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ECLAC Advocates for Forging a New Social Compact for Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

6 Feb 2020 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, advocated today for forging a new social compact that puts an end to the deep inequalities affecting the region, during a conference organized by the Italo-Latin American Institute (IILA) in Rome, Italy. The United Nations regional commission’s most senior representative addressed the causes of social tensions in Latin America and the Caribbean, and emphasized that ECLAC has positioned equality as the basis of development, and as an unflagging ethical principle, centered in a rights-…

The Region’s Countries Still Face Multiple Challenges to Overcoming the Structural Constraints of Gender Inequality by 2030

29 Jan 2020 | News

Forty years after the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the establishment of the Regional Gender Agenda, and 25 years since the approval of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, it can be seen that progress on the path to gender equality is not linear. As a result of changes in economic, political and social scenarios, setbacks occur and new challenges emerge to achieving sustainable development based on gender equality, women’s autonomy and respect for their rights. This is according to the first Regional progress report…

Investment is Key for Bolstering Productive Diversification, Infrastructure, and Integration of the Region’s Countries

22 Jan 2020 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, emphasized today in Davos, Switzerland the key role of public, private and foreign direct investment for bolstering productive diversification, infrastructure, and the integration of countries in the region. In the context of her participation in the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the senior United Nations official spoke at a session entitled Strategic Outlook: Emerging Markets on the outlook for emerging markets in 2020, where she presented an economic and social …

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Will Speak about the Region’s Situation at the World Economic Forum 2020

20 Jan 2020 | Announcement

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, will participate this week in distinct sessions of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2020, where she will address issues such as the persistence of inequality and social discontent in the region, as well as the scope of the Comprehensive Development Plan for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and south-southeastern Mexico, among other matters. The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting will take place on January 21-24, 2020 in the Swiss city of Davos under the theme of “Stakeholders for a …

A Week of Inclusion Took Place at ECLAC with the Participation of People with Disabilities in Diverse Activities

9 Dec 2019 | News

A “Week of Inclusion” was held on December 2-6, 2019 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, and included a series of activities in which boys, girls, adolescents and adults with disabilities participated. The objective of the Week of Inclusion – held in the framework of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is celebrated each year on December 3 – is to raise awareness about the contributions that people with distinct disabilities make to our societies and the barriers they face to achieving the full ex…

ECLAC Will Present New Poverty and Inequality Figures and an Analysis of Middle-Income Strata in the Region

21 Nov 2019 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will unveil on Thursday, November 28 its annual report Social Panorama of Latin America 2019, which includes new estimates for monetary poverty, social spending and income inequality in the region’s countries, among other key issues for understanding and taking action in the current regional context. The document will be presented by the Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, Alicia Bárcena, at a press conference that will take place at 11 a.m. (GMT-3) at the Commission’s central headquarters in Sant…

Caribbean experts receive training on policies and policy coherence towards achieving sustainable development

15 Nov 2019 | News

The workshop was hosted by The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean, and jointly organized with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) and Division for Public Institutions and Digital Governance (DPIDG). The workshop was held under the theme, `Integrated Policies and Policy Coherence for the SDGs’, on 13-15 November 2019 at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre, Port of Spai…

Alicia Bárcena Urges for Redoubling Efforts to Forge Proposals that Allow for Lifting the Burden of Inequality in the Region

24 Oct 2019 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, called today for redoubling efforts to formulate evidence-based proposals that allow for lifting the burden of inequality that harms the peoples of the region and threatens the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In a message to ECLAC officials, in the framework of the commemoration of the 74th anniversary of the United Nations’ founding, the regional commission’s most senior representative recalled that while Latin America and the Caribbean is not the world’s…

Signatory Countries of the Escazú Agreement Will Hold Their First Work Meeting on October 11-12 in Costa Rica

7 Oct 2019 | Announcement

The States that have signed or ratified the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean – known as the Escazú Agreement – will hold their first work meeting in San José, Costa Rica, on October 11-12. At the First Meeting of the Signatory Countries of the Escazú Agreement, representatives of the 21 Latin American and Caribbean countries that have already signed it to date will analyze the topics to be addressed at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties, along with strategies and partnership…

Uruguay Presented its National Development Strategy through 2050, with Support from ECLAC

27 Sep 2019 | News

Uruguay’s government presented its National Development Strategy to 2050, which lays the foundations for that country to move towards sustainable development, in a ceremony held in Montevideo with the participation of the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena. The Strategy puts together an extensive set of long-term opportunities for the country, which were identified with the collaboration of hundreds of experts from state entities, business chambers, social and trade-union organizations, academia, and international organiza…

ECLAC’s Summer School 2019 Concludes with the Participation of 40 Students from 19 Countries

