Government authorities, United Nations officials and representatives of civil society urged for providing urgent support to Caribbean countries so they can advance on fulfilling the 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a context of acute financial weakness due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of natural disasters, among other factors, during a session of the fourth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development.
The panel entitled Building forward better in the Caribbean post-COVID-19: Critical issues to keep the 2030…
On Friday, November 5, the Member States and Associate Countries of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee will meet virtually in order to address the challenges posed by the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and to strengthen economic resilience in the subregion at the twentieth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of this subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
The Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) officially meets every two years, its main objectives being to promote and strengthen economic and social cooperati…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, urged the international community to support the end of middle-income countries’ graduation from Official Development Assistance (ODA), during today’s opening segment of a month-long series entitled Development in Transition: Dialogues to chart new paths for Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by ECLAC, the European Commission and the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The senior United Nations official stressed that it is …