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Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean Will Analyze the Challenges of International Cooperation in Shaping the New Regional and Global Context

4 June 2025 | Announcement

Representatives of government, the United Nations system, and regional and international organizations will analyze the challenges of international cooperation in shaping the new regional and global context during the Second Session of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will take place on June 17-18, 2025. The intergovernmental meeting will be inaugurated on Tuesday, June 17 at 10:00 a.m. Chile time (GMT -4) by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC);…

Economic Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean Will Analyze at ECLAC the Fiscal Challenges Facing the Region’s Countries in a Context of Heightened Global Uncertainty

23 May 2025 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will host on May 26-28 the XXXVII session of the Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, a traditional forum that has brought together authorities, specialists, members of civil society and academia for over 35 years to discuss the fiscal policy challenges facing the region’s countries. Finance Ministry authorities from 13 of the region’s countries will participate in the meeting, along with prominent experts from international organizations, academia, civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations. The seminar…

ECLAC Will Update Its Economic Growth Projections for 2025

28 April 2025 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release its new 2025 economic growth projections for the region’s countries tomorrow Tuesday, April 29. In light of the behavior of the region’s economies in the first few months of this year, and taking into account the current situation of persistent volatility and international uncertainty, the United Nations regional organization will update the growth estimates that were released in its most recent flagship annual economic report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, whic…

Five Years Before the Deadline for Achieving the 2030 Agenda, Senior Authorities and Experts Will Analyze the Challenges Faced by Latin America and the Caribbean at the Eighth Meeting of the Forum of the Countries on Sustainable Development

18 March 2025 | Announcement

Senior government authorities from Latin America, the Caribbean and other regions of the world, along with officials and experts from the United Nations System, international and regional organizations, the private sector, academia and civil society will gather at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile on March 31-April 4 at the eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development to review the progress and challenges related to achieving the 2030 Agenda in the region – five years ahead of the deadline set for its fulfillment. Mo…

Authorities Will Review Implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean

14 March 2025 | Announcement

Representatives of the Member States and associate members of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and of intergovernmental and United Nations system organizations, along with relevant stakeholders, will review implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean, at a meeting to be held on March 18-20 at ECLAC’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The Second regional review meeting on the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Latin America and the Caribbea…

Authorities from Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Participate at ECLAC in Dialogues on Global, Regional, and National Action to Fulfill the 2030 Agenda

3 March 2025 | Announcement

Representatives of governments, the United Nations System, regional and international organizations, the private sector, academia and civil society will analyze progress and challenges for fulfilling the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean during the eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, to be chaired by Peru from March 31-April 4 at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Santiago, Chile. Ten years after the historic approval of the 2030 Agenda, this…

Ten Years After the Adoption of the 2030 Agenda, Latin American and Caribbean Countries Are Gathering at the Eighth Regional Forum Meeting to Drive Progress in Its Implementation

31 January 2025 | Announcement

The Eighth Meeting of the Forum of Latin American and Caribbean Countries on Sustainable Development will be held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, from 31 March to 4 April 2025, under the chairship of Peru. The objective of the meeting is to assess the progress and challenges in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the region. Marking ten years since the historic adoption of the 2030 Agenda, this edition of the Forum will include a series of global, regional, and national action dialogues. In the …

Authorities Will Review Implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean

24 January 2025 | Announcement

Representatives of ECLAC’s Member States and associate members and of intergovernmental and United Nations system organizations, along with relevant stakeholders, will review implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in Latin America and the Caribbean, at a meeting that will be held on March 18-20 at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The Second regional review meeting on the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Latin America and the …

ECLAC Will Update Economic Growth Projections for the Region’s Countries at the Launch of its Last Annual Report from 2024

12 December 2024 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present on Wednesday, December 18 its annual flagship report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, in which it examines the behavior of the region’s economies over the current year and updates estimates for growth and other economic indicators in 2024 and 2025. Specifically, the document will present new Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth estimates for the region and all of its countries in 2024 and 2025. In this edition, the report analyzes the economic and social dynamics of the…

Ministers and Senior Authorities Will Meet at ECLAC to Review Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 30 Years After its Approval as well as Preparations for the XVI Regional Conference on Women, to be Held in Mexico in 2025

29 November 2024 | Announcement

Ministers and senior authorities from national women’s advancement mechanisms in the region will participate on December 4-5, 2024, in the Sixty-sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. This meeting – which has become a critical space for evaluating the region’s progress on gender equality and women’s autonomy – is being organized by ECLAC, in its capacity as Secretariat of the Conference, in coo…

