The Asia-Pacific region faces a daunting spectrum of natural hazards. Indeed, many countries could be reaching a tipping point beyond which disaster risk, fuelled by climate change, exceeds their capacity to respond.
City: Bauang City.
Country: Philippines.
Applied financing model: Public-private partnership (PPP).
With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, UN Member States pledged to ensure “no one will be left behind” and to “endeavour to reach the furthest behind first”.
This paper advances a framework that governments and stakeholders can use to act on their pledge in a way that enables and accelerates progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also seeks to inform the manner in which UNDP works with countries to implement the 2030 Agenda.
Early in 2018, the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Report Office (HDRO) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) agreed to adjust and unify their methodologies on poverty measurement and consider indicator improvements, in order to better monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This Asia-Pacific Countries with Special Needs Development Report 2019 highlights the role of structural transformation in reducing poverty in the Asia-Pacific least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, collectively referred to as “countries with special needs”.
City: Tangerang Selatan.
Country: Indonesia.
Applied financing model: National and local government budget and public-private partnership (PPP).
City: Sleman Regency.
Country: Indonesia.
Applied financing model: Local government budget for sanitation.
City: Luang Namtha.
Country: Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR).
Applied financing model: Loan.
City: Krong Kracheh.
Country: Cambodia.
Applied financing model: Grant and private investment.
City: Bitung City.
Country: Indonesia.
Applied financing model: National and local government budget and public-private partnership (PPP).