26 - 27 Mar
2025, 17:00 - 20:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the…
19 Mayo 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:22
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Publicación
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 …
1 Nov 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:21
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Publicación
This paper will contend that the post-2015 development agenda presents a major opportunity for Caribbean countries to reverse decades of lagging economic performance and make the transition to balanced, holistic, and people-centred growth and development.
The MDGs, while valuable in promoting gains in poverty reduction, health, education, nutrition, and maternal well-being were not tailored to the growth and development needs of the region. This can now be changed by a post-2015 development agenda which goes beyond improving the welfare of citizens by meeting basic needs and enhancing access t…
1 Jun 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:19
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Publicación
This book is the final report of the ECLAC-IDRC project Observatory for the Information Society in Latin American and the Caribbean OSILAC, which aims at understanding the dynamics of the ICT evolution and revolution and producing evidence on its potential to promote socio-economic development. As such, microdata analysis drawn from National Household Surveys and National Innovation Surveys in Latin America were used in the framework of the project in the attempt to reach those objectives. Both statistical information sources provide attractive potentialities in order to investigate not only d…
1 Jun 2006, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:38
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Publicación
This document was prepared by the Economic Projections Centre, under the supervision of Hubert Escaith, Director of the Statistics and Economic Projections Division of the ECLAC. André Hofman, Chief of the Economic Projections Centre (ECP), was in charge of technical coordination and for conducting the study. The assistance of the national and subregional offices and of the ECLAC Economic Development Division was much appreciated. The views expressed in this document, which have not been formally edited, are the sole responsibility of the working group and do not necessarily reflect the vi…
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the gender and social disparities existing in the
agricultural and rural sector in Caribbean economies. In this context, agricultural transformation as
occasioned by the dismantling of preferential trading arrangements is analysed to identify the most
relevant gender discriminatory measures in the current agricultural development policy and
programmes. The analysis seeks to provide the basis for enhancing understanding among policy
makers, planners and rural development practitioners of the gender and social dimension involved
in the formulati…
26 Abr 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:20
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Publicación
In its work in assisting member countries in meeting international commitments to the application of thorough gender analysis in formulating macroeconomic policy, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); has undertaken a needs assessment of economic planning units in four countries of the Caribbean: Belize, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This paper considers to what extent these countries under study have sought to integrate gender into macroeconomic planning, and what are the institutional, human resource capacity and attitudinal …
1 Ene 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:38
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Publicación
A major part of the problem of providing high-quality welfare and social protection to the members of a society lies in the issue of how to distribute the responsibility for these services within the society -a problem referred to in this paper as the care dilemma . Different historical junctures and forms of social organization have witnessed different responses to this dilemma. Strictly speaking, the solution is a variable that depends on culture, level of institutional development, the distribution of the resources of power in a society and the ability of the different relevant s…
This paper has been written within the context of the activities of the ECLAC/Division for the Advancement of Women/United Nations Development Account Project on Democratic Governance and Equality in Gender Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its purpose is to present an overview of the social and institutional changes unfolding in the region and the relationships that exist between democratic governance and the reform of societal gender-based practices. The paper postulates that the new modes of democratic governance take the form of institutional changes, that is to say, they manifest…
Abstract Quality of Life: A compendium of selected social statistics of five Caribbean countries (1995-2001), is the second in a series on social statistics to be published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean/Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (ECLAC/CDCC) secretariat. The first was published in December 1995, entitled Selected demographic and social statistics, 1960- 1994, and was based on the population census data. This compendium of selected social statistics of five Caribbean countries is the first output of the fully searchable subregional…
This document posits conceptual frameworks for a reading of gender mechanisms that seeks to analyze them as part of the broader process of which they are an expression: the legitimization and institutionalization of the new challenges facing society and the state. These processes are evident at the national and international levels, in civil society and in international organizations. They include the construction of new concepts of gender relations in various societies, the inclusion of inequality-related problems on public agendas, and the institutionalization of the issue within the State. …
