III. RELEVANCE OF GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS IN THE ICPD PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF MDG GOALS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean United Nations

ECLAC is playing an important role in the follow-up of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the regional level. Besides the work on key MDG objectives such as poverty, environmental sustainability and gender, ECLAC is also working on more general development goals, such as the situation of youth and older persons. As a result, ECLAC has been able to produce updated and comparable information on most indicators of the MDG goals. It is also developing a regional report on MDGs and a website (www.cepal.org/mdg). For ECLAC, the evaluation of the progress of achieving the MDG goals should be guided by issues of social exclusion and social inequalities and the synergies between different components and objectives, which are not always considered in this process.