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Report on the activities conducted by CELADE during the period 2013-2015

REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN DEMOGRAPHIC CENTRE (CELADE)-POPULATION DIVISION OF ECLAC DURING THE PERIOD 2013-2015
Presentation | 07/10/2015

Over the last biennium the activities and priorities of CELADE-Population Division of ECLAC have been guided by the various resolutions adopted by the Commission, and by the strategic objectives that underpin the founding mandate of CELADE: to expand and strengthen the technical capacity of the countries in the region to enable them to describe, analyse, comprehend and forecast population dynamics and their links with economic and social development with a view to incorporating demographic factors into public policies and programmes, especially those aimed at reducing poverty and inequality.

I will now give a brief presentation on the activities carried out by CELADE in the period 2013-2015.  

A more comprehensive report is available in the reference document on CELADE activities in the biennium (DDR/1), which includes a list of all the Division’s publications over the period; these are also available on our website. I will mention another four documents during my presentation, which give detailed reports on specific topics whose follow-up falls within the mandate of the Division.

Topics covered in the report:

  • Operational guide for implementation and follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development
  • Strengthening countries’ capacity to conduct the 2010 round of censuses
  • Processing tools and sociodemographic information systems
  • Population estimates and projections
  • Youth, sexual health and reproductive health
  • Demographic changes and development challenges
  • Ageing
  • International migration
  • Internal migration, urbanization and the spatial distribution of the population
  • Indigenous peoples and Afro-descendent populations
  • Training in population and development issues