Senior government authorities from Latin America, the Caribbean and other regions of the world, along with officials and experts from the United Nations System, international and regional organizations, the private sector, academia and civil society will gather at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile on March 31-April 4 at the eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development to review the progress and challenges related to achieving the 2030 Agenda in the region – five years ahead of the deadline set for its fulfillment.
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“No social actor, on their own, can achieve fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Without cooperation and without partnerships, there is no 2030 Agenda.” With this declaration by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the official inauguration took place this Tuesday, April 1 of the eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, the main intergovernmental gathering on the 2030 Agenda in the region, which is held each year under the auspices of ECLAC.
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The new platform makes Costa Rica the fourth country in Latin America and the Caribbean to have official statistics on the social and solidarity economy sector…
Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Quito, Ecuador, today to establish the Network of Subnational Governments for Productive Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Conceived as a permanent technical and political space, the Network seeks to support the strengthening of subnational governments’ capacities in designing and implementing productive development policies.
The Network’s creation, formalized through the Pichincha Declaration, was one of the outcomes of the International Seminar: The Role of Subnational Governments in Sustainable and Inclusive Producti…