LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (LAC) REGION - LAC

continental TEI for inclusive and equal societies

#GLOBALGATEWAY #TEAMEUROPE

TEAM EUROPE PROPOSAL

Promote universal Support women’s and Support the participatory design Synergy with
and fair access youth’s participation in and implementation of fair and other TEIs:
to basic services the green and digital equitable social and fiscal policies: • Paraguay
(education, health, transitions: • Exchange of practices and peer-to- and Mexico
social protection, • Research and analysis peer learning (sustainable public Inequalities TEIs
employment), design (structural gaps) spending) • El Salvador,
& strengthening:
• Industrial and • Development of new (national) Guatemala,
• Regional and technology policies (job social and fiscal compacts Dominican
subregional strategies creation, innovation and Republic economic
• Social protection export diversification) Promote broad societal engagement / green centred
systems • Encourage social in the design and oversight of public TEIs
• Education systems innovation policies to ensure inclusivity and • Colombia TEI
(TVET), transition into ownership (women, youth, indigenous focused on peace
• Synergy with the
employment people, civil society, private sector,
regional LAC Digital • Haiti TEI on
academia and local authorities)
• Essential public health Alliance and Green education
functions Alliance TEIs Strong focus on women, children and
youth

MODALITIES/TOOLS COMMON AREAS OF INTERVENTION

Policy dialogue Budget support • Social cohesion and TRANSFORMATIONAL POTENTIAL

protection
• Strengthening social contracts in LAC
• Education and and reduce inequalities
Technical assistance and peer-to-peer training
• Increasing inclusiveness, fairness,
learning • Health equality, and social cohesion,
• Employment strengthening the position of the EU
and its Member States as partners of
reference in the social development
priority area

*This Team Europe Initiative is work in proress

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (LAC) REGION - LAC
continental TEI for inclusive and equal societies

#GLOBALGATEWAY #TEAMEUROPE

REGIONAL CONTEXT

Levels of inequality in the Ageing population- ECLAC’s context analysis: Flagship

region remain among the 50% of workers are regional
• Average effective tax rate for the
highest in the world (the not covered by a programme
richest 10% amounts to 5% of their
Gini index for LAC increased contributory social EUROsociAL+ on
disposable income
of 0.7 between 2019 and security system social cohesion
2020 as a consequence of • 45 M forced into poverty due to
COVID-19) COVID-19 pandemic
• 10 M into extreme poverty

GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT AND RELEVANT SDGs

Action Plan on the EU Gender Action Joint communication

Pillar of Social Rights Plan III on the “European
Union, Latin America
EU Strategy on the Strategy for the and the Caribbean:
Rights of the Child rights of persons joining forces for a
with disabilities common future” and
EU Action Plan on associated Council
Latin American
Human Rights and conclusions
Economic Outlook
Democracy 2021 (OECD, ECLAC,
CAF, EU)

**SDGs included based on a new JRC electronic text mining

tool, which identifies SDGs (targets)