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Regional Dialogues on External Financing and Climate-Resilient Development

10 - 11 July 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Guided by an enhanced framework, UNCTAD led data collection field missions, identifying their current and potential external financial options, blockages and impediments to the uptake of innovative financial instruments, as well as the regulatory, institutional, and market-related changes required to encourage these innovations. These efforts culminated in the delivery of climate adaptation and mitigation reports for each country, assessing direct and indirect climate risks and proposing strategies to address these risks and achieve SDGs 17.4 and 13.b and will contribute to the regional d…

FFD4 Side event - Measuring development and its implications for international development cooperation: Challenges for middle-income countries

2 July 2025, 08:30 - 10:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Building upon the experience of recently graduated Member States in Latin America and the Caribbean, this side event contributes to the global debate on measuring development and its impact on international cooperation, promoting a more inclusive and sustainable vision that better reflects the needs of developing countries. The objective of the event is to analyze the challenges posed by traditional metrics, as well as to explore possible alternatives for a more adequate measurement of development.…

Heading to COP 30: NDC 3.0, investments and financing

27 - 29 January 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The event brings together representatives from ministries of environment, planning, and finance, along with actors from the financial and private sectors. Its goal is to design roadmaps toward more ambitious climate goals in Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of COP30. This space aims to foster international cooperation, review lessons learned, and explore financing opportunities to implement Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), ensuring socio-economic co-benefits and resilience to climate change.…

Thirty-ninth session of ECLAC

24 - 26 October 2022 | Event (Sessions of the Commission)

The thirty-ninth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will be held from 24–26 October 2022, at the Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires, pursuant to resolution 753 (PLEN.36), adopted at the thirty-sixth session of the ECLAC Committee of the Whole, held in New York on 3 December 2021. The meeting will be held in accordance with the ECLAC calendar of conferences for the period 2021–2022.…

Towards COP27: Regional forums on Climate Initiatives to Finance Climate Action and the SDGs - Roundtable on Climate Finance – The Energetic Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean

1 - 2 September 2022 | Event (Meetings of the United Nations system)

Ahead of COP27, the UN system, leveraging its convening power, network of experts and influencers at regional levels, will partner with the incoming Egyptian Presidency of COP27 and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP26 and COP27 to organize a series of five regional forums on “Towards COP27. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean proposes to address the region’s energy transition as the thematic focus of the Roundtable on Climate Finance, in consideration of both the short-term impacts of the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on global ene…

High-level meetings on the ECLAC Caribbean Resilience Fund

26 - 29 July 2022 | Event (High-level visits)

The Caribbean Resilience Fund (CRF) is an innovative mechanism to leverage absolutely necessary finance for development while simultaneously reducing the growing and onerous debt burden. In-depth discussions will address the main elements of the CRF; its structure, participation and governance. This will include reflection on optimal housing of the CRF and scope for capitalization of the Fund. The meeting will also explore important next steps for initiating debt swap negotiations.…

European Union facility joint response to COVID-19: Fostering sustainable development models in LAC countries - Fiscal policies to mitigate the effects of the pandemic and foster investment for a sustainable recovery

13 July 2021, 04:30 - 06:15 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This Experts Meeting will provide a space for a regional dialogue among country authorities, international organizations and fiscal experts to discuss domestic resource mobilization and public spending issues to reduce structural gaps, as well as to explore policy options to expand fiscal space to mitigate the effects of the pandemic and boost investments for a sustainable and inclusive recovery.…

Twenty-eighth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

10 September 2020, 10:00 - 13:30 | Event (Commitees)

Pursuant to resolution 358(XVI) of 1975, the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) was created as a permanent subsidiary body of the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean to promote development cooperation among Caribbean countries.…

Sixth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable

10 September 2020, 06:00 - 09:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This year the Caribbean Development Roundtable (CDR) takes stock of the progress so far made in persuading the international community to extend the financial support needed by Member States.…

Second meeting - Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development - 2018

16 - 20 April 2018 | Event (Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development)

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…

Brazil: Financial Inclusion of Small Businesses Seminar

21 November 2017, 11:30 - 14:45 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Under the auspices of ECLAC, Sebrae organized a seminar on financial inclusion of small and medium enterprises, which was attended by nearly 50 professionals. For ECLAC, the seminar was an opportunity to present the results and broaden the discussion of its project on Financial inclusion of SMEs and innovation policies of development banks,” particularly focusing on the case study of Brazil that was debated with strategic partners from the country. The new Sebrae investigation on SME financing was also presented and discussed at the seminar.…

Costa Rica: Promoting financial inclusion via Development Bank innovation policies

13 November 2017, 05:00 - 22:30 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Within the framework of ECLAC's project, and counting on its sponsorship, the Costa Rican System of Development Banks (SBD) organized a seminar to promote financial inclusion with a focus on innovative development bank policies. The Seminar was used as a space for presenting the results of ECLAC’s project on “Financial inclusion of SMEs and development bank financial innovation policies, including the case study on Costa Rica.…

Chile: Seminar Promoting Financial Inclusion through Development Bank Innovation Policies

18 - 19 October 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Seminar is part of a greater ECLAC project whose aim is to promote the development of a greater array of financial instruments that would allow development banks to boost the financial inclusion of the SME sector, given that SMEs play a central role in the productive fabric and job creation in the regional economies. More specifically, the project centers on the state of financial inclusion in seven Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru) and on the policies that development banks could pursue in order to promote financial inclusion. The…

Study Tour for officials and policy makers from Latin America to Thailand’s SME Bank and the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives

29 September 2017, 12:35 - 15:00 | Event (Other events)

The purpose of this study tour is to provide officials and policy makers from Latin America the opportunity to learn first-hand how two important Thai national development banks, the SME bank and the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC), are enhancing the access of small and medium enterprises in Thailand and exchange views and experiences on the subject.…

Thailand: Workshop on small and medium enterprises’ access to finance and the role of development banks in Asia and the Pacific and Latin America

27 - 28 September 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is implementing a project on financial inclusion in various Latin American countries with the goal of identifying and promoting the development of a wide range of financial instruments that would allow development banks to foster financial inclusion of SMEs. Within the scope of the project, ECLAC will participate in a workshop on small and medium enterprise (SME) financing and the role of development banks in Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America, organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCA…

Peru: Latin American and Caribbean seminar promoting financial inclusion though development bank financial innovation policies

16 - 17 August 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

ECLAC and the Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE) are co-organizing a seminar to promote financial inclusion of SMEs through development bank financial innovation policies.…

Mexico: Seminar on Financial Inclusion of SMEs in Latin America: Country Experiences and Development Bank Instruments

6 - 7 April 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This seminar counts on the participation of development banks, public institutions, academics and experts in the field of financial inclusion from seven Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru).…

Ecuador: Promoting financial inclusion via development banks’ innovation policies

25 October 2016, 06:15 - 14:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

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…

Colombia: Technical Workshop – Financial Inclusion of SMEs and Development Banks

6 October 2016, 05:00 - 12:15 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Mexico: Seminar “Promoting Financial Inclusion via Development Banks’ Innovation Policies”

4 - 5 July 2016 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)