The Government of Peru and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed their resolve to strengthen cooperation on distinct matters related to economic, social and environmental development, during an official visit lasting 24 hours that Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, made today to that country.
The senior United Nations authority led an official ECLAC mission to Lima, the first since President Pedro Castillo was sworn into office on July 28 of this year, with the aim of reaffirming the organization’s willingness to work jointly on those ar…
3 - 05 Oct
2023, 06:00 - 11:30
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Evento (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)
The Fifth session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean of ECLAC and the XV Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean of UNDP, will be held in person from 3 to 5 October 2023 at the headquarters of ECLAC in Santiago. The civil society will meet on 2 October, prior to the start of the official activities.
Official activities of the meeting will include five panel discussions to address relevant issues in the field of social institutions identified as priorities in the document Institutional frameworks for social poli…
This study examines how ICTs have supported equitable development of online distance learning for students in primary, secondary, and tertiary education systems across the Caribbean. By presenting data obtained through interviews with government officials and other key stakeholders in five countries and territories - Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago – the study highlights learning continuity challenges and successful adaptations specific to the subregion during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study identifies best practices and recommendations to integr…
23 Mar 2022, 07:00 - 09:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The workshop takes place within the scope of the project “Building a national and regional strategy for the development and adoption of sustainable technologies”, led by the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) in Brazil and implemented by the Economic Commission for America Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL) with support of the European Union through Euroclima+.
In addition, the workshop builds on a series of actions that are in course in the context of a fruitful network coordinated by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Green in partnership with representa…
On 9 September, a side event on the Principle 10 regional process was held in the framework of UNEP's Meeting of senior government officials expert in environmental law that took place between 7 and 11 September in Montevideo (Uruguay).…
(March 12, 2015) Authorities and ministers from several countries in the region, as well as senior representatives from the United Nations, said that it is necessary to rethink the international financial architecture and put inclusion at the center of the new post-2015 development agenda, in the context of a meeting on financing for development held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
In the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Consultation on Financing for Development, organized by ECLAC and Chile’s government, …
Ciudad de Panamá, 13 de septiembre de 2018 – Dos vicepresidentas y cerca de 40 ministros de América Latina y el Caribe se comprometieron a tomar medidas concretas para reducir las desigualdades estructurales que continúan impidiendo que muchos participen en las sociedades de manera significativa. Las autoridades de 20 países acordaron la ¨Declaración de Panamá” al cerrar el X Foro Ministerial para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe (undp.org/forolac) Alianzas para la reducción de desigualdades estructurales en el marco de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), 12-13 de septiemb…