Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean face multiple challenges to enhance their universality, comprehensiveness,...
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This document is the report of the Second Regional Seminar on Social Development “Social security and protracted crisis: an opportunity to combat...
The COVID-19 pandemic has meant a prolonged economic and social crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean, with profound consequences on the...
This report assess the situation of older persons and reviews the actions taken in Caribbean countries and territories, particularly over the past...
This document contains the report of the first regional seminar on social development, entitled “Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: the...
The phenomenon of informality in Latin America is strongly conditioned by the main structural axes of the social inequality matrix. It is a...
This study examines how ICTs have supported equitable development of online distance learning for students in primary, secondary, and tertiary...
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognises the key role that education plays in empowering people with the knowledge and skills to...
The high prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Caribbean calls for sustained efforts to control these diseases and their risk...
The document analyzes the social protection responses of ten Latin American countries since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March 2020....
The Subregional review of youth policies and strategies in the Caribbean offers an overview of national policies on youth in 29 Caribbean states...
This study examines how Universal Service Funds (USFs) can be better utilised in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to increase...
This study presents a situation analysis of persons with disability in the Caribbean. It includes a compilation and analysis of national census...
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Food Programme (WFP), both agencies of the United Nations System...
This paper analyzes social protection policies for families and early childhood focusing on three main policies: family allowances and other types...
This document analyses the evolution of the population coverage and investment of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes, which are poverty...
This document provides a world comparative analysis regarding the design and reform of pension systems in order to improve coverage, equality and...
This study addresses the ageing of the Caribbean population and the situation with respect to the human rights of older persons. It considers the...
This paper will contend that the post-2015 development agenda presents a major opportunity for Caribbean countries to reverse decades of lagging...