Linkages between the social and production spheres: Gaps, pillars and challenges

Latin American and Caribbean region is facing a complex set of economic and social circumstances that threaten the conditions needed for further progress towards the goal of eradicating all forms of poverty and ensuring that no one is left behind, as required by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. These temporary challenges are compounded by structural problems, such as low productivity, high levels of inequality, social exclusion and a failure to care for the environment. This document argues that to overcome those challenges and ensure the economic, social and cultural rights of the…

Sustainable Development Goals implementation in the Caribbean

Subregional Action Plan for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in the Caribbean: Prioritizing subregional challenges and opportunities 2016-2036

The Regional Action Plan for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean (RAP) seeks to be the regional expression of the New Urban Agenda, setting out potential actions and interventions as well as relevant and priority policy guidance for all Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries in order to achieve sustainable urban development.This document was prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in cooperation with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the Assembly of Ministers and High Authorit…

Conditional cash transfer programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coverage and investment trends

This document analyses the evolution of the population coverage and investment of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes, which are poverty reduction initiatives, in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean over the past 20 years. The analysis is based on up-to-date, detailed information from the database on non-contributory social protection programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is administered by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and available to the public via the Internet. The database presents information on the various componen…

Pension and income transfers for old age: Inter- and intra-generational distribution in comparative perspective

This document provides a world comparative analysis regarding the design and reform of pension systems in order to improve coverage, equality and sustainability. It looks at how pension systems, rules and financing affect coverage, sufficiency, and distribution as well as fiscal and intergenerational sustainability and equality.…

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Report of the eighteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Report of the Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation

Report of the First meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

Annual report on regional progress and challenges in relation to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

In May 2016, at the thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), held in Mexico City, the Commission’s member States adopted resolution 700 (XXXVI), the Mexico Resolution, which established the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development as a regional mechanism to follow up and review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its means of implementation, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The Economic and Social Council subse…

Assessing opportunities for enhanced integration of the associate members of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

As a preliminary phase of action in response to the ECLAC resolution which calls for greater inclusion of the associate members in the work of the Commission (ECLAC Resolution 85 (XXV) of 25 April 2014), this study sought to accomplish three outcomes. Firstly, the study explored the common development challenges of the non-sovereign associate members (AMs) of ECLAC which served as impediments to the economic and social development of the AMs, and identified priorities which fostered and advanced their development aspirations. Secondly, in light of the recent incremental changes in the politica…

Report of the Fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation

Assessing opportunities for enhanced integration of the associate members of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

As a preliminary phase of action in response to the ECLAC resolution which calls for greater inclusion of the associate members in the work of the Commission, this study sought to accomplish three outcomes. Firstly, the study explored the common development challenges of the non-sovereign associate members (AMs) of ECLAC which served as impediments to the economic and social development of the AMs, and identified priorities which fostered and advanced their development aspirations. Secondly, in light of the recent incremental changes in the political status that had occurred in many of those t…

Provisional agenda. First meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

Annotated provisional agenda. First meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

Provisional agenda. Sixth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation

Aportes del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas al Primer Informe Anual sobre el Progreso y los Desafíos Regionales de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe = Contributions of the United Nations System to the First...

The 2030 Agenda and the Regional Gender Agenda: Synergies for equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

This paper analyses the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals in light of the challenges and priorities for gender equality and women’s rights and autonomy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Examples are presented to illustrate the interconnections between the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda and to underscore the importance of taking an integrated approach in order to ensure that progress on some Sustainable Development Goals is not achieved by means that could impede the attainment of goals and targets associated with gender equality and women’s r…

Intergovermentally Agreed Conclusions and Recommendations of the First meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

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