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ECLAC and Norway Strengthen Cooperation Ties During a Visit to the Organization’s Headquarters in Chile

13 Sep 2016 | News

On Tuesday, September 13 in Santiago, Chile, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, received a delegation of parliamentarians belonging to the Norwegian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, with whom she shared the United Nations organization’s work regarding implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the region. The delegation was headed by Anniken Huitfeldt, Chair of the Committee, and was made up of 10 members of Parliament from various political parties. They were accom…

Costa Rica Will Host the Second Meeting of the Conference on Science, Innovation and ICTs of ECLAC

7 Sep 2016 | Announcement

The Second Session of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will kick off next Monday, September 12, at 6 p.m. local time in San Jose, Costa Rica. The event will coincide with the inauguration of the World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR 2016), which will bring together representatives of government, industry and ICT associations, as well as academics, to analyze the latest proposals aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promoted by the United…

A New Chapter in the Regional Gender Agenda Will Be Written in October in Montevideo

1 Sep 2016 | Announcement

Focused on the opportunities and challenges regarding gender equality and women’s autonomy posed by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the XIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place on October 25-28, 2016. The meeting will bring together representatives of governments, civil society and United Nations organizations. The gathering—organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Uruguay’s government (through the Foreign Ministry and the National Institute of Women)—will mark 40 years of building a regional g…

ECLAC Coordinates Regional Report on Urbanization and Development Ahead of Habitat III

1 Sep 2016 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has coordinated, in collaboration with UN-Habitat, a report from the region’s countries that is a contribution to the New Urban Agenda, the document that will be adopted during Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, which will be held in Quito on October 17-20. The regional report, produced by ECLAC and entitled “Sustainable Cities with Equality,” addresses trends and projections on development and urbanization and their links to the economy, social equality, the environment an…

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Discuss Policies for Innovation in a Digital World

1 Sep 2016 | Announcement

“Innovation in a Digital World” is the motto of the Second Session of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) of ECLAC, which will bring together representatives of government, the private sector and international organizations on September 12 and 13 in San Jose, Costa Rica. The meeting, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Costa Rica’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications, has the support of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the European Commission. Th…

Senior Government Officials Call for Greater Autonomy and Gender Equality across the Caribbean

27 Jul 2016 | News

High-level government officials and senior international gender experts are calling for more to be done to ensure the economic and social autonomy of Caribbean women. Within the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the opportunities and challenges faced by women as against men in such areas as employment, education, human rights and political leadership speak to the issues of equality which are at the heart of discussions being held at the Caribbean preparatory meeting of the XIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, taking place on 26-27 July 201…

ECLAC Executive Secretary will Meet with German Foreign Affairs Minister during her Visit to Berlin

5 Jul 2016 | Announcement

The Executive Secretary of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, will hold a bilateral meeting with the German Foreign Affairs Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, during her 48 hours trip to Berlin, where she will also meet with Latin American entrepreneurs residing in Germany. The meeting with Minister Steinmeier will take place on Wednesday 6 July at 6:40 p.m. local time in the site of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Auswärtiges Amt). Both authorities will discuss several issues of common interest that take part of the str…

Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development Will Follow Up on the 2030 Agenda

21 Jun 2016 | News

The creation of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development was approved by government representatives gathered at ECLAC’s thirty-sixth session, held on May 23-27 in Mexico City. This new entity will constitute the regional mechanism for follow-up and review of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its targets, their means of implementation and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development. This is stated in the “Mexico Resolution,” approved by foreign affai…

Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations holds 31st General Assembly

16 Jun 2016 | News

Analyzing diverse issues related to defending the interests and benefits of United Nations staff is the objective of the 31st annual General Assembly of the Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations (CCISUA), which will take place through Friday, June 17, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. At the meeting, in which around 40 union representatives from different UN agencies are participating, the attendees will discuss, among other issues, the modifications to the compensation package that we…

Countries in the Region Will Analyze Statistics Framework for Follow-Up to the 2030 Agenda

13 Jun 2016 | Announcement

Representatives of national statistics institutes from countries in the region will participate on June 14-16 in Santiago, Chile in the XV Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA), a subsidiary body of ECLAC, where attendees will analyze measurement and statistical coordination mechanisms for follow-up to the 2030 Agenda and will approve the activities planned for the 2016-2017 period. The meeting will be inaugurated by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena; the Vice President…

ECLAC’s Committee on South-South Cooperation Will Contribute to the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda

25 May 2016 | News

The member countries of the Committee on South-South Cooperation, a subsidiary body of ECLAC, approved today—as lines of action for the 2016-2018 period—the exchange of experiences on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the promotion of associations of multiple actors, and the exchange of experiences and good practices regarding methodologies and measurement of South-South cooperation. Meeting in the framework of the thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), being held in Mexico, the representatives also agreed t…

What Do We Mean When We Talk of Equality?

