(16 February 2011) During a two days visit to Ecuador and Peru, which concluded yesterday night, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, called on both South American countries to further strengthen their democratic institutions and extend the benefits of development to the most disadvantaged populations, including indigenous peoples.
Officials accompanying Ban Ki-moon included the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, and United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Oscar Fernández-Taranco, as well as other senior UN representatives.
In Quito, the UN Se…
(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…
(20 October 2010) Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are changing society and their dissemination has become a vital tool for reducing inequality gaps in Latin American and Caribbean nations, said the Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Antonio Prado, during the inauguration of a seminar at Commission headquarters.
In the seminar Social Policies and the Information Society: Gaps, Opportunities and Rights, government officials and experts analyzed the contribution of ICTs to countries' social development, particularly in education and health, and how they can be incorporated in…
(8 September 2010) High-ranking officials of international and multilateral organizations agreed that inequality is one of the main obstacles for Latin America and the Caribbean to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015 during a round table held today in Washington, D.C.
The XXV OAS Policy Roundtable discussed the document Achieving the Millennium Development Goals with equality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress and challenges, which examines the current state of progress in the region towards the fulfillment of the MDGs. The report was prepared within the fram…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean remains committed to providing assistance to Caribbean countries, as the region prepares a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be included in the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda, declared today its Director, Diane Quarless.
The head of the ECLAC Caribbean office opened the Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean within the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, organized by the UN Commission, with the support of …
(19 October 2010) Over the past decade the great majority of Latin American and Caribbean countries made significant progress in the development of statistics in different fields, says a new ECLAC report released today in Santiago, Chile.
The report Development of Official Statistics in the Region was presented by ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena in the context of World Statistics Day, celebrated today in this United Nations regional commission.
The report, which describes the main trends in the development of official statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean and the most importan…
The eight Millennium Development Goals - which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV and AIDS and providing universal primary education by 2015 - form a blueprint for tackling critical issues facing developing countries: poverty, hunger, inadequate education, gender inequality, child and maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, and environmental degradation. The Caribbean Millennium Development Goals Report 2010 reviews progress in the Caribbean subregion towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals on the basis of the most recent data available from official coun…
Since the adoption of the Millennium Declaration, the international statistical community and the countries of the region have been working in improving monitoring and reporting of the MDGs indicators, reducing discrepancies among values of indicators published by countries and those reported by the international agencies, and dealing with data gaps especially in countries with low statistical capacities.
Although progress has been made, there is still a lot that needs to be done aiming at strengthening the statistical and institutional capacities of official statistical agencies and oth…
(17 February 2010) The Regional Coordination Mechanism for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations system is meeting in Mexico City today and tomorrow to discuss the Millennium Development Goals, climate change, the political situation in the region and the U.N.'s contribution to regional cooperation.
The meeting was inaugurated today by the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Asha-Rose Migiro, and ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena at the Commission's subregional headquarters in Mexico.
The Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), J…
(18 February, 2010) The Regional Coordination Mechanism for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations system concluded a two-day meeting in Mexico City today, stressing their commitment to strengthen interagency cooperation to address the development challenges of the region.
Ten years after the Millennium Declaration, representatives from several United Nations organizations and agencies highlighted the coordination efforts made in the assessment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
An interagency report about the region's progre…