission tasked by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to conduct wide-ranging consultations on the opportunities and challenges of cooperation in the digital age. Chaired by Mr. Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba, and Ms. Melinda Gates, Co-Founder of the Gates Foundation, the Panel will produce a report with actionable recommendations on cooperative action across sectors, disciplines and borders so as to realize the transformational potential of digital technologies, while safeguarding against the risks and unintended conseque…

ECLAC and the Summit of the Americas

Inés Bustillo, Director of the ECLAC Washington Office, and ten other international organizations signed an agreement to formalize a framework of collaboration and to facilitate cooperation in support of the implementation and follow-up of the mandates of the Summits of the Americas.…

First meeting - Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development - 2017

At the thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), held in Mexico City from 23 to 27 May 2016, the member States adopted resolution 700 (XXXVI), Mexico Resolution, which established the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development as a regional mechanism to follow up and review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its means of implementation, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The Economic and Social Council subsequently…

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.…

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.…

Seminar "The Future of Energy: Latin America's Path to Sustainability"

The MIT Sloan Latin America Office is partnering with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean to host a regional conference on energy game changers and the future of energy in Latin America, which is carried out in the framework of the UN Secretary General’s initiative “Sustainable Energy for ALL” (SE4ALL). Energy is essential to the region’s economic growth and social development.…

2nd Academic Seminar of the Latin America and Asia Pacific Observatory: Exploring spaces for productive integration between Latin America and Asia Pacific

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)…

International Seminar "Trade, industrialization and green growth: Exploring opportunities for cooperation between the Republic of Korea and Latin America"