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Sustainable Responses for a Post COVID-19 Economic Recovery: Online Meeting for Parliamentarians of the Americas and the Caribbean

Sustainable Responses for a Post COVID-19 Economic Recovery: Online Meeting for Parliamentarians of the Americas and the Caribbean

FromParlAmericas Podcast


Sustainable Responses for a Post COVID-19 Economic Recovery: Online Meeting for Parliamentarians of the Americas and the Caribbean

FromParlAmericas Podcast

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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Jul 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This episode features four presentations on the current and projected socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in the region with a special focus on the differential impacts on women, moderated by the Honourable Alincia Williams-Grant, President of the Senate of Antigua and Barbuda. Ambassador Irwin LaRoque, Secretary General of CARICOM, notes the importance of partnerships to overcome the crisis and the urgency to address climate change to promote a sustainable and inclusive economic recovery; Diane Quarless, Chief of the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean highlights the inequalities and vulnerabilities affecting the resilience of the region, and the need to pursue innovative access to finance and support regional partnerships; Monika Queisser, Head of Social Policy Division, OECD shares the global economic perspective and recovery measures that legislators can consider to ensure that legislative and public policy responses are gender-inclusive; Therese Turner-Jones, General Manager of the Country Department Caribbean Group, IADB provides insights on the pre-COVID19 gender inequality in the Caribbean that has been exacerbated by this crisis which disproportionately impacted women, and gender-sensitive legislative and public policy responses that parliaments can consider in their work to promote an economic recovery. These presentations were recorded during the virtual meeting, Sustainable Responses for a Post COVID-19 Economic Recovery on June 11, 2020. 
Released:
Jul 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

ParlAmericas is the inter-parliamentary institution that promotes parliamentary diplomacy in the inter-American system. Convening the national legislatures from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, ParlAmericas works to strengthen democratic governance in the hemisphere by enhancing the ability of legislators to fulfill their roles and responsibilities through exchanges of parliamentary best practices and by promoting cooperative political dialogue on regional issues. The ParlAmericas Podcast is compiled from sessions recorded from different ParlAmericas activities delivered on-location across the hemisphere. For more information about ParlAmericas visit www.parlamericas.org and follow us on Facebook and Twitter @parlamericas ........................... ParlAmericas es la institución interparlamentaria que promueve la diplomacia parlamentaria en el sistema interamericano. Convoca a las legislaturas nacionales de Norte, Centro y Sur América y el Caribe, ParlAmericas trabaja para fortalecer la gobernanza democrática en el hemisferio amplificando la capacidad de los legisladores para cumplir con sus funciones y responsabilidades mediante intercambios de buenas prácticas legislativas y promoviendo un dialogo político cooperativo sobre problemáticas regionales. El podcast de ParlAmericas se ha compilado a partir de sesiones grabadas de las diferentes actividades de ParlAmericas realizadas localmente alrededor de todo el hemisferio. Para obtener más información acerca de ParlAmericas, visite www.parlamericas.org o síganos en Facebook y Twitter @parlamericas