Asia’s Fiscal Challenge: Financing the Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals
This book focuses on the analysis of fiscal requirements to achieve the social protection agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals.
SDG17 Partnerships for the Goals
Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals to Accelerate Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
This brief elaborates on the concept of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) localization and analyzes to what extent localization is considered in the implementation of the SDGs in Asia and the Pacific.
Sustainable Transport: A Critical Driver to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
The SLoCaT Partnership has released a new report, 'Sustainable Transport: A Critical Driver to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals,' to summarise how transport has been reflected in the first quadrennial VNR reporting cycle from 2016 - 2019.
IDI-KSC: Are Nations Prepared for Implementation of the 2030 Agenda?
In September 2015, all United Nations Member States jointly committed to the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) recognised the importance of this agenda in making a difference in the lives of citizens. INTOSAI called upon its member Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) to contribute to the follow-up and review of the SDGs within the context of each nation’s specific sustainable development efforts and SAIs’ individual mandates.
Nature in All Goals: How nature-based solutions can help us achieve all the sustainable development goals
Nature provides us with vital resources such as food, air, water, and energy. In addition, nature can be harnessed to create solutions to the challenges set out in the SDGs, solutions that are positive for social, economic, governance and environmental outcomes. Nature in All Goals publication presents 17 case studies that demonstrate the importance of nature-based solutions in delivering the SDGs.
Big ideas - Asia and the Pacific statistical community share their experiences in Malaysia at the 62nd International Statistics Institute World Statistics Congress
The brief provides a summary of contributions from Thailand, Nepal, the Philippines, China and Australia, in collaboration with partners, during a “Special Topic Session on Using Big Data for Official Statistics” organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) at the 62nd International Statistics Institute World Stat
The Pacific Community's Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes the
17 SDGs, is an important driving force in global development efforts. Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) have embraced the goals to guide and measure their work through their National Development Plans. The Pacific Community (SPC) increasingly relies on these plans to develop its own work programmes with members.
SPC’s Strategic Plan has three development goals:
Respecting the rights of indigenous peoples: a due diligence checklist for companies
Based on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and ILO Convention No. 169, this Checklist aligns the principles and rights in these two instruments with the human rights due diligence approach set out in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) provide that the due diligence process by business should include the following steps:
Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2019: Navigating Non-tariff Measures towards Sustainable Development
The Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report (APTIR) is a biennial publication prepared by the Trade, Investment and Innovation Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific to provide insights into the impact of recent and emerging developments in trade and foreign direct investment on countries' abilities to meet the challenges of achieving sustainable development.
SDG Costing & Financing for Low-Income Developing Countries
Though the total SDG financing gap is daunting, on the order of an average $400 billion per year for the world’s 59 low-income developing countries (LIDCs), it amounts to just 0.7 percent of the advanced economies’ GDP, and just 0.4 percent of the world economy as a whole. In this paper, SDG Costing and Financing for the LIDCs, SDSN proposes a plausible portfolio of financing actions that would increase budget revenues for SDG outlays by $430 billion—enough to close the SDG financing gap in all LIDCs and end extreme poverty.