27 Sep 2019 | News

Forty postgraduate students from 19 countries worldwide participated in the 20th session of the Summer School on Latin American Economies organized annually by the Division of Production, Productivity and Management of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which included for the first time a week dedicated to gender issues, along with three international seminars – to mention just a few activities. The students – from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain, th…

Authorities Will Debate the Regional Agenda for Inclusive Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

27 Sep 2019 | Announcement

Mexico City, September 27, 2019. Social Development Ministers and senior authorities will debate the policies needed to achieve inclusive social development in the region, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, during the Third Meeting of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. This event is convened by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the government of Mexico, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It will take place on October 1-3, 2019, in Mexico City. At this gathering, attendees …

Uruguay Will Host Two Important Meetings on Planning for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

21 Aug 2019 | Announcement

Ministers, deputy ministers and other senior authorities from the region’s countries, along with representatives of civil society and United Nations organizations, will analyze the progress and challenges related to planning for development in Latin America and the Caribbean during the XVI Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning and the XVII Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP), which will be held on August 28-30 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Participants in these gatherings will analyze the challenges, experiences and perspectives on planning for development in the region, along…

Alicia Bárcena: The Conversation Must Change between Governments, the Private Sector and Civil Society to Meet the SDGs

18 Jul 2019 | News

“The conversation between governments, business and civil society must change. All actors must have a dialogue about what sectors and economic activities can take us more quickly toward fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda,” sustained Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Thursday, July 18 in New York. Bárcena offered closing remarks at the event Global Compact Network: Making global goals global business, organized by the United Nations Global Compact and the permanent missions of Argentina and Lebanon to the United Nations, on…

Regional Forum on Sustainable Development is a Space of Political Consensus among the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean

18 Jul 2019 | News

“The Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development has become a space of political consensus and peer learning among Member States. It is also an example of regional coordination among multiple stakeholders: governments, the UN system, the private sector, the academic sector and civil society,” said Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, at a meeting today in New York with representatives of the countries of the region in the context of the High-Level Political Forum being held at United Nations Headquarters. The purpose of the meeting was to announ…

States Require Integrated, Coordinated, Multilevel Support to Meet the 2030 Agenda

17 Jul 2019 | News

During a side event today to the 2019 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said that the 2030 Agenda is complex and that the support UN member States require to meet the Agenda’s goals must be integrated, coordinated and multilevel. At the event entitled “Beyond July: an integrated support to member States in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda,” representatives of the governments of Chile, Guatemala and Guyana, along with resident coordinators of the…

Ensuring Environmental Rights of the Most Vulnerable is Fundamental to Combating Inequality and Achieving Sustainable Development

15 Jul 2019 | News

The global commitment to sustainable development is the driving force behind the 2030 Agenda. In this setting, rights of access to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters are the cornerstone of democratic societies and play a crucial role in combating inequality and achieving sustainable development, said government authorities, experts from international organizations and civil society today during a side-event to the 2019 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development being held at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The meeting entitled “Establishi…

“ECLAC Notes” Marks 100 Editions Informing the Entire Region about the Commission’s Work

17 Jun 2019 | News

Nearly 21 years ago, in November 1998, the “ECLAC Notes” bulletin came into being, and today we publish its 100th edition. We celebrate this anniversary with great pride, since we are certain that this newsletter has become a key instrument for communicating – not only to the media, but also to the entire community – ECLAC’s proposals for achieving sustainable development in Latin American and Caribbean countries and for promoting the well-being of all its inhabitants. An occasion like this invites us to reflect on the constant efforts that our institution has made to put the data and statisti…

ECLAC Promotes in Colombia the Strengthening of Policies for Inclusive Territorial Development

17 Jun 2019 | News

The isolation of territories and populations in Colombia has left them excluded from pathways to progress, given the entrenched urban bias of development. Contributing to this is the country’s complex geography, the weakness of the State (aggravated by the armed conflict), weak institutional capacities for managing local development, and the sectoral and functional fragmentation of policies. For these reasons, ECLAC’s Office in Bogotá has been implementing since 2018 the project “Rural-urban linkages for inclusive development in Colombia”, which is part of the United Nations Development Accou…

New Document by ECLAC Analyzes the Values of the Social Cost of Carbon for the Development of Public Policies on Climate Change in the Region

17 Jun 2019 | News

Identifying and establishing a social cost of carbon (SCC) is particularly useful for developing public policies on climate change and sustainable development in the region, a new document produced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicates. The report entitled The Social Cost of Carbon: An Aggregate View from Latin America (in Spanish only) – by authors José Eduardo Alatorre, Karina Caballero, Jimy Ferrer and Luis Miguel Galindo –analyzes and narrows down the wide variety of studies and results on SCC to identify their regular patterns and reduce the…

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