United Nations
Public leadership
La planificación y las políticas públicas modernas deben considerar un conjunto de procesos emergentes tales como una nueva ciudadanía más plural, informada, activa y demandante. Ello requiere de la incorporación de nuevas capacidades para promover la inclusión, la participación y la formación de pactos para un desarrollo sostenible. El eje de trabajo sobre liderazgos públicos colaborativos busca promover la investigación, la capacitación y la cooperación orientada al fortalecimiento de capacidades para agentes de distintos ámbitos, tales como el sector público, comunidades, academia, entre otros.
Activities
First conversation on female leadership in the geospatial field: Challenges and opportunities
Promoting female leadership in the geospatial sector is crucial to achieving gender equality and maximizing the human and technological potential of the field. UN-GGIM: Americas reaffirms its commitment to initiatives that recognize and empower the role of women in geospatial information management.
Climate change and environmental legislation in support of the delivery of the new Programme of Action for SIDS
This side event will take place at the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS-4). Convened by the Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition (OPCC), it will discuss how robust legal frameworks can unlock climate finance for building resilience and enhancing institutional capacities in Caribbean SIDS. The event will also explore ways the OPCC can collaborate to bolster environmental and climate change legislation in the region.
Nineteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of ILPES
The Regional Council for Planning is a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and governs the activities of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES). The member States of the Institute are represented at the meetings of the Council by their ministers or heads of planning. The agreements of the Council are set forth in resolutions, which are ratified by ECLAC at its biennial sessions.
ECLAC participated in the World Water Week 2021, organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute, through its Water and Energy Unit
Silvia Saravia-Matus, Economic Affairs Officer of the Natural Resources Division of ECLAC, participated in the World Water Week, recognized as the world's leading water event.
News
To Build a More Productive, Inclusive and Sustainable Future, Latin America and the Caribbean Must Overcome the Trap of Low Institutional Capacities and Ineffective Governance
Today marked the inauguration of the Thirtieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP) of ILPES-ECLAC in Chile.
Trinidad and Tobago to Chair UN Development Meetings for Countries of the Caribbean
Minister of Planning and Development Pennelope Beckles-Robinson is set to chair the 30th meeting of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), at which ministers and other high-level representatives from over 20 Caribbean member countries, along with the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Jose Manuel Salazar Xirinachs, will gather to discuss the sustainable development of the subregion.
Twenty-Two Caribbean Ministers to Gather in T&T for Discussions on Sustainable Development
Ministers and policy makers from twenty-two countries across the Caribbean will gather in Trinidad and Tobago next week to discuss and forge a path for transforming and building inclusive and sustainable Caribbean development at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean’s meetings of the Caribbean Development Roundtable and Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee.
International seminar on the topic “Who provides care in the city? Urban policies and women’s economic autonomy”
Remarks by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC (in Spanish).
