The millennium development goals and the challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean in making progress towards higher levels of well-being, better human capital and more equal opportunities

This document takes up a number of the points raised in the 2005 report by ECLAC and other UN agencies on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. It provides further discussion on the type of problems and challenges facing the region in five areas that are either included in the MDGs or closely related to them (poverty, hunger and child malnutrition, education, health and children). The document makes recommendations for the region's governments and countries in these five areas.…

Caribbean synthesis report on the implementation of the Lisbon Declaration on Youth Policies and Programmes

The Subregional review of youth policies and strategies in the Caribbean offers an overview of national policies on youth in 29 Caribbean states and territories that are members or associate members of ECLAC. The report aims at providing a comprehensive review of the state of youth policies and programmes in the Caribbean, its current operational status, and the involvement of youth in guiding future implementation, including enhancing the understanding of the complex and multifaceted challenges facing youth empowerment, based on a set of international and subregional standards for youth polic…

Caribbean youth address major development issues at United Nations meeting

Youth from across the Caribbean will discuss such issues as access to high-quality education, lack of employment, youth participation in society, intergenerational justice and climate change during a United Nations (UN) meeting, which will take place on 1 April 2019. The Caribbean is home to more than 11 million youth between the ages of 15 and 29. These young people have a central role to play in the achievement of sustainable development in the region. However, there are several challenges that need to be addressed for youth to be able to contribute effectively to the benefit of the …

Youth and social cohesion in Ibero-America: a model in the making. Summary

Ibero-America is living through promising times in terms of the relation between youth and development. The signs are well known, and this report provides an unprecedented compilation of evidence confirming them. The region's youth today have more years of education on average than adults, and the gap is even more favourable for youth in terms of access to new communication technologies, information and knowledge. The population dynamic indicates that the coming years will see a reduction in the proportion of young people in the overall population in most Ibero-American countries, and thi…

Building equity from the beginning: the children and adolescents of Ibero-America

Foreword The Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government,which met in Panama in November 2000, devoted a good part of its deliberations to the subject o children and youth.It recognized the importance of their rights,as clearly enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child,which all the Ibero-American countries have signed.It also identified the most urgent problems acing boys,girls and adolescents and,in the Panama Declaration 2000,set forth the strategies for resolving them. As these priorities were established,it became clear that there was a ne…

Selected online learning experiences in the Caribbean during COVID-19. Policy Brief

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread closure of schools and disruption of education systems worldwide, requiring unprecedented adaptation to ensure learning continuity for students. In place of classroom learning, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been adopted to support online distance learning – with mixed results. While Caribbean governments have piloted a range of online learning modalities, many children in the subregion, especially those from poor and rural households, were not able to leverage those facilities. As a result of a lack of access to the Internet …

Social inclusion of youth in the context of increasing violence and insecurity with a focus on Central America

Outputs The Project has allowed generating a regional panorama of the complexity of the relationship between youth social inclusion and violence, that has fed a regional youth observatory on policies and programmes, and that has allowed to elaborate a deep analysis of the institutional configuration on youth issues. The construction of a regional database focused on youth will constitute a huge contribution of the Project that will serve to several counterparts for conducting analysis on specific topics. The regional panoramas have been constructed considering national experiences and comments…

Report on the situation of youth in selected Caribbean countries

The report The situation of youth in select Caribbean countries presents the preliminary findings of a joint regional study undertaken by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); during the 2006 to 2007 biennium. The purpose of the project was to analyse the status of youth in a number of Caribbean and Latin American countries in terms of education, employment and sexual and reproductive health using available 2000 census data.…

ONU: Asegurar la participación de las niñas, niños, adolescentes y juventudes es crucial para el éxito de la Agenda 2030 en América Latina y el Caribe

Un llamado a asegurar la participación de las niñas, niños, adolescentes y juventudes de América Latina y el Caribe en todas las etapas de implementación de la Agenda 2030 y a valorar sus contribuciones para así alcanzar el desarrollo sostenible en la región, sin dejar a nadie atrás, hicieron este lunes 24 de abril representantes de diversas agencias de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) que participaron en el Quinto Foro de Niñas, Niños, Adolescentes y Juventudes de América Latina y el Caribe 2030 realizado en Santiago, Chile. La ONU reconoce el liderazgo de las y los jóvenes en el …

Reducir las brechas de inclusión social de la juventud, clave para América Latina

