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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The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, emphasized the value of the regional dimension of sustainable development as a key bridge for connecting global processes to new realities on a national level in the context of the crisis produced by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), during a high-level meeting held today with United Nations member countries and senior officials.
Bárcena participated this Friday, May 22 in a session entitled “Unleashing the UN development system’s regional assets: the path forward” during the four…
In the framework of his official visit to Chile, the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, gave a keynote lecture today at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in Santiago, urging the region’s countries to dialogue in a context of mutual respect, putting the interests that unite them first and offering a continent of peace in a troubled world, plagued by conflicts that have affected all countries due to their magnitude.
The Paraguayan leader – who took office on August 15, 2023 – was received by the United Nation…
The current crisis should serve as an opportunity to achieve broad social and political consensus to implement ambitious reforms through multilateral and regional cooperation, which would allow for achieving sustainable and egalitarian growth that can meet the heterogeneous needs of countries of all income levels, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), stated today.
The senior United Nations official spoke at a seminar entitled International financial cooperation amid the Latin American economic crisis, organized by EC…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the world following the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic demands of us more cooperation and regional integration, more multilateralism, new strategic sectors and greater productive integration, along with a universal social protection scheme with a basic income, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), sustained today.
The senior United Nations official led a virtual extraordinary meeting of the Practice Community of the region’s countries that will be presenting in 2020 their volun…
At this time of pandemic provoked by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the need for international cooperation is more urgent on the fiscal side. For that reason, international financial organizations should grant favorable financing conditions to middle-income countries, with low-cost credit lines and debt relief, sustained Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
The senior United Nations official participated today in a virtual seminar entitled How to face the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America, organized by Spanish instituti…
(15 April 2010) Government officials and experts from 19 member countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from the Americas and Europe will meet in Santiago, Chile to examine the development of statistics in the region in censuses, Millennium Development Goals, gender and measuring poverty, among other areas.
During the Ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC (SCA-ECLAC), participants will review regional and international cooperation programmes on statistics during 2009-2011 and assess the activitie…
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…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, warned today that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will have devastating effects on the global economy that will certainly be more intense than and distinct from those felt during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, adding that Latin American and Caribbean countries will not be spared since they will be affected through numerous channels.
The senior United Nations official participated this Thursday, March 19, in an Inter-American Dialogue Conference Call on the Coronavirus an…
“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.
Senior government authorities from…
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 today for strengthening triangular cooperation and fostering its role as a catalyst of the post COVID-19 recovery during a regional conference organized by Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the V Regional Conference “Perspectives on Triangular Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean”, whic…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, reaffirmed the importance of the regional dimension in the United Nations System and – particularly the role and added value provided by the UN regional commissions – in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, during a high-level meeting held on Wednesday, May 22 at the global organization’s headquarters in New York.
The international official, in her role as coordinator of the five UN regional commissions, was one of the main panelists at the fifth session…
The third meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development will be officially inaugurated tomorrow Wednesday, April 24, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
More than a thousand people – including representatives of government, international institutions, the private sector, academia and civil society – are already confirmed to attend the gathering, which will be held on April 22-26. The meeting will feature more than 50 side events. Participants will meet to …
International development cooperation must change and move from the traditional approach to one that responds to the particular needs of Latin America and the Caribbean, senior government authorities from various countries in the region and United Nations officials indicated today during the Eighth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation, which took place at the organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
The meeting – carried out in the framework of “Development in transition week,” which runs from October 2 to 5 – was inaugurated by the Executive Sec…
To support national efforts on development financing, it is time to definitively move beyond the dichotomy of donor-receiver and the criteria of per capita income in the allocation of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and advance toward a new model that takes into account, for example, the needs of middle-income countries, a category that encompasses 85% of Latin American and Caribbean nations, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today in Brussels.
Bárcena participated this Thursday in a seminar entitled Next step…
The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Federica Mogherini, reaffirmed today in Mexico the cooperation ties between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, and called for building a strategic association between both parties based on a new governance model with equality and growth.
The European official participated as a special guest in ECLAC’s thirty-sixth session, which is being held in Mexico City, and spoke before an audience made up of authorities and representatives of member nations of this Unit…
Experts from international and multilateral organizations, along with government officials from various Latin American and Caribbean countries, participated in a high-level seminar on the new challenges of international cooperation and their importance for furthering the region’s development in a complex context such as the current one.
The event, entitled New challenges and new perspectives on international cooperation: Development approaches from Latin America and the Caribbean, took place on September 13-14 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (…
The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, presented the El Salvador-Guatemala-Honduras-Mexico Comprehensive Development Plan to President Juan Orlando Hernández and the Government of Honduras and participated in the inauguration of the National Commission on the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (NC-SDG) and the Technical Committee for Sustainable Development, in the context of an official visit to Tegucigalpa on July 24-25.
“The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Central America-Mexico Compre…
Dear Executive Secretaries of the sister UN Regional Economic Commissions,
Dear Selwin Hart, UN Assistant Secretary-General for the Climate Action Team (CAT)
Dear Thilmeeza Hussain, Director of the Regional Commissions New York Office,
Distinguished guests, colleagues, and participants,
Welcome to this side-event on how Critical Energy Transition Minerals can accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), convened under the auspices of the United Nations Regional Economic Commissions.
Today, we gather to address a defining challenge of our time: powering and enabling the…