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New skills for financial experts to improve financial transactions

26 April 2017 | News

The Digital Financial Services (DFS) Workshop is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean in partnership with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT), the UWI St. Augustine Campus, and the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU). In light of the success of the Financial Technology workshop held in Port of Spain from 1 - 3 June 2016, the DFS workshop should benefit policy makers seeking greater participation in the digital econom…

Lawyers from 18 Countries in the Region Attend United Nations Course in International Law at ECLAC

26 April 2017 | News

Lawyers and legal specialists from 18 countries in the region kicked off on Wednesday, April 26 the United Nations Regional Course in International Law for Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be held at ECLAC’s facilities in Santiago, Chile. This four-week program is being attended by 22 scholars and prestigious professors who will address various subjects of international law. The course is organized by the Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, in collaboration with the government of Chile and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (…

2030 Agenda and Multilateral Cooperation are Indispensable for Confronting Global Tensions: ECLAC

26 April 2017 | News

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, multilateralism, integration and regional cooperation are indispensable instruments for confronting the economic, social and environmental tensions provoked by the uncertain international scenario, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), asserted today. The senior United Nations official, along with Mexican Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights Miguel Ruiz Cabañas, initiated the work of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable D…

More Than 150 Civil Society Organizations Meet in Mexico Before the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development Begins

25 April 2017 | News

Some 231 representatives of 156 civil society organizations from 19 countries in the region are meeting this Tuesday, April 25, in Mexico City, just before the first meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, which will be inaugurated on Wednesday at a ceremony in the National Palace and will run through Friday, convened under the auspices of ECLAC. The meeting with civil society, which is taking place in the Krystal Grand Reforma Uno hotel, was inaugurated by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the …

ECLAC Calls for Strengthened South-South Cooperation to Attain the Sustainable Development Goals

25 April 2017 | News

Only by combining initiatives and efforts will the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean be able to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), since what is needed is global governance and new partnerships between States, their citizens and the private sector. In responding to that imperative, South-South cooperation can and must make a significant contribution, says the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Daniel Titelman, the Director of the Economic Development Division of ECLAC, representing the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Regional Co…

How to Follow the First Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development in Mexico

18 April 2017 | News

The first meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, created in 2016, will be held on April 26-28 in Mexico City, Mexico, under the sponsorship of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The objective is to assess regional implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The event will be attended by representatives of governments, the United Nations, international financial institutions and development banks, regional and subregional integration organizations, civil society, the parliamentary…

ECLAC addresses the situation of persons with disabilities in the Caribbean

12 April 2017 | News

With populations ageing and an increasing number of people suffering from non-communicable diseases, the number of people in the Caribbean living with some form of disability is expected to rise in coming years. The prevalence of disability could increase by 30 to 40% between 2015 and 2050. In anticipation of this, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean is urging the subregion to take early action. On 11 April 2017, ECLAC Caribbean brought together policy makers in the fields of disabilities, social development and human r…

ECLAC Hosts Regional Meeting, the First of its Kind Globally, between the Statistics and Geospatial Communities of Latin America and the Caribbean

5 April 2017 | News

Members of the statistics community, represented by the Statistical Conference of the Americas, and of the geospatial information field, grouped together in a United Nations committee of experts, held today the first meeting of its kind carried out at a global level, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. This joint meeting was inaugurated by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena; Mario Palma, Vice President of Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), in his role as Chair of the Executive Comm…

ECLAC lays out framework for building a competitive Caribbean economy

30 March 2017 | News

In order to build a competitive economy, Caribbean countries must engage in economic restructuring and diversification practices in several areas, including agriculture, transportation and telecommunications. This, according to the latest policy brief from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean. Entitled `A framework for Caribbean medium-term development’, the brief examined the adjustments that the subregion has made – and the ones that it may need to make – in response to the challenging global environment. It obse…

ECLAC: Montevideo Strategy Seeks to Untie the Structural Knots of Gender Inequality in the Region

17 March 2017 | News

“The Montevideo Strategy is an ambitious political and technical instrument that seeks to untie the structural knots of gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean,” said María Nieves Rico, Director of the Gender Affairs Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at a side event to the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61) that is taking place in New York. The Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030, which sets 10 pillars for implementation, w…

ECLAC Study Classifies Colombia’s Provinces According to their Rurality and Connections

15 March 2017 | News

A new study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) proposes a methodology for classifying Colombia’s provinces according to their degree of urbanization or rurality, and their integration with markets and main hubs, since grouping these territorial units into homogeneous categories can contribute to improving the efficiency of public policies aimed at rural development. The document Territorial Configuration of Colombia’s Provinces: Rurality and Networks, produced by ECLAC’s Office in Bogota, analyzes the characteristics of Colombian provinces along with the pro…

