Evaluation report of the regional workshop on the measurement of poverty in the Caribbean
1. The member and associate member countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean/Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (ECLAC/CDCC) have committed to pursuing and achieving the Millennium Development Goals, a common set of goals and targets to bring all people...
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ECLAC
2015
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| Sumario: | 1. The member and associate member countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean/Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (ECLAC/CDCC) have
committed to pursuing and achieving the Millennium Development Goals, a common set of goals and
targets to bring all people up to minimum acceptable standards of human development by 2015.
2. However, in spite of various capacity-building initiatives, Caribbean countries continued to
experience difficulties in addressing additional demands of monitoring and measuring progress created by
the Millennium Development Goals and other Internationally Agreed Development Goals. Therefore, it
was necessary to implement activities to ensure the further building/strengthening of institutional
capabilities for generating reliable social, economic and environmental statistics among Caribbean States.
3. The ECLAC project entitled “Strengthening the Capacity of National Statistical Offices in the
Caribbean Small Island Developing States to fulfil the Millennium Development Goals and other
Internationally Agreed Development Goals” sought to build and strengthen institutional capabilities for
generating and compiling reliable social, economic and environmental statistics in the Caribbean
subregion, through the provision of technical support, as well as the conduct of training workshops for
statisticians and policymakers.
4. Within the objectives of that project, ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean
convened a regional training workshop on the measurement of poverty in the Caribbean in Port of Spain,
to build the capacity of government officials and other relevant stakeholders.
5. The overall objective of the workshop was to develop and strengthen the national technical
capacity of public officials in data processing, systematization and dissemination of poverty indicators
and measurement in the Caribbean subregion. The workshop further sought to review and discuss the
current approaches to poverty measurement and monitoring in an effort to identify methods to ensure that
monitoring and reporting of the Millennium Development Goals were conducted according to
internationally agreed upon methodologies. Furthermore, the workshop also intended to review different
methods of poverty measurements, including the multidimensional methodology for the measurement of
poverty.
6. Participants were introduced to different methods of poverty measurements and other aggregation
proposals which would enable countries to better measure progress towards Goal 1 on poverty, report on
it and apply evidence-based approaches to national policymaking and planning. |
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