Provisional agenda. Second Session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Report of the First Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Agreements. First meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Provisional agenda. First meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Report of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Lima, 2-4 November 2015

Resolution 1(I): Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Lima, 2-4 November 2015

Annotated provisional agenda. Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Provisional agenda. Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Toward a system of basic cash transfers for children and older persons: An estimation of efforts, impacts and possibilities in Latin America

This paper seeks to estimate the costs and impacts of expanding the coverage and improving the quality of cash transfers to older people and to families with younge children in the countries of Latin America.…

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: a comparative view

This report pursues three complementary aims. Firstly, it presents the first generation of country case studies on social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, published in the ECLAC Project Documents collection; and it provides justifications for developing such systems. Secondly, it sets out a classificatory approach to social protection system in the region, which aims to provide a comparative basis for interpreting national cases. Lastly, using standardized data and case studies, it identifies major trends in the changes the region is undergoing in terms of social protecti…

From social innovation to public policy. Success stories in Latin America and the Caribbean

ECLAC, with support from the W.K.Kellogg Foundation, identified and reviewed 4,800 social innovation experiences of Latin America and the Caribbean, gleaned in five annual competition cycles. After conducting on-site visits and evaluating the projects, the Selection Committee chose 25 winners it considered the most innovative and that had the greatest impact on the region's social development. The book's objective is to place these innovations and, above all, their capability for improving living conditions for every inhabitant of the region, at the service of broader groups of the p…

Food and nutrition insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean

The problem of food and nutrition insecurity in the region has been widely studied in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, despite the progress achieved in the last four decades, much work remains in the effort to eliminate food and nutrition insecurity in the region. In light of the changes triggered by rising food prices and the global financial crisis, and the new challenges they present, the WFP Regional Office has asked ECLAC to begin a new line of work to strengthen analysis of the issues involved. ECLAC is to develop technical documents and venues for c…