The Hummingbird Vol. 9 No. 12

Autoridades de 18 países de la región resaltan importancia de impulsar la inversión pública como motor de crecimiento inclusivo y sostenible

El X Seminario de la Red de Sistemas Nacionales de Inversión Pública de América Latina y el Caribe – Red SNIP se celebró el 3 y 4 de noviembre en República Dominicana.…

The Hummingbird Vol. 9 No. 10

Resilient and affordable housing in the Caribbean: Policy recommendations towards a transformative, green and inclusive recovery strategy. Policy Brief

The Caribbean faces multidimensional vulnerabilities driven by climate change and aggravated by Small Island Developing States’ natural and economic characteristics (SIDS). A critical natural feature of SIDS is the extreme vulnerability to climate-change-induced events. Economically, the Caribbean has followed the global trend of seeing its urban areas swell during the last decades. Moreover, the region’s coastal areas expose human settlements, infrastructure, and businesses to external shocks, such as climate change-induced extreme weather events. In addition, the 2019 novel coronavirus disea…

Policy imperatives for the timely production and dissemination of quality and relevant statistics in the Caribbean. Policy Brief

Many international development agendas highlight the importance of quality data for sustainable development. With the advent of the data revolution for sustainable development, stakeholders have underscored the value of timely, usable data in informing decision-making and for monitoring progress and evaluating outcomes, be it in relation to national development planning or as regards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other international development agendas. Crucially, the COVID-19 pandemic, more than anything else in recent times, has demonstrated the value of tim…

The Hummingbird Vol. 9 No. 9

Limiting Temperature Rise - What Does It Mean for Caribbean SIDS?

Herramientas para el modelamiento y la simulación de tendencias futuras en el área de la movilidad urbana

En este documento se presentan los pasos para la aplicación de un modelo de simulación de la movilidad sostenible. Esta herramienta permite desarrollar de manera interactiva escenarios futuros de movilidad que integren variables de diferentes áreas temáticas, para, de ese modo, visualizar las interrelaciones entre dimensiones del desarrollo y sus consecuencias en la movilidad de una ciudad. El uso del modelo permite identificar, mediante una interfaz visual de fácil operación, los impactos indirectos de ciertas variables o los efectos en el largo plazo de la aplicación de políticas, programas …

Programme of work of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), 2023. Subprogramme 9: Planning and public management for development

Programa de trabajo del Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social (ILPES), 2023. Subprograma 9: Planificación y gestión pública para el desarrollo

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Report of the eighteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES)

Report of the eighteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES)

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La interculturalidad en las políticas públicas en México

El objetivo de este documento es analizar la interculturalidad en las políticas públicas en México, a fin de incrementar la capacidad de formular e implementar políticas públicas con un enfoque transversal de interculturalidad. En primer lugar, se definen este tipo de políticas públicas y se caracteriza el contexto en el que han surgido en México. Metodológicamente, el trabajo se organiza en tres etapas: revisión documental, entrevistas a especialistas y diálogos con actores de la sociedad civil, el sector académico y el Gobierno. El análisis se centra primordialmente en el avance de las polít…

A review of the status of institutional mechanisms for sustainable development planning in the Caribbean

The 2030 Agenda underscores the importance of a strengthened institutional framework at the national and regional levels that integrates the three dimensions of sustainable development. This study provides an overview of integrated decision-making processes in Caribbean countries and the role that national institutions play in supporting systematizing integrated decision-making for sustainable development, including in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with focus on eight Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Isl…

The Caribbean is Making Strides on the SDGS

The Hummingbird Vol. 9 No. 2

Essential elements of the ECLAC Caribbean Resilience Fund : a segregated portfolio trust fund. Policy Brief

Declining economic growth and competitiveness, the impact of the 2007–2009 global financial crisis, and the challenge of climate change and extreme weather events have hindered the sustainable development of Caribbean economies, the generation of sustained welfare gains and the achievement of key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the subregion’s vulnerability to the vagaries of global aggregate demand and commodity prices, which have largely driven the subregion’s debt upwards and dampened economic growth before its onset, compromising its ec…