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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...

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...

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 Between now and 2030, governments of Asia and the Pacific should, on a voluntary basis and in line with national circumstances, take the following actions: (a) Ensure the...

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...

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...

Executive summary South Asia is facing an increasing complex and expanding disaster riskscape- one of the highest in the Asia Pacific region. Each year, people in the subregion suffer from various...

Critical gaps in social protection hampering Asia Pacific region’s resilience to COVID 19 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for well-functioning social protection systems in the region...

ICT FOR DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT This module introduces disaster risk management (DRM) and provides an overview of how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be used for DRM. A large...