Abstract
This study consists of two substantive components that provide an overview of the different methodologies currently being applied to the measurement of multidimensional poverty for Mexico and Central America. In the first component a typology of different practical methodological concepts is organized according to how different methods deal with the two fundamental decisions in the measurement of poverty, identifying the poor and aggregating the groups into a single index value that is informative. The typology is able to encompass most different methods of multidimensio…
22 - 24 May
2019, 08:35
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Evento (Reuniones y seminarios técnicos)
At the request of UNESCO, ECLAC participated in the 4th International Conference on TVET in the Caribbean, which took place in Montego Bay, Jamaica on May 22-24, 2019. There, ECLAC presented the results of the ECLAC-Government of Norway cooperation programme “Technical and vocational education and training for greater equality in Latin America and the Caribbean”. In particular, it shared lessons learned on the contribution of TVET to socioeconomic development and on the regional experience on financing of TVET.…
24 Mayo 2023, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:41
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Nota informativa
La Directora de la División de Asuntos de Género de la CEPAL, Ana Güezmes García, participó en el Foro de Igualdad de Género organizado por la Fundación Internacional EU-LAC y la Red Internacional de Mujeres EU-LAC (Red WIN), junto con el Ministerio Federal de Relaciones Exteriores de Alemania, el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación del Reino de España; el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto de Argentina y la Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores de México durante los días 11 y 12 de mayo en Berlín, Alemania.…
1 Jun 2010, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:23
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Publicación
Este documento recoge contribuciones de las ministras y autoridades de los mecanismos para el adelanto de la mujer de América Latina y el Caribe, que definieron su contenido en la cuadragésima tercera reunión de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe (Puerto España, 7 y 8 de julio de 2009), y que enviaron documentos e información para su preparación y enriquecieron su versión final con aportes y debates en dos foros virtuales.
En este informe se integran los avances del Observatorio de igualdad de género de América Latina y el Caribe y se da c…
Representantes de gobiernos, del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas, organismos internacionales y regionales, sector privado, academia y sociedad civil analizarán los progresos y desafíos para el cumplimiento de la Agenda 2030 en América Latina y el Caribe, durante la octava reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que se realizará bajo la presidencia del Perú, del 31 de marzo al 4 de abril en la sede principal de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), en Santiago, Chile.
A diez años de la histórica aprobaci…
“Llamamos a acelerar el paso hacia una justicia económica, climática y de género y transitar hacia una sociedad del cuidado”, dijo hoy Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), durante un encuentro virtual organizado de forma paralela al Foro Político de Alto Nivel sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible (HLPF, por sus siglas en inglés), convocado anualmente bajo los auspicios del Consejo Económico y Social de las Naciones Unidas (ECOSOC, por sus siglas en inglés).
“No queremos volver a donde estábamos antes de la pandemia, necesitamos un cam…
11 Ago 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:20
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Noticias
El rol crucial de las y los legisladores de la región para avanzar hacia la sociedad del cuidado fue destacado hoy durante la inauguración del Foro Parlamentario de América Latina y el Caribe en el marco de la XVI Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe, organizado por el Congreso de la Unión de México, ONU Mujeres y la CEPAL en el Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro en Ciudad de México.
En la ceremonia de apertura participaron la Senadora Martha Lucia Mícher Camarena, Presidenta de la Comisión para la Igualdad de Género del Senado de la República de México; la Diputada…
1 Abr 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:19
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Comunicado de prensa
“Ningún actor social, por sí mismo, puede lograr el cumplimiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS). Sin cooperación y sin alianzas no hay Agenda 2030”. Con esa sentencia del Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, se inauguraron oficialmente este martes 1 de abril los trabajos de la octava reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, principal encuentro intergubernamental sobre la Agenda 2030 en la región, que se realiza cada año bajo los auspicios de la CEPAL.
Altas autoridades de gobiernos d…
16 Abr 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:21
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Comunicado de prensa
Los países de América Latina y el Caribe instaron hoy a revitalizar el compromiso con la Agenda 2030 para el desarrollo sostenible y propiciar políticas y acciones renovadas y audaces para acelerar el paso hacia el cumplimiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), durante la inauguración de la séptima reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que se celebra hasta el jueves 18 en la sede principal de la CEPAL en Santiago, Chile.
En la apertura del encuentro -que reúne a representantes de los 33 países de la región, de agencias de la…