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

4 Oct 2017 | Announcement

Ministers, deputy ministers and senior authorities involved in development planning and public administration, along with representatives of civil society and United Nations bodies, will gather at the XV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the XVI Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning, which will take place on October 11-13 in Lima, Peru. Both meetings are organized by the governments of Guatemala and Ecuador – which currently serve as co-presidents of the Council – the government of Peru, as the host, and the Economic Commission for Lati…

Regional Conference on Women Organized by ECLAC Commemorates 40th Anniversary in Havana

29 Sep 2017 | Announcement

The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean – which is the main regional discussion forum on gender equality and women’s autonomy – turns 40 years old, and its anniversary will be commemorated in the same place where the first gathering took place in 1977: Havana, Cuba. On October 5-6, the Hotel Nacional de Cuba will be the site of the Fifty-Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the government of Cuba, through the…

Republic of Turkey Joins ECLAC as a Member State

29 Sep 2017 | News

The Republic of Turkey officially became a Member State of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at a ceremony held this Friday, September 29, in the Patio de las Banderas of the UN regional organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The event was presided by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, and Naciye Gökçen Kaya, the Republic of Turkey’s Ambassador to Chile. Also in attendance were representatives of the diplomatic corps stationed in Chile, as well as national authorities and officials from international organizations. “Today we officially welco…

ECLAC and BMZ Analyze in Lima a New Phase of Collaboration with a Focus on the 2030 Agenda

28 Sep 2017 | News

Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) of the United Nations, and Christiane Bögemann-Hagedorn, Deputy Director General for Latin America of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), met on Wednesday, September 27, in Lima, Peru to analyze the results of the current cooperation program and evaluate the scope of a new phase of collaboration for the 2018-2020 period. Both Bárcena and Bögemann-Hagedorn are in the Peruvian capital participating in the IV Regional Conference on Prospects for Triangu…

National, Subnational Governments and Experts to Analyze at ECLAC Mechanisms of Implementation for New Urban Agenda in the Region

28 Sep 2017 | Announcement

Decision-makers and experts linked to urban development and territorial management and planning in Latin America and the Caribbean will analyze the strategic aspects of and mechanisms for implementing and monitoring the New Urban Agenda in the region during the Cities Conference, to be held October 2-6 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The Conference, which is taking place nearly one year after the Habitat III Conference held in Quito, will bring together national and subnational actors, representatives from academia …

Middle Income Countries Require Differentiated and Fair Access to Financing for Development: Alicia Bárcena

21 Sep 2017 | News

Middle income countries require differentiated access to the mobilization of external resources, capital markets, concessional financing and trade, along with bolstered instruments to attract quality foreign direct investment, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), contended today. The regional organization’s most senior representative participated in the second high-level ministerial meeting of like-minded nations that support middle income countries, which was held in New York and coordinated and organized by the Foreign Mi…

ECLAC Advocates for the Combined Use of Traditional Statistics and Big Data for Measuring SDGs

19 Sep 2017 | News

Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), advocated today in New York for developing mechanisms for governance of official and unofficial statistics to measure the 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which she said would entail the participation of all stakeholders, including States and major companies. “We have to combine traditional statistics with big data and georeferenced data for sustainable development and humanitarian purposes,” ECLAC’s most senior representative said at a high-level side event entitl…

Countries of the Region Will Evaluate Progress and Challenges to Implementing Measures on Population and Development

14 Sep 2017 | Announcement

Representatives of countries in the region will evaluate progress on and challenges to the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus as well as its synergy and complementarity with the 2030 Agenda at the Special Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, which will be held November 7-9 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The meeting will be inaugurated by Raúl García-Buchaca, ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary for Management and Programme Analysis; Patricia Chemor, Secre…

New ECLAC Publication Offers a Comprehensive View of Urban Development and its Major Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

6 Sep 2017 | News

A new book by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) analyzes the region’s urban development from a comprehensive perspective, weighing social, economic, environmental and governance-related aspects. The Multidimensional Overview of Urban Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (in Spanish), prepared by ECLAC’s Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, affirms that cities are strategic places and spaces for the implementation of public policies enabling Latin American and Caribbean countries to move toward sustainable development. More tha…

Countries of the Region Will Address Progress and Challenges of Development Planning at Two Important Meetings

6 Sep 2017 | Announcement

Ministers and senior authorities involved in development planning and public administration, representatives of civil society and United Nations bodies as well as other specialists will gather for the XV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the XVI Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning, which will be held from October 11 through October 13 in Lima, Peru. At both meetings – organized by the governments of Guatemala and Ecuador (which currently hold the Council’s co-presidency), the host government of Peru, and the Economic Commission for La…

