(March 26, 2015) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, met with Nicolás Maduro, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Caracas today as part of her tour of the South American country.
The United Nations high official also met with Vice President Jorge Arreaza and the expanded Social Welfare Cabinet. The meeting was attended by ministers from the Social Welfare area, as well as that area’s Vice President, Héctor Rodríguez, and Planning and Knowledge Vice President, Ricardo Mendéndez.
Bárcena was accompanied …
The Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Indicator Framework is endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission as the monitoring mechanism for the 169 targets and more than 230 indicators of the SDGs. Reporting of these indicators will pose a formidable challenge to the Caribbean given the statistical capacity of countries of the subregion. The results of an ECLAC survey show that only three of the eleven countries that participated reported having the capacity to produce at least 50 per cent of the indicators. The capacities of National Statistical Offices will need to be signif…
INE technicians participated in a workshop organized by ECLAC to develop a statistical geoportal based on free software and open standards. The initiative seeks to strengthen the dissemination of official data and promote interoperability, following successful examples from other countries in the region.…
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The overall objective of the training is to strengthen the skills level of policymakers and technical officers of the Government of Grenada in cost-benefit analysis which will enhance their ability to design and implement data-informed policies and strategies for accelerating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and building a resilient economy.…