The impacts of COVID-19 threaten to put a hold on progress for the sustainable development agenda and erase gains made thus far in the North and Central Asian subregion. By recognizing that it is not...
Executive Summary This policy brief aims to inform ongoing efforts in the Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to review and design social protection systems. The focus of the current issue...
Chapter 1. Overview South-East Asia is frequently affected by drought and its impacts. During 2015 to 2020, the entire ASEAN region experienced at least six months of drought.1 For a better...
A. At the national level (a) Ensure the right to social protection for all without discrimination throughout the life cycle, including by adopting necessary legislative, regulatory, administrative...
Executve Summary South-East Asia is regularly hit by droughts. Though starting slowly, droughts can have devastating cumulative impacts – striking hardest at the poor and heightening inequality, as...
Migrants in Asia and the Pacific at Higher Risk of COVID-19 and its Socioeconomic Fallout Bangkok – The COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic fallout pose great risks to migrants in the...
Singapore - 07 December 2020 News Number: G/57/2020 The Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) has successfully closed its US$27.7 million Women’s Livelihood Bond TM 3 (WLB3), the third bond in the...
BackgroundGuidance for the Integrated Data Ecosystem Assessment and Strengthening (IDEAS) Tool The international community is facing a serious dearth on data on migrant and forcibly displaced...
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation and underscored its importance for mitigating the economic slowdown, sustaining wellbeing, and speeding up recovery. Governments,...
South-East Asia has long experienced severe droughts. However, this second edition of Ready for the Dry Years reveals that the severity of two drought events during 2015-2016 and 2018-2020 exceed...