The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, defended today the role of planning in changing economic and social structures and successfully implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She spoke at the inauguration of the XIV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean in Yachay (Ecuador), where she was joined by Ecuador’s National Secretary for Planning and Development, Sandra Naranjo.
“We need you to help us imagine 2030,” said the senior United Nations official before repres…
(27 June 2012) The fiftieth anniversary of ECLAC's Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) will be celebrated with an international seminar taking place from 2-3 July 2012. Authorities of the region, former directors of the organization and other officials are expected to participate in the event.
ILPES was founded on 2 July 1962 in the aim of supporting Latin American and Caribbean governments in the field of planning and public administration by providing training, consultancy and research services.
The seminar to commemorate the 50th anniversary of th…
Adoption of a work plan to encourage development of gender statistics across the region and training-of-trainers projects to replicate knowledge of statistical measurements in national and subregional spheres are among the objectives of the 7th Executive Committee Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA). The Statistical Conference of the Americas is a subsidiary body of ECLAC that operates as a high-level intergovernmental forum for the promotion of official statistics and regional cooperation in this field.
The meeting will be held 29 and 30…
Ministers and senior authorities, as well as experts and officials from international organizations, will participate on November 18-19 in Yachay (Ecuador) in meetings organized by the Government of Ecuador and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), where they will analyze the contribution of planning to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
On November 18, the XIV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean will take place. It will be inaugurated by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and the …