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…
18 - 19 Oct
2012, 06:00 - 14:45
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Evento (Reuniones y seminarios técnicos)
La organización de esta conferencia estuvo a cargo de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe de las Naciones Unidas (CEPAL) y de la Cátedra OMC de la Universidad de Chile, en colaboración con las Cátedras de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) de Buenos Aires (FLACSO Argentina) y Ciudad de México (ITAM), y el World Trade Institute (Universidad de Berna, Suiza). Los organizadores también contaron con el apoyo de la Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe para la Investigación en Servicios (REDLAS), el Ministerio Federal de Cooperación Económica y Desarrollo (BMZ) de Alemania (a t…
Estrategia de implementación
El trabajo se centra en el análisis de la futura evolución de dos variables clave: la tasa de actividad laboral y la productividad laboral. Para ello, se analiza en primer lugar la evolución reciente de ambas variables, desagregando por tres dimensiones que resultan clave: edad, sexo y nivel educativo. A continuación, se diseñan distintos escenarios que permiten proyectar la evolución de la tasa de participación femenina en el largo plazo, teniendo como horizonte temporal el año 2100. Se incorporan luego cambios exógenos en la productividad. El capítulo cierra…
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…
19 - 21 Nov
2008, 06:10 - 12:10
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The general objective is to contribute to the inclusion of the ethnic approach in the 2010 census round processes through the participation of afro descendants and indigenous peoples. The specific objectives are to update the situation concerning the way countries of the region have included the identification of ethnic groups in population and housing censuses, to strengthen the participation and the inter-cultural dialogue in the census process, to establish agreements concerning the conceptual and operational aspects of the ethnic group identification criteria, to encourage a regional work …
19 - 21 Nov
2008, 06:10 - 12:10
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Evento (Reuniones y seminarios técnicos)
Tiene como objetivo general contribuir a la inclusión del enfoque étnico en el proceso censal de la ronda 2010 mediante una construcción participativa con los pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes.…