Bangkok News Number: G/17/2021 Policymakers from 50 Asian and Pacific countries today called for a “whole-of-society” response to COVID-19 and encouraged coordinated action across the region to...
The year 2020 marked the end of the Fourth United Nations Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011−2020 or informally called the Istanbul Programme of Action. During...
This is the fifth in a series of policy guides developed to support policymakers and practitioners in Asia and the Pacific in their efforts to strengthen social protection. This policy guide explains...
Strengthening social protection, trade, and environmental protection are key to building back better in the Asia-Pacific region, says UN report News Number: G/15/2021 Broadening social protection,...
UN forum opens with a call for greater regional cooperation to ensure sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific News Number: G/12/2021 The 8th Asia-Pacific Forum on...
Bangkok News Number: G/10/2021 The first regional review of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Asia and the Pacific concluded today with a call for greater collaboration...
Sustainable Development Goals can guide Asia and the Pacific to build back better, says UN report News Number: G/11/2021 The Asia-Pacific region must accelerate progress everywhere and urgently...
Achieving an equal future for women in Asia and the Pacific in the post-COVID-19 era A dialogue among women leaders in the Asia-Pacific region to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021 highlighted...
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...