ECLAC Assesses Performance of Brazil’s National Climate Change Fund

15 March 2017 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has published a report assessing the performance and contributions of Brazil’s National Climate Change Fund (known by the Portuguese acronym FNMC) as an instrument of the National Climate Change Policy (PNMC) and analysing its positive aspects, limitations and lessons learned. The Avaliação do Fundo Clima document (available only in Portuguese) highlights the fact that Brazil is one of only a few countries in the world to have its own instrument for funding climate change policies. “The country recognizes the need for resour…

Eco-Innovation: What It Is, and How It Can Be Measured in Latin America and the Caribbean

15 March 2017 | News

Green innovation —or eco-innovation— can be described in general terms as the introduction, by any area within a company, of a new or significantly improved product, process or method for marketing or organization in order to create economic benefits and reduce environmental impact. This topic is examined in depth in two new documents from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The first of these, Eco-innovation and green production: An overview of policies in Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish only), aims to explain the factors that guide eco-innovatio…

ECLAC hosts disaster seminar and training in Barbados

13 March 2017 | News

PORT OF SPAIN, 08 March 2017 - The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean takes its Disaster Assessment expertise to Barbados from 14-16 March 2017, for a seminar which will benefit representatives of national disaster agencies from Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Entitled ‘Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Building’, the seminar will facilitate discussions on a number of timely issues, including the role of planning in disaster risk management and its impact on the attainment of the United Nations S…

ECLAC promotes integrated national development planning to support the implementation of the SDGs in the Caribbean

13 February 2017 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is promoting integrated development planning as a key element of national strategy towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Caribbean. This will be the focus of discussion among representatives of more than 20 Caribbean nations at a symposium being held in Kingston, Jamaica from 14-16 February 2017. The SDGs represent 17 global aspirations, covering the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September …

Applications Open for the Eighteenth Session of the ECLAC Summer School

10 February 2017 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has announced the start of the application process for the 2017 Summer School on Latin American Economies, a training programme for young researchers interested in studying Latin America’s development process. The Summer School’s eighteenth session will be held from 20 July to 8 September 2017 at the headquarters of the United Nations Regional Commission in Santiago, Chile. The registration period ends on 10 April and the list of selected candidates will be published on 17 April. The Summer School is organized by the ECLAC Di…

Step by step disaster guidelines to be finalized following joint ECLAC WHO/PAHO training

9 February 2017 | News

During the course of this week, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) together with the World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO) will conduct a series of training workshops on disaster assessment in Peru. The joint workshop will focus on the “Evaluation of the Socio-economic Impact of Disasters in the Health, Water and Sanitation sectors” and takes place on 6-7 February in Lima, and 9-10 in Piura. The workshops are part of WHO/PAHO’sefforts to finalise a step-by-step field guide on assessing disasters. The guide relies on the Damage an…

UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions Meets at ECLAC

9 February 2017 | News

The United Nations Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions met for the first time at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, on 6 and 7 February. The purpose of the meeting was to review its regular work programme and to hold discussions with the regional commission’s senior officers. The Committee’s ten-person delegation was led by its Chairman, the Mexican diplomat Carlos Ruiz Massieu, and by its Vice-Chairman, Babou Sene of Senegal. They were received at ECLAC by Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena, Depu…

Eight countries receive disaster training in Trinidad and Tobago

27 January 2017 | News

During the various sessions, participants will learn about the complexities of a disaster, how it might affect different sectors, and how to properly apply ECLAC’s Disaster Assessment Methodology, as well as the necessary information needed to implement it. Director of ECLAC Caribbean, Diane Quarless, noted in her opening remarks that the week’s activities “places appropriate emphasis on disaster risk management, in which the imperatives of risk reduction, risk identification, preparedness and financial protection are critical pillars of sustainable development and resilience.” These perspect…

New UN chief Guterres pledges to make 2017 'a year for peace'

1 January 2017 | News

On his first day at the helm of the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres today pledged to make 2017 a year for peace. “On this New Year's Day, I ask all of you to join me in making one shared New Year's resolution: Let us resolve to put peace first,” said Mr. Guterres in an appeal for peace. He said one question weighs heavy on his heart. “That is: how can we help the millions of people caught up in conflict, suffering massively in wars with no end in sight?” “Peace must be our goal and our guide,” he said, urging all citizens, governments and leaders to strive to overcome differ…

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