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Resolutions Adopted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean at its Thirty-Sixth Session

Mexico City, 23-27 May 2016

 

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Source: UN ECLAC

Year: 2016

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HORIZONS 2030 RESOLUTION

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean,

Recalling its resolution 553(XXVI), in which it affirmed that, in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Commission is especially well qualified to undertake the tasks entrusted to it by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 106(VI), in the framework of a restructured United Nations, and that, therefore, ECLAC should function as a centre of excellence charged with collaborating with member States in a comprehensive analysis of development processes geared to the design, monitoring and evaluation of public policies, together with operational services in the fields of specialized information, advisory services, training and support for regional and international cooperation and coordination,


Bearing in mind the document Time for Equality: Closing Gaps, Opening Trails and its summary, presented by the secretariat at the thirty-third session of the Commission,

Bearing in mind also the document Structural Change for Equality: An Integrated Approach to Development and its summary, presented by the secretariat at the thirty-fourth session of the Commission,

Bearing in mind further the document Compacts for Equality: Towards a Sustainable Future and its summary, presented by the secretariat at the thirty-fifth session of the Commission,

Recognizing that General Assembly resolution 70/1, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, offers an opportunity for all the countries in the region to progress towards eliminating poverty and reducing inequality, as proposed by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in the documents presented at its past three sessions,

Bearing in mind that the guidelines and overarching orientation for the formulation of the Draft programme of work for the biennium 2018-20194 draw upon the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals and targets and the means of implementation of that Agenda; the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development; the agreements and outcomes of major United Nations conferences and summits; and General Assembly resolution 66/288 “The future we want”, in which the countries undertook to contribute to the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and environmental fields, 

Having reviewed the document Horizons 2030: Equality at the Centre of Sustainable Development and its summary, prepared by the secretariat, which complements the trilogy of equality,

1. Welcomes the integrated approach to development that has marked the thinking of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean since its inception, as reflected in the document Horizons 2030: Equality at the Centre of Sustainable Development;

2. Recognizes the relevance of this issues examined and supports the general tenor of the document’s conclusions;

3. Instructs the secretariat to conduct studies and formulate public policy proposals in the countries, in close cooperation with their policymakers, with a view to building national economic and social development capacities;

4. Calls upon the secretariat to widely disseminate the document and promote its review in the economic, academic, political, business and social spheres in the region, by means of national dialogues on the main issues covered, taking each country’s national characteristics into account, and in international organizations concerned with economic development, in order to continue to foster more in-depth comparative analysis vis-à-vis countries outside the region.

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