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United Nations strengthens statistical cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean

25 Nov 2024 | Briefing note

Representatives of UN agencies and programs met at the V World Data Forum in Medellin, highlighting the importance of data for global development. The meeting strengthened regional collaboration in statistics, promoting the production of key indicators for the SDGs and joint planning in technical cooperation.…

Session of ECLAC

28 Aug 2024 | Briefing note

The fortieth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will be held from 9 to 11 October 2024 in Lima, pursuant to resolution 766(XXXIX), adopted at the thirty-ninth session of ECLAC, held in Buenos Aires from 24 to 26 October 2022. The meeting will be held in accordance with the ECLAC calendar of conferences for the period 2023–2024.…

ECLAC and partners introduce a statistical resource hub for data-driven policy making in the Caribbean

4 Jan 2024 | Briefing note

ECLAC, with the support of the Government of Canada, has launched the Project for the Regional Advancement of Statistics in the Caribbean (PRASC) Knowledge Base. The Canada funded PRASC was a capacity-building initiative aimed at strengthening the statistical system of the Caribbean region to improve socio-economic measures and facilitate evidence-based policy making.…

First Meeting of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean

19 Jun 2023 | Briefing note

The Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), aims to promote the strengthening of national South-South and triangular cooperation mechanisms and their possible interactions with North-South and multilateral cooperation. The conference encouraged regional and extra-regional actors, donor countries and international organizations to engage in South-South and triangular cooperation to facilitate knowledge and technology transfer and achieve cooperation activities.…

Subnational Gross Domestic Product by production approach

5 Jun 2023 | Briefing note

Sub-national accounts is an important tool to understand the structure of goods and services produced and how they have evolved in the different territories of a country. In this sense, ECLAC makes available to users new subnational GDP indicators available for 11 Latin American countries that are expected to constitute a substantive contribution for decision-making and development planning of a nation.…

New Statistical Geoportal of INDEC, Argentina

30 May 2023 | Briefing note

A geoportal is a web application whose purpose is to offer users access to a series of resources and services based on geographic information, enabling integration, interoperability and the exchange, in this case, of statistical information.…

Sixth Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

20 Apr 2023 | Briefing note

The Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development is State-led and open to participation by all Latin American and Caribbean countries. It is convened under the auspices of ECLAC and guided by the principles established for all follow-up and review processes by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in September 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly.…

Measuring Disability through Administrative Records in Education: Recommendations for Latin America

2 Mar 2023 | Briefing note

The report Measuring disability through administrative records of education in Latin America: diagnosis and recommendations to move towards regional harmonization presents a proposal for measuring disability for administrative records in education at the initial, primary, secondary, tertiary and higher education levels to be applied in Latin America and to move towards a framework of comparability and harmonization between countries in the region of statistical information on students with disabilities.…

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