15 April 2024 | Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development
The seventh meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development will be held in Santiago, from 15 to 18 April 2024.
11 March 2024 | Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies
Register and save the date! The fourth edition of the Regional Water Dialogues of Latin America and the Caribbean will be held in hybrid form (face-to-face and virtual) in San José, Costa Rica, from 11 to 13 March 2024, at the headquarters of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on...
15 February 2024 | Meetings and technical symposiums
As part of the Water Sustainability Network and Observatory (ROSA) project, the first online technical assistance for the Plurinational State of Bolivia was held on February 15, 2024. This inaugural session aimed at covering topics from water governance and sustainability, to exploring national...
20 December 2023 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The technical assistance session, held virtually on December 20, 2023, aimed to promote the circular economy in the water and sanitation sector of El Salvador. There was a strong emphasis on the theoretical and applied principles of the circular economy for the design of public policies in the...
18 October 2023 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The workshop "Rural Sanitation Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean - Vision of International Cooperation," organized by the Division of Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation (DISAR) of the Inter-American Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (AIDIS), took place on Wednesday,...
15 September 2023 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The event took place at CEPAL's premises on September 15th and was broadcast in a hybrid format. The event was organized by CEPAL and ABES. Fifty representatives from Brazilian sanitation companies, winners of the only National Sanitation Quality Award (PNQS) in the world, were present, including...
5 September 2023 | Other events
ECLAC conducted a comprehensive mission in San Salvador, El Salvador, on September 5th and 6th, 2023. This mission focused on promoting and providing advanced training in circular economy principles applied to the potable water and sanitation sector.
7 August 2023 | Other events
The Water and Energy Unit of the Natural Resources Division of ECLAC carried out a training mission in Mexico from July 17th to July 21st, with the aim of promoting circularity in the drinking water and sanitation sector. The mission included theoretical training, technical working sessions, and on...
23 June 2023 | Meetings and technical symposiums
Last Friday, June 23, a discussion organized by ECLAC's Natural Resources Division was held with Professor Joan Martínez Alier, a prominent figure in the field of ecological economics, political ecology, and environmental justice.
25 April 2023 | Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development
14 March 2023 | Other events
ECLAC's Natural Resources Division participated in the "National Meeting of the Water for Life Dialogues", an event whose objective is to present the position of the Plurinational State of Bolivia regarding water for life, in the preparation for the World Water Conference of the United Nations,...
1 February 2023 | Other events
Save the date! Within a week (February 1-3), ECLAC will host the Third Edition of the Regional Water Dialogues of LAC, as a preparatory process for the 2023 United Nations Water Conference.
24 January 2023 | Other events
The workshop, "Capacity building to promote investments in the drinking water and sanitation sector with a circular economy approach", will take place at the Planta Tratamiento de Aguas Servidas El Trebal (Talagante), which is one of the largest wastewater treatment plants from Santiago, Chile. The...
16 January 2023 | Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies
The third edition of the Regional Water Dialogues will be held in a hybrid format (onsite and virtually) in Santiago de Chile between February 1st and 3rd, 2023. The main theme will be to accelerate the accomplishment of SDG 6: to guarantee the availability of water and its sustainable management...
16 December 2022 | Other events
In the framework of the preparation of the United Nations Water Conference, which will take place in March next year, the meeting aimed to seek opportunities and identify synergies for side events to bring the Latin American and Caribbean perspective to the event.
7 December 2022 | Other events
The Webinar, organized by Deltares and the Valuing Water Initiative, addressed the importance of valuing water in our societies, and exposed the synergies between the Initiative driven by the Netherlands and ECLAC with the objective of achieving a systemic change in decision-making and ensuring...
29 November 2022 | Other events
The seminar, organized by CCAD, had as its main objective to increase the knowledge of public policies, strategies and instruments, for the management of the risk of droughts and floods in public entities and regional institutions. ECLAC participated in the event through its Water and Energy Unit,...
28 November 2022 | Other events
The Workshop, organized by UN Women Argentina and ECLAC, addressed the relationship between gender and water resources. It aimed at strengthening the capacities of the work teams of the entities of the established Cooperation Alliance. This Alliance seeks to improve the formulation and...
24 November 2022 | Other events
The event organized by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, took place in Quito (Ecuador), in the Auditorium of the Cultural Center - PUCE, included the participation of experts from various institutions related to natural resources. ECLAC, through the Natural Resources Division,...
22 November 2022 | Other events
The Regional Expert Group on Water Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean has been created in the preparatory framework for the World Water Conference 2023. Between September and November 2022, its members have promoted various activities that contribute to the acceleration of the achievement...