International Comparison Program in Latin America and the Caribbean

Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable and Inclusive Adaptation to Climate Change

Logistics integration for a more sustainable exploitation of natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean

Implementation Strategy The project embraces 4 countries – one per sub-region – within these countries are some specialized in minerals, other in agricultural products or petroleum among others commodities. This selection brings the opportunity to cover the main LAC natural resources’ logistics chains. Additionally, this focus allows that the analysis and mainly the policies recommendations would be helpful for other countries with a similar exportation pattern. For this reason, the project also will work closely with the regional physical integration initiatives as a way to promote the necess…

Recover Better

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused one of the worst health, economic and social crises in Latin America and the Caribbean in its most recent history, the most vulnerable population being the most affected. Despite their budget deficits, governments have made great efforts to mitigate the social and economic effects with measures financed by the State. However, in the face of a crisis of this magnitude, many countries lack the mechanisms and experience to manage these expenditures more efficiently, inclusively and effectively in the long term. At the same time, the risk exists that the dominant p…

Strengthening the technical capacity of public finance managers in select Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to manage their public finances

Outputs The specific expected outcomes of the project are: Increased knowledge and skills of public finance managers in managing and forecasting public expenditure and revenue. Improved public finance management systems to facilitate sustainable revenue and expenditure management operations. The indicators of achievement include: Increased number of public finance practitioners applying the skills, andtTechniques acquired from the workshops in day to day fiscal management, including the use of the reference guide. At least 75% of workshop participants acknowledge their capacity to&nb…

INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER AGENCIES HAVING SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY-RELATED ACTIVITIES IN THE CARIBBEAN SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES (SIDS): A DESK-BASED REPORT

The outcome documents from the preparatory meetings for the Fourth International Conference on SIDS recognised the purpose of STI in implementing the SIDS sustainable development agendas. These are listed in Box 1 following. Box 1: SIDS Sustainable Development Priorities positioning STI as requirements in implementation and based on the outcome document in preparation for the 4th International Conference on SIDS Ocean Management Line 25. We recognize that an integrated marine ecosystem approach to ocean-related activities is critical to optimize opportunities. …

Digital agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean (eLAC2024)

ECLAC-Germany Cooperation

Energy Big Push (Grande Impulso Energia) Brasil

O projeto Energy Big Push (ou Grande Impulso Energia) visa apoiar a promoção de mais e melhores investimentos públicos e privados em energias sustentáveis, com ênfase em inovação, contribuindo para um grande impulso energético no Brasil. O projeto é executado em parceria com o Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos (CGEE) e conta com contribuições de diversos órgãos ligados aos temas de energia e inovação, que são: Empresa de Pesquisa Energética (EPE), Ministério de Minas e Energia (MME), Ministério de Relações Exteriores (MRE), Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação e Comunicações (MCTI…

Nexus

The Nexus programme contributes to a better understanding of the deep interconnection between natural resources and their planning, management and consumption. At its heart, the WEF Nexus promotes a holistic and integrated conceptualization and turns attention to opportunities: untangling trade-offs, inspiring agreements, uncovering synergies, and promoting policy coherence and multi-sectoral cooperation at all levels. The Nexus Regional Dialogues Programme, jointly funded by the Euopean Union (EU) and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), aims to ins…

Social inclusion of youth in the context of increasing violence and insecurity with a focus on Central America

Outputs The Project has allowed generating a regional panorama of the complexity of the relationship between youth social inclusion and violence, that has fed a regional youth observatory on policies and programmes, and that has allowed to elaborate a deep analysis of the institutional configuration on youth issues. The construction of a regional database focused on youth will constitute a huge contribution of the Project that will serve to several counterparts for conducting analysis on specific topics. The regional panoramas have been constructed considering national experiences and comments…

Regional Platform for Tax Cooperation

DECLARACIÓN DE CARTAGENA DE INDIAS…

Strengthening the national road safety management capacities of selected developing countries and countries with economies in transition

Outputs To strengthen the national road safety management system capacities of selected developing countries and countries with economies in transition. the following are the Expected Accomplishments: EA1. Enhanced national capacity of selected developing countries and countries with economies in transition to identify the most critical aspects and priority needs in their road safety situation EA2. Enhanced capacity of selected developing countries and countries with economies in transition to effectively address and improve road safety in priority areas as ide…

ROSA

Child Poverty, Inequality and Citizenship Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean. ECLAC-UNICEF

Implementation Strategy Four components are to be developed : 1. The evaluation of current policies and programmes regarding access of children to social protection mechanisms; 2. The analysis of key education policies and initiatives in the region to improve learning and education opportunities of children and adolescents; 3. The analysis of fiscal policy with a potential to improve children’s living conditions; and 4. The analysis of measurement options of multiple deprivations in childhood, in order to support countries’ monitoring of the 1.2 target of the Sustainable Development Goal…

Sustainable transport connectivity and implementation of transport related SDGs in selected landlocked and transit/bridging countries

A1.1. Se realizará un análisis de la literatura de conectividad del transporte interior sostenible en los Estados miembros a fin de identificar y desarrollar un conjunto inicial de Indicadores de Conectividad de Transporte Interno Sostenible (SITCIN); A1.2. Se organizará una misión de campo (fact-finding) de los equipos de proyecto a cada país beneficiario para revisar la información y las estadísticas del sistema de transporte existentes y reunir opiniones y enfoques de las autoridades nacionales competentes y otros interesados; A1.3. Se prepararán informes nacionales de conectividad basados …

Strengthening Road Traffic Enforcement in Brazil

The national road traffic enforcement rules are established in the 1997 Brazilian Traffic Code and in the regulations of the National Traffic Council (CONTRAN). The National Road Safety Plan 2019-2028 contain the necessary mechanisms for effective compliance with the obligations and targets of the National Traffic System bodies. This project aims to contribute to decreasing road traffic deaths and injuries by means of technical assistance to support and to strengthen ongoing road traffic enforcement activities and enhancing the capacity of traffic officers at the state level to implement …

Social cohesion policies for inclusive social development in Latin America (2023-2025)

Background What keeps societies together? What identifies and motivates people to coexist voluntarily without the need for permanent external coercion or immediate material interest? In times of great uncertainty, of cascading crises, and of challenges to societal sustainability, social cohesion takes a central position in the path of Latin American and Caribbean countries towards a sustainable development that leaves no one behind. In addition to a modest performance in terms of economic and social progress, as well as some setbacks in Latin America’s sustainable development in recent years, …

Strengthening the Capacities of Latin America and Asia to Develop and Improve Labour Training Systems and to Protect Workers against Unemployment

Outputs The expected result is a strengthening of unemployment protection and national labour training systems in selected countries, taking into account the individual priorities of these countries. The project started analyzing relevant progress in labour training and unemployment protection on the global and regional levels, and has begun to work on different issues in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and the Dominican Republic. In the Asian-Pacific region, cooperation with the Philippines has been agreed upon, and the project activities begun in this country in 2015. Seminars (in Spani…