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…

Joint Program “Support for the development of an Integrated National Financing Framework for the SDGs in Cuba” (CIFFRA)

The United Nations System in Cuba, through the leadership of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with the participation of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Office of the Resident Coordinator (OCR) has designed a Joint Program with the objective of contributing to the development of an Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) as a tool for planning, defining and evaluating gender-sensitive financing policies to improve the effectiveness of such policies and the efficiency of resources mobilization for financing the Sustainable Dev…

CEPAL - FIDA

Estrategia de implementación Componente de Cadenas de Valor: Los objetivos específicos del componente son: i) generar estrategias para el desarrollo de cadenas de valor a través de procesos de diálogo, con miras a incrementar ingresos, reducir riesgos, mejorar las capacidades y las áreas de influencia de pequeños productores, empresas y organizaciones en cadenas de valor rurales en ALC; ii) fortalecer las capacidades de los gobiernos nacionales y locales, así como de los integrantes de las cadenas, para formular políticas públicas de desarrollo productivo rural dirigidas a cerrar las brechas d…

Towards the Second World Summit for Social Development

.panel-pane .field-type-text-long p { padding: 0 } Background The 1995 World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen, was a milestone in the international social development agenda. At the Summit, governments adopted the Copenhagen Declaration and its Program of Action, focusing development on people and making key commitments. Among the main agreements were the eradication of poverty, the promotion of full and productive employment, and the promotion of social integration. Ten commitments for action were defined, covering gender equality, universal access to education and healt…

Big data for measuring and fostering the digital economy in Latin America and the Caribbean

Resultados The first expected outcome is to increase national capabilities to encourage the use of Big data techniques in combination with traditional tools. In second place, it aims to enhance capacity of Latin American countries to strengthen their digital economy through evidence based polices at regional or national level.…

Technological transformations in Latin America: Promoting productive jobs and confronting the challenge of new forms of informal employment

Seminars "New and old forms of labor informality and precarious employment", Santiago de Chile, on April 3 and 4, 2019 …

Transport and trade connectivity in the age of pandemics

The COVID-19 not only poses a severe global sanitarian threat, it also represents a supply and a demand shock - both aspects influencing international trade in goods and services. The following paragraphs point out the main challenges in trade and transport as an aftermath of the pandemic. Spread prevention. Around 80% of global trade is transported by commercial shipping. Unfortunately, freight transport can contribute to the spread of the virus as it is not fully computerized. Both documents and goods continue to be subjected to physical checks for customs and other regulatory purposes. Staf…

Implementation of Statistical Geoportals

Description Latin American and Caribbean countries face significant challenges in moving towards e-economies, improving services to citizens, developing capacity to apply geospatial technology, improving informed government decision-making processes using sound official statistics, taking practical actions to achieve a digital transformation, and being able to bridge the geospatial digital divide in the implementation of national strategic and development priorities and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The 2030 Agenda recognizes that timely, available and accessible geospatial and …

EUROCLIMA

Estrategia de implementación La CEPAL es el organismo responsable del componente de fortalecimiento del conocimiento y de las capacidades institucionales en los aspectos socioeconómicos del cambio climático del Programa EUROCLIMA. En ese contexto, se contempla el desarrollo de diversas actividades enfocadas a la transferencia de información y conocimientos que consideran la generación de información sobre los impactos socioeconómicos de este fenómeno y sobre las alternativas de políticas públicas para hacerles frente. Bajo esta misma línea se plantea establecer una Red Sobre Cambio Climático (…

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Sustainable energy in the Caribbean: Reducing the carbon footprint in the Caribbean through the promotion of energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy technologies

Resultados By the end of the project, national governments shall have new and/or innovative mechanisms for financing projects in energy efficiency and renewable energy and will be able to design and finance mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions. In this regard, it is expected that Caribbean countries will have increased capacity to utilize new concepts, strategies and mechanisms for the formulation of projects in energy efficiency and renewable energy. It is also foreseen that context-related, Caribbean mechanisms for promotion of energy efficiency will be strengthened throughout the region. F…

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. …

Water, Energy and Food Nexus

Resultados El proyecto tiene varias actividades entre las que se encuentran estudios y talleres con el objetivo de identificar las prioridades del nexo agua, energía y agricultura en la región; discutir y debatir los hallazgos de los estudios; y proponer lineamientos de política pública para un mejor manejo del nexo, entre otros. Se espera tener como resultado principal la identificación de propuestas de políticas públicas para mejorar el manejo de las interrelaciones entre los tres sectores.…

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Territorial linkages for the inclusive development in Colombia

The rural-urban linkages project for inclusive development in Colombia seeks to strengthen territorial development policies through the analysis of territorial linkages, which are rural-urban links of various types (interactions between people or organizations around productive activities, management of natural resources, social and cultural relations, among others) organized in the form of networks. These linkages, mainly composed of relationships, constitute a territorial continuum (rural-urban) and are developed in geographical spaces that surpass the political-administrative divisions. The…

Fortalecimiento de capacidades para la incorporación de la reducción del riesgo de desastres y la adaptación sostenible e incluyente al cambio climático en la inversión pública en los países miembros del COSEFIN/SICA

Justification: Climate change is magnifying the socioeconomic vulnerabilities of the region and has increasingly affected the economic evolution of productive activities such as agriculture, hydroelectric generation, the well-being and health of its inhabitants and ecosystems, generating fiscal contingencies that, when they materialize They have put pressure on the weak public finances of developing countries, particularly countries like the SICA region, one of the most exposed and vulnerable to the adverse effects of natural hazards and climate change. Public investment is an instrument of s…

Potable Water, Sanitation and Renewable Energies to improve the health conditions of the population

Promoting equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Resultados The cooperation programme focused on developing knowledge and strengthening LAC countries’ capacities to implement synergic public policies aiming at upgrading the productive structure; improving equality and universal social protection; fostering gender equality and linking the governance of the natural resources sector to the strengthening of social equality. The programme substantially contributed to foster the discussion and the positioning in the regional agenda of important issues pertaining to the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainable development. For exa…

Regional Platform for Tax Cooperation

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