Co-chaired by former President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, and former President of Colombia, Iván Duque, the Commission will release its report on 4 August at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

The initiative aims to train technical teams and decision-makers in anticipatory governance tools in the face of an unprecedented demographic transition in the region.

The First Secretary of ALECE, Deputy Assis Diniz, and the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Javier Medina Vásquez, held a meeting to explore the organization of the Third Regional Conference of Parliamentary Future Commissions, which w...

The publication addresses the trap of low institutional capacity and ineffective governance in which Latin America and the Caribbean is caught.

This intergovernmental gathering will take place at the United Nations regional organization’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile on Monday, April 13, 2026.

The course, which is part of the activities of ECLAC's Network of Parliamentary Committees of the Future, has the central objective of providing parliamentarians and technical teams with tools to address one of the great challenges of the 21st century: population ageing.

The 2026 edition of this gathering will take place on October 28-30, 2026 in Mexico City.

The meeting will be held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile, from April 13 to 16, 2026, under the Chairship of Peru.

The document was presented by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC Executive Secretary, at the Twentieth Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning, which is taking place through Friday, October 3 in Brasília.

All the event’s panels will be transmitted live via several platforms.

Brasilia hosted meeting that gathered legislators from more than 15 countries.

The United Nations regional organization will have significant participation in the international meeting, where it will stress the importance of multilateralism and international and regional cooperation for achieving this global agenda.

Launched by ECLAC with the support of the Open Society Foundations, the training seeks to strengthen capacities to drive green and inclusive productive development in the region.

The event – convened annually under ECLAC’s auspices – will take place on March 31-April 4, 2025 at the United Nations organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

The eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development will take place on March 31-April 4, 2025 at the United Nations organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

The eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development will take place from March 31-April 4, 2025 at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

The Eighth Meeting of the Forum of Latin American and Caribbean Countries on Sustainable Development will be held at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, from 31 March to 4 April 2025, under the chairship of Peru.

In conjunction with authorities and experts from government, academia, the private sector and civil society in the provinces of Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Entre Ríos, the United Nations organization’s national office made headway on three technical studies that allow for expanding policy desig...

On November 27-28, the Thirtieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning will take place at ECLAC’s headquarters. On Friday, November 29, a Seminar on Collaborative Governance as a Tool for Sustainable Development will be held.

On the second day of the United Nations regional commission’s most important biennial meeting – which is taking place in Lima, Peru – ministers from numerous countries in the region and prominent specialists debated how to achieve stronger and sustained growth and how to reduce inequality, among oth...