Report of the twenty-eighth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Policy Brief: Planning for resilience: an integrated approach to tackle climate change in the Caribbean

The Caribbean subregion is exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Vulnerability is a key multidimensional concept at the heart of resilience building, relating to each country’s multiple spatial and socioeconomic risks and conditions. In fact, due to its geographical location and concentration of population and activities in low-lying coastal areas, the Caribbean is the second most hazard-prone region in the world...Moreover, impacts of extreme weather events on Caribbean small economies are of national proportions. For example, in the hurricane s…

El fenómeno migratorio en el Ecuador: diagnóstico y prospectiva hacia el año 2035

Policy Brief: Evidence based policy-making in the Caribbean

There is much advocacy in the Caribbean regarding the need for evidence-based policy making, that is – policy making that is based on timely and reliable data regarding a particular economic and/or social problem, to promote good governance and facilitate enhanced policy and programme outcomes. However, the reality remains an elusive one for many Caribbean policy makers, who implement policies based on ideas, as well as ad hoc or outdated data. Outside of the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States of America are countries where polic…

Population Ageing - Subregional Challenges of a Global Phenomenon

Prospectiva para el desarrollo y los ODS de la Agenda 2030

Objetivos generales Brindar un marco analítico, conceptual e instrumental introductorio que permita un conocimiento general de la prospectiva y sus técnicas básicas, siendo una primera aproximación a los estudios del futuro. Se pretende, además, dar a conocer experiencias relevantes de la disciplina de la prospectiva, aplicadas a distintas escalas, especialmente la nacional. Estos dos ejes constituyen el núcleo central del curso y contribuyen al fortalecimiento del proceso de toma de decisiones estratégicas en la gestión de gobierno para promover el desarrollo, tomando como marco central la Ag…