Side Event Presentation of the document "Education and the development of digital competences in Latin America and the Caribbean"

The objective of the event is to deepen the debate on effective strategies to reinforce the school-to-work transition of future generations in order to reduce inequality gaps and promote inclusive social development for girls, boys and their families.…

International Seminar "Challenges of social registers and forms of payment of social protection programs in Haiti: opportunities to strengthen the capacities of MAST and SIMAST"

Participate in this event that aims to contribute to this capacity-building by offering a space for exchange, learning, and technical capacity enhancement for MAST officials, its autonomous bodies, and state institutions involved in implementing the PNPPS. …

Caribbean Regional Breakout Session at the ECOSOC Youth Forum

The Caribbean Regional Breakout Session will provide a space to present the results of the youth regional preparatory consultations and local dialogues in the framework of the 14th ECOSOC Youth Forum and the 8th Forum of LAC Countries on Sustainable Development, providing an opportunity to promote and strengthen the dialogue with Member States and UN agencies, for a meaningful and inclusive children, youth and adolescent (CYA) participation in the acceleration of action towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.…

Session on the Second World Summit for Social Development (Qatar, 2025)

Sesión desarrollada en el marco de la Octava Reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible 2025. A desarrollarse en Santiago, desde el 31 de marzo al 4 de abril.…

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

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…

Special Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean

Background The member States of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) decided, under Resolution 682(XXXV), approved at the thirty-fifth session of the Commission held in May 2014, to establish the Regional Conference on Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean as one of the subsidiary bodies of ECLAC. Among its objectives are to promote the improvement of national social development policies, foster international, regional, and bilateral cooperation among offices and institutions, examine multidimensional poverty, and advance the measurement of povert…

Webinar "Challenges of Non-Contributory Social Protection in Advancing Towards Inclusive Social Development"

Join this webinar where challenges and opportunities for the region will be discussed to move towards the consolidation of universal, comprehensive, sustainable, and resilient social protection systems, and their contribution to eradicating poverty, reducing inequalities, and overcoming development traps, all on the path to the Second World Summit on Social Development in 2025.…

Regional training workshop on the use of REDATAM for the dissemination of census and survey microdata

The overall objective of this regional workshop is to train staff from the statistical offices of Jamaica and Belize in the use of REDATAM for the development of web applications for online dissemination of census and survey microdata. With follow-up support from ECLAC to be provided as necessary, the two statistical offices will then use REDATAM for online dissemination of their 2022 census data.…

In-Person Training in Gender Statistics for Turks and Caicos Islands

The overall objective of this technical assistance is to improve the technical capacity of staff and management of the Department of Gender Affairs, the Department of Statistics, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Government of Turks and Caicos Islands to collect, analyze, utilize and disseminate sex-disaggregated data in accordance with international standards and best practices.…

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.…

Side event "The Expansion of Social Registries to Advance the Implementation of Labour Inclusion Policies in the Face of a Reconfiguring Risk Structure"

The side event will address the challenges for social registers to have up-to-date and timely information required to confront shocks, disasters and the impacts of the climate crisis, assuring access to universal social protection, specially, for population groups with higher levels of vulnerability. Special emphasis will be placed on information and indicators for social protection policies that foster labour inclusion strategies, thus ensuring the livelihoods of this group and strengthen their resilience strategies for future shocks. The event is organised in the framework of the ECLAC-BMZ/g…

Side event: launch of report "The cost of the double burden of malnutrition: main social and economic impacts in eight Latin American countries"

Background In 2005, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) developed and applied the methodology for studying the Cost of Hunger with the aim of estimating the social and economic impact of malnutrition in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, and thereby informing governments and legislatures in LAC countries about the comprehensive impact of malnutrition on individuals, families and the economy of nations, in order to motivate public policies that allow for an effective response to this problem and guarantee the right to food of their pop…

Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean

The Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held in Bridgetown, Barbados, on October 31, 2024, in the framework of the XVI Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This meeting will bring together all the authorities from the Ministries or Secretariats of Social Development and their equivalents, and the outcomes will be recorded in a report that will be distributed to all member countries of ECLAC. The Presiding Officers el…

Education can’t wait: Enabling conditions and investment for a better future in Latin America and the Caribbean

Be part of this event that brings together high authorities of the region to consolidate and mobilize a common position to ensure the enabling conditions and financing strategies that will allow for a sustainable transformation of public education, the achievement of the educational goals of the 2030 Agenda, and, with this, the advancement towards guaranteeing the human right to education for all.…

Virtual Training in Gender Statistics for Turks and Caicos Islands

The overall objective of this technical assistance is to improve the technical capacity of staff and management of the Department of Gender Affairs, the Department of Statistics, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Government of Turks and Caicos Islands to collect, analyze, utilize and disseminate sex-disaggregated data in accordance with international standards and best practices.…

Seminar "Challenges in moving towards universal health in Chile: the role of Primary Health Care (PHC) and financial sustainability"

This seminar aims to discuss and reflect on the lessons learned and challenges faced in advancing towards universal health in Chile. It will focus on the centrality of the PHC strategy, and the challenges associated with financing the necessary reforms to the current health system.…

Eighth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable

Confronting the challenges to resilient growth and sustainable development in the Caribbean: from dialogue to action post the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States…

Webinar "Facing the Learning Crisis: Progress and Challenges with Education Policies. Lessons from Latin American and Caribbean countries"

This July 25, join this event jointly organized by UNICEF, ECLAC, World Bank, IEFG, UNESCO and USAID.…

“Social cohesion for inclusive social development in Latin America: monitoring, challenges and opportunities in an era of uncertainties"

The central focus of the Fourth Regional Seminar on Social Development Social Protection and Inequality: Latin America and the Caribbean towards the Second World Summit for Social Development in 2025 is inequality. In this context, the objective of this parallel event is to open the discussion on the state of social cohesion in the region.…