Tonga belongs to the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution on the outcome document of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), the ...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is based on a commitment to "leave no-one behind". South-East Asia faces a multitude of challenges from widening development gaps to the rapid ageing of society. Attaining ...

The Virtual Policy Dialogue on South Asian Cooperation for Accelerating Recovery from COVID-19 and Building Back Better was convened by UNESCAP on 9 September 2020. Building on the success of the UNESCAP’s <a href="https ...

Marine Plastic Pollution (MPP) is an increasing global concern, and its impact has been gradually documented across the world. Tackling marine pollution is one of the most pressing environmental challenges for Asia and the ...

Home to 326 million culturally homogenous people, the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) offers immense opportunities for SMEs to participate, co-create and co-strengthen regional value chains. The countries within this subregion ...

The Disaster Riskscape Across Asia-Pacific: Pathways for Resilience, Inclusion and Empowerment. Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2019 captured a comprehensive picture of the complexity of disaster risk landscape (‘riskscape’) ...

Human well-being and capabilities are at the core of the transformations envisaged by the 2030 Agenda. This short policy brief reviews how investments in social protection, education and health care can help reduce poverty ...

The objective of this research is to provide a national-level, gender-sensitive analysis of current planning processes, policies and initiatives on information and communications technology for development (ICTD) in ...

Using the National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA) methodology, the paper analyses time spent by women and men of different age groups in six countries of the Asia-Pacific region on market work and unpaid care work. The ...

To cope with the socio-economic impact of COVID-19, countries have sought help from multilateral development banks (MDBs) and international financial institutions (IFIs). As of end-September 2020, MDBs and IFIs have committed ...