Facilitation of international trade and transport involves many government agencies and authorities as well as public and private entities. Efficient and effective coordination among all relevant government agencies and ...

The five Regional Commissions come together at a time in which the world's economies face some of the most difficult challenges presented in the past century: from climate change effects to extreme food/fuel price volatility ...

Upgrading and improving the Asian Highway network to the requirement of international transport is one of the important obligations of the Parties within the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network. ...

With the reform and opening up of the Chinese economy and progress in structural transition of Mongolia and the Russian Federation during the last decade or so, new opportunities for economic cooperation among the North-East ...

South and South-West Asia remains one of the fastest growing subregions in the world, even though its economic growth has slowed down in 2012 due to a deteriorating global economic environment. Although the subregion ...

<p></p> Now more than ever, the region’s development is reliant on its transport system. Whether to carry manufactured and agricultural products to international markets, food to rural and urban communities, workers to ...

<p></p> The objective of the regional strategic framework is to help regional member countries and their development partners increase the effectiveness of facilitation programmes and projects and accelerate the development ...

<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 ...

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres unveiled an ‘Executive Action Plan for the Early Warnings for All’ initiative during the World Leaders Summit at COP 27. This call for a universal early warning system coverage ...

<p>Advancing Pacific Priorities 2023 communicates efforts by the ESCAP Subregional Office for the in supporting Pacific SIDS in their implementation of the SDGs, the SAMOA Pathway, and effectively their own national ...