26 November 2019 | Meetings and technical symposiums
Caribbean women suffer disproportionate levels of mortality and injury following disasters and extreme weather events. This is a direct result of recurrent discrimination and inequalities in access to adequate health care, food and nutrition, and water and sanitation, as well as education,...
23 October 2019 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The training will help participants to better utilise Universal service funds (USFs) to increase access to technology for persons with disabilities thereby supporting governments in the subregion in advancing the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Convention on...
17 September 2019 | Meetings and technical symposiums
Regional workshop on Repositioning of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee – (CDCC-RCM) Regional Coordinating Mechanism as the Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) mechanism for sustainable development.
14 August 2019 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The present workshop will seek to analyze how the Escazú Agreement contributes to the implementation of the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda in an effective and coherent manner in Guyana. To that end, it will specifically review key provisions of the Escazú Agreement and analyze national...
9 August 2019 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The 13th Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN) Summit will take place between 9 and 13 August 2019 in Georgetown, Guyana, under the theme "Building the resilience of the Caribbean through effective youth engagement and participation."
8 August 2019 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The capacity-building workshop bringed together international experts and representatives from eleven Caribbean English-speaking countries Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Guyana, Saint Lucía, Saint Kitts, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, to discuss...
10 July 2019 | Other events
The side event will consider the need to integrate resilience-building into sustainable development planning and practice in the Caribbean, in light of the inescapable impact of climate change on the environmental, infrastructural, economic and social wellbeing of Caribbean states.
It is an...
18 June 2019 | Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies
The Caribbean preparatory meeting of the XIV session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean is convened in accordance with the agreements adopted at the fifty-eighth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the...
17 June 2019 | Meetings and technical symposiums
ECLAC Caribbean, in collaboration with ECLAC Division for Gender Affairs, convenes the Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in National Sustainable Development Planning for technical experts and representatives attending the Caribbean preparatory meeting to the XIV session of the Regional Conference on...
17 May 2019 | Monitoring committee
CDCC Member Countries and Associate Members will convene in Port of Spain for the 19th meeting of the CDCC Monitoring Committee.
15 May 2019 | Other events
This international event is co-organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). This event is based on...