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ACS Enhances Capacity Building Efforts in Port & Maritime Sector with Virtual Training Course attendees participating online.
The Association of Caribbean States (ACS), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), hosted a
Course on Maritime Port Upgrade for Executives of the Greater Caribbean which took place virtually during the first two weeks of October, 2020. The main objective was to build capacity among port executives and managers and update their skills so that they are better equipped and positioned to analyse key issues related to the changing industry. The online training was geared towards officials directly involved in work at regional ports. Approximately forty (40) Port Management officials from seventeen (17) ACS Member States and one (1) Specially Invited Organisation participated.
Decent work: the key to the trade unions response to the pandemic in the Americas
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At the start of the pandemic in the region, the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) issued a position paper and a set of guidelines that emerged from dozens of meetings held with affiliates to find out what the situation was in each country. This document listed a series of measures to be taken in response to the pandemic and its consequences.
These measures form part of the programme of the Development Platform of the Americas (or PLADA, an ambitious regional platform launched by TUCA in 2014 to consolidate guidelines and principles). In other words, they are the result of a comprehensive regional overview that focuses on the need to make structural changes.