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Activities of ECLAC (1224 words) |
 | ECLAC’s region has now entered an intense preparation process for the special session of the General Assembly on "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century", and the Eighth Session of the Regional Conference on Women, to be held in Lima, Peru on 8-10 February 2000. |
| ECLAC, in its capacity as the technical Secretariat of the Regional conference, is consistently working to strengthen the capacity of governments to implement regional and world agreements that deal with gender equity and the advancement of women. |
| ECLAC convened the first of a series of inter-agency meetings aimed at convening a regional technical and ministerial meeting to discuss the status of the POA in the Caribbean. |
| Householders damage pegged at $55B -ECLAC Guyana flood report (960 words) |
| ECLAC said Region Four had 71% of its population severely affected while in Region Three, the percentage was 41 and in Region Five, 20. |
| ECLAC gives the total damage to the education and culture sectors as $371.7M and to the health sector as $173.4M. |
| ECLAC said too that to reduce the vulnerability of the coastal population, expenditure of US$200 to $300M was required. |
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