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ECLAC Participated in Education, Skills and Labour Market Panel during High Level Segment of ECOSOC

1 Apr 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), represented by its Deputy Executive Secretary Antonio Prado, took part in the panel Finding the Opportunities: Matching Education and Skills to Market Demands, held this Wednesday 1 April in New York as part of the 2015 Integration Segment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The panel, moderated by Mr. Prado, was formed by Elizabeth A. Vazquez, CEO and Co-Founder, WeConnect International; Ron Bruder, Founder, Education for Employment; and Zach Sims, Co-founder and CEO, Codecademy. The experts discussed…

Study Proposes Public Policy Priorities for Colombian Cities in Accordance with their Social Development

31 Mar 2015 | News

A new study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) classifies Colombia’s 23 main cities into six groups according to their social development levels, and proposes priorities in differentiated public policies tailored to each metropolis’ stage of demographic transition. The report Differentiated Social Policies for Cities in Colombia: A New Generation of Social Policies (only available in Spanish) distinguishes between cities that are elderly, mature, adult, big and young, adolescent and embryonic, according to their demographic features, levels of economic pover…

Haiti Needs to Strengthen Its Social Protection System for Childhood and Adolescence

30 Mar 2015 | News

The Haitian State must play a more active role in the social protection system oriented towards childhood and adolescence in the country, in order to improve its quality, broaden its coverage, achieve stable financing and overcome today’s fragmentation, according to the study Promoción y protección social de la infancia y adolescencia en Haití (Promotion and Social Protection of Childhood and Adolescence in Haiti), prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Despite the fact that 47.7 % of Haiti’s population is under 20 years old (2012), and around half liv…

Latin American and Norwegian Perspective on Public Policies for Equality Will Be Analyzed in a Seminar

26 Mar 2015 | Announcement

Public policies geared toward equality in the labor market, education and social protection, among other areas, will be examined by government officials and academics during a seminar to be held on Monday, March 30 and Tuesday 31, 2015 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The high-level seminar “Paths Toward Equality and Development: Latin America-Norway Dialogue” is organized by ECLAC and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be opened on March 30, at 0900 a.m. by Hege Araldsen, Norwegian Ambassador to Chil…

ECLAC is assisting the subregion in identifying Caribbean SDGs

26 Mar 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters is strongly supporting the regional effort to identify among these SDGs, those representing the most crucial development challenges facing the Caribbean, with a view to consolidating support and action towards addressing them. ECLAC will facilitate the consideration of Caribbean SDGs at a technical meeting of key stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations and civil society. The meeting, to be held on Friday 27 March at ECLAC Port of Spain, will be attended by Caribbean experts and wil…

ECLAC and UNAIDS Sign Agreement to Support the Regional Response to HIV/AIDS

24 Mar 2015 | News

With the goal of promoting and facilitating cooperation on matters related to the regional response to HIV/AIDS, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Latin America signed a memorandum of understanding this month in Santiago, Chile. The agreement, signed by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, and the Regional Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), César Núñez, states that both institutions share the commitment to promote universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support, reduce…

United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston Meets with ECLAC Officials

17 Mar 2015 | News

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, visited today the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where he had meetings with various officials from the regional organization. Alston, an Australian, was welcomed by ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado, on behalf of the Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena. His agenda included meetings with ECLAC’s experts on poverty, inequality, education and social protection. ECLAC is one of the five United Nations regional commissions…

Poverty and Indigence Reduction Stalls in Most of Latin American Countries

26 Jan 2015 | News

Poverty affected 28% of Latin America’s population in 2014, revealing that its decline has stalled at around that level since 2012, while indigence rose to 12.0% from 11.3% during the same two-year period in an overall context of economic deceleration, according to the projections from a study presented today by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The document Social Panorama of Latin America 2014 indicates that the poverty situation in the region remained stable between 2012 and 2013, when it affected 28.1% of the population. It is estimated…

ECLAC Participated in the Fourth Challenges of Government Conference at Oxford University

17 Dec 2014 | News

A series of policy proposals related to education and the labor market were formulated by the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Antonio Prado, during the fourth Challenges of Government Conference 2014: Flourishing Cities, organized by the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. The event took place on December 11-12 and brought together international experts to discuss the challenges of inclusive growth, the population’s well-being and environmental sustainability in light of the world’s rapid urbanization. P…

OECD, ECLAC and CAF to Launch their Joint Latin American Economic Outlook 2015

5 Dec 2014 | Announcement

The eighth edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook: Education, Skills and Innovation will be launched on Tuesday 9 December at 8:30am in the margins of the Ibero-American Summit at the Conventions Center, World Trade Centre, in Veracruz, Mexico. This year’s edition focuses on how the region can increase the levels and quality of education and skills in order to foster productivity and competitiveness as well as a more inclusive society, in a context of growth slowdown. The report will be presented by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America a…

