The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is the most inclusive regional platform on sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.
Systainability Asia, in collaboration with Adhyeta International (Nepal) and IPTM (Bangladesh), will conduct a 4-day International SDG ‘Training of Trainers’ program focused on “localizing integrated action for SDGs.” The training runs from 22 – 25 March 2019 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This training will be experiential and hands-on, using a Dhaka urban community as our point of reference, and focus on providing participants with new knowledge, tools and methods for organizing diverse, and sometimes conflictual, community stakeholders in collaborative action planning, utilizing a sys
ADB, in collaboration with UN Environment, prepared this tool compendium to help developing countries address challenges faced upon the successful implementation of the environmental dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is “grounded in [..] international human rights treaties” and is informed, among others, by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Declaration on the Right to Development. The 2030 Agenda “seeks to realize the human rights of all”. It also explicitly seeks to ensure that no one is left behind, reflecting the fundamental human rights principle of non-discrimination.
The Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report (APTIR) is a recurrent publication prepared by the Trade, Investment and Innovation Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. It provides information and independent analyses of regional trends and policy developments in trade, goods and commercial services, as well as foreign direct investment. It also provides insights into the impacts of these recent and emerging developments on countries’ abilities to meet the challenges of achieving sustainable development.
The Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal (APSDJ) is a rebranded publication issued by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). It builds on the success of two former ESCAP Journals – the Asia-Pacific Population Journal, launched in 1986, and the Asia-Pacific Development Journal, launched in 1994.
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) that were submitted to the High-level Political Forum in 2017. The purpose of the analysis is to identify major commonalities and differences in countries’ approaches to implementing and reviewing the 2030 Agenda. A special focus was put on three main themes: institutional mechanisms, participation of non-state actors, and statistics and data.