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Technical cooperation highlights 2020-2021
(United Nations, 2022)
<p>As the regional arm of the United Nations, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) promotes cooperation among countries in pursuit of solutions to sustainable development challenges across ...
Towards an enabling policy for impact investment in Asia and the Pacific
(UN.ESCAP, 2020-12)
Governments can leverage private capital for societal objectives by supporting impact investment. Impact investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact ...
Building forward together : towards an inclusive and resilient Asia and the Pacific
(United Nations, 2022)
Building Forward Together: Towards an inclusive and resilient Asia and the Pacific is the theme report of the Asia-Pacific SDG partnership for 2022. Reflecting on the theme of the 9th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable ...
Biennial report 2021-2022 : the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management
(United Nations, 2023-06-06)
<p>I am pleased to present the APDIM Biennial Report 2021-2022. The report outlines APDIM’s key results and achievements over the past two years mapped against APDIM’s Multi-year Strategic Programme of Work and the Biennium ...
Taking stock of the digital trade and investment policies in the Asia-Pacific Region with ESCAP's Regional Digital Trade Integration Index
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-27)
<p>The trade and investment flows of Asia-Pacific economies have recovered in the past two years, a time when the region also experienced a wave of digital transformation. This report starts from the notion that good ...
2022 review of climate ambition in Asia and the Pacific : raising NDC targets with enhanced nature-based solutions with a special feature on engagement of children and youth in raising national climate ambition
(United Nations, 2022)
As of August 2022, 39 out of the 49 Asia-Pacific member States included in this report, have made
carbon neutrality and net-zero pledges, and have started developing enabling frameworks to the
support implementation of ...
Annual report 2020 : the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management
(United Nations, 2021)
<p>The second Governing Council of APDIM in 2018 adopted Information and Knowledge Repository, Capacity Development and Regional Cooperation on Transboundary<br />Hazards as the three key service areas for the Centre around ...
Producing export and import price indices (XMPI) in Bhutan : documentation of process and results
(United Nations, 2020)
This is a study of how the Bhutan National Statistics Bureau began producing Import and Export Price Indices (XMPI) using existing administrative data. This was made possible through support from the Regional Programme on ...
The changing landscape of regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific
(UN.ESCAPUnited Nations, 2023)
<p>This publication is based on a selected number of speeches delivered and opinion pieces written by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic and ...
Annual report 2019 : the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management
(United Nations, 2020)
In May 2015, The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), adopted Resolution 71/11 to establish the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management ...