To view a variety of insightful United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) news and stories covering a range of development challenges in the Asia-Pacific region and world at large, follow the link provided here.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Watch this video for a brief overview of the 17 SDGs. Click here for more details.
To fully implement and monitor progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, decision makers everywhere need data and statistics that are accurate, timely, sufficiently disaggregated, relevant, accessible and easy to use. The Open SDG Data Hub promotes the exploration, analysis, and use of authoritative SDG data sources for evidence-based decision-making and advocacy. Its goal is to enable data providers, managers and users to discover, understand, and communicate patterns and interrelationships in the wealth of SDG data and statistics that are now available.
The SDG Data Portal provides a regional perspective on current status and progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals agreed upon under the 2030 United Nations sustainable development agenda. Covering the 58 regional member states of ESCAP, the data portal includes all SDG indicators from the globally agreed SDG indicator framework for which data source could be identified.
Explore more than 1000 datasets on the SDG and other thematic development indicators for Asia-Pacific.
The SDG Academy represents the education and training division of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), with the mandate of promoting transformative education through the creation and curation of high-quality content on sustainable development, sharing of innovative pedagogies and training models, and providing open access to learning resources for a global audience.
The SDG Academy Library is a free, open repository of more than 2,000 educational videos on sustainable development. You can search for videos by language, lecturer, SDG, subject, or keyword. Watch, share, and embed with ease!
The SDG Academy represents the education and training division of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), with the mandate of promoting transformative education through the creation and curation of high-quality content on sustainable development, sharing of innovative pedagogies and training models, and providing open access to learning resources for a global audience.