Senior government authorities from Latin America, the Caribbean and other regions of the world, along with officials and experts from the United Nations System, international and regional organizations, the private sector, academia and civil society will gather at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile on March 31-April 4 at the eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development to review the progress and challenges related to achieving the 2030 Agenda in the region – five years ahead of the deadline set for its fulfillment.
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The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, emphasized the value of the regional dimension of sustainable development as a key bridge for connecting global processes to new realities on a national level in the context of the crisis produced by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), during a high-level meeting held today with United Nations member countries and senior officials.
Bárcena participated this Friday, May 22 in a session entitled “Unleashing the UN development system’s regional assets: the path forward” during the four…
(13 February 2013) As part of an official visit to Cuba from Monday 11 February to Friday 15, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, has held various meetings with senior government authorities to assess, inter alia, the support that the Commission will provide in 2013 to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), of which Cuba holds the pro tempore presidency.
The delegation accompanying the most senior representative of ECLAC consists in Raúl García-Buchaca, Director of the Programme Planning and Operati…
(Brasilia, 31 May 2010) Government representatives and prominent international experts participating in the Thirty-third Session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) discussed today the Commission's proposals set forth in its document Time for Equality. Closing Gaps, Opening Trails.
The main working document in the meeting was presented by ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena during a high-level seminar attended by government officials and representatives of ECLAC member States and international bodies.
Bárcena stressed the need to establish a new fiscal c…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold its most important biennial meeting in Mexico City from May 23 to May 27, 2016, where officials will present its 45 member and 13 associated states a report on its activities and will offer governments a reflection upon development strategies in the context of the commitments contained in the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, indicated that in the thirty-sixth session participants will debate the region’s economic, social and environmenta…
(21 August, 2014) Today the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, welcomed senior Chilean authorities including Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Ximena Rincón; President of the Senate, Isabel Allende; and Senator Hernán Larraín to the headquarters for the launch of Chile’s Action Plan for Open Government 2014-2016.
The most senior ECLAC official welcomed the fact that 15 of the region’s countries, including Chile, have adopted commitments to improve transparency and citizen participation within the Open…
(22 August 2013) At a seminar held today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, authorities and experts discussed the public policies needed to build smart cities that will improve the quality of life of citizens in Chile and the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Smart Cities Summit 2013 - Building the cities of tomorrow, today was organized by ECLAC and the País Digital Foundation, with the support of the Government of Chile. It brought together authorities, international officials, academics and private-sector…
(5 December 2012) On the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, representatives from business, UN, government and other stakeholder groups engaged in discussions on the role of fiscal instruments in environmental policy-making with the objective of identifying principles for a framework for environmental taxation and environment-related tax measures that promote green, inclusive economies.
The official side event on this matter, which took place today, was organized by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in partnership with the UN Economic Commission for Latin Am…
(27 June 2012) The fiftieth anniversary of ECLAC's Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) will be celebrated with an international seminar taking place from 2-3 July 2012. Authorities of the region, former directors of the organization and other officials are expected to participate in the event.
ILPES was founded on 2 July 1962 in the aim of supporting Latin American and Caribbean governments in the field of planning and public administration by providing training, consultancy and research services.
The seminar to commemorate the 50th anniversary of th…
(25 July 2011) Government authorities from several Latin American and Caribbean countries and senior officials from regional and international agencies met today in ECLAC to discuss the new role of the State in the region's development.
The International Seminar on State and Development was held in honour of Enrique V. Iglesias, Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Secretariat (SEGIB) and former Executive Secretary of ECLAC, for his renowned contribution to Latin American thinking on development and the role of the State.
Participants at the meeting agreed on the need to rethink the role of…
(20 January 2010) Authorities and experts from the region and international organizations will discuss crisis exit strategies and the fiscal policy challenges faced by governments during the XXII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, to open on Tuesday, January 26 at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, will inaugurate the event at 9 a.m. High-level government officials and representatives of international and multilateral organizations will take part in the seminar, which lasts until Janua…
“No social actor, on their own, can achieve fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Without cooperation and without partnerships, there is no 2030 Agenda.” With this declaration by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the official inauguration took place this Tuesday, April 1 of the eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, the main intergovernmental gathering on the 2030 Agenda in the region, which is held each year under the auspices of ECLAC.
Senior government authorities from…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, reiterated today the organization’s commitment to continue accompanying the region’s countries in the analysis and proposals for a way out of the emergency and a transformative recovery, during a session of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2021, focused on listening to the messages coming from the distinct regions of the world.
The senior United Nations official participated in the segment entitled “Messages from the Regions: Harnessing the regional dimension…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, defended today the role of planning in changing economic and social structures and successfully implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She spoke at the inauguration of the XIV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean in Yachay (Ecuador), where she was joined by Ecuador’s National Secretary for Planning and Development, Sandra Naranjo.
“We need you to help us imagine 2030,” said the senior United Nations official before repres…
As part of his trip to Chile, French economist Thomas Piketty will visit the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago on Thursday 15 January 2015 at 2.00 p.m. to take part in a lunch meeting with the Commission’s officials and discover first hand ECLAC’s proposals on equality in its trilogy of documents on the subject: Time for equality: closing gaps, opening trails (2010); Structural Change for Equality: An Integrated Approach to Development (2012); and Compacts for Equality: Towards a Sustainable Future (2014).
The meeting wi…
The new development paradigm proposed by the 2030 Agenda positions and reappraises planning as a means of implementation and demands a long-term vision, with coherent policies linked to budget periods, with the availability of timely and quality data and statistical information, and with transparent and participatory systems for monitoring, accountability and evaluation, Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today.
The senior United Nations official participated in the event Policy Coherence: From the Global to the …
Representatives of more than 200 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in various countries, government authorities and officials from international bodies agreed today at ECLAC that the active participation of civil society is indispensable for adopting decisions, planning and applying the policies that foster compliance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
At this gathering of civil society – prior to the second meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, which will be held on April 18-20…
One of the main challenges today is to position the State in the most fitting place for the future and create a new state architecture that allows it to be the driver of development strategies in the region’s countries, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Antonio Prado, said during the inauguration of a seminar that was held in Brazil on September 3-4, 2015.
The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the International Seminar on the Role of the State in the 21st Century: Challenges for Public Management,…
Adoption of a work plan to encourage development of gender statistics across the region and training-of-trainers projects to replicate knowledge of statistical measurements in national and subregional spheres are among the objectives of the 7th Executive Committee Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA). The Statistical Conference of the Americas is a subsidiary body of ECLAC that operates as a high-level intergovernmental forum for the promotion of official statistics and regional cooperation in this field.
The meeting will be held 29 and 30…
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…