5 Mayo 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:28
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Discurso
Welcome remarks by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
FORUM ON THE FUTURE OF THE CARIBBEAN
Port of Spain, 5-7 May 2015
Excellencies, academic staff, ladies and gentlemen,
This is my first time in the Caribbean and it is a pleasure to be in Port of Spain and especially at the celebrated University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.
Today, the Caribbean, like Latin America, is facing a future fraught with challenges and uncertainty. It is unclear whether the models and strategies that have d…
1 Nov 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:24
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Publicación
This paper will contend that the post-2015 development agenda presents a major opportunity for Caribbean countries to reverse decades of lagging economic performance and make the transition to balanced, holistic, and people-centred growth and development.
The MDGs, while valuable in promoting gains in poverty reduction, health, education, nutrition, and maternal well-being were not tailored to the growth and development needs of the region. This can now be changed by a post-2015 development agenda which goes beyond improving the welfare of citizens by meeting basic needs and enhancing access t…
ECLAC Caribbean recognizes that there are different sectors involved in disaster assessment, and this training is part of the continuing series of ECLAC training sessions aimed at strengthening the ability of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess damage and loss caused by disasters. Participants who benefitted from this particular e training were not only from disaster preparedness agencies, but also from the health, agriculture, public utilities, telecommunications, education, planning and tourism sectors.
An important aspect of this disaster assessment package for Trinidad w…
The Caribbean region is vulnerable to many types of weather related disaster as well as earthquakes. Disaster in the region have inceased over time. They are recurrent and happen unexpectedly. Damage and Loss Assessment is the basis for Post Disaster Needs Assessment.…
18 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:25
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Noticias
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is the first of seven Caribbean countries to receive training on Post Disaster Needs Assessment from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean.
The training will take place from 22nd to 25th June 2015, and will bring together expertise of the Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) methodology of ECLAC Caribbean and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of Trinidad and Tobago.
Other countries to soon benefit from these training sessions are Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Gr…
29 Oct 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:30
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Noticias
Peru is among the countries of Latin America that is most vulnerable to natural disasters. The establishment of the National Center for Disaster Assessment, Prevention and Risk Reduction (CENEPRED) is among the most significant efforts undertaken in recent times by the Peruvian government to comprehensively address the vulnerability of its population.
Over the past few months, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), with its well-established experience in dealing with natural disasters, has helped strengthen the capacity of CENEPRED officers, and of national …
26 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:20
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Noticias
“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…
11 Mar 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:30
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Noticias
The newly configured Sustainable Development and Disaster Unit at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean is gearing-up to provide unprecedented assistance in disaster assessment to Caribbean states and to all countries across Latin America.
Through this Unit, ECLAC will give significantly strengthened leadership to the entire region in the area of disaster assessment and post disaster needs analysis, by providing technical expertise to disaster-affected and disaster-prone countries.
Specific initiatives will include t…
16 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:25
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Noticias
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional office for the Caribbean is strengthening the capacity of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess the damages and losses caused by disasters.
This is through a Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) training session that ECLAC Caribbean will conduct in Cusco, Peru from 16th to 19th June 2015.
The training, which has been convened at the request of the National Center for Estimation, Prevention and Disaster Risk Reduction in Peru, will benefit sectoral specialists, as well as experts from institutions invo…
Staff members from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) thanked United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his support in rebuilding the organization’s headquarters, an icon of modern Latin American architecture, after an earthquake that affected central and southern Chile in February 2010. Ban Ki-moon visited Santiago on an official mission from February 26 to March 1.
During his third official visit to Chile, Mr. Ban participated in a high-level event organized by UN Women and Chile’s government, and his agenda included a town-hall meeting at ECLAC’s hea…
12 Oct 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:21
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Noticias
A team from the ECLAC Port of Spain office visited the Tranquility Government Primary School in Port of Spain and the Diamond Vale Government Primary School in Diego Martin on 30 September – 01 October, to share information on how the students can better prepare themselves and their families to prevent, recognize the signs, and deal with disasters.
The team delivered two awareness raising sessions to almost 200 fourth and fifth standard students from the two schools, as part of the organisation’s aim to promote disaster assessment awareness from an early age across the regio…
Los funcionarios de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) agradecieron al Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, Ban Ki-moon, quien visitó Santiago en misión oficial del 26 de febrero al 1 de marzo, su apoyo para la reconstrucción de la sede del organismo, ícono de la arquitectura moderna latinoamericana, tras el terremoto que afectó al centro y sur de Chile en febrero de 2010.
En su tercera visita oficial a este país, Ban Ki-moon participó en un evento de alto nivel organizado por ONU Mujeres y el Gobierno de Chile y su agenda incluyó un town-hall meeting en la sed…
Policy makers and children in Costa Rica will soon be better prepared to prevent and deal with disasters, as ECLAC Caribbean brings its disaster assessment package to the country.
Officials from ECLAC Caribbean will visit Costa Rica from 3-5 August, at the invitation of the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy (MIDEPLAN) to deliver training, this time not to emergency responders but instead to government policy makers, with emphasis on disaster assessment, pre-disaster preparation, prevention and incorporation of risk reduction policies.
The training will benefit the new environme…