Subsidiary bodies
Subsidiary bodies and the Committee of the Whole
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Caribbean Development and Cooperation CommitteeThe Committee was established in 1975, pursuant to ECLAC resolution 358(XVI), to promote and strengthen economic and social cooperation and integration among the countries of the Caribbean and to promote cooperation between them and the countries and integration processes of Latin America and the Ca…
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Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the CaribbeanIn 2012, pursuant to ECLAC resolution 670(XXXIV), the ECLAC Ad Hoc Committee on Population and Development was renamed the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. It focuses on monitoring and reviewing issues relating to population and development, inter…
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Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the CaribbeanThe Regional Conference was established by virtue of resolution 752(PLEN.36) adopted by the member States of ECLAC at the thirty-sixth session of its Committee of the Whole in December 2021. In that meeting member States approved the renaming of the Committee on South-South Cooperation as the Region…
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Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications TechnologiesEstablished in 2012 pursuant to ECLAC resolution 672(XXXIV) and Economic and Social Council resolution 2012/35, the Conference’s objectives include promoting the development and improvement of national policies on science, technology and innovation and those related to the progress of the informatio…
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Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the CaribbeanEstablished in 2014 pursuant to ECLAC resolution 682(XXXV) and Economic and Social Council resolution 2014/32, the Conference’s objectives include promoting the development of national policies on social development and international, regional and bilateral cooperation in the field of social develop…
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Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the CaribbeanThe Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean is a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the foremost intergovernmental forum of the United Nations on women’s rights and gender equality in the region. It has been regularly co…
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Regional Council for Planning of ILPESEstablished in 1975 as a Technical Committee pursuant to ECLAC resolution 340(AC.66), adopted at the eighth extraordinary session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC, the Council acts as the senior guiding body for the activities of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Soci…
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Statistical Conference of the AmericasEstablished in 2000 pursuant to ECLAC resolution 580(XXVIII) and Economic and Social Council resolution 2000/7, the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (SCA-ECLAC) contributes to the progress of policies on statistics and statistical …
Intergovernmental Meetings
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Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the CaribbeanA regional dialogue was launched in 2000 on the information and knowledge society in Latin America and the Caribbean, in which the countries affirmed their willingness to design and implement programmes for access to and use of information and communications technologies (ICTs). In 2005, the Regiona…
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Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the CaribbeanIn its resolution 590(XXIX) of 2002, ECLAC endorsed the mandate of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and requested the secretariat to organize a regional intergovernmental conference on ageing, for the purpose of formulating a regional strategy for the implementation in Latin America…