ECLAC meeting secures commitment to Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

3 Dec 2014 | News

The Caribbean technical meeting on the Beijing +20 review and appraisal of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action took place at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago Chile, on 14 - 15 November 2014. The meeting focused attention on the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, and provided a forum for reflection on the ongoing gender concerns facing the Caribbean subregion during the past two decades. Participants from 10 member and two associate member states of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Com…

ECLAC regional workshop on the development of REDATAM applications for the dissemination of census data

26 Sep 2014 | News

A team drawn from ECLAC’s subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and the regional headquarters in Santiago, Chile will be holding a training workshop to support the statistical offices of Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, and Barbados in the development of web-based applications for the dissemination of national census data. Organised at the request of the respective governments, the workshop will take place from 29 September to 10 October 2014 in Saint George’s, Grenada, and follows a similar workshop held in Trinidad and Tobago in February 2014. REDATAM is a software program developed by the…

Uruguay's Agricultural Sector, An Example of Structural Change

1 Sep 2014 | News

According to a recent publication by ECLAC, even though Uruguay's economy heavily depends on exports derived from natural resource-intensive activities (70%), changes introduced in the agricultural sector have improved the country's international competitiveness and its social indicators. This progress indicates, according to the organization, that Uruguay is creating the conditions to achieve a more inclusive social development. In the report Changes in Uruguay's Agricultural and Agro-industrial Dynamics and Public Policies (Spanish only), published by ECLAC's office in Montevideo, …

Report Urges Region to Incorporate International Guidelines to Measure Disabilities

1 Sep 2014 | News

It is estimated that some 70.6 million people lived with some kind of disability in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2001 and 2013, which is equivalent to 12.5 % of the region's population, according to a report by the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA), a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which recommends that countries incorporate international guidelines into their statistical procedures on this topic. The document, which is based on information provided by the national statistics offices in 17 Latin American s…

Authorities and Civil-Society Representatives Discussed Situation of People with Disabilities

2 Jun 2014 | News

The situation of people with disabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean was analysed at a meeting held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, on 30 May. At the event, representatives of organizations for people with disabilities and their families took part in a dialogue with observers from the Government of Chile, local human-rights organizations and United Nations system agencies. The aim of the meeting, which was opened by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Mauro Tamayo Rozas, Director of the Chile…

ECLAC Organizes Seminar in Quito on Public Policies in Light of Climate Change

28 May 2014 | News

To provide a space for reflection on public policies related to climate change, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold a seminar this Thursday and Friday, May 29-30, in Quito, Ecuador, called "Public Policies in the Face of Climate Change: Pro-development Measures, Environmental Tax Reforms and Progress on Universal Social Protection in Latin America." The event-which will take place in the framework of the EUROCLIMA Program, funded by the European Union-will be attended by government officials and international experts from Europe and Latin America. The …

UN Women Calls on Global Citizens to Bring Gender Equality into Focus

22 May 2014 | News

New York - UN Women today launched a major campaign in the lead-up to the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the historic Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. A year of activities around the world will aim to mobilize governments and citizens alike to picture a world where gender equality is a reality and to join a global conversation on empowering women to empower humanity. Events will focus on achievements and gaps in gender equality and women's empowerment since 189 governments adopted the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. This visionary blueprint pa…

ECLAC Will Present in Lima Proposals for a Sustainable Future in the Region

14 Apr 2014 | News

"The sessions are ECLAC's most significant event because they gather together all its Member States and Associate Members to analyze the situation in Latin America and the Caribbean," Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations organization, said during an informational meeting with ambassadors held this Monday, April 14, in Santiago, Chile. This was the last meeting of its kind before the Thirty-fifth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which will take place May 5-9 in Lima, Peru. The previous informational meetings were held in …

Illiteracy Affects Almost 38 Million People in Latin America and the Caribbean

2 Dec 2013 | News

On average, 9% of those aged 15 and over are completely illiterate in Latin American and Caribbean countries (about 38 million people), according to estimates based on official data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, says a study prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which examines the main relevant strategies currently developed in the region. If we consider functional illiteracy (which means the lack of skills and abilities that people need to function in various life situations), the figure is significantly higher - according to the documen…

How Are Social Policy Consensuses Achieved?

1 Oct 2013 | News

Why is a covenant important? And how does consensus come about in terms of social policy? These are two of the questions that ECLAC seeks to answer in a new study on this recurring topic in the work of the United Nations Commission. The document Building covenants and consensus in social policy: notes for a framework of analysis , which was produced by officials from the Social Development Division, is based on a practical concern and a paradox. According to the authors Carlos Maldonado and Andrea Palma, "The paradox is that, despite the importance of re…

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