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ECLAC Participates in Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration in Marrakech

11 Dec 2018 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, delivered remarks at various sessions in the framework of the intergovernmental conference to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which took place in Marrakech, Morocco on December 10-11, 2018. In these presentations, the senior United Nations official addressed the Global Compact for Migration’s importance from a regional perspective, along with the urgency of multilateral cooperation and regional integration to confront both regional and global challen…

Understanding and Addressing Regional Dimensions is Crucial for Guaranteeing Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

10 Dec 2018 | News

International migration is a global phenomenon, however, the majority of movements take place within regions and, in each region, there are different opportunities and limitations. For that reason, understanding and addressing the regional dimensions of this phenomenon is crucial for guaranteeing safe, orderly and regular migration, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), affirmed today. In the framework of her participation in the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration, which is being held through Tu…

New Public Policies Are Proposed to Eradicate Racism and Discrimination in Guatemala

10 Dec 2018 | News

Guatemala must move toward a new generation of public policies that recognize ethnic diversity in order to eradicate racism and discrimination against indigenous peoples, Wilson Romero and Ana Patricia Orantes recommend in the Study on Racism, Discrimination and Inequality Gaps in Guatemala (in Spanish only), published recently with the collaboration of the Presidential Commission on Discrimination and Racism against the Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala (CODIRSA). According to the authors, the study’s objective is to render visible the social inequality resulting from racism and racial discrimi…

Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is an Opportunity for Inclusive and Sustainable Investments: ECLAC

7 Dec 2018 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, highlighted today in Paris, France that the Chinese-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) could be a significant opportunity to promote inclusive and sustainable investments. This Friday, December 7, Bárcena made a presentation at the fourth Silk Road Forum, held in the French capital by the China Center for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD) and the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF), with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of C…

Small Island Developing States Will Not Achieve the 2030 Agenda if They Do Not Obtain Financing and International Support for Effective Adaptation to Climate Change

13 Nov 2018 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, affirmed today that small island developing states will not achieve the sustainable development committed to in the 2030 Agenda if they do not find an effective way to adapt to climate change. The senior United Nations official participated today, via teleconference, in the special session “Pathways to resilience in climate-affected SIDS: A Forward-Looking Resilience Building Agenda. Promises, results and next steps,” organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Council, in Ne…

Multi-stakeholder Collaboration is Critical to Achieving Sustainable Urban Mobility

19 Oct 2018 | News

Meeting the challenge of sustainable urban mobility entails the collaboration of multiple actors from diverse sectors, both public and private, according to the experts who participated in a training seminar held today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The seminar on Coordination among multiple stakeholders for sustainable urban mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean – organized by ECLAC and the Sciences Po Urban School, with support from the government of France, and held in the framework of the Second Cities Co…

Second Cities Conference Will Address Progress and Challenges to Safe, Affordable and Sustainable Urban Mobility in the Region

12 Oct 2018 | Announcement

Decision-makers and experts linked to sustainable urban development will analyze the progress and challenges related to safe, affordable and sustainable urban mobility in the region during the Second Cities Conference, which will be held on October 16-19 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The latest edition of this regional conference seeks to improve integration between urban planning, management, financing, and mobility and transport systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to achieve sustainable urban development,…

International Cooperation Must Change its Approach to Respond to Latin America and the Caribbean’s Own Needs

3 Oct 2018 | News

International development cooperation must change and move from the traditional approach to one that responds to the particular needs of Latin America and the Caribbean, senior government authorities from various countries in the region and United Nations officials indicated today during the Eighth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation, which took place at the organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The meeting – carried out in the framework of “Development in transition week,” which runs from October 2 to 5 – was inaugurated by the Executive Sec…

Countries of the Region Will Analyze the Statistical Framework for Follow-up to the 2030 Agenda

1 Oct 2018 | Announcement

Representatives of national statistics institutes from the region’s countries will participate on October 3-4 in Santiago, Chile in the Seventeenth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA), where the outcome of the process to prioritize indicators for developing a regional statistical framework for follow-up to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be presented and progress on the activities scheduled for the 2018-2019 biennium will be reviewed. The meeting will be inaugurated by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commissio…

Experts from Latin America and Europe Stress the Importance of Integrating Non-Traditional Data Sources into National Statistical Systems

1 Oct 2018 | News

Experts from Latin America and Europe stressed the importance today of integrating non-traditional data sources into national statistical systems, during a high-level seminar that is being held through Tuesday, October 2 at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The main aim of the event, organized by ECLAC and the European Statistical Office (EUROSTAT), is to present and analyze different tools in the process of the innovative use of non-traditional data sources for official statistics. The seminar was inaugurated by…

