First (virtual) meeting of the open-ended Group of Friends of the Chair on the rights of persons with disabilities and the population and development agenda in the framework of the RCPD (Cartagena Group)

The purpose of the meeting was the formal presentation of the Cartagena Group by the Government of Colombia, the invitation to the countries of the region to join this initiative and the presentation of the work plan. …

Side event: The rights of persons with disabilities in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals and the regional agenda on population and development

The side event will take the form of a panel discussion and the main theme will be the inclusion of persons with disabilities and their rights in the framework of the SDGs and the regional population and development agenda. In this regard, the focus will be on the progress and challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean to ensure that the rights of persons with disabilities are at the center of public policies for the implementation of the SDGs and the population and development agenda. The event is aimed at government representatives of institutions responsible for policies related to perso…

Eighth Meeting - Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development 2025

Second regional review meeting on the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

The regional review meeting will be held on March 18-20, 2025 at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Santiago, Chile. It will begin with a Stakeholder Consultation on 18 March, followed by an Intergovernmental Conference on 19-20 March.…

Training workshop on estimating National Inclusion Accounts

The main goal of the training workshop is to contribute to strengthening the national technical capacity to produce National Inclusion Accounts (NIAs) and to analyze the impacts of population ageing on inclusive and sustainable economic growth. It aims to train the national technical team in the elaboration of the National Inclusion Accounts (NIAs) for subsequent use for public policy purposes. …

Launch of the 2024 Demographic Observatory: "Population Prospects and Rapid Demographic Changes in the First Quarter of the 21st Century in Latin America and the Caribbean"

CELADE - Population Division of ECLAC invites to the launch of the 2024 Demographic Observatory, a document presenting the main demographic indicators of Latin America and the Caribbean according to the 2024 revision of the United Nations population estimates and projections. The document compares these indicators with the 2000 revision with the aim of highlighting the major demographic changes in the region since the beginning of the 21st century.…

Virtual Expert Group Meeting on Human Capital Formation in the Caribbean

Labour productivity has been on a declining trend in the Caribbean. An examination of this trend revealed a growing concern of skills mismatch in the labour market. At the same time, youth unemployment is high in many countries, with young women and girls twice as likely not to be in education, employment or training. These are troubling signs for human capital formation at a time when Caribbean economies are experiencing low growth, and the global economy is becoming increasingly knowledge based.…

International Workshop on Register-Based Censuses

This event is organised by CELADE-Population Division of ECLAC, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the National Institute of Statistics (INE) of Uruguay. The event's primary goal is to increase countries' knowledge about the use of administrative registers and sources to support population and housing censuses. The workshop will address the basic requirements, the relative advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches aimed at the use of administrative registers, and the experience of both extra-regional countries and…

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.…

Fifth session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

3 - 4 july 2024…

Regional Seminar "Challenges and Opportunities of Population Aging: The Silver Economy"

This Regional Seminar aims to discuss, reflect and dialogue on the challenges and opportunities of population aging, with a focus on the silver economy . During the event, the main findings of the new study on the future scenarios of consumption growth of older people will be presented. In addition, the event is an opportunity for participants to exchange experiences, to discuss the design and management of specific public policies including the needs to strengthen national capacities to respond to population aging, covering areas such as care, social protection systems, socio-labor…

Seventh Meeting - Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development 2024

The seventh meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development will be held in Santiago, from 15 to 18 April 2024.…

Regional Technical Workshop on African Descent and Rurality

This workshop, organized by the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Colombia, aims to generate a collaborative roadmap based on the identification and prioritization of challenges and opportunities in relation to Afro-descendant communities and social movements in rural Latin America and the Caribbean through the consolidation of a regional network of Afro-descendant authoritie…

Fifth meeting Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development and Special session “10 years of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development”

La sesión extraordinaria “10 años del Consenso de Montevideo sobre Población y Desarrollo” y la Quinta Reunión de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre Población y Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe tendrán lugar en la sede de la CEPAL en Santiago, los días 14 y 15 de noviembre de 2023.…

Regional Seminar "The Contribution of International Migration to Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean"

The objective of this seminar is to share the results of the United Nations Development Account (12th Tranche) project Harnessing the contribution of international migration to sustainable development in Latin American and Caribbean countries , coordinated by CELADE - Population Division of the ECLAC, and to reflect on the analysis dimensions of the studies, as well as on their public policy implications.…

Workshop "Contributions of international migration to sustainable development" - Jamaica

This workshop is part of the activities of the United Nations Development Account project Harnessing the contribution of intra-regional migration to socio-economic development in Latin American and Caribbean countries (12th tranche), which focuses on five countries (Costa Rica, Chile, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru).…

Sixth meeting - Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development - 2023

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 So…

Fifth Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean

La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) acogerá del 13 al 15 de diciembre de 2022 la Quinta Conferencia Regional Intergubernamental sobre Envejecimiento y Derechos de las Personas Mayores en América Latina y el Caribe, en la que altos representantes de gobiernos, instituciones internacionales, sector privado, academia y sociedad civil se darán cita para identificar los logros y desafíos de la región en la implementación del Plan de Acción Internacional de Madrid sobre el Envejecimiento, y en la construcción de un futuro digno para el envejecimiento y las personas mayores …

Briefing of Civil Society Organizations of the Region on ageing on preparations for the fifth Intergovernmental Regional Conference on ageing and the rights of older persons in Latin America and the Caribbean

ECLAC, in its role as Technical Secretariat of the Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean, invites the regional and subregional Civil Society Organizations of Older Persons to a Virtual Briefing on the Fifth Conference, with the objective of informing the date and modality of the meeting, the main topics to be addressed, and to explain how the participation of country delegations and civil society of older persons will be planned.…

Fourth session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

La reunión tiene entre sus objetivos analizar los impactos sociodemográficos de la pandemia del COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe y los retos que plantea la crisis sanitaria para la implementación del Consenso de Montevideo sobre Población y Desarrollo.…