Authorities from the Region Will Discuss the Challenges of Transforming Institutional Frameworks for Development Planning

26 November 2024 | Announcement

Government representatives will address the challenges of transforming development planning along with current and new requests for training in the region, among other issues, at the Thirtieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP) of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), which will take place on November 27-28, 2024 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The event will be inaugurated on Wednesday, November 27 at 9 a.m. local time in Chile…

Jon Azúa, Prominent Spanish Academic Specialised in Clusters, will Give the XVIII Raúl Prebisch Lecture at ECLAC

19 November 2024 | Announcement

Prominent Spanish academic specialised in clusters Jon Azúa will give the XVIII Raúl Prebisch Lecture on Tuesday, 26 November, 2024 at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters, where he will be welcomed by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the regional organisation’s Executive Secretary. The President and founder of Enovating Lab will give his lecture, titled “Clustering a productive, competitive, prosperous, inclusive and sustainable economy: towards the co-creation of the economic development we want”, at 11:00 local time (UTC/GMT -3:00). Jon Azúa holds a…

ECLAC Will Release New Figures on Poverty, Inequality and Social Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

5 November 2024 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present on Tuesday, November 12 its flagship annual report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2024: The challenges of non-contributory social protection in advancing towards inclusive social development, which includes the latest data available on poverty, income inequality and social spending in the region. This year’s central theme is non-contributory social protection. The main conclusions of the document – comprising four chapters – will be presented by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive …

Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean Will Be Held in Chile

30 October 2024 | Announcement

Authorities from the region and key actors from the private sector, civil society, technical community and international organizations will meet in Santiago, Chile on November 7-8, 2024 to participate in the Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, also known as eLAC, a body belonging to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). At this intergovernmental gathering, participants will adopt the new Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean that will guide the region over the next two years (eLAC2026). They wil…

XVI Ministerial Forum for Development to Harness the Power of Resilience to Overcome Development Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

28 October 2024 | Announcement

WHAT: The XVI Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean will discuss how the region can advance and protect social gains in the context of more frequent and intense shocks. This gathering builds on the discussions initiated at the XIII Ministerial Forum in Antigua and Barbuda in 2021, which discussed disasters and social protection systems in the context of protracted crises. The Forum is co-organized and hosted by the Government of Barbados with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Economic Commi…

Authorities Will Discuss in Barbados the Challenges in Implementing the Regional Agenda for Inclusive Social Development

24 October 2024 | Announcement

Ministers for Social Development and equivalent bodies from Latin America and the Caribbean will meet on Thursday, October 31, 2024 in Bridgetown, Barbados to discuss the challenges associated with implementation of the Regional Agenda for Inclusive Social Development (approved in 2019) along with the messages that the region will take to the Second World Summit for Social Development, due to be held in Qatar in November 2025. The authorities will participate in the Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, a su…

ECLAC Will Present New Projections on Latin America and the Caribbean’s Foreign Trade in 2024

16 October 2024 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release its annual report International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2024: Reconfiguration of global trade and options for regional recovery next Wednesday, October 23. In this report, ECLAC examines the evolution of foreign trade in the region’s economies during the first half of this year and presents its projections for the full year’s exports and imports of goods and services. This edition of the document consists of three chapters: the first analyzes the recent context for trade and its prospects…

In November “Digital Week in Latin America and the Caribbean” Will Be Held at ECLAC

16 October 2024 | Announcement

The main leaders and decision-makers on digital matters in the public and private sectors, the technical community and civil society from both the region and the European Union will meet on November 5-8, 2024 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, to participate in the “Digital Week in Latin America and the Caribbean.” On November 7-8, the Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held, with the aim of reviewing implementation of the Digital Agenda for Latin America …

ECLAC and PAHO to Present Third Joint Report with Recommendations on Strengthening the Health Systems of Latin America and the Caribbean

14 October 2024 | Announcement

WHAT: Six years from the deadline set to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will present a joint report titled The urgency of investing in health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to reduce inequality and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This is the third publication prepared by both United Nations (UN) agencies, following the reports from 2020 and 2021 that focused on analyzing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The one-hour event wil…

President of Peru, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN, Executive Secretary of ECLAC and representative of the Government of Argentina to open the 40th session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

7 October 2024 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold on October 9-11 in Lima, Peru its Fortieth Session, the United Nations regional commission’s most important biennial meeting, where it will present its proposal for a transformation to move towards a more productive, inclusive and sustainable development model in the region. At this international event – which will draw the participation of authorities from ECLAC’s 46 Member States and its 14 associate members, along with representatives of the United Nations system and of non-governmental organizations – countries w…

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