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Policy approaches to formalizing informal employment in the formal sector in Asia and the Pacific and Latin America
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-14)
<p>The report compiles existing policy tools and and good practices adopted by Governments in Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean on formalizing informal employment in the formal sector. To provide a ...
Readiness to implement the action plan to strengthen regional cooperation on social protection : Mongolia
(United Nations, 2023)
<p>Governments in Asia and the Pacific are increasingly recognizing social protection as a key policy instrument to build productive, protected and healthy populations. In 2020, ESCAP member States endorsed the Action Plan ...
Assessment, analysis and redesign of civil registration and vital statistics processes - Maldives : report on the implementation of stage 1: assessment, analysis, and redesign of the CRVS
(United Nations, 2022)
<p>This report documents the results of the work of the Maldives Core Team in the implementation of the “Assessment, analysis, and redesign” stage of the CRVS System Improvement Framework. Using the methodology ...
Strengthening social protection in Cambodia
(United Nations, 2023)
<p>The social protection online tool simulates the impact of social protection schemes and empowers policymakers with data. Start exploring at spot.unescap.org/simulator</p>
Building the Central Asia drought information system in Kyrgyzstan : progress and the way forward : feasibility study
(UN.ESCAP, 2023)
<p>Drought events have intensified and increasingly threaten the sustainable development of Kyrgyzstan, harming the country’s agriculture and many other sectors of the economy. High exposure is due to rising temperature ...
G20 compendium on investment promotion, attraction and facilitation for sustainable development : emerging G20 IPA strategy and best practice
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-13)
<p>This Compendium seeks to understand how the national IPAs of the G20 promote, attract and facilitate FDI for sustainable development, particularly in terms of the incorporation of sustainable development objectives into their foreign direct investor identification, engagement, support and monitoring activities and the extent to which G20 IPAs measure the sustainable development payoffs, or impacts, of their investment promotion, attraction, and facilitation efforts. Since the G20 attracts most of the world’s FDI, understanding what its IPAs are doing to better gauge and track the sustainability of the FDI they attract and service can significantly influence and encourage other IPAs to do the same.</p>
<p>G20 IPAs are now firmly committed to promoting sustainable development and to attracting investment in sectors that contribute directly to key SDGs. Encouraging as this is, it is important to emphasize that this is still in a nascent phase and confined to a relatively small group – even within the G20. Outside this small sub-group, however, investment promotion seems to continue to largely be business as usual – in the traditional way. Findings suggest that for many G20 IPAs, ‘investment promotion for sustainable development’ still seems to be a secondary and subsidiary task to their real job of bringing in any and as much investment as they can and have been doing for decades. In other words, investment promotion in the G20 has not yet ‘gone sustainable’ enough across the board to ensure that all G20 members meet their 2030 Agenda targets.</p>
<p>To this end, the Compendium stresses the crucial need to make investment in sustainable development the core, driving principle for mission statements, investor messaging, investor services and incentives. Interrelatedly, it highlights an urgent need for capacity building to equip IPAs with the necessary skills and knowledge to attract, support and expand sustainable investment. Crucial is also to increase IPA cooperation to drive sustainable investment principles to the forefront internationally and create synergies between IPAs and economies.</p>...
Strengthening Social Protection in Uzbekistan
(United Nations, 2023)
<p>The social protection online tool simulates the impact of social protection schemes and empowers policymakers with data. Start exploring at spot.unescap.org/simulator</p>
Road safety and mobile phone use in the Asia-Pacific Region
(UN.ESCAP, 2022-12-20)
Road crashes resulted in an estimated 720,000 fatalities in the Asia-Pacific region in 2019, accounting for 56% of global fatalities. In addressing the road safety crisis, voluntary performance targets for road safety risk ...
Jakarta Declaration on the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2023-2032
(United Nations, 2023-08-31)
This publication presents the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting Report and the commitments that will
guide the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2023–2032, namely the Jakarta Declaration,
the ...