20 May 2016 | News

Equality, understood as the full entitlement to rights, is the skyline to be reached by the region’s development model because this principle, along with freedom, is the most humane form of taking responsibility for the tasks of modernity, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary, say in the book The Imperative of Equality: For Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish only), which was just published by the regional organization and Siglo XXI Editores. What…

Mexican President Will Inaugurate ECLAC’s Most Important Biennial Meeting

18 May 2016 | Announcement

The President of the United Mexican States, Enrique Peña Nieto, will head the inauguration ceremony of ECLAC’s thirty-sixth session—the most important biennial meeting of this United Nations regional commission—next Tuesday, May 24 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) in the Official Residence of Los Pinos in Mexico City. The event, which will be held from May 23 to May 27 in the offices of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will bring together representatives from ECLAC’s 45 member states and 13 associate members and will be attended by more than 30 Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Foreign, Finance, E…

How to Follow ECLAC’s Session in Mexico

13 May 2016 | News

On May 23-27, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold in Mexico City its thirty-sixth session, the most important biannual meeting of this United Nations organization, whose mandate is to contribute to the region’s economic, social and environmental development. Live broadcast The entire meeting will be broadcast live via the Web site created for this occasion: ://periododesesiones.cepal.org/36/en, which also provides general information about the event, the detailed programme, reference documents and all the news. Any media outlet or organization is free …

OECD's Secretary-General Visited ECLAC

25 Apr 2016 | News

The Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Angel Gurría, visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile on Monday, April 25, where he met with Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena and ambassadors of the region to present the OECD's Regional Program for Latin America and the Caribbean. “Although we have different visions, identities and memberships, ECLAC and OECD have been building very valuable bridges for collaboration in the last five years,” Alicia Bárcena said at the start of…

ECLAC Will Present in Mexico Reflection on Future Development of Latin America and the Caribbean in Light of the 2030 Agenda

21 Apr 2016 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold its most important biennial meeting in Mexico City from May 23 to May 27, 2016, where officials will present its 45 member and 13 associated states a report on its activities and will offer governments a reflection upon development strategies in the context of the commitments contained in the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, indicated that in the thirty-sixth session participants will debate the region’s economic, social and environmenta…

South-South Cooperation is a Key Tool for Achieving the 2030 Agenda’s Goals

13 Apr 2016 | News

South-South cooperation is an essential tool and will play a key role in advancing towards the development pattern promoted by the 2030 Agenda, authorities from various countries and international experts said at a seminar held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The international seminar Ibero-America Faced With the Challenge of the Sustainable Development Goals: The South-South Cooperation Perspective—organized by the Ibero-American Program for the Strengthening of South-South Cooperation, the Chilean International Co…

Policy makers meet to discuss attainment of SDGs for the Caribbean

5 Apr 2016 | News

Pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will be the main focus of discussion at a meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on Tuesday 05 April 2016. Policy makers, representatives from regional organizations, and civil society groups are expected to attend. Representatives will also consider ways to strengthen the TAC/RCM, as part of effort to re-invigorate the regional body to enable it to more effectively carry out its mandate. The RCM was established by the Caribbean Development and Cooperation …

The Follow-Up of SDGs May Require New Instruments of Measurement in the Region

31 Mar 2016 | News

Monitoring the indicators of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may necessitate new instruments of measurement, which will require that agreements be forged in the region to implement a harmonized follow-up of the 2030 Agenda, Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said on Wednesday, March 30, during the XX Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean. Prado participated in the first session of the ministerial meeting held through this Thursday in Cartagena, Colombia, where…

Speaker of the Swedish Parliament and ECLAC’s Experts Shared Views on Latin America and the Caribbean

8 Mar 2016 | News

On an official visit to Chile, the Speaker of the Swedish Parliament Urban Ahlin participated on Monday, March 7 in a round table at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, in which they addressed the region’s economic, social and environmental challenges. The senior official and his delegation, formed by Kiefer Jakob, Sweden’s Ambassador to Chile and other representatives of the Swedish Parliament, the Embassy of Sweden in Chile and the Chilean-Swedish Institute of Culture, were received by ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Antoni…

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