Teleworking at ECLAC Library
30 March 2020
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Briefing note
Since March 19, ECLAC Library has adopted teleworking, due to the Coronavirus.…
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DAG participates in GIZ sectorial network (GADeR-ALC) webinar about inclusive, sustainable and intelligent cities with a gender approach
26 March 2020
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This webinar is part of a series of virtual events organized by the GADeR-ALC Gender and Energy+ Workstream to bring the different topics together and which propose to incorporate the innovative and disruptive gender approach in different parts of Latin America.…
Guterres asks the G-20 for a coordinated and supportive war plan against the coronavirus
26 March 2020
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All countries must be able to combine systematic testing, tracing, quarantining and treatment with restrictions on movement and contact – aiming to suppress transmission of the virus. And they have to coordinate the exit strategy to keep it suppressed until a vaccine becomes available.…
Escazú Agreement Secretariat participates in National Implementation Meeting in Mexico
13 March 2020
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The National Implementation Meeting on the Escazú Agreement took place in Mexico City on 11 and 12 March 2020.…
Paraguayan public officials participate in a course on institutional strategic planning and public management
12 March 2020
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The academic program, taught by ECLAC's Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social - ILPES), involves 70 officials from 17 Paraguayan public administration institutions.…
The HSC library kicks off a new cycle of webinars
3 March 2020
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The next cycle of webinars will begin on 17 March 2020 with themes related to open access and open science. The 2020 series will also include virtual talks and short interviews with expert presenters.…
COSEFIN, ECLAC and SDC present new project on public investment, disaster risk reduction, and sustainable and inclusive adaptation to climate change
2 March 2020
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The Executive Secretariat of the Council of Finance Ministers of Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (Spanish acronym: SE-COSEFIN), along with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) officially launched the project Capacity Building for the Incorporation of Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable and Inclusive Adaptation to Climate Change in Public Investment in COSEFIN/SICA Member Countries in San Salvador, El Salvador. The goal of the project is to contribute to the reduction of losses an…
Environment and climate change statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean
27 February 2020
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The new libguide was prepared by the Hernán Santa Cruz Library in collaboration with the Statistics Division in the Area of Environment Statistics and Climate Change. The guide provides information resources essential for the preparation of environment statistics for the region.…
Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean in Wikipedia
18 February 2020
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On 27th January 2020, the Hernán Santa Cruz (HSC) Library and the Division of Gender Affairs at ECLAC in collaboration with Wikimedia Chile, celebrated the successful hosting of another editathon. This time, the event sat within the framework of a side event of the fourteenth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Santiago, Chile from 27th to 31st January 2020. The autonomy of women in changing economic scenarios was the central theme of the Conference and the editathon aimed to make discoverable the history, themes and outcomes of Regional Conferences on Wom…
CELADE–Population Division of ECLAC is pleased to present its readers with the 2019 edition of the Demographic Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean: Population projections
18 February 2020
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This edition compiles selected indicators concerning population estimates and projections at the national level for 38 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.…
The REDATAM application for the dissemination and online processing of its 2011 population and housing census of Montserrat is now available to the public
10 February 2020
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Similar to other REDATAM applications, that for the Montserrat census provides basic tabulations such as frequency tables and cross-tabulations as well as thematic indicators for census topics such as education, employment, health, disability and housing. These indicators are all available for output in the form of tables, graphs or maps.…
Workshop on Institutional Strategic Planning and Result-based Management to be held in Paraguay
4 February 2020
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The academic program will be held from March 10th to 13th, 2020, in Asunción, Paraguay, by the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (Instituto Latinoamericano y el Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social - ILPES) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).…
Redatam workshop: Processing and examining census data for the generation of the Agenda 2030 and SDG follow up indicators
28 January 2020
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CELADE invites all Redatam users to a new course/workshop to be held between April 20 and 24, 2020, in Santiago, Chile. On this occasion, the course will focus on the processing and analysis of population and housing censuses databases, using Redatam, to obtain specific indicators for the follow-up of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals- SDG. In turn, like the year 2019, the course will be offered in two modalities of participation: Face-to-face in the ECLAC classrooms and Simultaneous Streaming/Webex via the internet.…
Facilitating access to information on gender issues in the ECLAC Library: a new article on Wikipedia
23 January 2020
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On 27 January 2020, the Hernán Santa Cruz Library (HSC), in conjunction with the Division of Gender Affairs, ECLAC and Wikimedia Chile, will organize an Editatón, as a side event within the framework of the fourteenth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is being held in Santiago, Chile from the 27th to 31st January 2020. Researchers and experts on gender issues will meet in the HSC Library to produce a Wikipedia article on the regional conference, the main intergovernmental forum on women's rights and gender equality in the region. The article will contain t…
Nexus Virtual Forum III - IWRM
14 January 2020
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How can the Nexus perspective help to find synergies between the water, agriculture and energy sector and mitigate potential risks for a sustainable water basin management? The third Regional Virtual Forum of Nexus in Latin America and Caribbean was dedicated to shed light on that by bringing together expert panelists from Latin America and Europe and more than 80 participants from over 70 organizations, including public sector, private sector, academia, and civil society.…
ECLAC Digital Repository: close to 7 million downloads during 2019
23 December 2019
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Free and open access to ECLAC’s information resources and key research tool for the region and the world.…
U.S. Economic Outlook – Third Quarter 2019
18 December 2019
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The U.S. economy slowed from around 3% annualized growth in 2018 to 2% in 2019.…
The Escazú Agreement is highlighted at Regional Seminar for Parliaments of the Caribbean
6 December 2019
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The Second Regional Seminar for Parliaments of the Caribbean: Strengthening parliamentary action on the Sustainable Development Goals took place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 5 and 6 December 2019.…
The Escazú Agreement at COP25 on climate change
30 November 2019
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The Escazú Agreement will be highlighted at the following events organized in the framework of the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Monday, 2 December 2019 2-3pm. Side event "International Instruments on Public Participation in Environmental Governance and Relevance to the Paris Agreement Implementation and the COP-25" (IFEMA, Meeting Room 15). Organized by CIEL, La Ruta del Clima and the Governments of Costa Rica, France and Uruguay. Thursday, 5 December 2019 4-5pm. "Juventudes de Latinoamérica y el C…
Children of African descent in Latin America
15 November 2019
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Laís Abramo and Marta Rangel[1] The history of Latin America is closely related to European colonization, conquest and slavery. The latter consisted both of the enslavement of part of the indigenous population and, in particular, of African people trafficked intercontinentally[2]. The slave system lasted in the region for almost 400 years and has left deep marks in our societies. These include the structural inequalities that affect Afrodescendent populations and the persistence and reproduction of racism and ethnic and racial discrimination manifested in different areas of development and rig…