Los jóvenes latinoamericanos sufren en la actualidad de un alto grado de desempleo, bajos niveles de cobertura de seguridad social y una participación en el mercado laboral caracterizada por la poca productividad y salarios bajos, señaló el Oficial a cargo de la Oficina de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Argentina, Martín Abeles, en el Encuentro Internacional Inclusión: Juventud y Género y IX Foro de Ministras y Ministros de Desarrollo Social de América Latina, celebrados en el Palacio San Martín de Buenos Aires del 16 al 18 de septiembre y …

Primera Reunión de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe

La Primera Reunión de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe de la CEPAL se realizó en conjunto con el VIII Foro Ministerial para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe organizado por la Oficina Regional del PNUD para América Latina, la Vicepresidencia de la República Dominicana y el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD).…

Caribbean Regional Breakout Session at the ECOSOC Youth Forum

The Caribbean Regional Breakout Session will provide a space to present the results of the youth regional preparatory consultations and local dialogues in the framework of the 14th ECOSOC Youth Forum and the 8th Forum of LAC Countries on Sustainable Development, providing an opportunity to promote and strengthen the dialogue with Member States and UN agencies, for a meaningful and inclusive children, youth and adolescent (CYA) participation in the acceleration of action towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.…

Niñas, niños, adolescentes y juventudes demandan mayor participación en el proceso de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe

Niñas, niños, adolescentes y juventudes de la región abogaron hoy por mayores niveles de participación en el proceso de desarrollo sostenible de América Latina y el Caribe, durante un encuentro realizado en el marco de la séptima reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que se celebra del 15 al 18 de abril de 2024 en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile. Durante la edición 2024 del Foro de niñas, niños, adolescentes y juventudes de América Latina y el Caribe, las juventudes expusieron sus…

Jóvenes con bajo nivel educativo están atrapados en empleos de baja productividad

(9 de febrero 2010) Mientras más bajo sea el nivel educativo de los jóvenes, menor será su acceso a empleos de calidad y alta productividad, particularmente entre las mujeres, afirmó el Secretario Ejecutivo Adjunto de la CEPAL, Antonio Prado, durante el II Foro América Latina y el Caribe - Unión Europea (ALC-UE) que tiene lugar en Lima. El Foro se realiza entre el 8-10 de febrero bajo el título "La promoción del trabajo decente para los jóvenes, nuevas capacidades para nuevos empleos", y en él participan ministros de Estado, altos funcionarios de gobierno de una docena de países de la región y…

Empowering the 40% of Young Latin Americans Not in Formal Jobs, Education or Training could Spark New Growth Engines

Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) GDP will shrink by between 0.9% and 1% in 2016, according to the latest estimates, the second consecutive year of negative growth and a rate of contraction the region has not seen since the early 1980s. According to the Latin American Economic Outlook 2017, the region should recover in 2017, but with modest GDP growth of between 1.5% and 2%, below expected growth in advanced economies. According to the report, jointly produced by the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Commission for…

Report of the twenty-ninth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Regional Realities - Challenges, priorities and actions for the post COVID-19 recovery and realizing the SDGs Decade of Action

This is a breakout session for Caribbean youth that will take place during the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum held from 19 - 20 April 2022. We invite you to take part by registering and participating!…

Active labor market programs for the integration of youths and immigrants into the labor market: the Nordic experience

The purpose of this study is to survey the evaluation literature on active labor market programs (ALMPs) in the Nordic labor market in order to provide a general overview of the success and failure of different types of ALMPs as well as a more detailed account of the Nordic experience with targeted programs towards vulnerable groups such as unemployed youth and immigrants. The consensus in the evaluation literature is that the types of ALMPs that are efficient in reducing unemployment duration and increasing employment chances for the unemployed in general are also the most efficient for vulne…

Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2008-2009: Policies for creating quality jobs

La publicación del sexagésimo primer Estudio económico de América Latina y el Caribe, correspondiente al bienio 2008-2009, tiene lugar en un momento crítico del desarrollo económico de América Latina y el Caribe. Se interrumpió una fase de crecimiento de duración y características inéditas en la historia reciente y la región sufre una contracción de su producto, con efectos negativos en el bienestar de la población que inevitablemente se reflejarán en retrocesos de las variables sociales. Dos características diferencian la situación actual de los muchos episodios de crisis que afectaron a la r…

Development social policy for youth with special reference to young men in Saint Lucia

Summary Highlights some issues raised during consultations about the apparent alienation of some sectors of the youth population in St. Lucia. These include rising levels of involvement of male youth in criminal activity and violence, high dropout rates and increased rates of drug abuse. Examines the education system, noting its lack of responsiveness to the developmental needs of contemporary St. Lucia, the lack of economic opportunities on the island and socialisation trends. Recommends a revision of the curriculum, making the education system more technically oriented, teacher training a…