Objetivo general:
Fortalecer los conocimientos de los participantes, en el uso de herramientas y métodos cuantitativos utilizados en la especificación y estimación de modelos econométricos, que sirvan para realizar pronósticos y simulación de variables relacionadas con las causas y los impactos del cambio climático.
Objetivos específicos:
Que los participantes adquieran conocimientos en:
• Métodos y técnicas cuantitativas que permiten medir las causas y los impactos del cambio climático sobre sectores económicos y las finanzas públicas.
• Ejercicios cuantitativos para que los participan…
Objeticos del curso:
1. Utilizar herramientas de balance de alimentos con el objetivo de adelantar a los tomadores de decisiones sobre problemas de desabastecimiento de bienes alimenticios sensibles, como los granos básicos.
2. Emplear instrumentos de análisis de efectividad de cambios en políticas para elevar la productividad de las actividades agropecuarias así como de su monitoreo en el corto y mediano plazos.
3. Contar con conocimientos técnicos para elaborar pronósticos de series de tiempo utilizando herramientas con estándares internacionales y que les permita a los analistas identificar…
AS part of its ongoing work in the Caribbean, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has responded to requests from member and associate member states for statistical capacity training in the core elements of Time Use Surveys. The training will offer a forum for sensitizing participants on the value of Time Use Surveys, and will facilitate the use of Time Use Surveys for measuring all forms of work – especially women’s activities. The initiative will complement ECLAC’s ongoing efforts to build greater capacity in the compilation of gender statistics and in the…
These sessions are being conducted as part of a series of ECLAC training courses that will strengthen the ability of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess damage and losses caused by natural disasters.
Considering the fact that Latin America and the Caribbean ranks as one of the regions most affected by disasters, this training will help provide countries with the knowledge to determine their own recovery and reconstruction path, and to incorporate future measures to reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience.
This particular session will inform participants on the complex…
These sessions are being conducted as part of a series of ECLAC training courses that will strengthen the ability of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess damage and losses caused by natural disasters.
Considering the fact that Latin America and the Caribbean ranks as one of the regions most affected by disasters, this training will help provide countries with the knowledge to determine their own recovery and reconstruction path, and to incorporate future measures to reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience.
This particular session will inform participants on the complex…
The First Training Course on Information Society Measurement in the Caribbean workshop is organized by the United Nations Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), as part of the activities of its project Observatory for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (OSILAC), under the framework of the actions of the Statistical Conference of the Americas and the Partnership on Measuring ICT for development, particularly with the support of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), who will d…
The aims of the meeting were to increase awareness of knowledge management as a tool for development, and advance discussions towards a practical knowledge management approach for the Caribbean subregion. It offered participating countries and institutions the opportunity to share their views on: (a) A background document prepared as the basis for deliberations by ECLAC (b) The role of indigenous knowledge in participatory approaches for sustainable development (c) Country and institutional experiences on knowledge management for development (d) The challenges and way forward towards a knowled…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean is convening a combined Regional Expert Group Meeting on “Knowledge Management in the Public Sector”; and “Knowledge Strategies for Development: Knowledge Networks”, which will be held at its Port of Spain Office from Wednesday 24 to Friday 26 August 2011.
The findings of a report recently prepared by the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean on the topic of Knowledge Management on the Public Sector will be presented at the meeting, and will serve as the basis for the delib…
The workshop will have simultaneous interpretation from Spanish into English and viceversa.
The programme and additional information are available at: http://negociacionp10.cepal.org/en/programme/capacity-building-workshop……
Taller contará con Interpretación español-inglés y viceversa.
Para ver el programa y más información visite: http://negociacionp10.cepal.org/es/programa/taller-de-capacitacion-para…
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The training on the Disaster Assessment Methodology was requested by the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy (MIDEPLAN), as part of the ministry’s efforts to improve disaster risk management and reduce risk in the country.
The course is imparted during three days, and combines expositions of the methodology with practical cases to allow participants to apply the different concepts and methods. The training is designed for policy makers and professionals involved directly with disaster risk management and risk reduction. Additionally, and since the methodology has a multisectoral …
Presentaciones y Ponencias del Taller Nacional sobre "Migración interna y desarrollo en México: diagnóstico, perspectivas y políticas"
Inauguración:
Manuel Ordorica (Secretario General de El Colegio de México)
José Luis Lezama (Director del Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales de El Colegio de México)
Cesar Garcés (CONAPO)
Jorge Mattar (CEPAL México)
Dirk Jaspers (CEPAL Santiago)
Sesión 1: Desarrollo económico y social en México y sus relaciones con la migración interna y la localización de la población
Isidro Soloaga (Universidad de las Américas, Puebla): Migración …
Presentaciones y Ponencias del Taller Nacional sobre "Migración interna y desarrollo en Brasil: diagnóstico, perspectivas y políticas"
Inauguración:
George Martine (ABEP)
Renato Baumanm (CEPAL Brasil)
Jose Miguel Guzman (CEPAL Santiago)
Sesión 1: Desarrollo económico y social en Brasil y sus relaciones con la migración interna y la localización de la población
Herton Ellery Araujo (IPEA): Desarrollo y desigualdades regionales en Brasil y su relación con las migraciones internas. (Presentación) - (Ponencia)
José Marcos Pinto da Cunha (NEPO, UNICAMP): A migração no Brasil no começo do sécul…
Redatam+SP (R+SP), es la última versión de la cuarta generación del programa Redatam originalmente lanzado como Redatam+G4, pero bautizado ahora como Redatam+SP, en homenaje a su creador Serge Poulard, fallecido el 1 de diciembre de 2003. Al igual que las versiones anteriores de Redatam (winR+), Redatam+SP, es una herramienta que permite a cualquier persona procesar, de manera fácil y rápida, datos censales y de otras fuentes, organizados en una base jerárquica para cualquier área geográfica previamente definida por el usuario, destacando: su sencillez para manejar el sistema, su rapidez; la p…
Participants should have previous knowledge of Redatam and must bring with them the databases they will work on (population censuses, agricultural censuses or surveys, vital statistics, household surveys, etc.) in their original format (ASCII, DBF, IMPS, SPSS, etc.) along with the corresponding dictionary and, if possible, the digital cartography for the desired level of disaggregation (ArcView format). The Workshop will be highly practical in character. Each participant should leave the activity with specific products (e.g., an application to upload to the Intranet, Internet web or a CD for d…
Para participar en el taller, es altamente deseable que el participante tenga previo conocimiento de Redatam. Además, cada participante deberá traer las bases de datos con los cuales desea trabajar (censos de población, censos o encuestas agrícolas, estadísticas vitales, encuestas de hogar, etc) en su formato original (ASCII, DBF, IMPS, SPSS, etc) acompañado del diccionario correspondiente y si es posible la cartografía digital para el nivel de desagregación a que se desea trabajar la información (formato ArcView). El Taller tiene un carácter altamente aplicado y se espera que cada participant…