<p>In 2021, amid the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) of ESCAP have re-affirmed their solid commitment to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and ...

The ways in which human mobilities are viewed have undergone profound changes. Many government measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic were designed to discourage and even stop people from travelling. This led to ...

The theme of APBF 2020 was “The Future of Value Chains and Implications for Small- and Medium Sized Enterprises”. Under this theme, participants discussed the challenges and opportunities for value chains and SMEs, including ...

<p>In 2020, ESCAP member States endorsed the regional Action Plan to Strengthen Regional Cooperation on Social Protection (Action Plan), which serves as a shared vision, strategy and platform for promoting partnership and ...

<p>Social protection is a key policy instrument to build productive, protected and healthy populations. In 2020, ESCAP member States endorsed the Action Plan to Strengthen Regional Cooperation on Social Protection in Asia ...

The Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM) in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) ...

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, governments, border agencies, logistics companies and traders have been exploring how they can leverage existing trade and transport facilitation measures to keep goods moving across borders. ...

<p>Advancing Pacific Priorities highlights ESCAP&rsquo;s work in the Pacific in the past year. It communicates efforts by the ESCAP Pacific Office in supporting the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) in their ...