ECLAC Analyzes Structural Gaps in Development in Argentina’s Provinces

4 Sep 2017 | News

ECLAC’s Office in Buenos Aires presented, in two new publications, studies about the main conditioning factors to achieving inclusive and sustainable development found in the Argentine provinces of Tucuman and Chaco. The studies were carried out based on the perspective of structural gaps, with a view to contributing along with subnational governments to determining strategic areas for public intervention to close the existing gaps and to producing an assessment that serves to support strategies to attract financing in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The studies w…

Países analizarán políticas para estrechar vínculo entre los ámbitos social y productivo con miras a superar la pobreza y la desigualdad

4 Sep 2017 | News

Ministers and senior authorities from governments in the region along with representatives of civil society and the academic world will participate on October 25-27, 2017 in Montevideo, Uruguay in the Second Session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, where they will analyze the dual challenge of social and economic inclusion. The gathering, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Uruguay’s Ministry of Social Development, will be held in conjunction with the IX Ministerial Forum for Development in Lat…

National Dialogues Pave the Way for the Second Session of the Regional Conference on Social Development

4 Sep 2017 | News

A seminar and three national dialogues were held in July and August in Montevideo, Uruguay as part of the preparatory process for the Second Session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which will take place on October 25-27, 2017 in conjunction with the UNDP’s IX Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. On July 31, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, and Uruguayan Social Development Minister Marina Arismendi signed the agreement establish…

Financial Inclusion Creates Opportunities and Allows for Achieving the SDGs, ECLAC Sustains

4 Sep 2017 | News

Financial inclusion is a tool that boosts the creation of opportunities and strengthens the ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicates in two studies carried out by the organization’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico. In the first study, ECLAC underscores that El Salvador faces the challenge of institutionalizing a national strategy for financial inclusion, while in the second, it stresses that Honduras must seek to strengthen its National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS), adopted by that count…

ECLAC Launches International Short Essay Contest about the Future of Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

16 Aug 2017 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), along with the Southern Cone edition of Le Monde diplomatique and the Nodal Latin American and Caribbean News Portal, called for submissions to an international short essay contest on the future of equality in the region. The activity is part of the commemoration of ECLAC’s 70th anniversary, which will be celebrated in 2018, and it is aimed at young people up to 35 years of age. This international contest is open for people from different fields and professions to present new work, in the form of a short essay, that contribut…

Countries of the Region will Assess Progress and Challenges to the Exercise of Human Rights by Older Persons

14 Jun 2017 | Announcement

On June 27-30, 2017, the fourth Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean will focus on the situation of older persons and the exercise of their human rights, bringing together government delegates, civil society organizations, experts on population matters and representatives of United Nations organizations and the Organization of American States. The Conference is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the government of Paraguay through its Ministry of Public Health and Soci…

ECLAC Promotes a Life Cycle Approach to End Inequalities Determined by People’s Age

14 Jun 2017 | News

Age is one of the structural elements in the social inequality matrix in Latin America and the Caribbean, which overlaps with and potentiates other core elements, such as socioeconomic status, gender, ethnic-racial origin and territory, according to one of the chapters in the Social Panorama of Latin America 2016 annual report, which was presented recently by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). “Each stage of the life cycle presents specific opportunities, challenges and risks,” ECLAC indicates in the chapter entitled “The social inequality matrix: Age as an ax…

ECLAC Will Launch Social Panorama of Latin America 2016

24 May 2017 | Announcement

On Tuesday, May 30, 2017, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch a new edition of its flagship annual report on issues of social development. The report, published since 1991, will be unveiled at the regional organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The institution’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will present the document Social Panorama of Latin America 2016 at a press conference at 11:00 a.m. The launch will be broadcast live online via ECLAC’s website at: ://www.cepal.org/en. The study focuses on the measurement and analysis of diverse…

Caribbean policy makers recognize ECLAC’s 70-year contribution to regional development

19 May 2017 | News

At the 18th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 19 May 2017, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean’s (ECLAC’s) contribution to development in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last 70 years was recognized. Speaking about ECLAC’s contribution to development in the region during the opening ceremony, ECLAC Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado, underscored that: “ECLAC has never abandoned its structural roots and issues of structural heterogeneity, th…

ECLAC presents model institutional framework for Sustainable Development Goals implementation in the Caribbean

18 May 2017 | News

On 18 May 2017, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean convened a workshop in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, to provide policy makers with practical options for establishing and enhancing their national institutional framework for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The workshop brought together senior government officials from the Caribbean in the areas of foreign affairs, the economy, the environment, sustainable development and planning, as well as officials of the United Nations system, re…

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