ECLAC, the European Union and the Government of Chile Organize a Week Dedicated to “Development in Transition”

28 Sep 2018 | Announcement

On Thursday, October 4, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, a high-level dialogue entitled “Development in transition: development challenges in a changing world” will take place, with keynote addresses by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization; Neven Mimica, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development of the European Union (EU); and Roberto Ampuero, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile. After these speeches, the authorities in attendance wi…

Authorities, Experts and Members of Civil Society Underscore the Importance of Promptly Ratifying the Escazú Agreement

27 Sep 2018 | News

Government authorities, international experts and representatives of non-governmental organizations and other institutions related to environmental protection, sustainable development and the defense of human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean, met today at the Open Society Foundation’s main office in New York to debate the importance of States’ prompt ratification of the Escazú Agreement, which seeks to promote access to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters. The treaty – which was opened to the signature of countries today in the framework of the…

ECLAC and DESA Strengthen Their Cooperation With a View to Fulfilling the 2030 Agenda and Tackling Global Economic Challenges

11 Sep 2018 | News

Liu Zhenmin, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General in charge of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), met today with the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, and the directors of all the Commission’s divisions, in the framework of his visit to Chile. During the meeting, both UN entities reaffirmed the cooperation ties that unite them and renewed their pledge to continue working together to help the global organization’s member countries to advance on fulfilling the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Dev…

Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean Will Address Progress on Planning for Development and Its Challenges

26 Aug 2018 | Announcement

Ministers, deputy ministers and other senior authorities linked to planning for development and public administration from Latin America and the Caribbean will gather at the twenty-seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning, which will be held on August 30 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The meeting will be preceded by a high-level international seminar on “Territorialization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Policy Challenges,” which will take place on August 29 and 30 in the Dominican capital. Both mee…

Progress on Implementing Priority Measures of the Montevideo Consensus Praised, but Challenges Remain

8 Aug 2018 | News

The pending challenges to address the demands of girls, boys, adolescents and young people in the region, aging, access to sexual and reproductive health, and persistent gender gaps were some of the issues discussed during the second day of the third session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is being held through Thursday, August 9, in the Convention Center of Lima, Peru. On the first panel of the session – organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the government of Peru, with support fr…

Authorities Value Progress on the Achievement of Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Region

31 Jul 2018 | News

Ministers and authorities on women’s affairs valued the progress made on achieving gender equality and women’s rights in the region during the closing session of the fifty-seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which concluded today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The regional meeting came to a close with speeches by Mariella Mazzotti, Director of the National Women’s Institute (INMUJERES) of Uruguay, in her role as president of the Presiding…

Access to Financing and Improved Fiscal Capacities Are Crucial to Achieving Inclusive, Resilient and Sustainable Cities

12 Jul 2018 | News

Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) – which seeks to achieve inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and human settlements ­– faces a series of challenges. Access to financing and improved fiscal capacities at the local level are crucial to attaining sustainable urban development, pointed out Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), during a side event to the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) being held in New York. In the meeting on “Effective Implementation, Monitoring and Financing of SDG11 - reinforcing crucia…

Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters Strengthens Democracy and Promotes Growth with Equality and Sustainability

11 Jul 2018 | News

The Regional Agreement on access to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters (Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration of 1992) – adopted in Escazu, Costa Rica on March 4, 2018 – strengthens environmental democracy and represents a crucial step toward the construction of societies with economic growth based on sustainable development and equality, said Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Olga Algayerova, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), during an eve…

Alicia Bárcena: Planning is Key to Implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

10 Jul 2018 | News

The new development paradigm proposed by the 2030 Agenda positions and reappraises planning as a means of implementation and demands a long-term vision, with coherent policies linked to budget periods, with the availability of timely and quality data and statistical information, and with transparent and participatory systems for monitoring, accountability and evaluation, Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today. The senior United Nations official participated in the event Policy Coherence: From the Global to the …

ECLAC Promotes Gathering of Structuralist Youth in Brazil

25 Jun 2018 | News

In 2018, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) celebrates 70 years in existence. This motivated its office in Brazil to bring together in a book a new generation influenced by structuralist thinking to discuss alternatives for the country. The gathering together of Brazilian “structuralist youth” in this book shows that, despite the context of major transformations in the international economy and the profound uncertainties stemming from the current Brazilian crisis, structuralist thinking continues to be proactive since alternatives exist for building development…

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