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How Can We Achieve the Care Society in Latin America and the Caribbean?

13 Aug 2025 | News

On the second day of the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is being held through Friday, August 15 in Mexico City, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, presented the position paper The Care Society: Governance, Political Economy and Social Dialogue for a Transformation with Gender Equality, which is inspiring the intergovernmental gathering’s debates at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco. “Moving towards the care society is one of the vital transformations required to foster more productive, inclusive and …

Authorities from the Region Will Discuss the Challenges of Transforming Institutional Frameworks for Development Planning

26 Nov 2024 | Announcement

Government representatives will address the challenges of transforming development planning along with current and new requests for training in the region, among other issues, at the Thirtieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP) of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), which will take place on November 27-28, 2024 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The event will be inaugurated on Wednesday, November 27 at 9 a.m. local time in Chile…

The Dominican Republic Will Host Nineteenth Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean

18 Oct 2023 | Announcement

Ministers, deputy ministers and high-level authorities from the region’s countries along with representatives of civil society and United Nations organizations will analyze progress and challenges in relation to development planning in Latin America and the Caribbean, at the Nineteenth Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which will be held on November 7-9 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. During this event, ECLAC will presen…

Latin American and Caribbean Authorities Will Analyze Progress and Challenges Related to Implementing the “New Public Service” in the Region

13 Jan 2023 | Announcement

Ministers, deputy ministers and other senior authorities involved in development planning and public administration in Latin America and the Caribbean will analyze the progress and challenges related to implementing the new public service in the region, during the Seventeenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning and the Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP), which will take place on January 17-19 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. This ”new public service” ai…

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Analyze the Role of the State’s Institutional Framework and of Planning for Development in the Post-Pandemic Recovery

15 Oct 2021 | Announcement

Ministers, deputy ministers and high-level authorities from the region’s countries along with representatives of international and United Nations organizations will analyze the role of the State’s institutional framework and of planning for development in the post-pandemic recovery, during the Eighteenth Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP) of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), which will take place on October 19-21 using a hybrid format, meaning virtual and in person. Participants in this gathering will analyze the challenges, ex…

ECLAC in Colombia Continues to Create Spaces for Discussion around Territorial Linkages: Paths for Moving Towards Development and Peace

30 Jun 2021 | News

On May 28, ECLAC’s Office in Colombia organized a radio program in collaboration with Voces Unidas (United Voices), a United Nations System radio project that seeks to give visibility to the work of the organization’s distinct agencies inside the country. The program created a space for reflecting on the project that ECLAC is carrying out on Territorial Linkages, rural-urban links and peace, and pointed up diverse experiences aimed at bolstering territorial development in southern Tolima department, where the project has been functioning since 2020. The radio program featured the participation…

Closure of Asymmetries, Financing for Development and Global Public Goods – Key to a Transformative Recovery Aligned with the 2030 Agenda

17 Mar 2021 | News

Participants in the debates taking place on the second day of the fourth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, which is being held virtually under the Presidency of Costa Rica, posed the need to close the financial, climatic and health asymmetries present in the world today, to guarantee financing for development, and to create global public goods – including an equitable vaccine against COVID-19 – in order to move towards a transformative recovery in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. During Panel 1: Health and…

Latin American and Caribbean Authorities Will Analyze the Role of Planning for Development in the Post-Pandemic Recovery

10 Nov 2020 | Announcement

Ministers, deputy ministers and high-level authorities involved in development planning and public administration in Latin America and the Caribbean will analyze the role of planning for development in the post-pandemic recovery during the twenty-eighth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP), which will be held virtually on Thursday, November 12. This event is being organized by the Government of Uruguay, as Chair of the RCP’s Presiding Officers, and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through its Latin American and Caribbe…

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…

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…

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 …

Ecuador to Host Regional Meeting on Planning for Development

28 Oct 2015 | Announcement

Ministers and senior authorities, as well as experts and officials from international organizations, will participate on November 18-19 in Yachay (Ecuador) in meetings organized by the Government of Ecuador and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), where they will analyze the contribution of planning to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. On November 18, the XIV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean will take place. It will be inaugurated by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and the …

ECLAC Will Give Courses in Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala and Uruguay to Officials and Academics of the Region

22 Jun 2015 | News

In August and September, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will give four courses oriented towards government officials and academics and researchers from the region’s countries on prospective, digital government, planning and public leadership, all with the support of Spanish cooperation. The courses will be held in Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala and Uruguay by experts from ECLAC’s Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), in the framework of the Technical Cooperation Program between this United Nations regional organizati…

Seminar Analyzing Global Trends by 2030 Brings International Experts Together at ECLAC

17 Sep 2014 | Announcement

Ten experts from the United States, China, the Republic of Korea and Europe will attend the Seminar Latin America and the Caribbean in 2030: World Visions, continental Views, which aims to consolidate a network of professionals and organizations dedicated to studying future global trends and their implications for public policy in the region. The event will take place September 24-25 in Santiago, Chile. Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through its Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), the semi…

In Brasilia, Ministers Will Discuss Planning As a Development Tool

1 Oct 2013 | News

Latin American and Caribbean Ministers of Planning will meet in Brasilia at the Regional Council for Planning (CRP), an interministerial body led by ECLAC's Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), where they will discuss planning and public management as tools for the governance of development in the region. ILPES, which is part of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), will invite Ministers and Heads of Planning from the region's governments on 21 and 22 November 2013 in the capital of Brazil to present an u…

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